Yoga for Eyes: 5 Really Easy Exercises You Can do anytime

NDTV Food  |  Updated: July 13, 2017 11:22 IST

Yoga for Eyes: 5 Really Easy Exercises You Can do anytime
We spend most part of our day in front of the computer screen, staring at word documents, excel sheets or YouTube videos. And all this while, we worry about our expanding waistline, our dull skin and drying hair. We worry that are stomach isn't flat enough, our legs aren't toned enough and our gluts aren't firm enough. But in the process, we forget about one of the most important parts of our body, the eyes. The ones that itch from sheer exhaustion and burn tirelessly after the end of a really long day.

You might not feel the need to exercise your eyes because well, there aren't any immediate symptoms or signs of weak or tired eyes but if you want to guard yourself from hazy spots and blurry vision in the future, then we suggest you exercise them as often as possible. One of the best ways to do so it to try yoga exercises for eyes. Yoga for eyes is a certain type of eye workout that can be done at any given time of the day, all you need are a few minutes.
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There are six muscles that connect the eye to the eye socket and help them move side to side, up and down and all around. When you read, drive or watch something over an extended period of time, it drains your eye muscles of flexibility and tires them out. This condition is known as eye fatigue and is only worsened by smartphones and computer devices. While eye fatigue isn't a very serious condition, if it persists overtime it can be. The one way to help relieve the symptoms of eye fatigue (burning, itching and tiredness) is eye yoga. Why yoga you ask? Yoga is a form of exercise designed to work on your health and consciousness i.e your mind, body and soul. So all the exercises help not just your vision but also your brain, reinforcing the fact that everything is connected. Eye yoga can also relieve you from disorders related to defects in the eye muscles like myopia and hypermetropia.

Jane Rigney Battenberg writes in her book 'Eye Yoga: How You See is How You Think', "Since the eye muscles are eight times stronger than they need to be, they don't have to be strengthened so much as stretched, relaxed and fine-tuned. You will need to balance the eye stretching and strengthening exercises, where the eyes learn to work and see together, with the relaxing, loosening exercises, where you re-pattern your eyes and brain to relax and see."

We've put together five simple yoga exercises that that will help ease out overused muscles, reduce tension in the face and eyes and help your eyes focus.







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