The Best Exercise to Correct Bad Eyes

author avatar Dr. Eric Berg 08/31/2023

If you've started to notice your eyesight going and are having vision problems, then chances are you've turned to glasses or contact lenses to help solve the issue. But corrective lenses don't actually correct anything. They simply act as a crutch that your eyes become dependent on, and they lead to the need for stronger and stronger prescriptions as time goes on. If you have eye problems, there is a better solution. Read on to discover the best exercise to correct bad eyes.

This eye exercise is something you can easily work into your routine every single day. It is so incredibly simple that you will be surprised.

In this article, I will cover:

 

How eyesight works

Light enters your eyeball through the cornea, and then it hits the lens. The lens is where light gets focused, which allows us to end up seeing a clear image rather than a blurry one. The lens must change shape depending on if we are focusing on something near to us or something far from us.

The ciliary muscles are muscles that surround the lens and help it change shape as we focus on different objects.

Anatomy drawing of the parts of the human eye, including the lens and ciliary muscles.


When the ciliary muscles are contracted, it allows us to see things close up. When the ciliary muscles relax, it allows things farther away to come into focus.

There can be many problems when it comes to eye health. You could develop nearsightedness or farsightedness, for example. Nearsightedness is being able to see things close up clearly while having trouble focusing on things farther away. Farsightedness is the opposite.

One of the most common problems that people experience is eye strain and a slow decline in clear eyesight due to harmful daily habits. Just as our daily habits can impact our mental health, digestive health, heart health, and skin health, for example, our daily habits can also impact our eye health.

Our eye health depends on our ciliary eye muscles going between moments of contraction and moments of relaxation. But what happens when we force them to be "on" all of the time, contracting constantly? Unfortunately, that's what many of our daily habits force our eyes to do.

 

How daily habits can cause vision problems

Let me ask you a question: What do you spend the most time doing, looking at things close up or looking at things far away?

For many people, we spend the vast majority of our time looking at things close up. When was the last time you looked at the clouds or a tree or a bird or something far off in the distance?

When you look at things close up all day everyday like your phone, computer, notes, or an iPad, then your eye muscles have to be in a state of constant contraction. And when you contract your eye muscles 24/7, they don't get the break they need and they don't get to relax. This leads to a lot of eyestrain. Eventually, your lens and eye muscles will stop working well and they will actually atrophy.

Many of us work all day at computers, spend lots of time on our phones, and don't get outside. We don't spend enough time doing activities where we look off into the distance at the scenery, the city skyline, or even just the clouds. And our eyes take a toll because of this.

Luckily, there is an easy eye exercise that you can do every day that can help to reverse this problem and support your eyesight.

 

The #1 best exercise to correct bad eyes

This eye exercise will help give your eyes such a sense of relief, and it can reverse the problems that arise when you stare at screens and things close to you all day.

Eye exercise instructions

Here's what to do:

  1. Go outside.
  2. Go for a walk.
  3. Look at things far away from you, focusing on things like the clouds, trees, or distant objects.
  4. Do this for 40-60 minutes every day.

It is as simple as that. No fancy instructions, no equipment necessary, nothing complicated. Just a nice walk out in nature where you can let your eyes look off into the distance.

We need to let the muscles in our eyes relax by looking far away. That will reverse the issue of constant contraction.

Try to make this eye exercise a part of your daily routine, even if just for a few minutes at a time. Find ways to fit it in, so that you end up spending a little more time looking far away, and a little less time looking at a computer or smartphone.

You can even practice this eye exercise while driving, by periodically looking far out into the distance.

Girl In Field


Learn more about eye health

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The bottom line

If you want to prevent wearing glasses or contact lenses and want to prevent vision problems down the line, then you need to do this daily eye exercise.

Simply spend more time outdoors every day where you can look far away.

This eye exercise will help you to reverse the problems that occur when we only look at things close to us all day, which forces our eye muscles to be in constant contraction.

Give the muscles in your eye a break with this eye exercise; your eyes will thank you.

What do you think of this best exercise to correct bad eyes? Will you give a try? Go ahead and do this simple exercise, and then leave us a comment below.

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