Eyes: how can you improve circulation?

Your eyes, like the rest of your organs, need blood and oxygen all the time. Even though your eyes are tiny and supplied blood through a single artery, they end up using approximately 1.5 litres of blood every day.

Just to be scientifically accurate, your eyes do not “process” blood, for example, like your kidney. Instead, the eyes are “perfused” with blood which is a source of nutrients and oxygen.

Nutrients, for example, like beta carotene, which helps build cones and rods in your eyes.

So how can you increase the amount of blood your eyes get?

Like the rest of your body, your eyes benefit from exercise. Walking, swimming, cycling all increase circulation in your body.

As blood circulation increases, up to twenty times more than normal, some of it flows to your eyes.

You can speed up the process by doing eye specific exercises.

Rolling your eyes, looking left, then right, then up and down helps. Using the 20-20-20 rule also helps.

Look away, twenty feet from you every twenty minutes for twenty seconds. More is fine.

Gently massaging the eye is also fine, in a circular manner. Cupping your eyes, or palming, in which your gently press your palms against your eyes, which has been touted as a cure for blindness is also beneficial.

While the protocol for blindness is several hours a day, you could benefit from even a few minutes of cupping.

So why does all of this matter?

Awake or asleep your eyes are constantly at work. Remember Rapid Eye Movement or REM. Yes, your eyes work when you sleep as well.

So the more well nourished your eyes are, the better they will function. Your body at rest does its best to allocate blood flow to every part of your body.

By exercising a specific part, you over ride the priority matrix and tell your body to focus.

In this case on your eyes.

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