Many people today wonder if it is possible to restore their vision without medical chemicals, procedures, surgeries, using simple methods and exercises for it. Today, unfortunately, more and more people are experiencing 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 a screen or smartphone screen, 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 are sitting at the screen of a computer or laptop almost empty, which causes severe eye overload.Human eyes are designed in such a way that in order to maintain their health, it is necessary to constantly change the visual distance., change the focus of vision from distant 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 in the past people were looking to relax in nature to admire its beauties, today we can visit any country in the world without even leaving home. And going for a walk in the park, many people do not move away from their smartphone or tablet.
As a result, the eyes get a very serious overload and if observed daily, vision begins to decline, because nature does not provide for 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 on the screen or on the screen.
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 eye muscles, instead of the strengthening they need, begin to degrade, which is why vision falls even more.
There is a view that the first and most important condition for the restoration of the 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 image, thus strengthening the optic muscles and the restoration of vision begins.
It is important to remember one rule - any exercise, such as sport, should start with a warm-up and the eyes are no exception. As a warm-up, you can use a simple exercise.
Eyebrow exercise
From this task it is recommended to start any set of exercises aimed at restoring the lost visual acuity. If the eyes are constantly overloaded and severely pressed, the eyebrows begin to go down and crawl over the lashes, creating extra weight. To get rid of it, it is recommended to raise your eyebrows as often as possible.
This must be done with difficulty, 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 sense of tension in the ears and try to achieve it 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 eliminate the existing eye strain, for example, that accumulates during the day.
To do this, you need to close your eyes and imagine that the tip of the nose is a pencil with which to write the alphabet and numbers. The movements should be smooth and slow.
It is important to pay attention to the fact that in the eyes, when you make movements, there is a special weak vibration that appears involuntarily.
This exercise is very useful for the eye muscles, especially the deep ones. This exercise should be repeated several times.
Label on the window
To perform the exercise, you need to paste a mark on the window at eye level. As a label, you can use a piece of plasticine or cut a small circle out of dark paper.
Once you have pasted the label, you need to move about 40 cm away from it, then select a distant object outside the window and look at it through the standard label, keeping your head and eyes in place without moving. . After 30–40 seconds, you should look at the mark from the selected object. The exercise must be performed at least 10 times.
If there is no opportunity to go to the windows, for example, when a person works in a crowded office, you can use the second version of this exercise. Visually select any distant object, look at it as carefully as possible for about 20–30 seconds, and then look at your hands, the clock on them, a paper clip or pen on the desktop. Repeat about 10 times.
Reduction of the eyes on the bridge of the nose
Those who often perform this exercise can do without the help of foreign objects, performing the work only with their eyes. But if you are doing this for the first time, then take a regular pencil, bring it to your eyes at a distance of about 15 cm, focus your eyes on its edge and then move it from side to side, following the movement of the eyeswithout looking up. Then, without removing your eyes from the tip of the pencil, bring it to the bridge of your nose.
It is necessary to follow the pencil in this position until the image in front of your eyes starts to double. After that, you should return to the starting position and let your eyes rest for a few seconds before repeating the exercise. It should be done at least 5 times.
Instead of a pencil, you can use your finger, focusing carefully on it., especially when pressed on the bridge of the nose. It is important to see all aspects of the skin on it. After that, it is necessary to look at any 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 restore visual acuity. It is easier for someone to do it imagining an old watch with a large round dial. The location of the arrows should be directly opposite the eyes. Perform the exercise with your eyes only, without turning your head.
From the center point, you should look at 12 o'clock, after which you should look at all the numbers in a circle several times, then, having reached 12 again, you should go through the dial in the other direction andto return your gaze back to the center. In addition, without shaking your head, you should look at the numbers randomly, moving your eyes quickly from the center point to different numbers.
You can thus see the numbers in order, each time turning your gaze to the center, performing the exercise in both directions in order.
Additional exercises to restore vision
In addition to the basic exercises suggested by ophthalmologists to restore lost visual acuity, additional work can be performed to enhance the overall effect.
palm
The effect after this exercise, as a rule, is felt from the first time and many ophthalmologists call it a fundamental exercise for the restoration of vision. If your eyes are tired of reading or working on the computer, you should take a break for just 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 distracting anything. After such a procedure, the eyes gain new strength, as if a person had not looked at the screen for several hours, but had just opened his eyes after a night's sleep. With severe eye strain, in cases where 5 minutes to rest is not enough, you can extend the session, listening to your emotions.
