How do you do the Eye Rolling Exercise?
Keeping your head still and moving only your eyes, look all the way to the left and then move your eyes slowly and smoothly in a clockwise fashion all around in a circular motion, keeping the eye looking to the sides, around, up and down to give your muscles a good stretch.
After doing it clockwise for 30 seconds to 1 minute, you can do it anti-clockwise for another 30 seconds to 1 minute.
In the book “Improve your Vision Without Glasses”
The “Push Printing” eye exercise, also known as “Print Pushing”, “Push Print”, “Focus Pushing” or “Active Focus training” is a myopia vision therapy technique I learned about from reading Todd Becker’s blog, gettingstronger.org. The thing I like about this eyesight improvement exercise is that it’s very easy to integrate it into your daily life (unlike many of the other exercises which require you to spend time outside of your routine, doing the exercises). So what is this technique?
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What is Push Printing?
Push Printing is a technique which you can apply every time you are reading print, be it on the computer or in a book. The idea is to push your eyes to read withing your readable-blur-zone, to train them to adapt and to push them into actively focusing to clear up your current blur zone. Continue reading
In the book “Improve your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses”
I’ve read variations of this technique that are recommended by several eyesight-improving experts including Todd Becker on his site, gettingstronger.org and Alex Frauenfeld from the Frauenfeld Clinic and the website, endmyopia.org. Instead of calling it “pumping”, Alex calls this distant-focus-near-focus method “focus pulling” & “focus pushing” (or sometimes he calls it “pulling focus” & “pushing focus”), and I’ve seen others call it the “alternate focusing technique”, the “shifting focus technique” and the “re-focus exercise”. Continue reading
There is one exercise called “Squeeze Blinking” in the book “Improve your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses”
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How to do Squeeze Blinking
1.) Get into a relaxed body posture, shaking loose your shoulders and making sure your neck feels relaxed.
2.) Close your eyes, shutting your eyelids tightly shut. Squeeze your eyes closed as tightly as you can without scrunching up your face. The idea is to strengthen the eyelid muscles so JUST use these isolated muscles to close your eyes tight. Continue reading
How do you do the Slow Blink eye exercise?
Before starting, relax your shoulders and neck muscles to get into a relaxed state. Ok, now you’re ready to begin:
1.) Inhale deeply from the stomach and blink normally on the in-breath.
2.) On the slow exhalation, gently close your eyes and keep them relaxed and closed for the duration of the out-breath.
Do this breath-based slow blink exercise for about 1 minute at a time. Considering a deep-breathing inhale/exhale cycle takes about 8-10 seconds, that’s about 6-8 repeats. Continue reading
How to do the Fast Blinking Eye Exercise:
1.) Inhale and blink normally on this in-breath.
2.) On exhalation, blink as quickly as you can for the duration of the out-breath.
Do this breath-based rapid blinking exercise for about 1 minute at a time. Considering a deep-breathing inhale/exhale cycle takes about 8-10 seconds, that’s about 6-8 repeats. Continue reading
Acupressure is another tool that can be used to help maintain good eye health. It’s basically the art of using your fingers to press certain “pressure points” on the body, which trigger the normalization of energy flow in your body.
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How does eye acupressure work?
Acupressure works by the same principles that acupuncture works. Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), our body has energy channels called Meridians through which energy flows. If there is a blockage, obstruction or slowing-down of the energy flow for some reason it is believed to lead to problems, and this energy flow can affect any body organ, including the eyes. Continue reading
If you’ve ever heard of Contrast Hydrotherapy, or of the art of Hot Cold Therapy, you’ve probably heard of it in the context of healing sports and muscle injuries. Hot and cold packs or compresses are commonly used by athletes like soccer / football players, tennis stars and runners, to aid in muscle recovery, especially where repetitive muscle strain is involved.
But it’s not just the muscles in sportsmen’s limbs that are used repetitively and are prone to straining. One of the muscles in the body we use a lot are the eye muscles, and in many of us, the eye muscles are strained, even if we don’t feel it so obviously. So if hot and cold compress therapy helps muscle strain for large muscles in the body, why not also use them for the small eye muscles? Continue reading
When I first read about light therapy as a recommended eye exercise for improving eyesight, I was a little skeptical. And if I’m honest, I’m still skeptical about it. But I’ve gathered some internet-research on the subject and instead of just letting my research sit aimlessly on my computer, I thought I’d post my findings here in case it’s helpful to anyone.
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What is Light therapy or Sunning?
Sunning is a subcategory of sun therapy (or heliotherapy). It is the belief that use of light, and in particular sunlight, can be healing to the eyes. Continue reading
Palming is a technique that involves resting your eyes, to relax them and to relieve them from straining. This is an important part of treating the eyes to maintain optimal vision and it’s a common eye exercise that’s suggested for people working on improvign their eyesight by the Bates Method or other Vision therapy techniques.
During the day, we put our eyes under strain by focusing on near things (e.g. during reading, writing, computer work, tv-watching, using phones, using ipads etc etc.) and palming is one way to give your eyes a little break from all the visual stimulation around, to give them a moment to recharge, refresh and therefore keeps them functioning optimally. Continue reading
