Over the past 20 years, the number of people who have visual impairment, according to statistics, has decreased. All this is due to preventive measures and improving the quality of ophthalmological services.
But nevertheless, in the age of computerization and the overall load on the eyes, it is necessary to preserve vision, starting already from kindergarten. And special complexes of simple exercises can help in this.
Description
Every day, both adults and children interact with electronic devices: computers, tablets, telephones, televisions. Of course, technological progress makes adjustments to human everyday life and there’s no way to get away from it (except for a couple of hours, a day). And everything is attached to technology and the Internet - work, kindergarten, school and so on.
Indeed, vision is one of the senses, thanks to which people know the world around them, interact in it.
In infancy, the child only watches the environment and people who come into view. And when he gets older, he begins to actively "use his eyes" in games, reading, watching cartoons.
There are really very useful videos and cartoons with which the baby can learn important skills: learn the alphabet, numbers, multiplication table, behave correctly in everyday life, communicate with peers and adults, and so on. But all this is a burden for the eyes.
Therefore, both children and adults need to regularly maintain their vision with special exercises for the eyes, which relieves tension, including after a long stay at the computer.
And the sooner a person begins to take care of his vision, to engage in it, the better the result.
Performing gymnastics for the eyes with myopia, astigmatism and farsightedness is the easiest, cheapest and most effective way to restore and support your visual apparatus.
Features
Eyes are seen through the work of the visual muscles, which, like any other muscle, must be regularly trained. Different movements of eyeballs are very useful: up, down, left, right, circular, and so on.
Such gymnastics is recommended for the eyes of both schoolchildren and adults, useful for kindergarten children. Exercise is best done immediately after waking up and before bedtime.
Eye movements should be smooth, calm, each task - qualitatively completed. As for the quantity, 10 repetitions at a time is enough.
A standard and restrained approach to maintaining vision is more suitable for high school students and adults. Children need a game uniform.
About the eyesight of babies
The child is so arranged that any material, even such as gymnastics for the eyes and exercises, must be presented to him in the form of a game to make it interesting, bright and fun. Because if it is monotonous and boring, the baby may do it, but without any pleasure and joy that will affect the quality. Or he will refuse to do anything at all.
An important task of gymnastics for the eyes to improve vision is not just the mechanical implementation of exercises, but a conscious approach that will help maintain this sense organ.
Prevention of vision, presented by an adult in an unobtrusive way, should become an integral part of every day of the child so that he learns how to take care of him correctly, from an early age and his whole life.
In time, these exercises can be done 3 times a day for 5 minutes. The main thing is that they be filled with lively emotions, positivity, activity.
It is recommended to start with the simplest elements, and then gradually add new ones - more complex, but acceptable for the baby's age.
You can think of the implementation of each exercise in the form of a specific game: using drawings, toys, household items, and so on.
Gradually, you can even create such a gymnastics card index for the eyes, which will help the baby to carry out exercises for a long time - to maintain vision.
Home Exercises
You can perform such a complex with your child at home or in a kindergarten (school). It is recommended at first that the baby is accustomed to doing these exercises at home - along with his mother. It is very simple and will be a great opportunity to additionally play with your child, while doing useful exercises. Or it’s useful to organize the whole family to do exercises together.
Here are some of them:
- Count all the objects in the room, watching with each eye for each. Then, one by one, cover with a handle (slightly) and do the same.
- Look out the window and look at all the objects that fall into view. You can also count them: two eyes, and then covering one.
- For a change, it is recommended to take a sheet of paper or cardboard (A5 or A4 format), cut a window (round or square) and observe through it - the situation in the house, the figures on the street.
- Catch the eyes of a sun bunny. This exercise is possible in sunny weather - with the help of a mirror. The adult directs, and let the child observe with his eyes the fidget-bunny and thus train them.
- Exercise for the whole family: put the basket in the middle of the room and carefully throw small balls into it.
- Open and close your eyes - this is a game of "light dark", which will also be interesting for a very little man.
- Quick blinking - as if not cilia flutter, but butterfly wings.
Charging for eyes in kindergarten
At the institution, children can perform such exercises both collectively and individually. These minutes will help kids relax, switch, work with their imagination and at the same time train their eyes.
It is important that everything is done in a playful way, interesting and fun. As additional devices, poster schemes, toys, wall and ceiling tags, an eye gymnastics file cabinet, rhymes, electronic programs and so on can be used.
Exercise Games for Vision
Elements of gymnastics for the eyes in kindergarten are designed for the smallest:
- The teacher gives children drawings with different objects: animals, plants, fruits. All stand at a certain distance from each other. The teacher keeps one drawing. Further he asks the children to see: what a beautiful Christmas tree, matryoshka, mermaid, and so on came to visit them. And then the guys look what a beautiful guest he (the teacher) is. So children do 4 times (look at themselves, then at the teacher or other children).
- A game with a ball that is funny today and so loves to jump, run, bounce. At the same time, children follow him with their eyes.
- The teacher will take the toy and tell the children that she likes to play hide and seek. It is necessary for everyone to close their eyes tightly, and then open their eyes and find a hidden toy.
Poetic forms for doing exercises
And all the kids love games with different poems, which they are happy to remember and often repeat.
In addition, speaking such lines with them, you can not only have fun, but also support the eyesight of the children, because each poem and image has certain eye movements.
