" There are a number of programs out there purporting to offer natural vision correction through "eye exercises". Unfortunately, strengthening, toning and conditioning your six eye muscles "to keep them in perfect working order" are not the right answer. Why is that? It's simple ... your eye muscles are already too strained, tight and contracted. They certainly don't need more "exercise". Here is a general tenet of the Bates Method: effort and willpower don't work. Eye "exercises" will lead you further down the path of strain -- the exact opposite of the direction you need to go to achieve true vision improvement. What your eyes really need is to re-learn how to let go, to relax ... to reclaim the perfect unstrained vision you had as a young child. "
Why is it challenging to do eye training exercises at first?
It is simple: you never did it before!
Do you ever remember in your life spending 5 minutes doing circles or diagonals with your eyes?
These are simply not practices you are usually used to.
You don't train these in schools or at the gym and your perents never mentioned it to you.
Brushing your teeth is natural because you have conditioned yourself to do it.
If you don't brush your teeth, you feel like you miss it.
After around 3 months or eye training practice, it becomes, natural and grounded in you.
It becomes as easy as washing your face or doind a few stretches.
But because of lack of experience, and practice in that field, it will take at least some focus and discipline to ge used to these exercises in the beginning.
Count 3 months to integrate and fully master the techniques.
I do believe that combined with other healthy habits, this could do the trick but I am not sure. i still have to experiment.
The key with 5 min/day is that it is relatively easy to perform. Longer eye training sessions require much more focus and could be more challenging to maintian on the long term.
Remember that you want to establish a training rhythm you can easily maintain on the long term.
This takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete and does not require a major time block. You can do that while waiting for your computer to log something or when you have a lunch break at the park or just when taking some fresh air in the evining in your garden.
In my experience setting up a routine to eprfrom these 5 minutes daily is relatively easy.
You need to focus and persevere for the first week and after that it becomes more automatic and requires less will power to keep on doing it.
Start with these 5 minutes once a day and be firm with this discipline.
We will see later if that rhythm needs to be stretched + other challenges you might face with this.