It is important to do this exercise correctly.. The palms should be pressed firmly on the closed eyelids, so that no gaps are created between them and light rays do not penetrate into the eyes. It is important that the eyes are in complete darkness throughout the session. The right attitude is also very important. It is necessary to imagine how visual acuity is restored after each exercise, while the eyes should be relaxed and rested.
An important point of this exercise to improve vision is that the palms should be warm, so before you start exercising, they should rub intensely against each other or warm up in another way. You can complete the task for a long time and repeat during the day as many times as you want.
The doctor who promotes the palm technique has proven that this exercise is practically necessary and extremely effective when it is necessary to restore lost vision.
solarization
You can perform such an exercise using almost any light source, including the sun, fire, candle, lamp, but it is best to complete the task with the help of the sun. In fact, solar radiation is the treatment of the surface of the eyes with light rays, which is one of the effective methods not only for the relaxation of the motor muscles of the eyes, but also for the restoration of the lost visual acuity.
Never look at the sun or any other light source: this can cause corneal burns. This exercise must be done correctly:
- It is necessary to close your eyes and raise your head to the sun so that it is on one side and not just in front of your eyes.
- Under the closed eyelids, you have to move the eyes from one side to the other, so that when you reach one corner, the light is visible and there is a shadow on the other side.
- It is important to alternate shade with light.
You can run another version of the job. Stand behind a tree or other object, behind which the sun shines, close your eyes and just swing with your whole body or only your head, so that when you move in one direction you enter the light and from theanother - in the shade. You can simply move your palm in front of your closed eyes, without touching your face, so that the shadow and the light alternate.
Eye massage
It is a long-term 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 other than that, massage can be considered an excellent prevention of the occurrence of serious eye diseases, such as cataracts or glaucoma.
The massage should be done without contact lenses or glasses.. The essence of the technique is to massage at certain points on the surface of the closed eyelids, but all movements should be light and gentle, without causing discomfort and pain. The fingers should be lowered above the eyelids to 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 should be repeated three times, after which you should open your eyes and blink actively and only then move on to the next point. Wash your hands thoroughly before starting the lesson.
You can massage in many places:
- Putting 2 fingers of each hand in the middle of the upper eyelids and then the lower ones.
- 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 are massaged at the point of astigmatism.
In addition, you can do other massages. : squint your eyes, close your eyes, blink sharply, make your eyes "Chinese". Remember to open and close your eyes and rest your eyes after repeating an 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 always be closed. You should have 2 pairs of such glasses, in which different eyes will be closed or the fin will be removed and the base universal, allowing you to rotate the bar.
In such glasses, you can do almost all the housework, read, watch TV, just periodically rearrange the shutter so that it closes the other eye or change glasses. In general, it is recommended to close each eye for no more than an hour and it is best to change glasses or rearrange the bar every half hour.
The principle of the technique is that when a person looks at a screen, monitor or book for a long time, the eye muscles stop contracting, which is why vision deteriorates. At the same time, the eyes are attuned to near perception and the muscles do not get the right position, as they do not receive the necessary signal from the brain. If one eye is closed at the same time, then with normal flashing, the eye muscles receive a focus signal. If one eye sees only blackness, the eye muscles are forced to work constantly, due to which the necessary training is done.
This technique allows you to turn the visual load into an excellent workout that does not require time for lessons and exercises. Everything is done as by itself, as a normal daily work.
So it turns out that if you read a book or work on a computer with both eyes open, the 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 should sit, focus your eyes on the house outside the window or on another object, such as a tree. When the image is clearly visible, it should blink brightly and then adjust the focus of your eyes on the window frame, then on the flower on the windowsill, on the drawing on the wall, etc.
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 during your usual household chores.
Method with the finger
This exercise also allows you to relax your eyes and helps to restore lost visual acuity. You can do it not only sitting but also lying down. The hands should be bent at the elbows and brought to the eyes, so that only the fingers are at their height, which should be open.
Next, you need to smoothly turn your head in different directions while looking through your fingers, moving your eyes smoothly into the distance and back. The gaze should glide smoothly over objects without staying on them.
If the exercise is performed correctly, then it begins to appear to the person that the fingers are moving.
Morning exercises for the eyes
Waking up in the morning, you should not get out of bed immediately, it is better to perform a few simple exercises:
- Initially, you should roll from side to side several times, while watching your breathing, it should be deep and even without delay.
- After that, 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 several seconds and then blink intensely at least 12 times.
- You need to repeat this action about 7 times.
- After that, you can massage the eyes and palm.