Tips to Improve Eye Health

By admin on May 20th, 2011

Just as you need to do some ‘pulling’ exercises to improve your bicep muscles, you need to do some exercises to improve your eye muscles too, because they play a significant role in the health of your vision. Maintaining good eye health is really very important.

Each of your eyes has the following muscles that govern the functioning of your eyes:

  • Superior oblique
  • Superior rectus
  • External rectus
  • Inferior oblique
  • Internal rectus   
  • Inferior rectus

    • To preserve as well as improve the functioning of these muscles, you need to exercise them on a regular basis, initiated by a ‘warm-up’, which in this case involves rolling your eyes for a few seconds. Remember, your level of vision-fitness will largely depend on your ability to coordinate the movement of these eye muscles.

    Here are the instructions that can help you maintain eye health.

  • 1. Sit comfortably in a low chair so that your feet stay firmly on the ground and hands rest on the arm rests of the chair. Take a couple of deep breaths before stretching your eyes as far as possible and inhale slowly till your lungs are filled up with air. Hold the breath for a few seconds, stretch the eye muscles into a downward position and exhale slowly until the lungs are completely empty. Repeat the exercise three more times (up and down movement) in the same way.
  • 2. Start stretching to the right by stretching up to the right direction and then to the left, ending up by stretching up to the left and down again to the right. But do not overstrain while doing this exercise, because that will not serve the purpose at all, and you will be left with strained eye muscles.
  • 3. Provide relief to the eye muscles by cupping the eyes. This is achieved by a simple method of covering the eyes (closed) with the palm of your hand, the fingers overlapping each other over the bridge of your nose when you feel that darkness has fully engulfed the eyes. Hold this position for a minute or two, till you get a cooling sensation in your eyes and the mind is free of weariness. Count 50 breaths before releasing palms. Some call this ‘meditation of the eyes’. Perhaps they are right.

    • Alternative Tips to Improve Health of the Eye

    Hold your thumb a few inches away from your eyes and try focusing your eyes on it. Then bring the thumb slowly towards your nose with the eyes still riveted on it. This will make you feel as if your eye muscles are being pulled in. The inner rectus muscles, which are the turning-in muscles, get exercised in this process. These muscles are vital for focusing. You can also remove the thumb, sit straight, focus your eyes on the window first and look far beyond towards the horizon next. Repeat this for several times till you feel your eyes are tired. This will improve your eye health as well.

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