Eye - Palming

Recommendations: 60-240 Dur

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Purpose: In addition, any eye tension present will tend to produce a general feeling of tension, due to the eye's connection to the brain via the optic nerve. What happens is that eye tension produces an increase in the nerve impulses in the eye muscles. This increase in nerve impulses travels along the optic nerve and bombards the brain, causing a general feeling of tension and anxiety.

Benefits: A lot of eye problems in later life are due to a loss of tone in the eye muscles. These muscles become rigid, and this loss of elasticity reduces the ability of the lens of the eye to focus at different distances. It also causes the eyesight to become weaker.

Sit down on the floor (or use a chair) with a relaxed posture. Your feet are on the floor and slightly apart. Your head is facing straight ahead. Remove your glasses or contacts. Your eyes are open. This is the starting position. Briskly rub your palms together to charge them with electricity. Place the cupped palms over your closed eyes, keeping your nose uncovered. Make sure that no light enter the eyes, and leave no gaps between fingers or between the edge of the palms and the nose. Image deep blackness and focus on the blackness. Take deep breaths slowly and evenly.

We were born to have hunters' eyes, needed for spotting game or danger at a distance. But during the last 50 years nearly all our work and much of our recreation, for example, video games, has shifted the focus of our vision to arm's length. The increased amount of near visual tasks often produces such changes as nearsightedness, suppressed vision in one eye, poor eye teaming and reduced efficiency at work and at play.