Your eyes are like other parts of your body: They need to stay in shape, and eye excercises are a good way to keep your eyes in good health:

Here are a few things you can easily do that will help. Follow the instructions and your eyes will thank you. Regularly doing eye excercises will help to delay the time or even prevent that  you need glasses or a Lasik eye surgery.

General Eye Excercises

To start with your eye excercises, close your eyes and carefully and gently massage the eyelids with your fingers. Of all eye excercises this is the easiest to do and can be repeated anywhere anytime. Now open your eyes and define two different points, focus and look at them – one point at some distance and the other point up close. Now close your eyes, then open them and first concentrate on the faraway point for about 10 seconds then move to the closer point for an other ten seconds. Repeat the this excercise for ten to 15 times.

An important point when doing these eye excecises is to make sure that you are able to blink freely and that when you massage your eyes, your palm is not putting too much pressure on your eyes. Massaging your eyes can be very beneficial if you do it right. As soon as you open your eyes, things will appear sharper.

Here’s an other one of these great eye excercises: For this one you first close your eyes. Then you open your eyes and you look up . Next you start to rotate the eyeballs clockwise five times and when this is done, you close your eyes. Keep the eyes closed for a few seconds, the open them again, this time you look down and you start rotating them anti-clockwise, again about five times.

Eye Excercises For Computer Workers

Eye excercises are specifically important for office workers. When you spend long hours in front of the computer, being concentrated on the computer screen, you  have the tendency to blink a lot less than ususal.  That’s bad, because blinking is the easiest means to keep your eyes fresh and clean. Blinking also helps you to keep clear focus for a  longer time. Therefore we will do blinking eye excercises, where you blink frequently: For two to three minutes you will now concentrate on blinking regularly: You blink every three to five seconds. That should do just fine to refreh your eyes and keep them fit for an other hour of work in front of the computer screen. Try to remember to consciously blink whenever possible, even whilst working!

Further Eye Movement Excercises

Thes following eye excercises are specific eye muscle excercises. Moving the eyes and strenghtening the eye muscles is very important. Here’s a great excercise that will do just that: With these eye excercises you will increse the flexibility of your eye muscles:

With this figure eight you will train your eye muscles and keep them flexible.

Imagine a hughe figure 8 in front of you. Can you see it? Great! Now start at one point and slowly (!) trace this hughe figure eight with your eyes. Make sure you follow it exactly and slowly. Continue to trace that figure eight for ten times, this should take you about two to three minutes. If you’re faster you move too quickly or the figure eight you imagine is too small. Your eyes should move widely,  whilst the head stays steady. Once you’ve moved in one direction, repeat the same excercise in the opposite direction, again for about two to three minutes to complete ten rounds.

If you have a partner, this is a fun excercise too. It’ the only one of these eye excercises that you can only do with an other person. On person lies flat on their back, looking up. The second person swings a pendulum (can be anything attached to piece of string) over the head of ther person on floor. The person on the floor concentrates on the pendulum and follows its movement with the eyes, whilst the head stays steady. Do this for about 2 – 3 minutes.

Ciliary Muscle Eye Excercises

There are also eye excercises for muscles most of us don’t even know they exist. Here you will learn how to strenghten your ciliary muscle. The ciliary muscle changes the shape of the lens within the eye and allows you to focus on objects. This is an important function, and is used very little when working with a computer or watching TV, where the image stays in one place.

Many of us don’t use the ciliary muscle as much as we should to keep it in shape. So let’s give it a workout: Put your finger close in front of both eyes and now very slowly move your finger away from the eyes until your arm is fully stretched out. Now bring the finger back closer to the eyes. At all times keep focusing on the pointer of your finger. Repeat this for about 20 times.

When doing eye excercises you can just pick of these or do them all, you will quickly find out which ones help in which situation. For good vision, try to do them all at least once every day.

After any of these eye excercises give your eyes a short break and keep them closed for a minimum of two minutes to unwind the eye muscles.