Many people today wonder if it is possible to regain their sight without medical chemicals, procedures, surgeries, using simple methods and exercises for this. Today, unfortunately, more and more people notice 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 every person today has a variety of computer devices, phones, tablets, smartphones. Most people spend almost all 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 near the monitor of a computer or laptop almost pointlessly, which causes a serious overload to the eyes.Human eyes are designed in such a way that to maintain their health, it is necessary to constantly change the visual distance., shifting the focus of view from distant objects to near ones 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 wanted to relax in nature to admire its beauties, today we can visit any place in the world without even leaving home. And going for a walk in the park, many people do not remove themselves 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 lifestyle. To avoid such problems,doctors strongly recommend doing simple exercises to improve eyesight, especially when a person spends all day in front of the screen or monitor.
Efficient charging to improve eyesight
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, so the vision drops even more.
There is an opinion that the first and most important condition for restoring 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 figure, thus strengthening the visual muscles and the restoration of vision begins.
It is important to remember one rule - every 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 the lost visual acuity. If the eyes are constantly overloaded and severely stressed, the eyebrows start to drop and crawl over the lashes, creating extra weight. To get rid of this, it is recommended that you often raise your eyebrows as high as possible.
This should be done with effort, so that even in the ear 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 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 existing eye strain, for example, accumulated during the day.
To do this, you have to close your eyes and imagine that the tip of your nose is a pencil with which you have 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, you feel a particularly weak vibration that occurs involuntarily.
This exercise is very beneficial for the eye muscles, especially for the deep ones. This exercise should be repeated several times.
Labels on windows
To perform the exercise, you need to place 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 glued the label, you need to move away from it by about 40 cm, then select a distant object outside the window and look at it through the set label, keeping your head and eyes in a position without moving. After 30–40 seconds, you should look at the object selected in the sign. Exercise should be performed at least 10 times.
If there is no opportunity to go to the window, 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 it without the help of foreign objects, performing the task only with the eyes. But if you are doing this for the first time, then take a regular pencil, bring it close to your eyes at a distance of about 15 cm, focus your eyes on its tip and then move from side to side, following the movement of the eyesof you without looking up. Then, without taking your eyes off the tip of the pencil, bring it to the bridge of the nose.
It is necessary to follow the pencil in this position until the picture 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. Must be done at least 5 times.
Instead of a pencil, you can use your finger, focusing diligently on it., especially when pressed into the bridge of the nose. It is important to see all the skin folds in 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 the 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 this by imagining an old clock with a large round counter. The place of connection of the arrows should be exactly in front of the eyes. Perform the exercise only with the eyes, without turning the head.
From the center point, you should look at 12 o'clock, after which you should look at all the numbers in a circle a few times, then, once you have reached 12 again, you should switch the number in the other direction and turn the view. back to the center. Next, without moving your head, you should look at the numbers randomly, moving your eyes quickly from the center point to different numbers.
This way you can look at the numbers in order, each time turning the gaze to the center, performing the exercise in both directions in a row.
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.
palm
The effect after this exercise, as a rule, is felt from the first time, and many ophthalmologists call it a basic exercise in restoring vision. If your eyes are tired of reading or working on the computer, you should 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 had not seen the monitor for several hours, but had just opened his eyes after a night’s sleep. With severe eye strain, 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 firmly into the closed eyelids, so that gaps are not 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. Proper posture is also very important. It is necessary to imagine how visual acuity is restored after each exercise, while the eyes should be relaxed and at rest.
An important point of this gymnastics to improve eyesight is that the palms should be warm, therefore, before starting the workout, they should rub intensely with each other or warm up in another way. You can complete the task for a long time and repeat it during the day as many times as you want.
The doctor who promotes the hand palm technique proved that this exercise is practically necessary and very effective when it is needed to restore lost sight.
solarizimi
You can perform such an exercise using almost any light source, including 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 eye surface with light rays, which is one of the effective methods not only for relaxation of the motor muscles of the eye, but also for restoring the lost visual acuity.
Never look at the sun or any other source of light: this can cause corneal burns. This exercise must be done correctly:
- It is necessary to close your eyes and raise your head towards the sun so that it is on one side, and not directly in front of your eyes.
- Under the closed eyelids, you should move the eyes from side to side so that when one corner is reached, the light is visible and the other side has a shadow.
- It is important to alternate shade 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 shake your whole body or just your head, so that when you move in one direction you enter the light, and in the other - in the shadows. You can simply move the palm in front of the closed eyes, without touching the face, so that shadow and light alternate.
Eye massage
It is a long and effective method to restore visual acuity. With the help of this technique, with continuous exercises, 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 the occurrence 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, not causing discomfort and pain. The fingers should sit on the eyelids at the desired points and be 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 actively ignore and only then move on to the next point. Wash your hands thoroughly before starting class.
Multiple points can be massaged:
- Place 2 fingers of each hand between the upper eyelids, and then the lower ones.
- With your middle fingers you can massage the corners of the eyes, first the outer ones and then the inner ones.
- Put 4 fingers on the eyelids and massage the eyelids.
- The index fingers massage the point of astigmatism.
In addition, you can perform other massage actions. : close your eyes, close your eyes, pulse hard, make your eyes "Chinese". Remember to 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. Special glasses are used for this, 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 different eyes will be closed, or will make the lid removable and the mounting universal, allowing you to rotate the bar.
In such glasses, you can do almost any housework, read, watch TV, just periodically rearranging the shutter in order to close the other eye or changing the glasses. It is generally recommended to close each eye for no more than an hour, and it is best to change the 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, hence the vision deteriorates. At the same time, the eyes are tuned in close perception, and the muscles do not take the right position, as they do not receive the necessary signal from the brain. If one eye closes at the same time, then with normal glitter, the eye muscles receive a signal to focus. If one eye sees only darkness, 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 spending time in classes and exercises. Everything happens on its own, like normal daily work.
Thus, it turns out that if you read a book or work on the computer, keeping both eyes open, visual acuity is reduced. If only one eye is open at a time, it is restored.
Changing focus
The exercise is performed without lenses and glasses. You need to 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 need to pulse intensely and then adjust the focus of the eyes on the window frame, then on the flower on the window sill, on 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 during the usual household chores.
Finger method
This exercise also allows you to relax your eyes and helps restore lost visual acuity. You can perform it not only sitting, but also lying down. The arms should bend at the elbows and be brought to the eyes so that only the fingers are at their level, which should open.
Next, you should smoothly turn your head in different directions as you look through your fingers, moving your eyes smoothly into the distance and turning backwards. The gaze should glide smoothly over objects without stopping at them.
If the exercise is performed properly, then the person begins to notice 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 some simple exercises:
- First, you need to rotate from side to side a few times as you watch 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.
- Next, you should close your eyes tightly, stay in this position for a few seconds, and then pulse 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.