Yoga for Eyes
Eyes are the most sensitive part of the body. It needs special care and attention. But unfortunately most probably we failed to be careful for our eyes. The hectic world and workloads do not let us to have healthy life. Especially the pollution and increasing usage of gadgets like smart phones, television, computers, and laptops affect our eyes badly.
However, in this growing age of technology eyesight suffering has also increased. And even kid and adults are suffering from blurred vision, itchy and watery eyes, headaches, double vision, and other symptoms of eye strain.
An eye seems to be our only tangible window to the world. As year goes by, the muscles around the eyes loose their tone as a result eyes loose their elasticity and become rigid and our eyes sight turn to be weak.
There is a co-relation between eyes and brain and it is said that an eye occupies only 40% of vision of a brain capacity that is the reason when we close our eye we feel relaxed.
Fortunately, there are some simple exercises which can help rejuvenate the eyes and improve the eye sights. Well, here yoga plays a significant role in improving eye sight. With yoga one can be careful towards eye sight and have a good eye health. Exercising some asanas, pranayams, and meditation helps you to have peace and tranquillity. Also, there are some eye exercises which are really helpful to completely rectify eye problems.
Here are some easy asanas which can be effective to good eye health:
Before beginning an eye exercise, it’s important to consider the corpse pose to relax all the body parts the ‘Shavasana’. Follow the steps before eye exercise.
After done with pre eye exercise or shavasana get ready to have some very simple and effective asanas for good eye health. Here are some eye exercises as follow:
1.Palming
Palming is very useful exercise to eradicate the stress of the eyes because an eyes need darkness to recover the stress of light. Also, it produces calming effect on the nervous system. So, cover your eyes and breathe deeply. Steps to follow:
2.Eye Rolling
Eye rolling exercise is good for eye sight as it distracts your continuous focus on gadgets and it is simple as that. Follow the simple steps:
3.Grazing (Trataka)
This activity improves vision, concentration and purifies the mind. These exercises also eliminate disease of the eyes in just two simple steps:
4. Focus shifting
This exercise help you to concentrate and focus also it improve your eye sight. To do this kriya just follow the simple steps:
5. Meditation (Pranayam)
Meditation is the best exercise any one can ever does. This reduces tension and stress which is the basic cause of any disease of the body. It gives you inner peace which changes your outer personality. According to yogis concentration on the tip of nose or on the point between the eyebrows which is called the third eye and centre of the ajna chakra led your mind for meditation. A step for meditation is very simple and strongly effective as well, as follow:
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- Harshita Chhetri