Many people today are wondering if it is possible to restore their vision without medical chemicals, procedures, surgeries, using simple methods and exercises for this. Today, unfortunately, more and more people are noticing a rapid decline in visual acuity due to various factors of modern life.
Why is it important to do eye exercises?
The lifestyle of many modern people leads to the fact that the eyes experience a very high load every day. Almost everyone today has a variety of computer equipment, phones, tablets, smartphones. Most people spend most of the day behind the screen on a monitor or smartphone, not only working but also relaxing here. This group also includes children who spend most of the day playing computer games.
At the same time, most people sit almost directly in front of a computer or laptop monitor, which causes severe eye strain.Human eyes are designed in such a way that in order to maintain their health, it is necessary to constantly change the visual distance., switching the focus of vision from far to near objects and vice versa.
But for most people today, the virtual world is replacing all aspects of life, it has become more important and much more necessary than reality. If earlier people sought to relax in nature to admire its beauty, today we can visit every country in the world without even leaving home. And when going for a walk in the park, many people do not break away from their smartphone or tablet.
As a result, the eyes receive a very serious overload and if observed daily, vision begins to decline, because nature does not provide such a way of life. To avoid such problems,doctors strongly recommend doing simple exercises to improve vision, especially when a person spends all day in front of a screen or monitor.
Effective charging to improve vision
Many people choose the easiest way to normalize lost visual acuity - glasses, or their more modern version - contact lenses. But in this case, the muscles of the eyes, instead of strengthening them, begin to break down, causing vision to fall even more.
It is believed that the first and most important condition for the restoration of previous visual acuity is the refusal to use optical devices.. If you remove the glasses, the eyes begin to experience increased stress, trying to focus the picture, thus strengthening the visual muscles and begin to restore vision.
It is important to remember one rule - every exercise, such as sports, should start with warming up and the eyes are no exception. As a warm-up you can use a simple exercise.
Eyebrow exercise
It is from this task that it is recommended to start any set of exercises aimed at restoring lost visual acuity. If the eyes are constantly overloaded and severely stressed, the eyebrows begin to descend and crawl over the lashes, creating extra weight. To get rid of this, it is recommended to raise your eyebrows as high as possible.
This should be done with effort, so that even in the ears you feel tension.holding the eyebrows at the top for a few seconds. It is important to remember the feeling of tension in the ears and try to achieve this without raising your eyebrows. Of course, it will not work the first time, but after a few workouts everything will be fine.
Exercise "writing with the tip of the nose"
Many ophthalmologists find this exercise very effective, especially when it is necessary to quickly remove existing eye strain, such as accumulated during the day.
To do this, you need to close your eyes and imagine that the tip of your nose is a pencil with which to write the alphabet and numbers. The movements must be smooth and slow.
It is important to pay attention to the fact that in the eyes, when you make movements, a special weak vibration is felt, which occurs involuntarily.
This exercise is very useful for the eye muscles, especially the deep ones. This exercise should be repeated several times.
Window etiquette
To perform the exercise, you need to place a mark on the window at eye level. You can use a piece of plasticine as a label or cut a small circle out of dark paper.
After attaching the label, you should move away from it by about 40 cm, then select a distant object outside the window and look at it through the established label, keeping your head and eyes in one position without moving. After 30-40 seconds you have to look from the selected object to the marking. The exercise should be performed at least 10 times.
If it is not possible to go to the windowsFor example, when a person works in a crowded office, you can use the second version of this exercise. Visually select each remote object, look at it as closely as possible for about 20-30 seconds, and then look at your hands, the clock on them, a paper clip, or a pen on your desktop. Repeat about 10 times.
Reduce eyes to the bridge of the nose
Those who often perform this exercise can cope without the help of foreign objects, performing the task only with their eyes. But if you are doing this for the first time, then take an ordinary pencil, bring it to your eyes at a distance of about 15 cm, focus your eyes on its tip and then move it from one side to the other, following the movement of your eyes withoutyou look up. Then, without taking your eyes off the tip of the pencil, bring it closer to your nose.
You need to follow the pencil in this position until the picture in front of your eyes begins to double. Then you need to return to the starting position and let your eyes rest for a few seconds before repeating the exercise. It must be done at least 5 times.
Instead of a pencil, you can use your finger, focusing carefully on it., especially when pressed against the bridge of the nose. It is important to see all the folds of skin on it. Then you need to look at each object, located about 40 cm from the eyes, and examine it carefully.
This exercise allows you to develop the ability to quickly focus your eyes on objects.
Circular movements or "dial"
This exercise forces the eye muscles to work intensively, which helps to restore visual acuity. It is easier for someone to do this by imagining an old watch with a large round dial. The point of attachment of the arrows must be directly opposite the eyes. Perform the exercise with your eyes only, without turning your head.
From the center point you have to look for 12 hours, then you have to look at all the numbers in a circle several times, then when you reach 12 again, you have to go through the dial in the other direction and look back to the center. Also, without moving your head, you should look at the numbers at random, quickly moving your eyes from the center point to different numbers.
In this way, you can look at the numbers in a row, each time looking back at the center, performing the exercise in both directions in turn.
Additional exercises to restore vision
In addition to the basic exercises recommended by ophthalmologists to restore lost visual acuity, additional tasks can be performed to enhance the overall effect.
palming
The effect after this exercise, as a rule, is felt from the first time and many ophthalmologists call it a basic exercise to restore vision. If your eyes are tired of reading or working on a computer, you need to take a break for only 5 minutes to perform such an exercise.
