The eye is not only an irreplaceable part of the human body, but also one of highest importance to life. To maintain a good vision for as long as possible it is essential to take good care of eyes each day.
Presented here are a series of eye exercises and eye care tips that promote relaxation of the eye, or strengthens and conditions them.
Somebody say that vision is “90% mental and 10% physical”.
Doing these exercises can give relief for tired eyes.

General exercises:

• Palming. To rest and relax your eyes, sit comfortably in front of a table, resting your elbows on a stack of cushions high enough to bring your palms easily to your eyes without stooping forward or looking up. Close your eyes and cover them with your cupped palms to exclude light, avoiding pressure on the sockets. Breathe slowly and calmly, relaxing and imagining deep blackness. Begin by doing this for 10 minutes, two or three times a day.

• Swinging. Relax and keep the eyes mobile. Stand up and focus on a distant point, swaying gently from side to side. Repeat 100 times daily, blinking as you sway. Blinking cleans and lubricates the eyes, which is especially important if you spend a lot of time in front of a computer.

• Colour day. You may be asked to have a ‘colour day.’ Choose a colour and look out for it throughout the day. When you see it, be aware of the colour rather than the form. For example, if it is a red truck, experience the shade of red, not the truck. Read more

What is meditation?
Meditation is really just a way of systematically tuning out mental chatter. We all meditate from time to time, but the term itself is usually used to describe an exercise in sustained concentration that you can use to calm your body and quiet your mind - in short, to reduce stress. Historically, meditation has roots in both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, but you don’t have to be Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, or religious at all to practice it. Today, many people use meditation outside of its traditional religious or cultural settings, for health and wellness purposes.

In meditation, a person learns to focus his attention and suspend the stream of thoughts that normally occupy the mind. This practice is believed to result in a state of greater physical relaxation, mental calmness, and psychological balance. Practicing meditation can change how a person relates to the flow of emotions and thoughts in the mind.

Most types of meditation have four elements in common:

• A quiet location. Many meditators prefer a quiet place with as few distractions as possible. This can be particularly helpful for beginners. People who have been practicing meditation for a longer period of time sometimes develop the ability to meditate in public places, like waiting rooms or buses.

• A specific, comfortable posture. Depending on the type being practiced, meditation can be done while sitting, lying down, standing, walking, or in other positions.

• A focus of attention. Focusing one’s attention is usually a part of meditation. For example, the meditator may focus on a mantra (a specially chosen word or set of words), an object, or the breath.

• An open attitude. Having an open attitude during meditation means letting distractions come and go naturally without stopping to think about them. When distracting or wandering thoughts occur, they are not suppressed; instead, the meditator gently brings attention back to the focus. In some types of meditation, the meditator learns to observe the rising and falling of thoughts and emotions as they spontaneously occur. Read more

You can find strong powers of concentration in yourself. When you are decisive and sincerely want to excel in your studies, pass an important exam, or playing one of your favorite games; the power of concentration becomes available to you. This kind of concentration is raised because of some need, or desire. Increasing it in a systematic way, brings it under your control, and grants you the ability to use it easily, with no exertion whenever you need it. Real and good concentration is developed slowly, through daily work, and with special exercises. It has to be approached in a reasonable and practical way.

• When starting to learn to concentrate you have to find a suitable place where you can be alone and undisturbed. You can sit crossed legged on the floor if you can, or on a chair. Sit with spine erect. Take a few calm deep breaths and then relax your body. In your mind go through each muscle and part of the body and relax it.

The following exercises should help you develop concentration skills:

Exercise 1:
Select some thought and see how long you can hold your mind on it. It is nice to have a clock at first and keep track of the time.
Suppose you decide to think about health, think of health as being a great blessing in the world. Do not let any other thought drift in. Just the moment one starts to obtrude, make it go away. Make it a daily habit of concentrating on this thought for, maybe ten minutes. Practice doing this until you can hold it to the exclusion of everything else. You might have to do this exercise regularly for 10 days or more in order to sharpen your concentration skills.

Exercise 2
Take a book and count the words in any paragraph. Count them again to be sure that it was correct. Start with one paragraph and when it becomes easier count all the words on the page. Perform the counting mentally and only with your eyes

Exercise 3
Take a small simple object such as a spoon, a fork or a glass. Concentrate on it and watch the object from all sides without verbalisation, that is, with no words in your mind. Just watch the object without thinking with words about it Read more

Do you frequently find yourself forgetting things, such as names, dates and phone numbers? You can learn some memorization techniques, which will help you, remember more than you ever thought possible. Remember names the best moment you learn them, recall dates, and still telephone numbers, all at formerly.By learning these memorization techniques, you will discover how to hold onto information instead of constantly having to write things down. These memorization techniques include repeating the information, thinking in pictures and even writing little songs or stories about the information.

These are just a few of the techniques you can use but they will help you memorize things like you never imagined:

Mnemonic techniques
Mnemonic techniques are specific memory aids. Mnemonics are word games - tools or memory strategies. Mnemonics help store and retrieve information from your long-term memory. They are an occasion to be creative and have some fun while studying.
Mnemonic Strategy:
- Acronyms - an acronym is a word that is made up by taking the first letter from each word that you want to remember and make a new word from all those letters. Example: if you wanted to remember the names of the Great Lakes, you could learn the acronym HOMES - Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
- Acrostics - An acrostic is a sentence which is made by taking the first letter from each word or symbol that you want to remember and then insert another word beginning with that same letter. For example, to help you: remember the planets in our solar system the acrostic is: Man Very Early Made Jars Stand Up Nearly Perpendicular.
M = Mercury E = Earth J = Jupiter U = Uranus P = Pluto
V = Venus M = Mars -S = Saturn N = Neptune
- Rhymes: Thirty days hath September . . . (months with 30 days)
Step right in, do not be left out. (Movement of blood in and out of the heart)
- Alphabet Technique - Identify a word that begins with the same sound as each letter in the alphabet. Associate the word’s image with the thing to be remembered. Read more