After a trip to Thailand, I became seriously interested in yoga. So far, however, mainly physical aspects, but I think that over time I will reach spiritual ones. Yoga is not only all-possible twisting into incredible poses and breathing, it is also much more. For example, there are wonderful exercises for the eyes (yoga Ramanantata), which are divided into several complexes (mantras, exercises, breathing, massage, contrast lotions, etc.). We will leave the mantras aside for now and deal with the physical aspects.
I am a visual and with visual impairment I will lose 50% of the information, or rather its purity. Therefore, eye care should be on the same level as taking care of the physical condition of our body.
Therefore, let's start with the simplest — with massage. Eye massage enhances blood circulation and strengthens nerve endings — thus it gives a wonderful rest to tired eyes. If you have a feeling of sand in your eyes, it's time to take a little time off from work and give yourself a little massage.
1. Sit at the table and place your elbows on it.
2. Connect the little fingers and the shock sides of the palms. Lower your head so that your palms rest on your closed eyes with their lower part, and your forehead rests on the upper part of your palms and fingers.
3. Relax your neck muscles. The forehead becomes the fulcrum, and the lower part of the palms only touches the eyes.
4. Lightly massage your eyes with the lower part of your palms. Alternate stroking, rotating, pressing and vibrating for 1-2 minutes. A sign that you are doing the massage correctly will be the appearance of a feeling of warmth in your eyes.
5. Relax your eyes.
6. Touch them with the tips of your index fingers and, feeling the warmth in your fingers, you will feel how, on a deep exhalation, this heat and prana are transferred from your fingers to your eyes.
This massage will take you about five minutes, so it is quite possible to do it several times a day every time you start to feel tired.
The second interesting technique that can be used in the office is contrast lotions. To do this, you will need 2 terry towels, boiling water and ice water.
Alternatively, you can heat a towel in the microwave. Twist a hot towel with a tight tourniquet — at a temperature it should be such that you can still hold the towel in your hands, and apply it to your closed eyes for 2 minutes. Then take a second towel soaked in ice water, twist it with the same tourniquet and apply it for 2 minutes. Repeat such alternations several more times. After that, gently, without pressing on the eyes, wipe them from the water.
As I have already said, there are several other interesting techniques for working with the eyes in the book and I will be happy to try to present them to you in a concise and accessible form.
