How Do Eye Exercises Help in Keeping Your Eye Fit?

Have you heard the age-old adage “Practice makes perfect”? And that is why, it is extremely necessary that to achieve something in life, we have to keep on trying until we get it. If you wished that you were ten kilos lighter, you would not just have a fairy mother appear to flick her wand and lighten you up, would you? You will go to no fairy land to lose your weight within a zip, but you will have to go to the Gym.

Exercising is an important system that keeps your body up to the notch of being completely fit and strong. You need to be active, free-spirited, and for that you need your one hour of sweat-job. Similarly, the same goes for everything else as well, even your eyes.

Yes, your eyes need your care and affection too, and even though some say that since they do not strain so much for being lodged in the same old place ever since you cried out at birth, they do not need so much of exercise after all. But that is wrong.

Have you seen little kids running around in the play ground sometimes wearing an eye patch? No, they are not playing the pirates of the seven oceans, but they actually have to wear it because of their eye problem which peculiarly, goes by the name “the lazy eye”. The trouble is exactly that: the eye is too lazy, and so it cannot adjust itself to the objects that are near or far away. The vision co-ordination is way off the mark, and to settle the issue, doctors advise that one eye is kept under eye-patch so that the other gets to practice vision synchronization perfectly.
Your eyes need their daily exercise, and if you do that, they will stay very flexible and fit. Daily movement and contraction of eye muscles will keep refractive visual inaccuracies like nearsightedness and farsightedness at bay.

When there is chronic tension and stress in the eye, the muscles in there elongate contract, and this leads to visual errors. Regular practice prevents the chronic stress to settle in and this keeps the eyes as keen as an owl’s.

•It is highly important to keep your eyes well lubricated since this coat of moisture washes away any harmful particles like dust. For this, make sure that you blink your eyes, or try blinking one eye at a time. Your tear glands are located under your upper eye lids, so they will keep the eye surface clean and wet.

•Also, try some other exercises every day, so that together, they will amount to take only half an hour of your precious time. Try the ‘Palming’ method. Here, make sure that you sit upright, and settle your elbows on high-raised cushions. With your palms cupped over your eyes to exclude light, try to relax and breathe slowly, and imagine blackness. Do not apply pressure on your eyes, and keep doing this for ten minutes for two or three times a day.

•The next process is a little funny, but fun to do! Close your eyes and imagine a circle. Pull it out to an oval shape in your mind, and start drawing an eight round it. You will have to think of your nose as the pencil and so you have to move your nose, head and eyes to form the required figures. This will bring about a good co-ordination among the various parts of your body, involving your eyes.

•Lastly, get an eye chart from your optician, and hang it up on the wall. By and by, when you are working or taking rest, take five minutes to look at the things written on the chart. Concentrate not only on the words, but the entire surrounding space and read out the sentences. Focus on the entire sentence as a whole, and this will allow your eye muscles to rest.

Try out these procedures and you will be able to keep your eyes fit and great. This way, you will not have to bear the cost of buying spectacles, or visiting the eye-doctor at all times, and yet, you eyes will be as good as a young child’s!