Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

How to Do Eye Push ups and Its Benefits

27 May 2025 · 1 min

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Wendie Trubow and others demonstrate eye push ups, an exercise where you cover one eye, bring a finger from arm's length toward your nose until it blurs, then alternate focus between near and far. Do five-second focus cycles daily for five minutes total, and the blur point moves closer with practice.

Questions this video answers

Minimum five minutes per day (total).

About two and a half minutes per eye.

Hold for five seconds on the near target.

Look across the room (distant point) for five seconds.

Start as far away as you can, then slowly bring the finger/pen toward midline until it becomes a little blurry, and stop there.

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What are the few exercises to hold on?
You're skipping ahead. We haven't talked about anything. Eds. I know. It's like asking for a friend.
Eye push ups.
And that's going.
To be at minimum five minutes a day that you're doing.
What's an eye push up? What is an eye push up?
Let's do it now.
Okay, everybody.
Take one hand, cover up.
One of your eyes, take the other.
Hand and if you got a pen or pencil, you can use that. Otherwise you can use your finger.
Hold your finger as far away from.
You as you can.
Make your finger clear and.
Then slowly bring your finger towards you, down your.
Midline until.
It gets a little blurry.
And wherever that point is, stop. And then hold.
It and try and make it clear. So you're going to look really hard. You're going to focus. You're going to visualize your pupil getting small. You're focusing muscles right behind your pupil.
You're stimulating the muscle. Hold it for five seconds and then.
Look across the room as far away as you can for five.
Seconds, then.
Back at your finger for five seconds. So Wendy, you pulled your finger down.
You want to keep your finger.
Exactly where it is. And you're literally doing a gross relaxation, stimulation, relaxation, stimulation of the inside muscle response for clarity.
To make this point clear, you do this for five minutes a day, two.
And a half minutes each.
Eye, you'll.
Notice that point can get closer and you'll notice you have more flexibility.