Eyes #1: Discover how to rest the eyes to relieve visual strain and muscular tension. Using mindful movement and visualization that stimulates neural connections, learn to rewire the brain to relinquish unconscious habits of tension. Improve peripheral vision, feel lighter and experience a new level of calm presence. If you happen to have trouble sleeping, the series of ATM lessons on the Eyes is a perfect way to release insomnia.

Starting position: on back. If you cannot do any of the movements, visualize them. Studies show imagining a movement makes the synapses fire and "synapse that fire together, wire together."

As with all ATM lessons, make sure you have a warm space and a comfortable mat, or even a quilted moving blanket to use as a mat. Lie down, make yourself ready to start with a body scan while the opening context is set. See if you can follow the sequence - think of it as a puzzle - for it's in figuring it out that you change the way your brain is wired and make new connections that lengthen the resting length of your muscles for greater ease and relief from the compression and effort that most people live with without even realizing it.