Many women love to apply eye shadow, lash extensions, mascara, and other cosmetic products to enhance the appearance of their eyes. But taking steps to relax your eyes and enhance your vision and minimize strain is more important than making your eyes look beautiful.
Consuming foods that are rich in eye-friendly nutrients like anthocyanins, lutein, omega 3 fats, selenium, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, and zeaxanthin will help boost and protect your eyesight. Aside from optimizing your nutrition, you also need to find ways to relax your eyes and rest them after a tiring day at school or work.
In the same way that your arms, back, shoulders, and legs need to take a break after lifting weights, your eyes need some time to recover from the strain caused by your activities at school or at work. Aside from making sure that you have good lighting at your workstation and stepping away from your computer at least once an hour, here are other tips that you can try to naturally refresh and relax your eyes.
Top 3 Natural Ways to Refresh and Relax Your Eyes
1. Perform Eye Exercises to Relax Your Eyes
When you take your eyes off your screen for a few minutes every hour, make the break count by doing some eye exercises.
Put your elbows on your desk, place your head on your hands with your eyebrows on your palms, and point your fingers towards your forehead. Relax and let your weight fall forward. Inhale through your nose, holding between 15 to 30 second before exhaling. You can repeat the breathing exercise each time you take a small break.
You can also do a yoga exercise to relax your eyes. Rub your hands to create heat from friction for about 30 seconds. Cup your hands over your eyes without touching them, with your fingers crossed at your forehead. Cover your eyes and do not let any light pass through while breathing deeply for about a minute or two.
2. Give Your Eyes a Break
Don’t check your Facebook, watch television, or play video games immediately after getting home.
Your social networking contacts and gaming buddies can wait. Relax your eyes and give your them a break because you already gave them eight hours of work. Don’t abuse your eyes and resist the urge of turning on your console, laptop, or tablet at least for an hour or two after you arrive home.
3. Apply Tea Bags Over Your Eyes
Steep two chamomile or green tea bags in hot water for less than two minutes. You’re not making tea; you want to release the eye-friendly antioxidants and tannins from the tea bags. Allow the tea bags to cool by refrigerating them for between five to 10 minutes. Lie down and apply a tea bag over each eye for about 15 minutes. Not only will the tea therapy help refresh and relax your eyes, they will also help minimize dark circles under eyes, lines, and puffiness. You can also use cucumber slices or raw potato slices.
How do you relax your eyes – share your knowledge in the comments below.
