Photo by Chris Gin

If you’ve read my previous on how sunning can benefit your eye and how glasses deteriorate your vision, then you would know by now that keeping your eyes relaxed is key to perfect vision.

Contrary to popular belief, the more effort you put in to seeing, the worse you eyesight gets. Look at that picture, even birds rests their eye (just kidding). Seriously, your eye works best if no effort is involved in seeing.

If you feel the need to close your eye, don’t keep it open. If you do, that counts as effort and it will definitely strain your eye.

But what if you’re working or you’re “in the flow”? Well, that brings me to today’s tip. And it’s called palming.

Wait a minute… if resting is so good for my eye, why doesn’t my eye improve from sleeping?

The answer might surprise you – your eye don’t rest when you’re asleep! It sees what your mind sees when you’re dreaming! Your pupil shrink when you dream of something you don’t like and so on. Your eye move left and right and so on.

Why Palm?

Before I go into the how-to, let me just quickly tell you why you should do it. Knowing the why would exponentially increase the chances of you actually doing it!

Palming is a great way to quickly recharge your eyes batteries. There’s no such thing as palming for too long so don’t worry about over doing it. What palming does is it blocks all lights reaching your eye so you can see total darkness.

Now, unless you have perfect eyesight, what you think is total darkness really is not black. True black is what people with perfect eyesight see in total darkness. If you don’t believe me, palm (I’ll show you how later on) and compare what you see with the blackest object you’ve ever seen.

I’d dare bet that object is darker than what you saw when you palm. Seeing true black is crucial to your eye because it put your eye in total rest.

But even you don’t see true black, you can still rest your eye by palming.

How to Palm

Palming is easy to do.

1. Lightly rub your palms against each other.
2. Place your left palm on your left eye and your right palm on your right eye, in such a way that your fingers should overlap. It’s like you’re “cupping” your eye.
3. Make sure you don’t apply pressure on your eye, just block out all the light. If there’s still a little light when you palm for the first time, don’t worry about it.
4. Make sure you close your eyelids while palming.
5. While you’re palming, you can imagine your favorite scenery, or anything pleasant to you.

That’s all! It’s really that easy to quickly rest your eye! Do you have any experience you want to share or any comments on the this post? Please post it in the comments section!

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