Many people today wonder whether it is possible to restore their vision without medical chemicals, procedures, operations, using simple methods and exercises for this. Today, unfortunately, more and more people notice a rapid decrease 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 every person today has a variety of computer equipment, phones, tablets, smartphones. Most people spend almost all day behind a smartphone monitor or 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 sit almost point-blank in front of a computer or laptop screen, which causes serious strain on the eyes.Human eyes are designed in such a way that to maintain their health, it is necessary to constantly change the visual distance., switching the focus of vision from distant objects to near objects and vice versa.
But for most people today, the virtual world replaces all aspects of life, it has become more important and much more necessary than reality. If before people sought to relax in nature to admire its beauties, today we can visit any country in the world without even leaving home. And while walking in the park, many are those who do not tear themselves away from their smartphone or tablet.
As a result, the eyes experience a very serious overload, and if observed daily, vision begins to decline, since 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 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 eye muscles, instead of the strengthening they need, begin to break down, which is why vision drops even more.
There is an opinion that the first and most important condition for restoring the old 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, thereby strengthening the visual muscles, and the restoration of vision begins.
It is important to remember one rule - any exercise, like playing sports, should start with a warm-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 seriously stressed, the eyebrows begin to descend and creep over the eyelashes, creating additional heaviness. To get rid of it, it is recommended to often raise your eyebrows as high as possible.
It must be done with effort, so that even in the ears you feel tension., holding the eyebrows up 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 won't work the first time, but after a few practices, everything will be back to normal.
Exercise "write with the tip of the nose"
Many ophthalmologists find this exercise very effective, especially when it is necessary to quickly eliminate existing eye fatigue, for example, 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 you need to write the alphabet and numbers. Movements should be smooth and slow.
It is important to pay attention to the fact that in the eyes, during movements, a special weak vibration is felt that occurs involuntarily.
This exercise is very useful for the eye muscles, especially the deeper ones. This exercise should be repeated several times.
Label on the window
To perform the exercise, you need to attach a mark on the window at eye level. As a label, you can use a piece of plasticine or cut out a small circle from black paper.
After attaching the tag, you need to move away from it about 40 cm, then select a distant object outside the window and look at it through the established tag, keeping your head and eyes in a positionwithout moving. After 30-40 seconds you should look from the selected object to the mark. The exercise should be performed at least 10 times.
If there is no possibility 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, examine it as closely as possible for about 20-30 seconds, then look at your hands, the clock on it, a paperclip or pen on the desk. Repeat about 10 times.
Reduction of eyes to the bridge of the nose
Those who often perform this exercise can do without the help of foreign objects, performing the task only with their eyes. But if you are doing this for the first time, take an ordinary pencil, bring it to your eyes at a distance of about 15 cm, focus your eyes on its tip, then move it from side to side, following the movement of your eyes without looking up. Then, without taking your eyes off 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 before your eyes begins to double. After that, you should return to the starting position and let your eyes rest for a few seconds before repeating the exercise. You have to do it at least 5 times.
Instead of a pencil, you can use your finger, diligently concentrating on it., especially when pressed against the bridge of the nose. It is important to see all the skin folds 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 intensely, which helps restore visual acuity. It is easier for someone to do this by imagining an old watch with a large round face. The place of attachment of the arrows should be exactly opposite the eyes. Perform the exercise only with your eyes, without turning your head.
From the center point you have to look at 12 o'clock, after which you have to look at all the numbers in a circle several times, then, after reaching 12 o'clock again, you have to go around the dial in the other direction and return your gaze againIn the center. Also, without moving your head, you should look at the numbers randomly, quickly moving your eyes from the center point to different numbers.
You can thus visualize the numbers in order, each time bringing your gaze back to 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 improve 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 to restore vision. If your eyes are tired from reading or working on a computer, you need to take a break for just 5 minutes to perform such an exercise.
You need to 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 had not looked at the monitor for several hours, but had just opened his eyes after a night's sleep. In case of severe eye fatigue, in cases where 5 minutes of rest is not enough, you can extend the session by listening to your feelings.
