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Like any other muscles, the eye muscles also need exercise to be healthy and strong. By moving the eyes in every direction, without turning your head at all, these Yoga Eye Exercises will strengthen the eye muscles, help prevent eyestrain, and improve eyesight.

Yoga provides a series of eye exercises that improves the functioning of the eyes and helps to overcome various eye-related problems, such as:

•Myopia or short sightedness,

•Hypermetropia or long sightedness, and

•Various other eye-related disorders.

In the older days, our descendants get to see a horizon of blue sky and unlimited peripheral vision. Today, we are blocked by high-rise buildings and live in small spaces that limit our chances to use our distance vision. And, we spent most of our time doing close up work and staring at the 15-inch computer screen that further limits our eye movement and creates a lot of near-point stress.

Presently, about 35 % of the world population suffers from myopia and hypermetropia. These refractive errors of the eye are typically corrected using glasses and lenses; however, glasses never cure bad eyesight. In fact, they can worsen eye problems. So, glasses should only be worn when absolutely necessary.

Apart from a few diseases such as cataract and glaucoma that occur due to bacterial infections, many eye illnesses are related to the malfunctioning of the ocular muscles caused by chronic mental and emotional tensions. Yoga techniques help to improve various conditions related to defects in the eye muscles such as myopia and hypermetropia.

When people depend on glasses, their eyes become lazy which eventually leads to weakening in accommodation ability and their eye muscles. This eye yoga exercise rectifies that.

Eye yoga exercises had existed for centuries and helped many people regain back their natural eyesight. They are easy to do and can be done anywhere and anytime. It helps us to use our eyes to their fullest capability.

Eye yoga exercises aim to return our eyes to its natural state. Eye exercises let you learn how to maintain optimal eye health such as avoiding eyestrain and excessive near-point stress; and keeping the eye moist. These are probably the biggest factors in causing bad eyesight.

Yoga practitioners emphasize on eye exercises, for these two reasons:

•A lot of eye problems in later life are due to a loss of tone in the eye muscles. These muscles become rigid, which reduces the ability of the lens of the eye to focus at different distances, and causes the eyesight to become weaker. Yoga exercises tone the eye muscles up and keep them elastic. If you already have eye problems when you begin these exercises, you will find your eyesight improving after a few months.

•Any eye tension present will tend to produce a general feeling of tension due to the eye's connection to the brain via the optic nerve. What happens is that eye tension produces an increase in the nerve impulses in the eye muscles. This increase in nerve impulses travels along the optic nerve and bombards the brain, causing a general feeling of tension and anxiety. The eye exercises will reduce tension in the eye muscles, as well as reduce general tension.

Note: Before starting these exercises, it is always recommended to splash your eyes with cold water a few times. Remember to keep the head and spine straight throughout the exercises. Try not to use corrective lens during all these exercises.

•When doing the eye exercises keep your eyes open and don't move your head.

•Sitting, open your eyes and check on your posture: Is your spine erect? Hands on the knees? Body relaxed? Head straight? That is how you should always remain while doing eye exercises. The whole body must be stationary; nothing must move except the eyes.

A typical set of eye exercises routine maybe something like the following. It’ll give you a feel of how an eye exercise program will be like. Practicing these yoga eye exercises regularly for a few months can rectify the functioning of our eyes.