People with poor eyesight dream of restoring their sight: they collect money for surgery and use advertised drugs. At the same time, they suspect that it can be restored by charging, designed to improve vision.
Eye exercises are a simple method to restore and preserve vision. The main thing is to do it regularly, especially in combination with drug treatment. Try to convince those who doubt the benefits of such exercises.
Benefits of visual fitness
Like all organs, the muscles and nerves of the eyes are susceptible to various diseases and weakening. They need good metabolism, blood circulation, nutrition. Excessive computer use, vitamin deficiency and poor visual hygiene do not contribute to their health.
We often forget this or simply don't want to spend time training our eyesight. Indeed, why do your eyes need exercise? It would be easier to take a miracle drug to gain more insight or have surgery. But this does not free a person from taking care of his eyes. This is confirmed by ophthalmologists around the world.
More than a hundred years ago, W. Bates developed a unique exercise to restore and improve vision. It is remembered, followed and produces effective results. Over the years, it has undergone changes, but the meaning remains the same - removing glasses for a person. Today it is used in combination with other treatments.
You need to practice daily for at least two months to achieve the desired results and only then can you evaluate its effectiveness.
What exercise for eyes in the morning?
One of the most important causes of visual impairment is systematic eye strain, which cannot be relieved by anything. That is why ophthalmologists recommend performing a special series of exercises in the morning, immediately after waking up.
When you wake up, you need to stretch well in bed. Do this with your eyes closed. The whole body will wake up, the brain will receive the necessary signal. Then turn from side to side. Take a few deep breaths.
Open your mouth wide, then open your eyes wide. Then do this one at a time. Repeat the exercise four times: mouth – eyes – all together.
Next step. Close your eyes tightly and blink quickly and easily with your eyes closed. Exercise improves vision sharpness. You can do it at any time of the day when your eyes get tired and start to see poorly.
Nose exercises are the best way to improve the function of eye muscles. To do this, use the tip of your nose to draw shapes, letters, and numbers in the air. It is more convenient to do it with your eyes closed. You can do this several times a day.
Exercising your eyebrows is also linked to enhancing your eyesight. Simply lift them up and down until you feel the skin move around your ears. The function of the visual organs improves, blood circulation increases, and the tone of the facial muscles increases.
A good conclusion to morning exercises is massage. Optimal execution time is 5 minutes. So, you are prepared for the working day.
General principles for training eye muscles
Only exercises performed regularly provide benefits. Choose an exercise routine - twice a day, once in the morning or evening, every few days. Consistency and lack of shortcomings are the keys to the efficiency of the complex.
Be patient when doing the exercises. You shouldn't even start exercising if you're in a hurry to get somewhere. Get the opposite effect. You will exercise for performance, not for health; you risk not tensing or over-tightening your muscles, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the exercise.
Don't overdo it. Do not think that the more often you repeat the exercises, the faster you will feel the healing effect. This is wrong. With your useless efforts, you will contribute to unnecessary stress on the visual organ. Maintain the interval.
You should not start a new workout right after you have completed the previous one. Sit for about half a minute with your eyes closed. Then move on to the next one.
Rest. There is no benefit to exercising while sitting in front of a computer. If you decide to carry out vision restoration, be prepared for the fact that you need to approach the process holistically - both from the point of view of nutrition and from the point of view of your daily habits.
Principles of reasonable eye training
When starting to exercise, be sure to check with your doctor about the diagnosis that is causing your impaired vision.
- All exercises are performed in a comfortable position. Your back is straight, your neck and shoulders are as relaxed as possible.
- During exercises where the eyes move in certain directions, fixate on the end of each movement for a few seconds. Can be performed in many different sequences, an unlimited number of times.
- It is advisable to choose a few exercises and repeat them throughout the working day. This small exercise for muscles is especially necessary for those who work in front of a computer.
- The complex should include gymnastic exercises for the cervical spine - tilting the head forward, left and right and spinning.
- Do not make sudden movements of the eyelids and eye muscles during exercise.
- Do this by removing the lenses or glasses.
- Between complex exercises, practice simple ones, in the form of relaxation, blinking often.
Visual gymnastics for adults
Gymnastics to improve vision is divided into two types: relaxation and training. In the first case, it is aimed at reducing stress on the eye muscles. In the second - to strengthen them.
Let's start with training. Perform standing or sitting. Before starting, we calm down and take a comfortable position.
Start:
- Straining our eye muscles, we close them. We count to 5, expand, relax the muscles. We look into the distance for 5 seconds. Repeat 5 times.
- Back straight, head straight, 10-15 seconds. We blinked slowly.
- We quickly move our gaze diagonally: first up to the right - down to the left, 6 seconds. we look at the distance. Then we do the opposite exercise.
- Keep your head straight, don't turn your head, look left, stare intently for 5 seconds. Then we looked into space and held our gaze. Next, we perform gymnastics with fixation of gaze to the right, up, down. Repeat 2 times.
- We close our eyes for 5 seconds without muscle tension, then open our eyes wide and look into space for 5 seconds. We do it 3 times.
