Keep Your Eyes Healthy With These Exercises

Straining and staring are the worse things that you can do to your own eyes. After a long day at work, the eyes are tired and need to relax and renew to improve vision. The constant strain day in and day out does nothing but damage the eyes. Below are three exercises designed to relieve the eye strain.

The Dot exercise is the first eye exercise. To do this, find a dot or a comma on the page and focus on making it as clear as possible. Stare at the period until it comes into focus. Chances are after a few seconds the period will actually became less clear and blurry.

           

Try to relax your eyes. Close your eyes for a minute and let them relax. Now look at the period again without straining. Don’t stare; instead, let your eyes slowly move around the page, over and around the period. Don’t only focus on the period, the eyes need movement. Make sure to blink a bit. Try closing your eyes and picturing the dot and then look at it again. Once the eyes are relaxed it should be easier to see the period.

The Word exercise is the second exercise. Find a five or more letters long word on the page. Stare at the word so that all the letters are in view, but don’t move the eyes. Focus entirely on the whole word trying to get the best image in your head. Again, staring and concentrating hard can cause the word to blur.

           

Then relax your eyes and allow them to move slowly over, around, and across each letter of the word. Blink. Allow the eyes to lead you; don’t force them to look at what you want. The word should be clearer when you look at it again. Letter the eyes move around is what will help them work best without the strain.

           

The Double Vision exercise is the third eye exercise. This exercise is meant to get your eyes to work together as a team. Most people use one eye to look at an object, while the other eye does its own thing. Squinting can help bring an object into focus with both eyes, but this can cause unnecessary stress.  The trick is to relax the eyes, focus on the object in a calm way, and allow both eyes to focus together.

           

Practicing these exercises in relaxing your eyes is a great way to develop lasting habits and make sure that you have better eyesight for the years to come.