Welcome to this practice for your eyes.
First of all,
Make sure that you're sitting comfortably with your spine straight and with your shoulders relaxed.
As we go through these exercises,
Do your best to keep your head as still as you can,
So that the movements come from the muscles in your eyes and not anywhere else around your head or your neck.
We're going to begin by moving between looking up and looking down.
So keeping your head still,
Look up towards the ceiling and look down towards the floor.
Make several of these movements,
Moving the eyes to look as far up as you can and then as far down as you can.
And now we're going to change to looking towards the left and the right.
So look as far to the left as you can,
Remembering to keep the head still and look as far to the right as you can.
Move between looking to the left and to the right some more times.
And now relax the eyes,
Bring the gaze back to normal.
Next,
We're going to make a big circle around the outside of the eyes.
So look up to the top and start to circle around the edge of the eye in a clockwise direction.
Move slowly here and take care to circle over every part of the outside of the eye.
As you do this,
You might find that there are some places that feel a little more challenging to move over or places that you naturally skip past.
These are the places where your muscles most need to work.
So if you find anywhere that this happens,
Go back and move back over that area very slowly.
And now change direction and circle in an anti-clockwise direction.
And now relax the eyes,
Bring the gaze back to normal.
Now take your arm out in front of you and bring your thumb up and in line with your eyes.
Focus on your thumb and exhale to bring the thumb in towards your nose.
Keep focusing on your thumb as it moves towards your nose,
Allowing your focus to move from far to near.
And as your thumb reaches your nose,
Inhale to stretch the arm back out again.
Keep following your thumb as your arm moves back out.
And repeat this a few more times,
Exhaling the thumb to the nose and inhaling to straighten the arm,
Keeping the focus on the thumb.
And release the arm,
Relax the eyes back to normal.
And just close your eyes here and take a few breaths to notice how you're feeling.
Perhaps noticing any feelings or sensations in your eyes.
Keeping your eyes closed,
Rub the palms of your hands together to create heat in the palms of your hands.
Once you feel that feeling of heat,
Bring the hands to the eyes and place the palms of the hands over the eyes,
Keeping the eyes closed.
And now slowly blink your eyes open to receive the energy from your hands into your eyes.
And very slowly remove your hands from your eyes to allow the light back in.
And before you return to your day,
Just take two or three deep breaths here to observe how you feel,
To observe how your eyes feel.
And this brings us to the end of the practice for today.
Thank you for joining me.
