Many people today wonder whether 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 seeing 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 has a variety of computer equipment, phones, tablets, smartphones today. Most people spend most of the day behind a monitor screen or smartphone, not only working, but also relaxing here. The group also included children who spent most of the day playing computer games.
At the same time, most people sit at a computer monitor or laptop almost empty, which causes a serious burden to the eyes.The human eye is designed in such a way that in order to maintain their health, it is necessary to constantly change the visual distance., changing the focus of vision from distant objects to near and vice versa.
But for most people today, the virtual world is replacing all aspects of life, it has become more important and more necessary than reality. If the ancients wanted to relax in nature to admire its beauty, today we can visit any country in the world without leaving home. And taking a walk in the park, many people don’t get away from their smartphones or tablets.
As a result, the eyes get a very serious load, and if it is observed every day, vision begins to fall, because nature does not provide such a lifestyle. To avoid problems like this,doctors strongly recommend doing simple exercises to improve vision, especially when one spends all day at a screen or monitor.
Efficient charging to improve visibility
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, start to deteriorate, which is why vision drops more.
There is an opinion that the first and most important condition for restoring former visual acuity is the refusal to use optical devices.. If you remove the glasses, the eyes begin to experience an increase in pressure, try to focus the picture, thereby strengthening the visual muscles and the restoration of vision begins.
It is important to remember one rule - any exercise, such as playing sports, should begin with warming up, and the eyes are no exception. As a warm -up, you can use simple exercises.
Eyebrow exercises
It is from this task that it is recommended to begin any set of exercises aimed at restoring lost visual acuity. If the eyes are constantly burdened and seriously stressed, the eyebrows begin to go down and crawl over the lashes, creating extra weight. To get rid of this, it is recommended to often raise the eyebrows as high as possible.
This should be done with effort, so that even in the ears you feel the 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 reach it without raising an eyebrow. Of course, it won’t work the first time, but after some practice, 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 get rid of 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 on which you have to write the alphabet and numbers. Movement should be smooth and slow.
It is important to pay attention to the fact that in the eyes, when making movements, special weak vibrations are felt that occur inadvertently.
This exercise is very useful for the eye muscles, especially the deep ones. This exercise needs to be repeated several times.
Labels on windows
To do the exercise, you need to attach a sign on the window at eye level. As a label, you can use a piece of plasticine or cut small circles out of dark paper.
After attaching the label, you should move away from it about 40 cm, then select the object far outside the window and look through the set label, making sure your head and eyes are in one position without moving. After 30–40 seconds, you need to look from the selected object to the mark. Exercises should be done at least 10 times.
If there is no opportunity to go to the window, for example, when someone is working in a crowded office, you can use the second version of this exercise. Select any distant object visually, examine it as closely as possible for about 20–30 seconds, and then look at your hand, clock on it, paper clip or pen on the desktop. Repeat about 10 times.
Reduction of the eyes to the trunk of the nose
Those who often do 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 the tip, and then move it from side to side, following the movement of your eyes without looking up. Then, without taking your gaze away 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 picture before your eyes begin 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 needs to be done at least 5 times.
Instead of a pencil, you can use your fingers, diligently focusing on them., especially when it is pressed on the trunk 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 eye, and carefully examine it.
This exercise allows you to develop the ability to focus your eyes quickly on objects.
Circular motion, or "dial"
This exercise forces the eye muscles to work intensively, which helps restore visual acuity. It’s easier for someone to do that by imagining an old watch with a large round dial. The place of mounting the arrow should be exactly opposite the eye. Perform the exercise only with your eyes, without looking back.
From the center point, you should look at 12 hours, after which you should look at all the numbers in the circle a few times, then, after reaching 12 again, you should go through the dial in the other direction and return your gaze to the center again. Next, without moving your head, you should look at the numbers at random, quickly shifting your eyes from the center point to a different number.
So you can look at the numbers in sequence, each time returning your gaze to the center, doing exercises in both directions in turn.
Additional training 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.
palms
The after -effects of this exercise, as a rule, are felt from the first time, and many ophthalmologists call it a basic exercise in restoring vision. If your eyes are tired from reading or working on the computer, you need to rest for 5 minutes only to do such exercises.
