Many people today are wondering if 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 has a variety of computer equipment, phones, tablets, smartphones today. Most people spend almost the whole day behind a monitor 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 sit down at the monitor of a computer or laptop almost point-blank, which causes a serious overload for the eyes.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 distant 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 earlier people sought to relax in nature in order 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 tear themselves away from their smartphone or tablet.
As a result, the eyes get a very serious overload, and if it is observed daily, vision begins to fall, because nature does not provide for such a lifestyle. To avoid such problems,doctors strongly recommend doing simple exercises to improve vision, especially when a person spends all day at the screen or monitor.
Efficient 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 the strengthening they need, begin to degrade, which is why vision falls even more.
There is an opinion that the first and most important condition for restoring the former visual acuity is the refusal to use optical devices.. If you take off the glasses, the eyes begin to experience increased stress, trying to focus the picture, thereby strengthening the visual muscles and restoration of vision begins.
It is important to remember one rule - any exercise, like playing sports, should begin 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 sets of exercises aimed at restoring lost visual acuity. If the eyes are constantly overloaded and seriously stressed, the eyebrows begin to go down and crawl over the eyelashes, creating additional heaviness. To get rid of this, it is recommended to often raise the eyebrows up as high as possible.
This should be done with effort, so that even in the ears there is 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 the eyebrows. Of course, it won’t work the first time, but after a few workouts, everything will be in order.
Exercise "writing with the tip of the nose"
Many ophthalmologists find this exercise very effective, especially when it is necessary to quickly eliminate existing eye strain, for example, accumulated 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 you should 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 making movements, a special weak vibration is felt that occurs 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 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 dark paper.
Having attached 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 need to look from the selected object to the mark. The exercise should 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, examine it as closely 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 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, then take a regular pencil, bring it to your eyes at a distance of about 15 cm, focus your eyes on its tip, and 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 picture before your eyes begins to double. After that, you should return to the starting position and allow your eyes to 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, diligently focusing on it., especially when it is pressed against the bridge of the nose. It is important to see all the folds of skin on it. After that, it is necessary to look at any object located about 40 cm from the eyes, and thoroughly examine it.
This exercise allows you to develop the ability to quickly focus your eyes on objects.
Circular movements, or "dial"
This exercise makes the eye muscles work intensively, which helps to restore visual acuity. It is easier for someone to do it by imagining an old watch with a large round dial. 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 central point, you should look at 12 o'clock, then 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 and again look back at the center. Further, without moving your head, you should look at the numbers randomly, quickly moving your eyes from the central point to different numbers.
You can thus view the numbers in order, each time returning your gaze 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 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 fundamental exercise in restoring vision. If your eyes are tired from reading or working at a computer, you need to take a rest for just 5 minutes to carry out such an exercise.
You should close your eyes with your palms and remain in this position for about 5 minutes, without being distracted by anything. After such a procedure, the eyes acquire 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. With severe eye fatigue, in cases where 5 minutes for rest is not enough, you can extend the session, 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 form between them and the rays of light do not penetrate into the eyes. It is important that the eyes are in absolute 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 rest.
An important point of this gymnastics to improve vision is that the palms should be warm, therefore, before starting the exercise, they should be intensively rubbed against each other or warmed in another way. You can complete the task for a long time and repeat during the day as many times as you like.
The doctor who promotes the palming technique proved that this exercise is practically indispensable and highly 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, solarization is the treatment of the surface of the eyes with light rays, which is one of the effective methods not only for relaxing the motor eye muscles, but also for restoring lost visual acuity.
Never look at the sun or any other light source: this can cause burns to the cornea. This exercise should 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 directly in front of your eyes.
- Under closed eyelids, one should move the eyes from side to side so that when one corner is reached, light is visible, and in 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 sway with your whole body or only with your head so that when moving in one direction you get into the light, and in the other - into 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 the problems of myopia, but also astigmatism. But, besides this, massage can be considered an excellent prevention of the occurrence of serious eye diseases, such as cataracts or glaucoma.
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, not causing discomfort and pain. The fingers should be lowered over the eyelids at the desired points and carried out with gentle movements up, down and to the sides, 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 class.
Multiple points can be massaged:
- Putting 2 fingers of each hand in the middle of the upper eyelids, and then the lower ones.
- With middle fingers, you can massage the corners of the eyes, first the outer ones, and then the inner ones.
- Place 4 fingers on the eyelids and massage the eyeballs.
- Index fingers massage the point of astigmatism.
In addition, you can perform other massage actions.: squint 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 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 mount 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 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 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 blackness, the eye muscles are forced to constantly work, due to which the necessary training takes place.
This technique allows you to turn the visual load into an excellent workout that does not require spending time on classes and exercises. Everything happens as if by itself, as normal daily work.
Thus, 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.
Focus change
The exercise is performed without lenses and glasses. You should sit down, focus your eyes on the house outside the window or on another object, such as a tree. When the picture is clearly visible, you should blink intensively, and then adjust the focus of your eyes to the window frame, then to the flower on the windowsill, to the pattern on the wall, and so on.
It is important to move from large objects to smaller ones, considering even the smallest details in them.. You can perform this exercise in the course of ordinary household chores.
Finger-Through Method
This exercise also allows you to relax your eyes and helps in restoring lost visual acuity. You can perform it not only sitting, but also lying down. The arms must be bent at the elbows and brought to the eyes so that only fingers are at their level, which should be opened.
Next, you need to smoothly turn your head in different directions, while looking through your fingers, smoothly moving your eyes into the distance and returning back. The gaze should smoothly slide over objects without dwelling on them.
If the exercise is performed correctly, then it begins to seem to the person that the fingers are moving.
Morning exercises for the eyes
Waking up in the morning, you should not immediately get out of bed, it is better to perform a few simple exercises:
- First, you should roll from side to side several times, while watching your breathing, 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, and then your mouth.
- Next, you should close your eyes tightly, stay in this position for several seconds, and then blink intensively at least 12 times.
- You need to repeat this action about 7 times.
- After that, you can massage the eyes and do palming.