Would You do a 2-minute Eye-Exercise to Keep Your Eyes?

Would You do a 2-Minute Daily Eye-Exercise For Lifelong Sight?

Wait – how do you know it really works?

Some Ophthalmologists love and recommend it; others call it a waste
of time. It does not hurt, and has improved my eyesight, leading to
the same eyeglass prescription for the past 9 years. You judge.

Why We Care: SpeedBraining101 rules.

We got six eye-muscles in each eye, but we only exercise half of these
Extra-Ocular-Muscles. Four of the six produce Horizontal sight, and two produce
Vertical eye-movements. For brainiacs: they are called Rectus and Oblique.

History

Our evolutionary ancestors used all six of these eye-muscles; we only use about half of them for 8-12 hours daily. See, we use our Central (tunnel) vision 70% of the time. It is called foveal (sharp) sight. We ignore our Peripheral (side, external and outer) vision.

Based on our daylight waking hours, we use central (narrow) sight while on the
computer (average 4-6 hours). We use more of our narrow vision watching TV or playing video games (average of 3-4 hours). Finally, speaking to family, friends and office associates; we use narrow vision to look them in-the-eye (eye-contact) to prove
we are sincere and full of integrity.

The only people today who use a lot of peripheral vision are basketball players, and
folks who drive cars and trucks. The great majority of our waking hours is spent using Central (foveal, sharp, narrow) vision. It is a major cause of headaches, dry-eye, and office stress, anxiety and discomfort.

The Peripheral Exercise (2 minutes)

1. Sit facing a wall and raise your not-dominant hand. Over 90% of use
are right-handed, use your left-hand.
2. You are going to trace an air (invisible) reclining figure 8. The sleeping
#8 is about two-feet wide, by about one-foot long. Remember, it has two circles separated by an S shape. It is parallel to the floor.
3. Do six of these Infinity Symbols with your left-hand.
4. Now do the same air tracing with your dominant (right) hand.
5. Looking straight ahead, see how wide you can see. In a small room
you may see the side walls out of the corners of your eyes. You have just
exercised and helped enlarge the width (broad vision) of your Peripheral eye muscles processing.

If you do this two-minute exercise for 21 consecutive days, it goes on autopilot and
becomes a habit. Another thing, you are integrating (aligning) your left and right
hemispheres.

So What

Peripheral vision produces the following:

a) it causes deep relaxation of your face and jaw muscles.
b) it reduces self-talk (stream of consciousness) internal-dialogue
and subvolcalization while reading, up to 75%.
c) it shifts breathing patterns from shallow, high in the throat,
inhalation to deep, diaphragmatic inhalation.
d) you switch from stress and anxiety provoking Sympathetic
Nervous System functioning, to relaxing, balanced Parasympathetic Nervous System functioning.
e) it helps improve immune system function.
f) it inhibits cortisol, the stress hormone.
g) you integrate your left and right hemispheres (brains).

Finally, some recent neuroscience research indicates the use of peripheral vision
processing improves long-term memory, rapid learning, insight, and creativity.

You might want to remember that peripheral vision is based on our Rod photoreceptors, while foveal, central vision predominates with Cone photoreceptors.

Get this – we do not see with our eyes, they receive the light images, and forward
the light impulses to our Optic Nerves, which transfers the impulses of information to our brain for creating eye-sight. We really do see with our brain.
Google: Optic Chiasma, the cross over effect.

Endwords

There are physical and mental benefits to this two-minute peripheral vision
eye-exercise. Best of all, it triggers an integration, unity, and alignment of both left and right hemispheres. In our computer and TV culture, the visual dependence on
our foveal-central vision and left hemisphere, is stress inducing.

You can change the proportion between hemispheres, balance and synchronize the activity of your cerebral cortex. In other words, it is great for your eyes and brain.

Finally, we recommend you improve your personal productivity and competency by
learning to read three (3) books, articles and reports in the time your peers and
competitors can hardly finish one. Ask us about how to do it.

Can you use a competitive-advantage in tough economic times? Ask us how.

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