Stretching the eye muscles

இரு கண்களையும் இருக்கமாக மூடி, சிறிது கசக்கி விட்டு கண்களை திறக்க வேண்டும். புருவம் மற்றும் முகத்தை சுருக்கி விரிக்க வேண்டும். இதை சில தடவைகள் செய்ய வேண்டும்.

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Close both eyes tightly, squeeze them closed and open them suddenly, arching your brows and stretching your face. Repeat several times.

Look up as far as possible, look down as far as possible, inhale on up, and exhale on down. Blink rapidly a dozen or so times. Look as far right as possible, look as far left as possible and blink rapidly again. Look diagonally up to left, down to right,up to right, down to left, and blink rapidly. Rotate your eyes in circles, clockwise and anticlockwise. Try with your eyes open and shut.

SunGlasses

Sunglasses shield your eyes from the life-giving sun. They are not good for your eyes at all, except in drastic circumstances such as a bright sunny day in the snow covered mountains.

Wearing sunglasses all the time can lead to photosensitivity or even photo-phobia (fear of light). Many eye specialists now warn against the excessive use of sunglasses. They say that it can cause blindness by paralyzing the eye-pupil.

If you are driving into the sunset or sunrise, use your sunglasses to reduce glare, otherwise leave them off.

Food for the Eyes

Sunshine is Food for the Eyes. The eyes thrive on the sun’s energy.

Go outdoors in the sunlight everyday that you can. Outdoor people generally have better vision than people who spend most of their time inside. The best time to enjoy the sunshine on your eyes is in the morning before 11:00 am or after 3:00 pm.

The sun improves the eyes and pupils in many wonderful ways. For instance, it loosens tight muscles. The nerves and muscles just naturally let go of stress and tension, a leading cause of poor eyesight.

In the exercises section, you’ll find several ‘sunning’ exercises – they are amongst my favorites – but here’s one you can do whenever you get the chance, not just in your 15 minute routine.

Sit down, relax your mind and body; loosen your neck and shoulders. Close your eyes and swing your head slowly from side to side, with the sun shining directly on your face. If your eyes start to "tear" or "water", just let it happen, the tears are very healing.

Eye Bathing

This is the single most important exercise you can do to correct and improve your eyesight.

When I started ‘washing’ my eyes every day, my eyesight improvement accelerated way beyond anything else I did. At first it was a bit strange, but after a few days, it became just as normal as cleaning my teeth, and I did it morning and night.

Put three or four drops of lemon juice in an eye cup with purified water and wash the eyes with it daily/weekly or atleast monthly twice for about 20-30 seconds with each eye.

How to wash ?

•Ensure your hands are clean and dry.

•Pour the purified water into the eye bath until it's about a third full. Bend your head forward, holding the eye bath by its base.

•Place the eye bath over your eye and slowly raise your head with your eye open, so wash flows into it. Gently rock your head from side to side for at least 30seconds.

•If the eye bath is likely to be used by more than one person it is a sensible precaution to sterilize it by boiling it in water.

Special Reading Technique

When reading, you should look at the white spaces between the lines and not directly at the lines themselves.

The reason for this is that there is no effort involved in sweeping your eyes over a plain white background. Fixing the eyes on individual words and letters involves strain, and strain hurts your vision.

When a person with normal sight regards the white spaces with a sweeping shift across the page from margin to margin, he can read easily, rapidly and without fatigue. If the same person looks at the letters, the eyes grow tired and the vision becomes poor.

People who cannot read well at the near point always tend to fix their attention on the print. Consequently they see worse. Improvement cannot take place until they learn to look at the white spaces between the lines.

Reading can be improved by improving the power to remember or imagine whiteness. This improvement can be achieved in the following way…

Close your eyes and imagine something even whiter than the page before you - white snow, white linen, a white board. Then open your eyes again.

If your mental images of whiteness have been clear and intense, you will find that the white spaces between the lines will appear for a few moments to be whiter than they really are.

Repeat this process as a regular drill.

When your imagination of whiteness has become so good that you can constantly see the spaces between lines as whiter than they really are, the print will seem blacker by contrast and the eye will find itself reading easily and without effort or fatigue”

I love this technique. Not only does it help your eyes and make reading more relaxed, you will find that you actually read many times faster than normal!

Art of Reading

உடல் நல்மில்லாமல் இருக்கும் போது படிக்காதீர்கள்.

குறைந்த வெளிச்சத்தில் அதிக நேரம் படிக்காதீர்கள்.

ஒரே சமயத்தில் தொடர்ந்து 30 நிமிடங்களுக்கு மேல் படிக்காதீர்கள்.

கஷ்டப்பட்டு படிக்க வேண்டாம்.

சரியான தொலைவில் புத்தகம் வைத்து படிக்க வேண்டும்.

சாப்பிடும் போது படிக்க வேண்டாம்.

குறுகி அல்லது கண்களை சுறுக்கி படிக்க வேண்டாம்.

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Don’t read when tired or sick.

Don’t read for extended periods in poor light.

Keep a Good Posture Whilst Reading.

Don’t Read for more than 30 minutes at one time.

Avoid Straining.

Look up regularly and gaze into the distance.

Avoid Close Work During and After Meals

Avoid ‘Squinting’.

Secret to Vision

The Retina’s "Yellow Spot": The Secret to Vision

The "Yellow Spot" is a part of the Retina that allows the details of whatever you’re looking at to be seen more clearly.

The middle bit of the yellow spot is called the ‘Fovea Centralis’. This part of the Yellow Spot ‘sees’ twice as well as the Retina itself, particularly in bright light. When you focus on a small object or read a book, you see with this part of the Retina.

Peripheral vision: the ability to see out the corners of your eyes In the normal eye peripheral vision is quite clear.

Peripheral vision is weakened by too much eye-squinting, close work and intensive mental concentration for long periods. These activities center your eyes' attention upon a single point only, and you begin to lose your ability to see peripherally. According to the legendary Dr. Bates, "The normal eye sees one thing best, but not one thing only."