Yoga for your eyes?
Posted by Theda K. on 26 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Resources
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I use the computer a lot, as many of you probably do too. We all know that we need to exercise our bodies to stay healthy, but what about our eyes?
I found this cool site that offers a lot of tips to exercise your eyes, and possibly improve your eyesight. My daughter, at not yet 3, is already wearing glasses, but I wonder if trying eye yoga might help her out.
Here are some quick exercises you can try before you even go read the site:
1. When you’re using the computer, make an effort to blink more often. Staring at the computer is a strain on the eyes.
2. Gently close your eyes and roll the eyeballs around for about 60 seconds.
3. Squeeze your eyes shut for about 5 seconds, then open them. Do this exercise several times in a row.
Feel better yet?
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Thanks for the tips and link. I’ve been on the computer a lot more the last few weeks, so I’m now feeling it in the eyes!
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I understand. I have to remember to blink because I definitely stare at the screen a lot. Thanks for dropping by!
Ok…But do you have any idea how ridiculous you would look if someone were watching you perform your pts. 1, 2 & 3? They’d probably call 911.
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LOL! Thanks for that one! I hadn’t thought about it that way!
Great set of tips! I wear hard contact lenses so the eyeball-rolling is a bit uncomfortable, but I’ll keep the others in mind.
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Great exercises. Will keep them in mind. Thank you!
Another one I find useful and learned is to look out of the window–or at another spot in the room–for one or two seconds several times during the day.
They tell it’s what the referees do in order to train their eyes and keep them sharp.
~Marcus
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I also stay to much time at computer but I take some brakes and my eyes don’t hurt like in other times.
Great tips, thank you! I work from home so I don’t have to worry about looking odd to anyone. However I do feel some eyestrain.
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im feeling way better now . great exercise ! thanks for sharing this useful thingy …. it helps alots huhuhuhuhu (:
Have you tried computer glasses? they have helped reduce my eye strain.
Hey!Great post!I’m using computer so frequent..It makes me dizzy and my eyes were tired…Thankful you’ve supply me a great link for eye yoga!Thanks a lot!
Great advices indeed. We are sometimes so bound to using our computers without a break, that we do not pay any attention to the amount of strain we put our eyes to. In addition to these excellent tips I am gonna try, I also practice taking a break and meditating for some time, as this also eases the pressure on the eyes.
Those are all very good tips. Any tips for an aching back?
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With all the emphasis on exercising just about every other part of our bodies, I found your three tips to be extremely useful. Thanks.
We’re certainly all creatures of habits and I can honestly say I’ve never given a moment of thought about exercising my eyes. Thanks!
I just posted about doing experiments to improve vision in our house! I’d read about this long ago but I would love to hear from someone who actually saw improvement. Only thing I’m worried about is slow and steady progress, I can’t buy a new pair of glasses for each of us every couple of months but none of us can go without them..it’s worth it though if it works!
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I’ve actually had to go get glasses to wear in front of the computer because my contacts were having a hard time. Maybe it was just my eyes. I’ll have to cut them some slack! Thanks for the exercises they helped.
Thanks for such a nice blog . I would recommend a online resource its a small yoga dictionary (Sanskrit-English). If you are a Yoga practitioner, or are thinking of becoming one, this excellent guide to Yoga introduces you to the main concepts with concise translations from transliterated Sanskrit into English