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Eye exercises work alongside your pinhole glasses and help maximise the benefits they offer. Try to do about five minutes of these exercises each day. Eventually you should increase this to five minutes twice a day.

Do not wear conventional or pinhole glasses while doing the exercises.

Exercise One
Cup your hands and place them over your closed eyes. Total darkness is therapeutic and relaxing for the eyes. ‘Palming’ can be done at any time of the day to revive tired eyes.

Keeping your head still and your eyes closed, look as far down as you can, then return your eyes to the centre. Now look as far to the right as you can, then return to the centre. Then look as high up as you can then return to centre. Finally, look as far to the left as you can, then return to centre. Repeat ten times. This is a good all-round exercise for your eye muscles.

Exercise Two - Tromboning
Focus on a pen or pencil held at arm’s length. Slowly (take at least five seconds) bring it towards you until it touches your nose, focusing on it all the time. Then move the pen or pencil back to arm’s length, again focusing on it all the time. Move in and out ten times.

Exercise Three - The Cross
This exercise is similar to Exercise One. With your eyes open this time. Hold the pen in front of you and focus on it. Then slowly move it as far down as you can see it. Return the pen to the centre but without focusing on it as you do so. Move the pen to the furthest possible right, focusing on it as you do, then return to centre not focusing, then as high as you can go, etc.

Exercise Four - Peripheral vision
This exercise helps improve your peripheral vision. Hold the pen in front of you at arm’s length. Keeping your head still and focusing your eyes straight ahead throughout, move the pen as in exercise 3. Notice how far up/left/right/down you can see the pen. It helps if you focus on something in front of you during this exercise. Repeat it ten times.

PLEASE NOTE

• Contact lenses should not be worn while exercising your eyes with pinhole glasses
• Do not use pinhole glasses while driving. They reduce peripheral vision

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More about pinhole glasses

Frequently asked questions
How pinhole glasses work
How to use pinhole glasses
The history of pinhole glasses
Dr. Peter Mansfield's take on pinhole sunglasses
Bates Method Store's take on pinhole glasses
Pinhole glasses sight benefit diagrams

 

 

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