Yoga for headaches, eye problems and stiff neck pains part 2
Yoga for headaches, eye problems and stiff neck pains
Gaze at the flame while you count to sixty and try very hard not to blink during that time. After the count, close your eyes and try to hold the flame in your mind’s eye for a few moments. Open your eyes once more, gaze at the flame, and count to sixty. Close them again and relax.
You may continue the gazing exercise for five minutes but gradually extend the time ad lib until you can do it for ten minutes without undue strain. All eye exercises should be done very gently, and if any discomfort is felt they should be stopped immediately.
Tratak is an excellent and soothing exercise for the nerves and helps to relax the mind as well as the eyes. Variation 2. Again sit comfortably with your spine straight and gaze at the tip of your nose while you count to sixty. Under no circumstances should you experience any strain during this exercise and if you do, please cease immediately. If you feel any tiredness, watering or pain close your eyes and relax your facial and eye muscles.
After the count of sixty blink your eyes tightly a few times and keep them closed while you count to sixty again. Open them once more, gaze at the tip of your nose, blink a few times, and then close them again.
This exercise strengthens the eye muscles and increases the powers of concentration by fixing all the attention on one point and through that to the central nervous system, which will be soothed and relaxed. Always try to still the stream of circling thought and these gentle exercises will give you a manifold reward.
1. Here is another exercise which will not only help to relieve eyestrain but the vision will become clearer as the ophthalmic nerves receive a richer supply of blood. Sit down, either on the floor cross-legged or else on a hard chair with the spine held erect but with the body quite relaxed. Without moving the head, lift your eyes and find a small object which you can see clearly and without straining. Then find a similar point with the eyes lowered, which you can see without effort. Use these points to glance at as you raise and lower your eyes alternately several times. Your breathing should be normal. Glance up and down four times, then close your eyes to rest them for a few moments, and repeat the up and down movement of the eyes another four times.
2. Repeat the same exercise but this time move your eyes from left to right without moving your head.
3. The same exercise is repeated with the eyes looking obliquely upwards and downwards with the eyes half closed. Choose a point which you can see high up on the wall from the corner of your eyes, and then find one which you can see clearly when the eyes are obliquely lowered. Repeat the upward and downward movement of the eyes four times, blink and relax for a few moments and then repeat the movements another four times. Rest.
4. These movements are repeated in reverse, starting with a point on the opposite side of the wall from the previous exercise, thus if you were glancing obliquely upward right and downward left in the previous exercise these movements are reversed in this exercise.
5. And now for something different, though again I must ask that you do this exercise very gently and without experiencing strain of any kind. It entails rolling the eyes very slowly clockwise and then anti-clockwise. Thus, lower your eyes to the floor and then slowly roll them round to the right, continue rolling them upwards until you can see the ceiling and then lower them slowly until you can see the floor again. You must move very slowly making a full vision circle. When you have completed one circle close your eyes after blinking several times and relax. After a few moments repeat the movement in the opposite direction. Repeat this exercise twice each way and then close your eyes and relax before proceeding to the next exercise.
6. This exercise entails changing the vision from close to distant points. It is best done with a candle flame once more which should be placed in front of your face just below the tip of your nose. Holding the lighted candle in your hand very slowly move it away from you, without raising or lowering it, until you can see the flame without straining and without any blur. Raising your eyes slightly look straight into the distance and let your eyes alight on a small point which you can see clearly. This point and the flame of the candle are the two things you must look at in this changing vision exercise.
Look at the flame, which is the closer point, and then look at the distant one. Repeat these eye movements six times then close your eyes and squeeze them tightly. Repeat another six times, blink again and relax.
7. And now for something different again. This exercise will not only help to relieve eyestrain but will also relax you if you are tense and remove stiffness of the neck. It is a specially good exercise when you get up in the morning as many people suffer from ‘morning stiff neck1 mainly through using too many pillows. It is also a good exercise to practise before performing the Corpse Posture as it has a soothing effect on the nervous system and aids relaxation thereby.
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admin | November 8, 2007