- Keep your back straight, your head straight, and move your pupils in slow circular movements in different directions: first clockwise, then back. Then we look into the distance.
- First we look at the tip of the nose, then we look into the distance. Repeat 7 times.
- Keep your head straight, look attentively. When we count to 4, we move our gaze to the right and fix it. Again counting to 4, we look to the left and return to the starting position. We continue to follow the "straight up", "straight down" pattern. Then we perform the exercise in the same way, moving our gaze diagonally.
If you are doing the exercises for the first time for training purposes, you should not be too enthusiastic and repeat the exercises many times. This can cause pain and discomfort if you are not used to it. The number of repetitions gradually increases.
Relaxing your eyes is no less important than exercising them. Excessive muscle tension is considered one of the causes of myopia. Let's take a look at some exercises to help relax them.
They can be done multiple times, in any order. Any position - sitting, lying, the main thing is to adjust to the right mood - throw all problems out of your head, calm down, relax.
Begin:
- We do this exercise while sitting: close our eyes, turn our head a few circles along the clock, then vice versa. We closed our eyes and rested for a few minutes.
- Rub your palms together until warm, press them together and gently press them against your eyes. Massage eyes in light circular motions for 5 seconds.
- A similar exercise, but you don't need to press your palms against your closed eyes. Just apply it and imagine the warmth radiating from your palms.
- After taking a comfortable position, we close our eyes, relax and start to remember, the memories will be pleasant.
- We blink frequently for several seconds.
You should choose some exercises for yourself and do them every day, regularly. The charging feature is especially useful for people who have vision problems and work a lot in front of computers. To restore and support the visual organ, you need to change your lifestyle.
Methods of training children's eyesight
It is important that classes should not be boring or boring. Then the child will happily perform therapeutic exercises and restore the ability to see clearly.
Invite your child to play an interesting game that will delight him. To start, exercise three times a day for 5 minutes, then take your child for a walk and play.
Consult with an ophthalmologist first, discuss the technique you will use, and get recommendations.
Fix 3 large circles of different colors in different corners of the ceiling. Children need to carefully examine each circle in turn. Approximately 10 seconds are allocated to a thread.
Invite your baby to look 4 times, first from top to bottom, then to the right and to the left. Children need to close their eyes tightly, count slowly to 10 and then open their eyes.
Show your baby the clock face with arrows. Let the child imagine that numbers are drawn on the ceiling and his eyes are like arrows that must look around all the numbers in a circle.
Stick or draw a bright circle on the window glass. Go to the window, show an object very far away from you. He must alternately consider this or that object. Once the child has mastered all the exercises, the exercises can be complicated.
Suggest that, when looking at a spot, "draw" a circle, square, letter, or number in the air with your nose. When the exercise is going well, ask your preschooler to draw some shapes themselves and you have to guess the shapes.
Accompany your class with fairy tales, funny jokes and try to learn poetry with your child. You can get a document outlining exercises for each day of the week - do appropriate movements each day.
Spend Sunday on a massage: through closed eyelids, slide your fingers over your eyeballs in circular motions, first in one direction, then in the other.
While walking, ask your child to keep an eye out for cars, dogs, or other moving objects, alternately closing his right and left eyes.
Carry a ball with you and teach your child to throw it at a target; This exercise is useful both for vision and for developing coordination of movements.
There are many options for outdoor activities: "outline" a large object along the contour; without turning your head, name everything your little eyes can see; Find and describe the farthest and nearest objects.
Eyes need rest
The life of modern people is arranged so that the TV or monitor screen takes up a huge amount of time. Sitting in front of a screen for long periods of time causes eye strain, leading to vision loss.
And if we can't reduce the amount of time we spend on the computer at work, we can increase our rest time.
You can relax, enjoy positive emotions, new knowledge and skills away from the screen. At the same time, it will bring great benefits not only to the eyes.
Author's techniques for improving eyesight
This technique was developed based on the well-known Shichko-Bates methods. There is a large fan base of this technique among people with vision problems. It is based on training the eye muscles and believing in one's own strength.
The doctor affirmed that if a person believes and persistently pursues his or her goals, he or she will definitely achieve the desired results. He considered the main goal of this technique to be to improve vision to the point where a person can do without glasses.
The first thing the professor advises is to completely or partially refuse to wear glasses at first. Glasses distort the image received by the eyes and do some of the work instead of the muscles.
Doctors call glasses "a crutch for the eyes". At the same time, glasses are designed so that you always need to look at the center, while human eyes are designed so that you can look in all directions. This makes them even more tired and their eyesight deteriorates.
Train your eyesight according to the author's method
Such exercises will be an effective way to restore vision. Perform the exercises smoothly and slowly. There are only 6 of them, the 6 best exercises to maintain eyesight. They must be performed in the order described.
Exercise 1. Curtains
While doing this, you need to blink quickly for about two minutes. This improves blood circulation in the face and eyes.
Exercise 2. Look out the window
This is a popular task in the series "near and far": it is useful for both nearsighted and farsighted people.
