Eye - Side To Side

Recommendations: 1-2 Sets, 3-5 Reps

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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 in a chair with a relaxed posture. Your hands are on your knees and your head is facing straight ahead. Remove your glasses or contacts. Your eyes are open. Keep your raised fingers or two pencils on each side as guides and adjust them so that you can see them clearly when moving the eyes to the right and the left, but without straining. This is the starting position. Move your eyes to the right as far as you can. Your head does not move, only your eyes. Maintain a relaxed posture with your hands on your knees. Breathe normally. Return to the starting position. Move your eyes to the left as far as you can. Your head does not move, only your eyes. Maintain a relaxed posture with your hands on your knees. Breathe normally. Repeat for the recommended number of repetitions.

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.