Eye Exercise

Get Fit While You Sit 36 Exercises you can do at your desk and almost anywhere, anytime.

Reduce computer eye-strain with these simple exercises.

Prolonged periods at the computer and other types of visual inspection is tiring and can lead to eye strain. Using good ergonomic principles the performer of such tasks will benefit by doing regular eye exercise. This can be as simple as looking away from the task towards some distant object beyond the immediate workspace such as,  looking out a window.  Its important, however that the view should not be so bright that the eyes take time to adjust when the task is resumed.

A lot of eye problems later in life are due to a loss of eye tone in the eye muscles. These eye exercises will tone the eye muscles and keep them elastic.

Eye Exercise 1.

Sitting with your head motionless, hands on knees and your back and spine straight. Move your eyes upwards to a point as far as you can, then down to a point as far as you can, without straining, repeat four times, blinking a few times at the end to relax the eye muscles.

Eye Exercise 2.

Do the same thing to points to your right and left, at eye level. Use your fingers or two pencils raised as your vision points, view them clearly without straining. Repeat four times, blink a few times and rest.

Eye Exercise 3.

Choose a point up to the right corner of your eyes and another down to the left corner of your eyes, repeat four times and do the same thing in reverse. Blink several times, close eyes and rest.

Eye Exercise 4.

Leave this one for three of four days after you have started the above exercises.

Starting from the floor, roll the eyes slowly clockwise in a full circle back to the floor. Blink, rest and repeat in the opposite direction, again blink and rest. Do this exercise five times.

Eye Exercise 5.

Alternate your vision by beginning with your finger or a pencil out from your nose and seeing it clearly. Then alternate from the pencil to an object far in the distance and back to the pencil again. Repeat several times, blink, rest.

Eye Exercise 6.

Squeeze your eyes tightly closed for three seconds.

Eye Exercise 7.

This exercise is called palming, it is very beneficial and important for preserving the eyesight. Briskly rub your palms together to charge them with electricity and place the cupped palms over the closed eyes. Start by doing about 30 seconds and gradually increase the time. Its also beneficial to do deep breathing exercises as well.