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Meditation for Eyesight Improvement

Meditation helps relax your entire body. And, you can relax your eye muscles if you concentrate on these simple mental exercises.

We Live With Stress Every Day

Today's life is full of stress. As the saying goes, "Time is money." And, businesses know that to remain competitive their employees need schedules and work plans to keep them active in making money for the company.

This "always on the go" lifestyle produces stress. From early school days to retirement from a job, there is alway something to do and you constantly feel you are behind schedule. Your grades in school or your next job evaluation will probably reflect your degree of "behindedness." So, most people have never learned to relax.

Add to this time-based stress the increased stress of dealing with an ever growing number of people day after day. There are always people and bureaucratic procedures to contend with. Because your interactions with people, policies, and procedure are often not pleasant, you stress level increases still further.

Benefits of Meditation

Relaxing is just one more thing you have to fit into an already tight schedule. So, learning to relax effectively is an important skill to learn.

Because of its effectiveness in calming the mind, meditation has become quite popular. Many people believe that meditation can clear and calm the mind as well as produce healing of a variety of illnesses as well as emotional upsets.

Meditation can help prove a sense of calmness, peace and balance in life that will benefit your emotion health as well as physical health. These benefits don't stop when your meditation session ends. These benefits continue throughout your day.

Meditation can help you gain new perspectives on stressful situations because you can reflect on the incidents from a distance. Because of this, meditation can help you remain calm during incidents that could be stressful.

Meditation often allows you to increase your self-awareness. As you begin a meditation session you may concentrate on your heartbeat. You may feel and even hear or otherwise sense the beating of your heat. You focus on your own body as it is at present rather than external issues that can bring about stress.

Many of today's illnesses are often considered stress related. By reducing bodily stress you may also reduce illness. Researchers believe that many common conditions are brought on by stress. These include allergy and asthma, anxiety disorders, binge eating, some cancers, depression, some heart ailments and high blood pressure, sleep problems, and often substance abuse.

The list goes on about the benefits of mediation in an individual and to his or her community.

Meditation for Eyesight Improvement

There are a variety ways to meditate. Some people suggest a guided meditation where you form mental images of tranquil scenes or favorite places you've been. Others suggest that you concentrate on a "mantra" or calming word that helps prevent distraction as you relax. Other techniques involve gentle motion such as Qi gong or Tai chi. Others prefer taking certain positions as in Yoga.

To use meditation for eyesight improvement, I suggest you study the muscles surrounding the eye. There are six muscles attached to each eye. Four extend backward and move the eye up and down or left and right. Two muscles extend partly around the eye.

When some of these muscles are in constant tension nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism can be produced. The goal of your meditation should be to relax these muscles.

Just as you may begin a meditation session by concentrating on your heart beat, now concentrate on your facial muscles.

Are your teeth clenched? Relax your jaw muscles.

Are your eyelids closed tightly? Relax them.

Relax all your facial muscles so peace and calmness comes to your face.

Now concentrate on your eyes. Do you feel the tension surrounding your eyes? Any tension is due to tension in some of these twelve eye muscles.

Concentrate, now, on your breathing. Picture a flag waving in the wind. A gentle wind causes the flag to gently flap back and forth. It is free to move as the wind directs.

Picture each of the twelve muscles about your two eyes, one at a time. Feel a breath enter your lungs. Then, as you breath out picture your breath flowing over and around one of the eye muscles. See your breath cause the muscle to relax and gently begin to swing or flutter. You may also think of your fingers gently massaging the muscle to help it relax.

Twelve breaths and you've completed one cycle. Take a few more breaths and begin to feel the stress and strain leave the area surrounding your eyes. The gentle peace that surrounds your eyes is what people without glasses feel all the time.

Repeat this process several times with each meditation session.

The first time you actually feel the tension in your eyes depart is like an awakening. You'll realize that the tension you've alway felt is not natural. It's not the result of genetics. That tension is the result of bad thinking about life and your situation.

By proper thinking about life, your situation in life, and your relationships to others you can reduce or eliminate that tension and see better. Meditation can help you see life from a new, better, more healthy perspective.

You really can learn to use meditation for eyesight improvement.

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