Relax and Refresh your Eyes

These eye exercises will relax and refresh your eyes, strenghten your eye muscles and help you to prevent eye strain and headache.

At first, wash your face and eyes with cold water.
Sink your eyes in the palms of your hands filled with cold water and blink a couple of times.

Massage gently your eyelids and surrounding face.

Palming:

• Cover your eyes with palms of your hands without pressing eyeballs.
  
• Relax your whole body and watch the darkness a while. The darker the better.
  
• Try to find a comfortable position when doing this, make sure you are not tensed.
  
• Darkened room is a good place for palming.

Look up, hold 5 seconds, relax your eyes. Look down, hold 5 seconds, relax your eyes. Repeat 5 times. Blink your eyes a few seconds. Look left, hold 5 seconds, relax your eyes. Look right, hold 5 seconds, relax your eyes. Repeat 5 times. Blink your eyes. Look up left, hold 5 seconds, relax your eyes. Look down right, hold 5 seconds, relax your eyes. Repeat 5 times. Blink your eyes. Look up right, hold 5 seconds, relax your eyes. Look down left, hold 5 seconds, relax your eyes. Repeat 5 times. Blink your eyes. Rotate eyeballs 10 circles to left. Blink your eyes. Rotate eyeballs 10 circles to right. Blink your eyes. Cross your eyes by looking at the tip of your nose. Look up at your eyebrows and then back to the tip the nose. Relax your eyes. Repeat 5 times. Blink your eyes. Close your eyes as tightly as you can. Hold 5 seconds, then relax. Open your eyes wide open. Hold 5 seconds, then relax. Repeat 10 times. Blink your eyes. Focus on an object (pen, finger ...) a few inches away from your eyes, then focus far into the distance (through window for example). Repeat 10 times. Blink your eyes.