You should close your eyes with the palms of your hands and remain in this position for about 5 minutes, without being disturbed by anything. After such a procedure, the eyes gain new strength, as if a person does not look at the monitor for several hours, but only opens the eyes after a night's sleep. With severe eye fatigue, in cases where 5 minutes of 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 on the closed eyelids, so that no gaps are formed between them and light rays 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 rested.
An important thing in this gymnastics to improve vision is that the palms of the hands should be warm, therefore, before starting the exercise, they should be rubbed intensively against each other or warmed in some other way. You can complete the task for a long time and repeat during the day as much as you like.
Doctors who promote the palm technique prove that this exercise is very necessary and very effective when necessary to restore lost vision.
solarization
You can do such exercises using almost any source of light, including sun, fire, candles, lamps, 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 eye with light radiation, 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 source of light: this can cause burns to the cornea. This exercise needs to be done correctly:
- It is necessary to close your eyes and lift your head to the sun so that it is on one side, and not directly in front of your eyes.
- Under the closed eyelid, one should move the eye from side to side so that when one angle is reached, light is visible, and on the other side there is a shadow.
- It is important to replace the shadow with light.
You can perform another version of the task. Standing behind a tree or other object, behind which the sun shines, close your eyes and shake with your whole body or just with your head so that when moving in one direction you get into the light, and in the other direction - into the shadows. You can simply move your palms in front of your closed eyes, without touching your face, so that the shadows and light alternate.
Eye massage
It is an old 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 problem of myopia, but also astigmatism. But, other than that, massage can be considered an excellent prevention against the occurrence of serious eye diseases, such as cataracts or glaucoma.
Massage should be done without contact lenses or glasses.. The essence of this technique is to massage certain points on the surface of the closed eyelids, but all movements should be light and gentle, not causing discomfort and pain. The fingers should be lowered above the eyelid at the desired point and done with gentle movements up, down and to the side, or press the point slightly several times to produce a slight vibration.
The vibration of each point should be repeated three times, after which you should open your eyes and blink actively, and then move on to the next point. Wash your hands thoroughly before starting class.
Various points can be massaged:
- Place 2 fingers of each hand in the center of the upper eyelid, and then the bottom.
- With your middle finger, you can massage the corner of the eye, first the outside, and then the inside.
- Place 4 fingers on the eyelids and massage the eyeballs.
- The index finger massages the point of astigmatism.
In addition, you can perform other massage actions. : squint your eyes, close your eyes, blink loudly, 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 yourself. In such spectacles, 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 a removable flap, and a universal mount, allowing you to rotate the bar.
In such glasses, you can do almost all the homework, read, watch TV, just rearrange the shutter periodically so that it closes the other eye, or change the glasses. In general, it is recommended to close each eye for no more than an hour, and it is best to change the glasses or rearrange the bars every half hour.
The principle of this 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, because they do not receive the necessary signals 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 only sees darkness, the eye muscles have to constantly work, because of that the necessary training takes place.
This technique allows you to turn a visual load into an excellent workout that doesn’t require time for classes and exercises. Everything happens by itself, like normal daily work.
So it turns out that if you read a book or work in front of a computer, keeping both eyes open, visual acuity decreases. If at the same time only one eye is open, it is restored.
Change focus
Exercises are performed without lenses and glasses. You should sit down, focusing 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 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 the smallest details in them.. You can do this exercise while doing regular homework.
Method Through Fingers
This exercise also allows you to relax your eyes and helps restore lost visual acuity. You can do it not only sitting, but also lying down. The arms must be bent at the elbows and brought to the eyes so that only the fingers are at their level, which should be open.
Next, you need to smoothly turn your head in a different direction, while looking through your fingers, smoothly moving your eyes into the distance and back. The gaze should smoothly glide over the object without thinking about it.
If the exercise is done correctly, then it begins to appear to the person that the fingers are moving.
Morning exercise for the eyes
Waking up in the morning, you can not immediately get out of bed, it is better to do some simple exercises:
- First, you should roll from side to side a few times, while observing your breathing, it should be deep and without delay.
- After that, you need to lie on your back and open your eyes as much as possible, and then your mouth.
- Next, you should close your eyes tightly, remain in this position for a few 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 palms.