As we saw last week, our eyes can suffer from fatigue for a number of reasons. Today, Mymonture shares with you a few eye exercises to relieve your eyes if you're feeling some pain.

It's not uncommon to experience eye pain. This is because the muscles around the eyes can become less effective when working at a computer for long periods.

Let's take a look at a number of exercises designed to relieve various types of eye pain.

1st exercise: The pencil

The aim of this exercise is to re-educate tired eyes between distance and near vision.

Principle: take a pencil and place it in your field of vision. Move it towards and away from your eyes at regular, slow intervals.

This exercise will train your eyes to switch from near to far vision (and vice versa) more easily, and over time you'll find your vision more comfortable for close-up tasks, especially computer work.

2nd exercise: infinity

The aim of this exercise is still to exercise the muscles, but in a more tonic way than the previous one. Here, you'll need to describe the shape of infinity (a recumbent figure 8) with your eyes for around twenty seconds. Try to do this exercise every day to train your eyes.

A variation of this exercise involves looking into the distance and writing the letters of the alphabet with your eyes, pausing every 5 letters.

3rd exercise: palming

While the aim of the previous two exercises was to tone the eye muscles, this exercise is more relaxing. The principle of the exercise is to keep your eyes closed and place the hollow of your hands on your closed eyes, without pressing, to benefit from the warmth of your hands and thus relax your eye muscles.

This exercise is ideal in cases of fatigue or stress, and should be performed for 30 seconds every day to release tension.

4th exercise: Circulation stimulation

An exercise somewhat similar to palming in that it is performed with the eyes closed. The aim of this exercise is to close the eyes and place the index fingers on the inner corners of the eyes (known as the inner canthus). Then move up to the arch of the eyebrow and back again, passing under the eye.

5th exercise: blinking

This may seem trivial, but we naturally blink every 5 seconds to relieve light and moisten our eyes. However, when we wear glasses or stare at a screen for long periods of time, the blinking frequency may decrease. What does this mean? The eyes tire more quickly and the cornea dries out.

What can be done about it? Simply force yourself to blink every 5 to 10 seconds, to get back into a proper rhythm. Over time, this will gradually become natural again.