The Lastest Trend In Eye Health - Eye Yoga
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Clem
November 20, 2013
By Jennifer Mosscrop
If you regularly suffer from blurred vision, headaches, increased sensitivity to bright light, tired eyes or difficulty sustaining attention, eye exercises may help. It is said that just a few minutes of exercises per day can make your eye muscles stronger and your vision can actually improve.
Yoga for the eyes. Yogis have taken the idea of eye exercises one step further. Eye asanas (poses) are believed to help the mind concentrate during a yoga practice and throughout the day. "The fastest way to bring the mind into concentration is through the eyes," said Swami Sitaramananda, director of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center of San Francisco, as quoted in Yoga Journal.
The simplest exercise is “palming” — developed over 100 years ago by Dr. William Horatio Bates: Cover your closed eyes with your hands without any pressure on your eyeballs. The palms of your hands are slightly cupped over each eye (left over left and right over right), and the fingers are partly interlaced on your forehead. There should be no light, or as little as possible, allowed to enter the eye. Once you are palming, open your eyes and look around to see if you can adjust your hands in such a way as to exclude as much light as possible. Close your eyes.
"The eye desperately needs darkness to recover from the constant stress of light," says Robert Abel, author of The Eye Care Revolution in Yoga Journal. "And the simplest way to break eye stress is to take a deep breath, cover your eyes, and relax."
Exercise as a preventive measure Two studies by the American Academy of Ophthalmology found that people who exercise regularly were less likely to develop serious eye disease. In one study, people who engaged in moderate physical exercise were 25% less likely to develop glaucoma than people who were largely inactive. Another study showed that people who exercised three times a week were less likely to develop age-related macular degeneration than people who didn't exercise.
If you already have an eye disease, you can manage it better with regular exercise. People with glaucoma can lower their intraocular pressure and improve blood flow to the retina and optic nerve with regular, moderate exercise.
By Jennifer Mosscrop
If you regularly suffer from blurred vision, headaches, increased sensitivity to bright light, tired eyes or difficulty sustaining attention, eye exercises may help. It is said that just a few minutes of exercises per day can make your eye muscles stronger and your vision can actually improve.
Yoga for the eyes. Yogis have taken the idea of eye exercises one step further. Eye asanas (poses) are believed to help the mind concentrate during a yoga practice and throughout the day. "The fastest way to bring the mind into concentration is through the eyes," said Swami Sitaramananda, director of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center of San Francisco, as quoted in Yoga Journal.
The simplest exercise is “palming” — developed over 100 years ago by Dr. William Horatio Bates: Cover your closed eyes with your hands without any pressure on your eyeballs. The palms of your hands are slightly cupped over each eye (left over left and right over right), and the fingers are partly interlaced on your forehead. There should be no light, or as little as possible, allowed to enter the eye. Once you are palming, open your eyes and look around to see if you can adjust your hands in such a way as to exclude as much light as possible. Close your eyes.
"The eye desperately needs darkness to recover from the constant stress of light," says Robert Abel, author of The Eye Care Revolution in Yoga Journal. "And the simplest way to break eye stress is to take a deep breath, cover your eyes, and relax."
Exercise as a preventive measure Two studies by the American Academy of Ophthalmology found that people who exercise regularly were less likely to develop serious eye disease. In one study, people who engaged in moderate physical exercise were 25% less likely to develop glaucoma than people who were largely inactive. Another study showed that people who exercised three times a week were less likely to develop age-related macular degeneration than people who didn't exercise.
If you already have an eye disease, you can manage it better with regular exercise. People with glaucoma can lower their intraocular pressure and improve blood flow to the retina and optic nerve with regular, moderate exercise.