Eye strain (asthenopia) is an extremely widespread eye condition. Surprisingly, it is also one of the eye disorders that is usually left undiagnosed and untreated. Probably this is due to the fact that it doesn’t manifest itself with a specific eye strain symptom, as tiredness, headaches, moments of blurred vision, difficulties focusing and momentary pain in or around the eyes may all be eye strain symptoms.
Eye strain symptoms usually surface during a visually intense work such as reading, staring at a computer screen, writing or any other task requiring keeping our eyes focused on something. The good news is that there is a simple natural way to prevent eyestrain and to relieve its symptoms. The following vision exercise is particularly aimed at those suffering from eye strain as well as for anybody exposed to visually intense work. Moreover, this exercise is beneficial for our eyesight in general – it relaxes the eyes and releases the accumulated vision stress.
Here is what you need to treat your eye strain symptoms:
1. Sit comfortably on a chair and relax your back, neck and face. Try to maintain an up straight position and don’t let your back sag down.
2. Face forward, take a deep breath and look straight ahead.
3. Slowly move your eyes up as high as they can go. If you find it difficult, try to imagine there is something between your eyebrows and you are trying to see it by moving your eyes upwards.
4. Next, move slowly your eyes down, as far as they can go. This time you can imagine you are trying to see your mouth.
5. Return your eyes in their normal position.
It is of utmost importance to keep breathing while doing the exercise to treat your eye strain symptoms. Remember to keep your head still and your head and neck muscles relaxed. You can start by doing this vision exercise once or twice and gradually increase the number of repetitions to ten. For better result, perform the Up-Down Eye Movements exercise along with the Two Dots vision exercise.
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