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July 20, 2004:
Visual
Hygiene
Interview
with Martin Sussman ,President, Cambridge Institute For Better
Vision.
Mike
Carruthers:
There are some simple tips called visual hygiene to help
keep your eyeballs in tip-top shape.
Martin
Sussman:
One of those visual hygiene tips it to always remember
to shift your focus. When we read or use a computer we have
to focus our eyes at the same distance sometimes hour after
hour.
Martin Sussman,
President of the Cambridge Institute For Better Vision…
So shifting
our focus, looking off into the distance and coming back to
the screen or the book maybe ten or fifteen times, which takes
only three or four seconds, will prevent the build-up of visual
stress.
It's important
to know that your eyes, says Martin, are nourished by light
and rested in darkness.
One of
the best ways to rest your eyes is to close them and to place
your palms, your cupped palms over your closed eyes for just
a minute or two and that will help to relieve any stress or
tension that you might be feeling in or around your eyes.
And it's
important to remember to blink.
Because
when we are involved or engrossed in an activity or over-concentrating
our blinking rate goes down. When we don't blind our eyes are
not lubricated and we will often get that feeling of burning
or scratching in our eyes or we may even notice that our focus
is temporarily affected.
Martin has
a DVD out called, The Read Without Glasses Method, you can learn
more about it by going to their website which you can link to
from ours, somethingyoushouldknow.net,
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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