Exercise Your Eyes!

Want to improve the look of your eyes (and eyesight)? Try giving them a workout. If you're into yoga, then you're probably already practicing some eye exercises which can help reduce the appearance of bags and delay wrinkles. You may want to consider yoga for other health benefits as well but consider the following basic exercises that will strengthen the eye muscles an increase their flexibility.

• Gently tone the muscles of the eyes by pressing two fingers on each side of your head at the temples. With you fingers still on the sides of your head, try opening and closing your eyes rapidly. Repeat five times.
• Sit upright with your eyes closed and relaxed. Keep your eyes closed while lifting your eyebrows and stretching your eyelids down as far as possible. Keep in this position for five counts, relax and repeat five times.
• Sit up right, looking straight ahead, with you eyes open. Look up, then down while keeping your head still. Repeat 10 times. Then look left and right, repeat 10 times.
• Rotate the eyes in a circle from right to left and bottom to top. Reverse the rotation. If you find that your eye muscles are stiff, perform the rotation only a few times at first. Then gradually increase the number of rotations.
• Looking at the tip of the nose, slowly look up along the right side of the nose and then the left side. Glance back and forth between viewing the right side and the left side of the nose. Starting at the tip of the nose, look up at your eyebrows and then back to the tip. Use your imagination to invent other eye exercises.