If you have poor vision, it’s commonly accepted that there are two ways to improve your eyesight these days: LASIK or by wearing corrective lenses of some kind.
Most people who struggle through a lifetime of prescription eyeglasses, or even go under the knife for LASIK, don’t realize that they may be able to improve their vision by adding a few simple eye exercises to their daily routines.
Your eyes are, after all, muscles and when muscles aren’t exercised, they become lethargic and fatigued.
In this post, we’ll go over a few simple eye exercises to improve eyesight to get your vision into 20/20 shape.
1. Focusing
- Focusing on objects both near and far is an excellent way to train your eyes.
- To begin, start in a comfortable but upright position.
- Now, put your thumb about 10 inches away from your eyes.
- Focus on your thumb, every excruciating detail of it, for a few seconds.
- Next, pick an object, any object, in your surroundings that is about 10-20 feet ahead of you.
- Focus on that object for a few seconds and then jump back to focusing on your up close and personal thumb.
- Continue this for about two or three minutes to help strengthen your eyes and perhaps improve your vision!
2. Round The Clock
- With this next eye exercise, you’ve got to use your imagination.
- Begin in a seated position and close your eyes.
- Imagine a clock in front of you. Visualize the numbers 12 and 6.
- With your eyes still closed, rotate your eyes down from 12 to 6 in a clockwise rotation. Do this 15-20 times.
- Next, see the numbers 3 and 9. Still, in a clockwise motion, rotate your eyes from 3-9 about 20 times.
- With your eyes still closed, rotate your eyes in a counter-clockwise movement several times as well.
- This exercise can do wonders to help correct blurry vision problems!
3. Blinking
- The simple act of blinking can help you focus on objects better in your daily, seeing day.
- You probably spend a great deal of your time looking at computer screens, most of us do these days.
- If that’s true for you, you’re probably not blinking enough.
- We get so focused on the screen that we actually forget to blink. Blinking both relaxes and rehydrates our eyes.
- Take a few minutes every few hours and focus on blinking.
- Blink every 3-4 seconds and know that you’re helping your eyes be better able to serve you later on.
- The above eye exercises are examples of what is possible if you just put your mind – and eyes – to your goal of improving your vision naturally.
