Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Rub your hands together vigorously until they become warm👏🔥. Now place your palms on your eyelids: feel the warmth and sense the energy flowing from your palms to your eyes. Feel how your eye muscles gradually relax, and how your eyes themselves are bathed in warm, soft darkness. Focus on this pleasant sensation and enjoy it until all the warmth from your palms has transferred to your eyes. Lower your hands, keep your eyes closed and relax. Then slowly repeat three to six times.

This is a wonderful, energizing practice! Applying your palms relaxes and invigorates the eye muscles, stimulating the circulation of the aqueous humor that flows between the cornea and the lens of the eye, helping the correction the defective vision. It is beneficial to absorb the soft sunlight and warmth through closed eyelids, so it is best done while sitting and facing the rising or setting sun at sunrise or sunset 🌅🌇.

Aqueous humor is the liquid that responsible for maintaining eye pressure and nourishing the lens and cornea.

Sideways Viewing 👀

Sit comfortably with your arms extended out to the sides at eye level. You should still be able to see both thumbs in your peripheral vision. If you can't see your thumbs clearly, move your hands slightly forward until they come into view.

• Start in a neutral position – simply look straight ahead. Inhale and...

• Exhale, slowly shifting your gaze to your left thumb.

• Then Inhale again and look up into the space between your eyebrows (bhrumadya 👁‍🗨), as if directing your gaze upwards and towards your forehead from within.

• Exhale and slowly shift your gaze back to your left thumb.

• Try to keep your head still and only move your eyes 👀; Keep your back and head straight. Repeat 8-10 times.

• This exercise relaxes the muscle tension caused by constant reading or looking at a screen up close. With regular practice, it can prevent and/or correct strabismus.

  Yoga dictionary:

  • Bhrumadhya (Sanskrit: भ्रूमध्य) is an important point in the center of the eyebrows; it is the physical projection of the Ajna Chakra (the "third eye" chakra) onto the frontal bone. Bhrumadhya is used as the primary point of gaze concentration. When we direct our external physical or internal gaze to the space between the eyebrows, this is called bhrumadhya drishti.