Morning Eye Routine and Yoga for Your Eyes

Morning Eye Routine
Every morning upon waking, fill your mouth with water and hold for a few seconds with your eyes closed. Spit it out and repeat 2-3 times.
Splash your eyes and face with cool or slightly warm water 10-15 times. Repeat again in the evening when you return from work or school.
Caution: Never use hot or icy water on the eyes. Also avoid abrupt temperature changes. For instance, if you're hot and sweaty, wait 10-15 minutes until your body adjusts before splashing cool water on your face and eyes.

Yoga for Your Eyes
If done daily, Yogic eye exercises are a gentle and effective way to prevent vision problems for developing. They are especially recommended for children, but adults can help prevent far-sightedness from developing in middle age, and even people who wear glasses can prevent their vision from getting worse.

Continue with your normal routine, if you already do yoga regularly, because most yogic exerises have a good effect on the eyes.

Yogic Eye Exercises
(for strengthening eye muscles and releasing stress)
Sit in the Sukhasana (easy pose) with your legs comfortably crossed and your spine, neck and head in a straight line. Look directly to the front at eye-level and breathe normally. This is the position of readiness.
Move your eyes upward to the ceiling and stay for two seconds. Look downwards and stay for two seconds. Close your eyes for two seconds.
Look toward the right side, as far as your eye will see, for two seconds. Look to the left side for two seconds. Look to the front again.
Close your eyes for 6-8 seconds.
This completes one round. Start with 2-3 rounds and increase up to four rounds.

Palming
(for releasing stress from the eyes)
- Rub both palms together quickly for 8-10 seconds. This friction creates a mild heat.
- Close the eyes and gently place the left palm over the left eye and the right palm over the right eye for one minute. Do not press the eyeballs with the palms, just let them gently rest there. Breathe in and out slowly to release stress.
- Repeat 2-3 times.

Other poses that strengthen the eyes include the Bhujangasana (snake pose), Surya Namaskara (sun salutes), and Shavasana (rest pose).