Exercise for Your Eyes

We all know how important is to keep our bodies fit by doing things like going to gym, jogging and swimming. But, did you know your eyes as well?

Eye exercising will keep your eyes healthy and help minimize eyestrain. Here are some easy to follow steps and tips to exercise you healthy.

• Palming Exercise - Sit comfortably on a chair. Rub your hands together until they feel warm. Close your eyes and cover them lightly with your cupped palms. Avoid applying pressure on your eyeballs. Place your palms so that the nose remains uncovered, and the eyes remain behind the slight hollow of the palms. 

• Make sure that no light rays enter the eyes, and leave no gaps between fingers or between the edge of the palms and the nose. You may still see other lingering traces of colors. Imagine deep blackness and focus on the blackness. Take deep breaths slowly and evenly, while thinking of some happy incident; or visualize a distant scene. After your eyes see nothing but blackness, remove your palms from your eyes. Repeat the palming for 3 minutes or more.

• Close your eyes tightly for 3-5 seconds, then open them for 3-5 seconds. Repeat this 7 or 8 times.

• Close your eyes and massage them with circular movements of your fingers for 1-2 minutes. Make sure you press very lightly; otherwise, you could hurt your eyes.

• Press three fingers of each hand against your upper eyelids, and hold them there for 1-2 seconds, then release. Repeat 5 times.

• Sit and relax. Roll your eyes clockwise, then counter-clockwise. Repeat 5 times, and blink in between each time.

• Focusing Exercises - Sit about 6 inches (150 mm) from the window. Make a mark on the glass at your eye level (a small sticker, black or red, would be perfect). Look through this mark and focus on something far away for 10-15 seconds; then focus on the mark again.

• Hold a pencil in front of you at arm’s length. Move your arm slowly to your nose, and follow the pencil with your eyes until you can keep it in focus. Repeat 10 times.

• Look in front of you at the opposite wall and pretend that you are writing with your eyes, without turning your head. It may seem difficult at first, but with a bit of practice it is really fun. The bigger the letters, the better the effect.

• Imagine that you are standing in front of a really big clock. Look at the middle of the clock. Then look at any hour mark, without turning your head. Look back at the center. Then look at another hour mark. Do this at least 12 times. You can also do this exercise with your eyes closed.

• Focus on a distant object (over 150 feet or 50 m away) for several seconds and slowly refocus your eyes on a nearby object (less than 30 feet or 10 m away) that’s in the same direction. Focus for several seconds and go back to the distant object. Do this 5 times.

• Focus on an object in the distance (as far as possible) with a low contrasting background. Do this for a few minutes every half hour or so. This does not improve your vision, nor does any other technique. It can, however, maintain your best eyesight level during the day and prevent significant further vision deterioration.

• Make up and down eye movements starting from up to to down. Do this 8 times. Then do the side to side eye movement, starting from left to right. Repeat this 8 times. Make sure not to add pressure to your eyes! It only worsen your vision!

Tips -

• It’s more important to do the exercises regularly than to do them for a long time. Even 30-60 seconds of eye movement every hour is very helpful. For example, when your computer takes its sweet time to do something, most people just stare at the poor thing and waste the time, but you can make a few circles with your eyes. 

• Even the first day you do this, you should notice that, when you finish working, your eyes aren't as tired as usual.

• Taking short breaks from near work (e.g. staring at a computer monitor) to stare out to the distance also relieves some strain.

• Palming is a good method to help your eyes feel better. You close your eyes and put your palms over them, this will rest your eyes.

• Blink the eyes many times.

Splash your eyes with cold water repeatedly when feasible, and especially when your eyes are strained.

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Petro Dollar Scam (2/2)

How US dollar came into trade for Oil?

            Any country in the world must print its paper currency as per the gold reserve it has in its hands as per the international law. But in 1971, the USA printed and spent far more paper currency than the gold reserve it had in its reserve. Few years later, French demanded redemption of its paper-dollar holdings in gold. But, USA rejected as it actually didn’t have enough gold for the dollars it had already printed and spent all over the world, thus committing an act of bankruptcy. So the US went to Saudis and cut a deal – OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) denominate all sales of oil in US dollar.

            From that point, every nation that needed to buy oil had to firstly hold US dollars, which meant that they exchanged their goods and service for dollars, which the Americans just printed. The Americans brought their oil literally free by printing the dollars. The ultimate free lunch for the Americans at the expense of the rest of the world.

Saddam Hussein –

            Every game will have its own game changer period. Likewise, there would be someone who would be required to bell the cat. Saddam Hussein was the one who belled the cat for this petro dollar trade for the oil across the globe.

In the year 2000, Saddam started selling his oil reserves directly for EURO, thereby putting an end to the agreement of Americans had with OPEC. Remember, if other countries started following Saddam’s path & start selling oil apart from US dollar, then need of US dollar will start reducing across the globe which would impact American’s economy. 

            Hence, the Americans wanted to stop Saddam but could not declare an open war for his decision. If that would have happened, then Americans might have faced anger from rest of the Gulf countries. This is where US used their brain (cunningness) & implemented a drama of invading to Iraq in 2003 showing the reason of twin tower blast. Post to this drama, US were able to implicate back its policy of selling Oil only for US dollars.

