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One of the most common questions I received ever since I started telling people about eye strengthening exercises is, “Why haven’t I heard of it?”

My answer to them is always the same: There a lot of things that you don’t know!

Ever heard of the saying “Money makes the world go around?”

Well, it couldn’t be truer in this case. The optical industry is a big industry. It was worth $30.2 billion dollars 10 years ago. Disregard exponential growth for a moment, how much do you think it’s worth today?

Now I don’t know about you, but I think someone do stand to gain if people continue to buy glasses and have lasik operations performed on them. Don’t you think so?

Here’s an example. Have you heard that numerous people actually recover from cancer? Oh yes. It’s not just a coincidence. The majority of the public never knew cancer is curable… in fact, to claim that there is a cure for cancer is to break the law.

Preposterous? Welcome to reality.

Now, they can always debate whether or not eye strengthening exercises or a cure for cancer is scientifically valid or not. They can debate all sorts of things.

Bottom line is: There are people who regained their vision. Not just one or two. Numerous people did it. Just check the testimonials here.

That means it works. So please don’t tell me all sorts of fancy scientific studies that shows it doesn’t work if you haven’t even tried it. You’re just too plain lazy and you’re justifying yourself. Period.

The term “eye exercises” is a little misleading

Now, for those of you who are willing to put in a little time and effort to try it out, here’s a simple yet potent eye strengthening eye exercises.

But before I go into the details let me clarify something. The term “exercise” is actually quite misleading. It implies that your eyes need training and stress to develop stronger muscles so as to see clearly.

The opposite is actually true. Stress makes your eyesight worse. What these exercises do is to “train” your eye to see the way nature intended, and therefore relaxes your eyes so as to see clearly.

Your sight is the same as any other senses that you have. You don’t find yourself trying to taste… you simply taste. But you tried to see… which is probably why your eyesight got worse.

The “Eye Strengthening Exercise” I Promised

Now for the actual eye exercise. This is actually more like an activity than an exercise.

It’s called “centralizing“. The point of the exercise is to get you to focus on one thing at a time. Narrowing your vision improves your eyesight simply because trying to see everything at once strains your eyes.

So instead of seeing the whole field, you should see first one tree, move on to the next, and then the next, then maybe move on to the tables and so on. I know this is a new concept but try what you’re about to do with somebody who has perfect eyesight and you’ll see what I mean.

Here’s what you do: Place your left and right thumb about 30 – 40 cm apart. Now try look at your left thumb in such a way that you cannot see your right thumb. If you’re myopic, it’ll be difficult because you’ll always be able to see both of them at any one time.

As you improve, you’ll be able place them closer and closer to each other and centralize your vision.

Note: Remember to blink often while doing this eye exercises. Do not stare. And oh, never wear your glasses while doing any eye strengthening exercises.

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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!