It is important to do this exercise correctly.. The palms should be pressed tightly to the closed eyelids, so that no gaps form between them and the rays of light do not enter the eyes. It is important that the eyes are in absolute darkness throughout the session. The right attitude is also very important. One should imagine how visual acuity is restored after each exercise, while the eyes should be relaxed and rested.
An important point of this gymnastics to improve vision is that the palms should be warm. Therefore, before starting the exercise, they must be intensively rubbed against each other or warmed up in some other way. You can perform the task for a long time and repeat during the day as many times as you want.
The doctor who promotes the palming technique has proven that this exercise is practically indispensable and very 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 better to complete 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 muscles of the eyes, but also to restore lost visual acuity.
Never look at the sun or any other light source: May 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 to one side, and not directly in front of your eyes.
- Under the closed eyelids, one must move the eyes from side to side so that when one corner is reached, the light is visible and on the other side there is a shadow.
- It is important to alternate shadow with light.
You can perform another version of the task. Stand behind a tree or other object, behind which the sun is shining, close your eyes and simply swing with your whole body or just your head so that when you move in one direction you step into the lightand in the other - in the shadow. You can simply move your palm in front of your closed eyes, without touching your face, so that shadow and light alternate.
Eye massage
It 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 problems with myopia, but also with astigmatism. But, besides this, massage can be considered an excellent prevention of the onset 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 gentle, without causing discomfort and pain. The fingers should be lowered to the eyelids at the desired points and performed with gentle up, down and side-to-side movements, 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, then move on to the next point. Wash your hands thoroughly before starting class.
Several points can be massaged:
- Place 2 fingers of each hand in the middle of the upper and lower eyelids.
- With the middle finger, you can massage the corners of the eyes, first the exteriors, then the interiors.
- Place 4 fingers on the eyelids and massage the eyeballs.
- The indexes massage the point of astigmatism.
Additionally, you can perform other massage actions. : squint, close eyes, blink intensely, make eyes "Chinese". Remember to blink 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 is not difficult to do on your own. In such glasses, one eye must be closed at all times. You should have 2 pairs of such glasses, in which different eyes will be closed, or make the flap removable, and the frame universal, allowing you to rotate the bar.
In such glasses, you can do almost any household chores, read, watch TV, only periodically rearranging the shutter so that it closes the other eye or changing glasses. In general, it is recommended not to close each eye for more than an hour, and it is better to change glasses or rearrange the bar 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 is why vision deteriorates. At the same time, the eyes are tuned to near perception, and the muscles do not take the correct position, since they do not receive the necessary signal from the brain. If one eye is closed at the same time, then with normal blinking, the eye muscles receive a signal to focus. If one eye sees only darkness, the eye muscles are forced to work constantly, resulting in the necessary training.
This technique allows you to turn the visual load into an excellent workout that does not require spending time on classes and exercises. Everything goes as if by itself, like normal daily work.
So, it turns out that if you read a book or work at a computer, keeping both eyes open, visual acuity decreases. If at the same time only one eye is open, it is restored.
Change of focus
The exercise is performed without contact lenses or glasses. You need to sit down, focus your eyes on the house outside the window or on another object, like a tree. When the image is clearly visible, you need to blink intensely, then adjust the focus of your eyes to the window frame, then to the flower on the windowsill, to the pattern on the wall, etc.
It is important to move from large objects to smaller ones, taking into account the smallest details.. You can perform this exercise as part of ordinary household chores.
Finger-Through Method
This exercise also allows you to relax your eyes and helps restore lost visual acuity. You can do this not only sitting, but also lying down. The arms should be bent at the elbows and brought back to the eyes so that only the fingers are at their level, which should be open.
Then you need to gently turn your head in different directions, while looking through your fingers, gently moving your eyes away and back. The gaze must slide gently over the objects without lingering on them.
If the exercise is performed correctly, it begins to seem to the person that the fingers are moving.
Morning exercises for the eyes
When you wake up in the morning, you should not get out of bed immediately, it is better to perform some simple exercises:
- First, you need to roll from side to side several times, while watching your breath, it should be deep and even without delay.
- After that, you need to lie on your back and open your eyes as wide as possible, then your mouth.
- Then close your eyes tightly, stay in this position for several seconds, then blink intensely at least 12 times.
- You need to repeat this action about 7 times.
- After that, you can massage the eyes and do the palm.