            During mid-year 2006, Hugo Chavez (Venezuela president) also followed the footsteps of Saddam, thereby started selling his oil resources for currencies other than US dollars. But, the Americans with the help of CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) were able to make a government change in Venezuela as well. By this time, since the petrodollar scam cat was almost out of the bag, Iran president Ahmedinejad, made an announcement that his oil resources would be sold only for the currencies other than USD. Thus, rest of the countries started thinking if they can buy oil other than US dollars why would they need to hold the paper (USD) which is of no use.

Even more worse is since the Iran president started selling oil only for the currencies except USD, Americans would have to buy EUR / GBP / Rubles instead of just printing their dollar currency to get it.  Since this would be a direct hit in the US economy & domination of American Empire over the rest of the countries, there is no other option for the Americans other than to declare war with an indirect reason stating nukes, terrorism, etc.

In October of 2011 top U.S. officials announced that they had apprehended 2 Iranians that were suspected of trying to commit terrorist activities on U.S. soil. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the DEA and FBI had disrupted a plot "conceived, sponsored and... directed from Iran" to murder the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. in or outside a crowded Washington, D.C. restaurant which potentially would have been followed up by bombings of the Saudi Arabian and Israeli embassies. The U.S. said an Iranian-American, 56-year-old Manssor Arbabsiar of Corpus Christi, Texas, was working for elements of the Iranian government -- specifically Iran's elite military unit the Quds force -- when he attempted to hire hitmen from the feared Zetas Mexican drug cartel to carry out the hit, but Arbabsiar was  unwittingly speaking to a DEA informant from the start. It is believed by some[who?] that the terrorist activity was absolutely falsified by the U.S. Government in order to facilitate further sanctions on Iran, therefore securing the strength of the Dollar.

Petro Dollar Scam (1/2)

People don’t realize the real reason for the Iraq war and the current war threat against Iran by USA. By the time you read this blog may be USA would have added some more Arab countries in their war list. Only few who actually knew the cunning mind of USA behind this war drama, will say this war is actually not for the nukes or terrorism in those countries which is hidden in those Arab countries. Few may also think that the war is to capture the crude oil resource in the Arab countries which is also not the actual reason. If that is the case then USA may have to declare war on many Arab countries.

If the war is not to capture the Nuke or not to end the terrorism & not even to capture their oil resources, then why is USA spending so much on these wars? Not many of us would have even heard the term popularly referred as “petrodollar scam” which is supposed to be the actual reason for this unwanted wars. Petro dollar warfare theory is one of the driving forces of the United States foreign policy over the recent decades which are why the US dollar value keeps raising in spite of its economy going down.

What is Petrodollar warfare?

United state’s dollar acts as the world’s dominant reserve currency & also the currency in which the oil is priced. This means the value of US dollar is determined by the fact that oil is sold in dollars. To say in layman words, the more the oil is sold, the more will be the circulation of US dollar which automatically means the NEED of US dollar. This clearly states any country which needs to buy oil needs US dollar & not their own local currency.

            If the denominations were changed to any other currency other than US dollar, for e.g. EURO / GBP then the need of US dollar would not come into existence which would result in decline importance of US dollar in the world market. Since any country that would need to buy oil will need US dollar in their reserve. Thus, the rest of the countries are indirectly forced to have trade with the United States either by direct exchange with their local currency or by getting the products at higher rate which might be available in other countries even at cheaper rates.

How to get rid of Back-pain?

Software professionals, Drivers, IAS / IPS officers, street vendors & even housewives,  irrespective of what ever profession we are in, back-pain is the common problem we face. Even marketing people who don't sit in the same place for hours together are not exempted from this back-pain since they travel a lot in two-wheeler's.

Many used to say watching TV for a long time causes back-pain; this shouldn't be understood literally that watching TV causes back-pain. It actually means sitting in a same place is the main reason for back-pain.

Hence, it's evident not only people from specified group / profession are only sufferers of back-pain. Many belts / pain killers are available in the market to kill this back-pain. But all these are only temporary reliefs which might some time results in side effects.

Many corporate companies used to spend lot of money in buying ergonomics chairs since they believe sitting in those of type of chairs will not have their employees suffer from back-pain. Even though the chair we sit is one of the main reason resulting for back-pain, the way we sit also matters a lot.

Instead of wasting money in buying medicines / ergonomics chairs, try the simple exercises as indicated below which involves no cost but very effective with no side effects.

Spend just 10 minutes every morning & say good-bye to back-pain :-)

Never Worry for being last

A bus carrying only ugly people is involved in a crash, and everyone on the bus dies.  They go to Heaven. Because of the grief they have suffered, God decides to grant them one wish each, before they enter Paradise . 


They're all lined up, and God asks the first one what their wish is. The person answers, "I want to be beautiful," and so God snaps His fingers, and it is done. The second one in line sees this and says "I want to be beautiful too." Another snap of His fingers and the wish is granted.


This goes on for a while, but when God is halfway down the line, the last person in line starts laughing. When there are only ten people left, this man is rolling on the floor, laughing his pants off. 


Finally, God gets to the end of the line and asks the laughing one what his wish will be. The man eventually catches his breath, and says: "Make them all ugly again". 


Moral - Don't get disheartened for being last, as you can still change others lives being last.

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