Let The Sun Nourish Your Eyes
This is useful tip I got from the Program For Better Vision Newsletter, that I would like to share. It’s about using sunlight to nourish and relax your eyes… Try it!
It’s called The Sun Cycle Exercise and addition to nourishing and relaxing your eyes, it also reduces your sensitivity to light.
Here are the Instructions:
1. Close your eyes and face toward the sun. (If you cannot face the sun with your eyes closed without squinting or tightening your facial muscles, then begin the Sun Cycle by facing slightly away from the sun so that your face and closed eyes can relax. Then, as you become more accustomed to the light, gradually turn closer and closer towards the sun.)
2. Let the sunlight fall on your closed eyes for five seconds.
3. Place your cupped palms over your closed eyes, shutting out all light for five more seconds, then take your hands away, keeping your eyes closed.
4. Repeat steps 1 – 3 ten to twenty times, for a total of three to five minutes.
The Sun Cycle helps to nourish your visual system, exercise the focusing muscles of the eyes and reduce sensitivity to light and glare.
Practice the Sun Cycle regularly. Most people experience a decrease in sensitivity within twenty to thirty days.
And here are some additional tips:
To get the light nourishment that your eyes and body need, spend at least 30 minutes a day outdoors – without glasses or contacts – so that your visual system can receive unfiltered sunlight. Any glass – window glass, car windshield, eyeglasses or contacts – filters part of the full spectrum of light and reduces the beneficial effect that sunlight has on your eyes and body.
We recommend sunglasses only in situations of glare or reflected light (the beach or ski slopes).
Your eyes most fully rest in total darkness. The best way to rest your eyes is to close them and place your cupped palms over your closed eyes. You can palm for as little as 30 – 40 seconds any time that your eyes feel tired or strained. While palming, it is also helpful to visualize a pleasant scene in your mind’s eye.
If you find this tip useful, then consider signing up for the Program For Better Vision Newsletter…
William
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What are the eye exercises that you do three times a day? I realize that you try and do exercises throughout the day, but what are the ones that you specifically do three times a day? Thanks.
Hey Mlabre 20,
There are a number of exercises that I do.
Before I actually start doing the exercises, I do what I call “stretching exercises for my eyes”. I do this in two ways. One way is done as follows:
– look straight in front of you
– look to the left (don’t move you head, only your eyes), then back in front
– look to the right, then back in front
– look up and then back in front
– look down and then back in front
– repeat several times
Another way is to move your eyes in a circular motion, clockwise at first and then anticlockwise… again do this several times.
In regards to the exercises, I love to do the 3-cups exercise. I would explain it here, but you can check it out on the my website – http://improvingmyeyesight.com/Try_An_Eye_Exercise.html
I also do an exercise where I breathe in, close my eyes really tight, breathe out and then open my eyes.
These are just some of the exercises that I do from the Rebuild Your Vision Program. I don’t think that I can tell you everything in their program thought.. I might get into trouble.
Hope this helps…
William
Hey William
I’ve been following this blog since it started and I would like to ask you a question. Since I bought the Rebuild Your Vision program (b4 you bought it) I would like your comment on which of the exercises you feel they do something at all after all this time of doing them?
Personally I only do now the In/Out and the one which asks you to roll your eyes right up left and down. I do them 2-4 times a day, 10 minutes each. Do you think the 3-cups exercise is useful? to master the second step of that exercise you have to get the third cup without using a pen/finger.. which is impossible. What do u think?
I am a programmer myself and working in front of the computer is just endless.. so I use this software which forces me to take breaks once in one hour (or any other way you define it). And during the break you will get suggestions of exercises to do. The exercises will be for the eyes (look far then look near, cover your eyes with your pams and look in the dark – for relaxation), for the hands, shoulders and neck. It is free. I find it one of the best out there after trying few. can be downloaded from http://www.workrave.org/welcome/
I improved once from -5.25 to -3.75 but because I stayed undercorrected without doing exercises for a long time It got back now to -5.5 at least
but I still wear -4.0 glasses. so I’d recommend if you stop doing exercises, wear you full prescription glasses.
Good luck!
Hello Rtay7,
Thanks for commenting.. and reading my blog for so long….
I actually like doing the 3-cups exercises… I have no trouble doing any of the levels (I did initially, but not any more) and this is probably the exercise I do the most. I try to do it at least twice a day.
It just requires a little practice.
And like you, I also do the ferris wheel exercises. I do them first, each time I do exercises.
Thanks for the link to the software. I’ll check it out and make a post about it on the blog, so that others can download it as well.
Interesting what you said about the recommending wearing full prescription glasses…
William