Here’s how it works:
- Sit down in a chair and place your elbows on your knees or a table.
- Face your palms toward your face and slightly cup the lower portion of your hands while keeping your fingers straight.
- Place your eyes in the cups of your hands, which should gently rest above and below the bone surrounding your eye and cheek. No portion of your hand should touch your eyeball, but it is alright if your eyelashes brush against your palm. The fingers of both hands should slightly overlap resting near the center top of your forehead. With your eyes open, be sure there is no light entering into your eyes.
- While maintaining this position, relax and close your eyes while you imagine you’re looking into the distant night. Remember, your eyes are relaxed as they look out at a distance – the purpose of this exercise.
- As you focus into the distance you should feel a reduction in eyestrain caused by the near point activity.
Chet Day
Editor, The Natural Health Circus
http://chetday.com
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ReplyDeleteIn general, I find your health tips helpful to maintain or foster a healthier lifestyle. However, the link you have posted at the end of the article about naturally improving eyesight is embarassing. I am an opthalmic technician. I have spent many many years around eyes and know a fair amout about them and the optics of vision, and from a medical standpoint, doing "exercises" simply won't do anything to improve eyesight. Myopia (nearsightedness) and hyperopia (farsightedness) are physical differences in the length of the eye, which means that the retina is at an incorrect focal length for the rest of the optical system of the eye, composed largely of the cornea and lens of the eye. While doing "exercises" may somewhat strengthen the muscles which change the shape of the lens, in no way will it help correct the length of the eye. Ironically enough, these exercises will do nothing more than increase eyestrain in the long run. And these exercises also don't take into account that part of most patient's visual impairment is due to astigmatism, which is an irregularly shaped cornea (the clear, front part of the eye). How are exercises going to correct a cornea which is misshapen? They aren't, of course, just like they can't change the length of the eye. This is as embarassing a scam as "anti-cataract" drops, which are nothing more than artificial tears. They can't slow or stop the progression of cataracts. Taking advantage of people such as myself who don't have good natural eyesight is unprofessional and disappointing.
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