Week 14: DIY Swinging Ball Eye Exercises
- Vivid Visions Optometry
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read

This week is not about becoming a “better eye exerciser”. It is about noticing what changes in your real life when your eyes start working together. Most people with binocular vision problems don’t realize how much energy they spend trying to stabilize the world every second. You don’t feel it directly; you feel the side effects. Head pressure. Losing your place when reading. Constant neck muscle tension. Anxiety when there is movement around you. Difficulty walking through busy environments. The Marsden Ball brings those systems back online in a simple, practical way.
You are training:
Smooth eye tracking so you stop overshooting targets
Convergence and divergence so your brain stops fighting itself up close
Peripheral awareness so your body stops bracing when you move through space
Visual processing speed so reading and sports don’t feel like uphill battles
When this improves, daily life becomes quieter. You don’t limp through a page of text. You don’t panic when someone walks past you. You don’t tilt your head to “lock vision.” Your nervous system stops burning gas like a broken engine.
This week's exercises include foundational tracking, dynamic balance, convergence and divergence, peripheral awareness, and visual processing drills. The guide shows how to set it up at home for under 10 dollars. The pages are simple to follow and each exercise has a purpose.
How to approach practice
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