You should close your eyes with your palms and stay in this position for about 5 minutes without being distracted by anything. After such a procedure, the eyes gain new strength, as if a person has not looked at the monitor for several hours, but has just opened his eyes after a night's sleep. In case of severe eye fatigue, in cases when 5 minutes of rest are not enough, you can prolong the session by listening to your feelings.
It is important to do this exercise correctly.. The palms should be pressed tightly against the closed eyelids so that no gaps are formed between them and the rays of light do not penetrate the eyes. It is important that the eyes are in complete darkness throughout the session. The right attitude is also very important. We need to imagine how visual acuity is restored after each exercise, while the eyes should be relaxed and at rest.
An important point of this exercise to improve vision is that the palms should be warm, therefore, before starting the exercise, they should be rubbed intensively into each other or warmed in another way. You can perform the task for a long time and repeat during the day as many times as you want.
The doctor who popularized the palming technique proved that this exercise is practically irreplaceable and highly effective when it is necessary to restore lost vision.
solarization
You can perform such an exercise using almost any light source, including sun, fire, candle, lamp, but it is best to perform the task with the help of the sun. In fact, solarization is the treatment of the surface of the eyes with light rays, which is one of the effective methods not only to relax the motor eye muscles, but also to restore lost visual acuity.
Never look at the sun or any other light source: this may cause corneal burns. This exercise must be performed correctly:
- You need to close your eyes and raise your head to the sun so that it is on one side and not directly in front of your eyes.
- With the eyelids closed, the eyes should move from one side to the other so that when you reach one corner, light can be seen and there can be a shadow on the other side.
- It is important to alternate shade with light.
You can perform another version of the task. Stand behind a tree or other object with the sun shining, close your eyes and just swing with your whole body or just your head, so that when you move in one direction you fall into the light and in the other - in the shadows. You can simply move your palm in front of your closed eyes without touching your face, so that shadow and light alternate.
Eye massage
This is a long-standing and quite effective method of restoring visual acuity. With the help of this technique, with constant exercise, it is possible to solve not only the problems of myopia, but also astigmatism. But in addition, massage can be considered an excellent prevention of serious eye diseases such as cataracts or glaucoma.
The massage should be performed without contact lenses or glasses.. The essence of the technique is to massage certain points on the surface of the closed eyelids, but all movements should be light and soft without causing discomfort and pain. The fingers should be lowered over the eyelids at the desired points and performed with gentle movements up, down and sideways or lightly press the points several times to create a slight vibration.
The vibration of each point must be repeated three times, then you must open your eyes and blink actively and only then move on to the next point. Wash your hands thoroughly before starting a lesson.
Many points can be massaged:
- Place 2 fingers on each hand in the middle of the upper eyelids, then the lower.
- With your middle fingers you can massage the corners of the eyes, first the outer and then the inner.
- Place 4 fingers on the eyelids and massage the eyeballs.
- The index fingers massage the point of astigmatism.
You can also perform other massage activities.: close your eyes, close your eyes, blink intensely, make your eyes "Chinese". Remember to blink and rest your eyes after repeating one exercise three times.
Pirate glasses or the Bates method
This method is considered one of the most powerful ways to restore visual acuity. For this, special glasses are used, which are not difficult to make yourself. In such glasses, one eye must be closed at all times. You need to have 2 pairs of such glasses in which to close different eyes, or to make the valve movable and the stand to be universal, allowing you to rotate the rod.
In such glasses you can do almost any housework, read, watch TV, just periodically rearranging the shutter so that it closes the other eye, or change glasses. It is generally recommended that you close each eye for no more than an hour, and it is best to change your glasses or rearrange the tape every half hour.
The principle of the technique is that when a person looks at a monitor, screen or book for a long time, the eye muscles stop contracting, which causes vision impairment. At the same time, the eyes are tuned to close perception and the muscles do not take the right position because they do not receive the necessary signal from the brain. If one eye is closed at the same time, then during normal blinking the eye muscles receive a focus signal. If one eye sees only blackness, the eye muscles are forced to work constantly, which is why the necessary training is performed.
This technique allows you to turn the visual load into an excellent workout that does not require spending time for classes and exercises. Everything happens as if by itself, as normal daily work.
So it turns out that if you read a book or work on a computer, keeping both eyes open, visual acuity decreases. If only one eye is open at a time, it is restored.
Change of focus
The exercise is performed without lenses and glasses. You need to sit down, focus your gaze on the house outside the window or on another object, such as a tree. When the picture is clearly visible, you need to blink intensely and then adjust the focus of your eyes to the window frame, then to the flower on the window sill, to the pattern on the wall, and so on.
It is important to move from large objects to smaller ones, taking into account even the smallest details in them.. You can perform this exercise in the course of ordinary household chores.
Finger method
This exercise also allows you to relax your eyes and helps to restore lost visual acuity. You can perform it not only in a sitting position, but also in a lying position. The hands should be bent at the elbows and close to the eyes so that only the fingers are at their level, which should be open.
Then you should gently turn your head in different directions, while looking through your fingers, smoothly moving your eyes into the distance and going back. The gaze should slide smoothly over objects without stopping at them.
If the exercise is performed correctly, then the person begins to look like his fingers are moving.
Morning eye exercises
Waking up in the morning, you do not have to get out of bed immediately, it is better to perform a few simple exercises:
- First you have to roll from one side to the other several times, watching your breathing, it should be deep and even without delay.
- Then you should lie on your back and open your eyes as wide as possible, and then your mouth.
- Then you should close your eyes tightly, stay in this position for a few seconds and then blink intensely at least 12 times.
- You need to repeat this action about 7 times.
- Then you can massage your eyes and do palming.