Go to the window, stick a piece of paper on the glass - a trace. If you blink, you look at the piece of paper, you see it; blink - look into the distance, see a tree or a house. Then again: on a sheet of paper - into the distance, on a sheet of paper - into the distance. . . Do the exercise at least twenty times.
Exercise 3. Big eyes
Take a deep breath, close your eyes as tightly as possible. Tighten the muscles in your neck, face and head. Hold your breath for 5 seconds, then quickly exhale, opening your eyes wide as you exhale. Repeat 10 times.
Exercise 4. Massage
The most common massage technique is with two fingers - the index finger and middle finger - in a figure eight motion. Along the lower edge of the eyelid move towards the nose, along the upper edge of the eyelid - above the eyebrows. This movement is repeated 10-15 times. Massage improves blood circulation and intraocular fluid circulation.
Exercise 5. Hydromassage
You need to wash your face in the morning and at night. This is not only a hygienic procedure, but also a way to improve microcirculation in blood vessels. The first morning washing is done with hot water and ends with cold water. In the evening everything is done in reverse order.
Exercise 6. Drawing
Draw a snake in the air. Look to the right and draw a curved line in the air with your eyes to the left. Then do this from left to right. And they blinked again.
Perform massage for 1-2 minutes.
Original gymnastics for the eyes - pirate glasses
This simple, original gymnastics can completely restore vision. No effort required.
You need to make unusual glasses, in which one lens is covered with black paper, and the other lens is covered with regular paper. If you don't wear glasses, use frames without lenses. Wear them and comfortably watch TV or work on the computer.
Just remember to change lens color every 30 minutes. So you will rest one eye and exercise the other eye. It is important that vision not only does not deteriorate, but also begins to recover.
What is Palming and how is it different for nearsighted and farsighted people?
Palming is the key to quick and healthy rest, an essential part of any gymnastics for vision recovery. Before doing any exercise, you need to thoroughly prepare for it.
Palming is gentle and effective. The duration depends on the emotional state, because not only the eyes but also the human soul relax. The result is achieved when the color behind the closed eyes is black.
To complete this task, you need to relax and sit up straight. If all the rules are followed, the eyelids should be lowered. The eyes should be closed and protected by the palm of the hand. This ensures complete relaxation of the visual organs.
What should we do:
- Rub your palms well. Your hands will not only warm up, but also receive the necessary energy;
- Fold your palms into a boat, as if you want to suck water into them. Place them on your eyes so they are in the center of the space, palms on cheekbones, fingers on forehead, pinky on bridge of nose. Place your elbows on the table or press them into your chest; they should not dangle. Don't leave any gaps under your fingers. It is important. Don't pinch your nose, it should breathe freely. Close your eyes;
- think or talk about your eyes positively: my eyes are good, my eyesight gets better every day;
- The following action will be different for nearsighted and farsighted people, although it also involves self-hypnosis:
Nearsighted people should imagine their eyes becoming round like balls, this will help relax the horizontal muscles and improve distance vision.
Farsighted people imagine that their small eyes stretch out like cucumbers. This relaxes the longitudinal muscles and will help you see even small objects, such as small letters, particles.
- a beautiful memory, need to be calm, very positive. It could be a riverbank or seashore, a warm bed, delicious food - anything that brings comfort;
- escape from the palm of your hand. To do this, you need to close your eyes right under your palms. Then blink. Remove your palms and blink, shake your head and breathe deeply.
That's it, your vision has improved, you can continue working. Massage is performed not only to improve vision but also to rest the eyes. If vision is not impaired, there is no need to exercise to improve vision (for people with farsightedness or nearsightedness).
Eye prophylactic complex
- Relax.Close your eyelids tightly and try to relax. To do this exercise, it is necessary to remember some interesting moments in life.
- Circular motion.Make circular movements with your eyes open: first clockwise, then counterclockwise.
- Move in a straight line.Move your eyes strongly horizontally: right and left, and vertically: up and down.
- Flicker.Squeeze and open your eyelids forcefully.
- Diagonal line.Direct your gaze to the lower left corner, look as if looking at your left shoulder and focus your gaze on this point. After three blinks, repeat to the right.
- Diagonal mirror.Similar to the previous exercise, squint to the upper left corner, then to the right.
- Relax at night. Place warm palms on closed eyelids, fingers crossed on forehead. Relax and try to achieve deep blacks.
- Flicker.Blink gently and quickly at least a hundred times.
- Slanted eyes.Bring your pupils towards your nose. To do this exercise, put the tip of your index finger on the bridge of your nose and look at it - then they will easily "connect".
- Near and far, or work far away.Go to the window and carefully examine the details nearby. It could be a leaf growing outside the window, or a small dot of paper taped to the glass at eye level. Then draw an imaginary line through the selected point, go into the distance and direct your gaze forward, trying to see the most distant objects.
conclude
All the described recommendations allow you to restore vision that has decreased due to overwork or long exposure to a computer or TV screen. If the problem arises based on any pathology, it is necessary to diagnose and treat the cause of visual impairment.
Regular exercise and hygiene procedures will help maintain good vision and restore normal eye function.