Eye Exercises

The most encouraging fact about your eyes is that the less effort you make to see the better you can see. It is difficult for people with imperfect sight to believe that perfect sight requires no effort; indeed, any effort to improve the sight makes it worse. Curiously enough, we have long known that before we can swim or dance, play tennis or golf, or master a musical instrument, our muscles must be relaxed. Acquiring that relaxation of the muscles has often been the hardest part of learn­ing any of these things, but without it all the other lessons are useless.

We have been singularly slow in discovering that this fact applies with equal force to the use of the eyes. Without exaggeration, we might call the eyes the most neglected part of the body. If the principle of the correct use of the eyes were applied from early child­hood, no method of re-education such as the one described in this book would be necessary. But the blunt truth is that we are not taught how to use our eyes. Actually, countless cases of eyestrain are a direct result of current methods by which reading is taught in our public schools.

Most serious of all, however, is the misunderstanding that is so widespread in regard to what vision is. Text­books are crammed with material on the physical eye, and yet the physical eye can be perfect while the vision is defective; in fact, in some cases, there may be no vision at all. Nothing has been done or is being done to prevent eye defects, all of which are produced by a mental strain. Investigation has been concentrated on external influences alone.

This is an alarming situa­tion in an age in which tremendous strides are being made in surgery, in public health, and in preventive medicine as it applies to almost every physical con­dition, does this to your eyes.  To learn more about eye exercises, just go to this link:
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X AND V DRILLS

Hold a chopstick horizontally with thumb and fore­finger of the left hand. The stick should be on a level with the eyes, the point toward the nose at right angles to a line connecting the two eyes, and the other tilted slightly upward. Cross the chopstick vertically with a pencil.

Slowly move the pencil back and forth, focusing the eye on the point of intersection. You should get the illusion of the stick forming an X with the point of crossing where chopstick and pencil touch.

Move the pencil to the top of the chopstick and you get the illusion of a V with the apex at the far end and the sides of the letter opening toward your face.

These drills are excellent to train eyes in correct fusion habits. If the squint is pronounced, it will be difficult at first to get the illusions of the X and the V. Do not overdo the exercise and fatigue the eyes. At first your eye muscles may have a drawing sensa­tion. Stop the exercises and alternate with another period of sunning, palming and swinging. Blink often to avoid staring and to relieve tension.

After practicing the exercises for a few days you will begin to get the proper images. As the muscles start to limber up, you will experience great relief and comfort in your eyes. If you do these exercises in the morning, you will loosen up tense muscles and induce better fusion during the day.

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