Many people today are wondering if it is possible to restore sight without medical chemicals, procedures, operations, using simple methods and exercises for that. Today, unfortunately, more and more people notice a sharp drop 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 large load every day. Almost every person today has a variety of computer equipment, phones, tablets, smartphones. Most people spend almost the whole day behind the screen of a monitor or smartphone, 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 close to a computer or laptop monitor, which causes severe eye strain.Human eyes are designed in such a way that it is necessary to constantly change the visual distance in order to maintain health., shifting the focus of vision from distant to close 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 needed than reality. If earlier people tried to relax in nature in order to admire its beauties, today we can visit any country in the world without leaving home. And when going for a walk in the park, many people do not detach themselves from their smartphone or tablet.
As a result, the eyes get a very serious overload, and if this is observed daily, vision begins to decline, because nature does not predict such a way of life. To avoid such problems,doctors strongly recommend performing simple exercises to improve vision, especially when a person spends the whole day behind a screen or monitor.
Effective filling 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 muscles of the eyes, instead of the necessary strengthening, begin to degrade, which causes vision to fall 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 your glasses, your eyes begin to experience increased stress, trying to focus the image, which strengthens the visual muscles and begins to restore vision.
It is important to remember one rule - every exercise, like playing sports, should start with warming up, and the eyes are no exception. You can use a simple exercise as a warm-up.
Eyebrow exercise
From this task, 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 drop and crawl on the lashes, creating extra weight. To get rid of it, it is recommended to raise your eyebrows as often as possible.
This should be done with effort so that you can feel the tension even in your ears., holding your eyebrows 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 will not work the first time, but after a few training sessions everything will be fine.
Exercise "writing with the tip of the nose"
Many ophthalmologists consider this exercise very effective, especially when it is necessary to quickly remove the existing eye strain, 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 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 moving, a special weak vibration is felt, which occurs involuntarily.
This exercise is very useful for the eye muscles, especially the deep ones. This exercise should be repeated several times.
Mark on the window
To perform the exercise, it is necessary to attach a mark on the window at eye level. You can use a piece of plasticine as a sticker or cut a small circle out of dark paper.
After attaching the sticker, you should move away from it by about 40 cm, then select a distant object outside the window and look at it through the placed 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 possibility to go to the windowFor example, when a person works in a crowded office, you can use another version of this exercise. Visually select any distant object, examine it as close as possible for about 20-30 seconds, and then look at your hands, the clock on them, the paper clip or the pencil on the desktop. Repeat about 10 times.
Reducing the eyes to the bridge of the nose
Those who often perform this exercise can without the help of foreign objects, performing the task only with their eyes. But if you are doing it for the first time, take an ordinary pencil, bring it to your eyes at a distance of about 15 cm, focus your gaze on its top, and then move it from one side to the other, following the movement of your eyes without looking up. Then, without taking your eyes off the tip of the pen, bring it closer to your nose.
In this position, you need to follow the pencil until the image in front of your eyes starts to double. You should then return to the starting position and let your eyes rest for a few seconds before repeating the exercise. This should be done at least 5 times.
Instead of a pen, you can use your finger, diligently focusing on it., especially when the bridge of the nose is pressed. It is important to see all the folds of skin on it. After that, it is necessary to look at any object that is about 40 cm from the eyes and examine it thoroughly.
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 to restore visual acuity. It is easier for someone to do that if they imagine an old watch with a big round dial. The place where the arrows are attached should be exactly opposite the eyes. Perform the exercise only with your eyes, without turning your head.
You should look from the center point at 12 o'clock, after which you should look at all the numbers in the circle several times, and then, after you reach 12 again, go through the dial in the other direction and return to the center. Furthermore, without moving your head, you should look at the numbers at random, moving your eyes quickly from the center point to different numbers.
So you can look at the numbers in order, each time looking back at the center, performing the exercise in both directions alternately.
