Anna Tijinski

My fact this week is that Paul McCartney does eye yoga.

Yeah, exactly.

I'm keeping us rooted in what the people want to hear about.

And that's eye yoga because it's becoming a bit of a thing.

Paul McCartney was introduced to it on a trip to India in the late 2000s, I think.

And he was asked what his eye yoga entailed.

So he said you keep your head still and then you look up as far as you can for two to three seconds, then as far down as you can, then diagonally.

So you make a union jack, as he described it, with your eyes.

And next you cross your eyes for two to three seconds.

And then you look great, by the way, guys.

And then you finish by focusing on a distant object.

And the idea is that you're exercising your eye muscles.

If you can get there, then you're doing very well.

I would say, to give him credit, flippantly comments that he still doesn't need glasses and that's probably why.

But that it makes your eyes healthier because you're exercising the muscles.

I mean, there's no evidence to support that at all.

The only thing that there's evidence for is that if you do sometimes take a break from looking at the screen and focus on something distant, that's good for, you know, stop you getting headaches.

But a lot of people do this eye yoga and yeah, it's a thing.

And it comes from Buddhist practices, candle gazing it used to be where you're just supposed to stare at a candle without blinking until your eyes water and that purifies your body.

Oh, that's great.