Many of us experience decreasing eye focus and vision as we age, while others are born with a variety of conditions that limit or affect the eyesight. However, there are a variety of natural eye exercises you can perform on a daily basis to help strengthen the eye muscles and improve vision, as well as those that help the eye focus, track and adjust in regard to depth perception, states the Optometrists Network at Vision Therapy Organization.
Distance Focusing
Exercise the eyes on a daily basis to improve and rebuild vision, states Meir Schneider, Ph.D., and founder of Self-Healing.org. Every day, give the eyes a rest from up-close vision focus from reading, paperwork and computer use by going outside and focusing on distant objects or landscape. Focus on the farthest object you can see and allow the eye to perceive the difference between near and far. Hold the focus on a distant object for an entire minute.
Peripheral Vision Exercise
Improve your peripheral vision and strengthen the eye muscles at the same time by finding an object you can focus on to your right when you raise the eyes, and an object to your left that you can focus on when you lower your eyes halfway, suggests Holistic Online. For example, focus on a corner of a room with the right eye and an object near your left elbow for the left eye. Look up with both eyes toward the object to your right, and then down to the object to your left. Do this four times and then blink and rest the eyes. Repeat the exercise, switching your gaze to the upper left and lower right and repeat four times. If you haven't exercised your eyes lately, you're likely to feel them water and even feel the strain in the eye muscles as you tone and strengthen and improve your range of motion.
Depth-Perception Exercise
Help your eyes adjust from distant to near objects and improve vision by performing this exercise, which helps shift focus from near to far several times in a row. Grasp a pencil or other small object and hold it in front of your nose, suggests Holistic Online. Hold it as close to your nose as you can without the pencil blurring. Then, slowly shift your focus to something on the other side of the room, though one you can see clearly and in focus. Now look at the pencil again, then to the far object. Repeat this near-far shift several times and then relax, eyes closed.
