One Exercise for Multiple Benefits of Eyes & Concentration

As the name suggests, Netra Sakthi Vikasaka exercise improves over all functions of our eyes.

Starting Posture of Netra Sakthi Vikasaka

Stand with your feet close together, your back erect and your head tilted back as far as it will go.

Exercise/ Technique of Netra Sakthi Vikasaka

1. Concentrate with all your will, while looking at the spot between your two brows without blinking. The eyes must squint in doing so.
2. When your eyes feel tired or start watering, discontinue the exercise and resume it after a short rest.

Beginners should do for five minutes.

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Precaution of Netra Sakthi Vikasaka

Person with the following conditions should be careful while doing this exercise:

1. Vertigo
2. Epilepsy

Benefits of Netra Sakthi Vikasaka

1. This exercise produces stimulation of the naso-cialiary plexus of the autonomic nervous system, as well as on the fibers of the nerves moving the eyeball and internal structures of the eye.
2. It improves the muscular power, balance and co-ordination of the various muscles that move the eye-ball.
3. It also exercises the muscle of the iris which constitutes the muscular diaphragm surrounding the pupil of the eye and is instrumental in increasing or decreasing the amount of light entering the eyes and falling on the retina.
4. Gazing at one point also helps in putting into action the muscles which are attached around the lens of the eye and whose contraction or relaxation result in changing the shape of the lens, required for accurate focusing of the light on the retina to form a sharp image of the observed object. Thus the entire neuro-muscular apparatus of the eyeball is toned up for a better performance and endurance.
5. This exercise, apart from having an immediate utility for the eyes, has an even more important effect in training in the methods of concentration of the mind.