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.
palming
The effect after this exercise is usually 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 at the computer, you need to take a break of 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 disturbed. After such a procedure, the eyes gain new strength, as if the person did not look at the monitor for several hours, but only opened his eyes after a night's sleep. In case of severe eye fatigue, in cases when 5 minutes of rest is not enough, you can prolong the session by listening to your feelings.
It is important that you do this exercise correctly.. The palms should be pressed firmly on the closed eyelids, so that no gaps are created between them and that the rays of light do not penetrate 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 returns after each exercise, while the eyes should be relaxed and rested.
An important point of this gymnastics to improve eyesight is that the palms should be warm, so before starting the exercise they should be rubbed intensively against each other or warmed up in another way. You can do the task for a long time and repeat it as many times as you want during the day.
A doctor who promotes the palming technique has proven that this exercise is practically necessary 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 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 relaxing the motor muscles of the eye, but also for restoring the lost visual acuity.
Never look at the sun or any other light source: this can cause corneal burns. This exercise should 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 lids, the eyes should be moved from one side to the other so that when you reach one corner, light is visible, and on the other side, shadows.
- It is important to alternate the shade with light.
You can perform another version of the task. Stand behind a tree or other object, behind which the sun shines, close your eyes and simply swing your whole body or just your head so that when moving in one direction you enter the light, and in the other - the shadow. You can simply move your palm in front of your closed eyes, without touching your face, so that the shadow and light change.
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 other than that, massage can be considered an excellent prevention 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 soft, so as not to cause discomfort and pain. The fingers should be lowered over the eyelids at the desired points and performed with light movements up, down and to the side, or lightly pressing the points several times to create a slight vibration.
The vibration of each point should be repeated three times, after which the eyes should be opened and actively blinked, and only then move on to the next point. Wash your hands thoroughly before starting classes.
Multiple points can be massaged:
- Putting 2 fingers of each hand in the middle of the upper eyelids, and then the lower ones.
- You can massage the corners of the eyes with your middle fingers, first on the outside and then on the inside.
- Put 4 fingers on the eyelids and massage the eyeballs.
- The index fingers massage the point of astigmatism.
In addition, you can perform other massage actions.: squint, 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. Special glasses are used for that, which are not difficult to make yourself. With these glasses, one eye must be kept closed at all times. You should have 2 pairs of such glasses, in which different eyes will be closed, or make a removable cover, and a universal holder, which allows you to rotate the bar.
In such glasses you can do almost all household chores, read, watch TV, just occasionally moving the shutter to close 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 strap 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 makes vision worse. At the same time, the eyes are set to close perception, and the muscles do not occupy the correct position, because 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 work constantly, which is why the necessary training takes place.
This technique allows you to turn the visual load into a great workout that does not require spending time on classes and exercises. Everything happens on its own, as a normal daily job.
So it turns out that if you read a book or work at a computer, keeping both eyes open, 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 down, focus your gaze on the house outside the window or on some other object, such as a tree. When the picture is clearly visible, you need to blink intensely, and then focus your eyes on the window frame, then on the flower on the window sill, on the pattern on the wall, etc.
It is important to move from large buildings to smaller ones, taking into account even the smallest details in them.. You can perform this exercise during ordinary household chores.
Finger-Through 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 hands must be bent at the elbows and brought to the eyes so that only the fingers are at their level, which should be opened.
Then you have to turn your head smoothly in different directions, while looking through your fingers, smoothly moving your eyes into the distance and coming back. The gaze should glide smoothly over the objects without lingering on them.
If the exercise is performed correctly, then the person begins to feel that the fingers are moving.
Morning eye exercises
When you wake up in the morning, you should not get out of bed right away, it is better to perform a few simple exercises:
- First you need to roll from one side to the other several times, paying attention to your breathing, it should be deep and even without delay.
- After that you have to 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 a few seconds, and then blink intensely at least 12 times.
- You must repeat this action about 7 times.
- You can then massage your eyes and work your palms.