This 20-second Eye Exercise Is All You Need to Reduce Eye Strain, Give Your Eyes Rest and Improve Focus

The 20–20–20 exercise and its benefits

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My uncle used to warn me as a kid that if I sit too close to the screen my eyes will run out of the sockets.

Now I sit in front of the screen every day.

In order to help my eyes, I found an exercise called the 20–20–20 rule. It refers to focusing your vision on something 20 meters away for 20 seconds and repeating it every 20 minutes.

The 20–20–20 rule helped me to keep my eyes in my sockets. On a more serious note, this eye exercise helps to reduce eye strain from staring at a short distance for an extended time, provides rest for your eye muscles, and improves focus.

How to do the exercise

Here’s how to do the 20–20–20 exercise:

1. Set a timer to notify you every 20 minutes.
2. When notified, stop looking at your screen
3. Focus on something 20 meters away for 20 seconds.
4. Repeat until you finish working.

Benefits of the exercise

Doing this exercise has a few benefits:

• you help remove the risk of developing computer vision syndrome (CVS) together with its symptoms — headaches, neck pain and blurred vision;
• keeps your eyes from becoming dry by reminding you to blink;
• regular breaks improve your ability to focus on the task at hand;
• reduce eye tiredness.

If you do this exercise your eyes will be happy and grateful.

You don’t need to spend hours daily to get your eyes a healthy amount of exercise. 20 seconds every 20 minutes is sufficient to help your eyes. Or at the very least start building your habit of doing eye exercises!