Today's tip: Downward gaze at computer monitor

[Rebecca Petris]

This is from a letter in the current issue of The Moisture Seekers, the monthly newletter of the Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation. The writer is a technical writer and was having terrible difficulty using the computer due to eye pain, but experienced major improvement following this technique:

Lower your monitor and tilt the screen upwards. Gazing downward at the screen lowers the eyelids, exposing less of the eye surfaces and possibly increasing the rate of blinking.