Healthy Vision Month 2025 —

9 Exercises Good For Eye Vision

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Palming:

Rubbing the palm and then resting over closed eyes helps relax your optic nerves and reduce mental stress, offering fast relief from screen fatigue.

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Eye Clock Movement:

The eyes moving in a circular clockwise direction help stretch and develop the eye muscles all around.

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Blinking Rhythm Exercise:

Intentional blinking every couple of seconds for one minute will moisten and refresh dry, tired eyes.

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Near and Far Shifting:

Looking first at a finger placed close to the eyes and then at a faraway object changes the level of convergence and is good for improving focus adaptability and clarity.

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Side-to-Side Glancing:

Looking to the left and right repeatedly trains lateral eye movement and sharpens peripheral vision.

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Diagonal Scanning:

Eye movement in a diagonal direction exercises underused muscles and facilitates better visual coordination.

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Focus Tracing with a Finger:

Tracing shapes in the air with one's finger will train the eyes to follow exactly, thus strengthening control and tracking.

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Figure-Eight Gaze:

Tracing an imaginary sideways figure-eight with the eyes promotes coordination and smoothness of movement across the visual field.

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Candle Gazing:

Gazing gently at a candle flame sharpens concentration, calms the mind, and helps build eye focus.

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