Apart from the time we sleep, our eyes are always under stress! When we have a sore back or leg, we have a masseur massage our body parts to get the utmost relief. But what happens with our eyes? What do we do to relieve our eyes? Nothing, right? Well, for that, we have something new for you!
The segment below is going to discuss what eye yoga is, why you need it, and its several benefits. So, without any further ado, let’s check out what the following segment has in store for you.
What Is Eye Yoga?
A proper yogic eye exercise helps in improving your eyesight and keeps your eyes in great health shape. Just like how yoga can keep you healthy and protect you from several pains and improve your health condition overall, eye yoga is the same.
When you incorporate the right eye yoga and do them correctly, you can benefit from them massively. The eye muscles improve and keep you away from various eye conditions.
Why Do You Need Eye Yoga?
Why do you add a magnetic eye snap on your usual glasses? When you are out and about, you oftentimes use these magnetic snaps to soothe yourself from the scorching sunlight. Wearing a sunglass helps you relieve your eyes, isn’t it? For that, people who wear prescription spectacles often use magnetic snap on glasses to give themselves instant relief.
The same goes with eye yoga as well. Our eye muscles and nerves hardly get rest. And with the increase of screentime, our eyes are the victim of maximum stress. All of which, overall, is creating headaches and many more problems. So, I’d advise you to get through eye yoga and avail yourself of most of its benefits.
Let’s check out the following segment to find out how to do eye yoga!
How To Do Eye Yoga?
Now that you’ve understood the importance and why you need to perform this kind of exercise for your eyes, let’s check out in detail how you need to go about the process.
1. Shifting Of Eye Focus
One can begin by shifting their focus. This will overall help in the improvement of your eye focus. So, here’s what you need to do:
- Take out your left hand, and then raise the thumb of your hand first.
- When you are in the thumbs-up position, position your eyes in that place.
- Finally, shift your thumb to the extreme right.
- Check if your eyeballs are moving in that same direction or not.
- Repeat the procedure with the left side as well.
When you do this, you’ll notice your eyes having a certain amount of pain. Allow that to happen with yourself and do it twice. Then proceed to the next exercise.
2. Use The Warmth of Your Palms
It’s important that your eyes get the right massage and warmth to ensure the glands are working well. Here’s what you need to do to make sure that you do this exercise correctly.
- Wash your hands with soap and water.
- Then use a clean towel to wipe the water.
- Finally, take both the palms and rub them against each other.
- When your palms become a little hot, place them gently on your eyes
- Repeat the procedure a few times, and you’ll notice some tears rolling down your eyes. This is extremely soothing.
Remember to do it several times, and then make sure you are taking deep breaths while doing this!
3. Try Out Eye Rolling
Another way that you need to try out eye yoga is this one! Eye rolling is a great way to improve your eye muscle strength and give your eye glands overall relief. Here’s what you need to do.
- Sit up in a straight position. Make sure that you are not hunched in any way.
- Then take a deep breath and enlarge your eyeballs.
- Finally, rotate your eyeballs from left to right and then again from right to left.
While doing this, you will notice that your eyes are getting a certain amount of strain which will make you feel better. Do then a few times.
All the exercises, as mentioned earlier, are easy to do and are extremely effective. Now that you know how to go about the process of eye yoga let’s check out some of the possible benefits of doing this yoga.
What Are The Benefits Of Practicing Eye Yoga?
Now you definitely know that eye yoga is extremely effective. Let’s check out some of the potential benefits of performing this kind of yoga. Here are the following ways:
· Helps You See Better
Anything that has proper movement stays well. And the same applies to your eyes too. When you go through these exercises, you can be sure that your eyesight can improve and your eyes remain well.
In accordance with research, it is noticed that you can limit the chances of developing myopia and other eye-related problems when you go through proper eye exercises.
· Eye health improvement After Cataract
Anything that is done externally needs exercise after the operation to ensure proper eye movement. It’s the same with your eyes as well. Trying out the exercises that we’ve spoken about above can help in eyesight improvement massively.
· Reduces eye strain
We all have been stressing our eyes nowadays tremendously with the use of screen time. With the use of smartphones, we are stressing our eyes too much. So, to ensure that you keep your eyes healthy, you can try out the above-mentioned exercises.
Final Thoughts
As we come to the end of our blog today, I hope you know what eye yoga is and how important it is to incorporate into our daily lives. Start working on the above-mentioned things to ensure you keep your eyes healthy and in top-notch condition.
Not everyone pays much heed to our eyesight, but this is one of the most important things! So, ensure these, and do let us know in the comment section below what your opinion is!
