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Eye Exercises | Simple Ways to Really Improve Your Vision
Eye Exercises | Simple Ways to Really Improve Your Vision
I often get asked if it’s possible to regain healthy 20/20 eyesight through good nutrition and lifestyle. The answer is, YES!
I’ve worked with many people who have worn glasses or contact lenses for years and have been able to get back to perfect vision again using the exercises I’m going to share with you here.
Eye Exercises For 20/20 Vision
Beyond the nutrition side of things, let’s talk specifically about what it takes to improve eyesight on an exercise basis. These exercises must be done 10-15 minutes twice a day if you’re really serious about improving your eye sight.
Ok, first and foremost I believe sun gazing is one of the ways to activate eye sight.
Head outside before sunrise and ground yourself by standing with your shoes off – either in the sand on the beach or in the grass. Watch the sun as it just comes over the horizon, the first 5 to 10 minutes, allowing it to come into your eyes. There is no UV light at this time watching the sun.
Are Your Glasses Or Contact Lenses Actually Impairing Your Vision?
One thing that is critical in this process of improving your eye sight is getting rid of “crutches”.
For example if I broke my leg and continued to use a crutch for a long time, my leg muscles would begin to atrophy from not being used and over time I wouldn’t be able to walk. Eventually I’d have to get rid of that crutch and go through the pain and the anguish of getting that muscle back to its original strength.
It’s exactly the same with your eyes! So whenever you can, don’t use your glasses or your contacts unless you absolutely have to.
Of course, if you need them for driving, keep them! But having some time without wearing them is crucial.
I understand reading can be tricky too, but here is a little trick to try. It’s a technique where you join each of your thumbs and index fingers to make two circles and hold them up to your eyes (finger glasses!). Now look in the distance and you’ll notice whatever you’re focused on is no longer blurry.
This simple technique works because it concentrates the light on the object that you are looking at. The same principle works when reading. There’s actually pinhole glasses you use that also improve vision which I definitely recommend getting if you can.
Exercises To Relieve Pressure And Strengthen Your Eye Muscles
Here is an exercise to relieve pressure in your eye area.
Start by taking both your index fingers and press just on the inside of the bridge of your nose. You’ll actually feel little soft spots where you can push. Apply enough pressure that after a while you hit a point of slight pain, but you’re going to allow that.
Then work your way around the orbitals of the eyes feeling for different spots and pushing. Massage your temples as well. These actions are aiding in releasing pressure from your eyes. After you’ve moved around the orbital bone, come back to the bridge of the nose and press about 10 times.
Now that you’ve relieved the pressure, you can work on strengthening the eye muscles.
Keeping your head straight, look as far to the left as possible. Hold this until you can feel the muscle stretching, becoming almost a little painful and then relax. Now repeat this looking to the right, then up and then down, relaxing in between stretches.
Next use your eyes to trace a big circle, looking all the way around the orbitals moving like a clock. Do ten rotations clockwise then ten anticlockwise. Try to make the circle as smooth as possible. Pay attention to see if the movements are jumping at any point and try to smooth that.
The Colour Green Improves Your Eyesight
Modern lifestyle does our eyesight no favours when we spend so much time staring at TVs, mobile phones and computer screens.
We used to walk barefoot through nature and this required constantly looking up and down to check where we were going and to watch we weren’t stepping on anything that could hurt our feet. These kinds of actions really work the eyes.
The colour green is also healing to the eyes and there is science that backs this up.
Start bringing plants into your space. When you’re doing the eye exercises, if you can have green in the background that’s fantastic. You know I live in Bali and there’s green everywhere. Inside our house there’s tons of plants as well.
This next eye exercise I always do whilst I’m out in nature.
I stretch out my left arm as far as I can making a ‘thumbs up’ fist with my hand. Then I make a ‘thumbs up’ with my right hand and place it at about the distance of my left elbow. (It doesn’t matter which arm is out straight and which is closer, do whichever is more comfortable for you).
Then find something green in the distance to look at. Now to begin the exercise, look at the thumb closest to you, focus on the thumb nail, then the thumb further away, then look at the green in the distance. Allow your eyes to focus fully before moving on to the next item, then keep repeating.
You may like to watch the video below where I demonstrate.
After doing this for a while you can bring the thumb that is closest to you even closer, so that is almost a little bit painful to look at, but you can still maintain focus.
Again repeat the exercise – focus on the first thumb nail, the second thumb nail, then the green in the distance. Keep doing this, bringing the first thumb in even closer if you can and don’t stop until your arms are completely tired. Then go relax, take some deep breaths (maybe go through 7 Rounds Of 7) or continue with some other exercise.
Clean Your Liver and Improve Your Eyesight
It’s important to have a clean liver because your liver produces enzymes for eye sight. That’s why people who drink too much go blind. Their liver has been affected to the point where it doesn’t produce the enzymes anymore. Hence that saying “you’re blind drunk” when you drink too much!
Through this cleansing process, the eyesight will return after a little while.
Cleansing the liver and detoxing is a process that’s not going to happen over night, but I know that it will work.
A lot of people come to my events and are surprised that sometimes their eye sight gets worse, despite all the eye exercises and cleansing. But that is the nature of cleansing – sometimes things get worse before they get better as the body starts processing the backload of toxins.
In the end they always send me messages like, “Wow! I really improved my eye sight! I don’t need my glasses anymore, thank you so much! We were starting to wonder if this was actually gonna work!”
But it does work. So give it a crack!
On the nutrition side of things eating carrots, drinking carrot juice, eating lots of greens and keeping your diet clean and healthy all helps. Then getting out into the sun, into the green of nature and doing these eye exercises you’re gonna be rocking! And you’re gonna have beautiful 20/20 vision.
Thanks for reading!