The eye

Exercises for the eyes and for better eye sight.

I found these exercises on a tape recording by Deepak Chopra.

Any sensory input changes the body's chemistry in less than 1/100 of a second. How you see and what you see instantly influences the systems of the body.

The following exercises improve vision, sense of colour perception, improve memory and creativity, and allows you to experience and access different states of consciousness.

These should be done without glasses or contacts.

1) Look at the sun with closed eyes for 15 seconds. This stimulates the rods and cones of the retina. If you have a cloudy day use full spectrum light (they have all wave-lengths of the sun).

2) Gently massage the eyeballs and look again at the sun with eyes closed for 15 seconds. You may experience different colours (which are generated from your body since eyes are closed). Hold the colours in your awareness for 30 to 60 seconds or longer. You may see only one colour or many.
This exercise stimulates the cones of the eyes for greater colour perception. Colours in your life become much more alive as sensory perception is richer.

3) This 3 part exercise is for the lens of the eye. As we age, the lens becomes less flexible and our eyesight deteriorates and we may develop cataracts. This exercise helps to improve vision and even correct vision.

a) focusing near and far: look at your hand or finger about 15 centimetres away from your nose and then look at something farther away. Go back and forth, look near and look far, for about 30 seconds.

b) distant reading: pin a sheet of written material on the wall. Stand as far as possible for comfortable reading. And everyday move a little farther and farther away to read your sheet.

c) close reading: use the same sheet of paper and go as close as you can comfortably read it. Every day go closer and closer.

4) Fixed positions of the eyes. This strengthens the extra-ocular muscles of the eyes, strengthens memory, learning ability, and increases attention span.
a) look up and left
b) look up and right
c) look down and left
d) look down and right
e) look horizontal left
f) look horizontal right
g) look up
h) look down

All these are held for 15 seconds each.
Do not move the head. Only the eyes.

To finish look between your eyebrows at the third eye center to open up to heightened intuition. Intuition = heightened sense of awareness. The eye exercises increases intuition.