Yoga for Eye Sight Improvement

12 | Yoga for Eye Sight Improvementbeen seen.Say for example, you are seeinga beautiful tree. All thecolour clear images are to betransferred on to the specificspot in the Retina. If the treeis not in front of your eyes, if itis to the side, then you cannotget very clear picture. Supposeyour friend walks intothe room, you suddenly turnyour eye balls to see who it is. Although you have big area thatis covered by the big area of the Retina, the image has to fallon a specific point in the Retina called the Fovea or the Maculaof the Retina where there are large number of Rods and Cones.To do that nature has provided us with an ability to move theeye ball in various directions with good number of muscles attachedto the eye ball. So wherever we want any movement inthe body, if we want to move the hand also, we need the musclesthere. Just like a muscle moves the hand up, the externalmuscles of the eye ball moves the eye ball in different directions.So we want to move the eye ball upwards, downwards,to the left, to the right. Therefore to move the eye ball we havevery thin strip of muscles which are attached to the eye ball allaround and these muscles when they contract, move the eyeball. So if you want to move the eye ball upward, you have aset of muscles and the upper portion called the Superior rectusWhich pulls the eye ball in the upward direction. Pullingthe eye ball in the downward direction is possible by movingYoga in Education for Total Personality Development SERIES - 2