For instance:
“A cloud flew in the sky,
He wants to water us with a rain ”(everyone is looking up at the sky).
“Drip, drip, rain, lei,
It will be wet on the ground ”(now the eyes look down at the ground).
Or
“A strong wind broke out” (circular eye movements),
“All the trees swung” (left-right movements),
“And now I blew in the face” (the children blink quickly)
“Suddenly a tree fell” (down-up movements).
Other.
These poetic forms can be taken ready-made or composed independently, based on the preferences of the child or group of children. After all, the teacher knows his students that they will be most interested.
You can also capture each image in a large drawing and show the picture together with the words. Get a real gymnastics file cabinet for the eyes for kindergarten.
Drawing in the air
In prose or poetic form, you can offer children the following exercises for vision, which will help further develop their imagination (designed for children 3-4 years old):
- Everyone is standing, the teacher asks everyone to close their eyes so that they rest. And then, together, open and draw a large figure - a bridge over a river, a tree, an apple, and so on.
- Game with a snowflake: everyone imagines where the snowflake will fly, which is carried away by a strong wind (up, down, left, right).
- A game with a sunbeam (really - on the street in the summer or imagine), which shines very strongly in the eyes and you have to blink, make circular movements, look left and right.
Other exercises for kids
This eye gymnastics is for preschoolers and school children.
- Draw multi-colored paths, put on the stick an object that will run along these trajectories (clockwise, eight, counterclockwise).
- Observation of the rainbow, which is depicted according to the rule of compiling the spectrum. Children move their eyes in an arc - left and right, right and left.
- Exercise "Big eyes", when children tightly squeeze, and then open their eyes wide.
- Look at the index finger in the distance, and then close (gradually bringing your hand closer to the bridge of the nose).
- Everyone becomes in a row and begins to look at their socks, and then look at the ceiling of the room (for example, the left sock is the right corner and vice versa).
- Everyone looks out the window and watches the tops of the trees (if they are swinging from the wind, then you also need to move your eyes - left and right), then look at the birds, the plane and other upper objects. Next, you should look down - at passers-by, cars, animals, observe their trajectories.
- With four fingers of each hand, gently press (3 times) the eyes closed, and then release.
- Keep track of the toy, which is in a rotating hand (for example, the teacher rotates, and the children observe and make different movements with their eyes).
- Everyone sits on a chair or on the floor - at some distance from each other. Hands are placed on their sides. To look - at the left elbow, at the right elbow.
- Eyelid massage - 60 seconds clockwise massage closed eyes so that the muscles relax and rest after exertion.
Discoveries of Zhdanov
A public figure, a scientist in the field of physics, a psychologist and a psychoanalyst, a fighter for a healthy and sober lifestyle, the author of a method for restoring vision based on the discoveries of Bates and Shichko, Vladimir Georgievich Zhdanov was able to bring his vision back to normal (he healed farsightedness) with using non-drug methods. He regularly performed a set of exercises that were developed at the beginning of the 20th century by an American ophthalmologist - William Bates and a little later supplemented by a Russian biologist, physiologist - Gennady Shichko.
From the moment of recovery, Zhdanov begins to study these methods of vision restoration in detail. As a result, he discovered his own method, which became popular all over the world.
The essence of the technique
The main cause of visual impairment, according to Zhdanov, is a malfunction in the muscles of the eye, which perform a motor function.
In order for this whole mechanism to function smoothly and harmoniously, it is necessary to properly and timely relax the tense muscular apparatus, that is, to create balanced eye function.
This is exactly what all exercises of the gymnastics for the eyes according to Zhdanov are aimed at, which, when performed regularly, will help restore visual acuity and focus.
Exercise complex
It is aimed primarily at curing myopia and farsightedness, which are the most frequent consequences of reducing visual acuity - both among young people and middle-aged people.
It is necessary to perform exercises in a completely relaxed state, in a sitting position. The duration of each is 5 seconds, the number of repetitions is 10 times:
- Quick blink - to relax and prepare your eyes for further exercises.
- Eye movements up, then down.
- Move left and right.
- Rotation of the eyeballs clockwise and vice versa;
- Compression and opening of the eyelids - with effort and speed.
- The gaze is from bottom to top - along the diagonals (the lower right corner of the floor is the upper left corner of the ceiling and vice versa).
- Fast blinking - 60 seconds.
- Focusing your gaze on the index finger, which is retracted a short distance from the nose, and then approaches it.
- Observation from the window is a distant object, then you need to see a point on the window pane (made from plasticine).
These exercises are more suitable for an adult, since they are not dressed in a game form. For children, you can beat each of them in the form of the same rhyme, song, fairy tale.
Charging for the eyes according to Avetisov
If the previous author of the technique directed his exercises to restore vision, then Eduard Sergeyevich Avetisov, a well-known Russian ophthalmologist, professor of medicine, recommends performing the complexes developed by him to prevent the appearance of any visual impairment.
Avetisov believes that if you take care of your ocular apparatus from an early age, supporting it with exercises, then it is possible to keep it in great shape for life.
The professor emphasizes that the eyes should adapt well to different conditions and distances, that is, about the development of accommodation (contraction and relaxation of the eye muscles).
Especially indicative of gymnastics for the eyes of Avetisov for those who have a predisposition to myopia.
Training complexes
It is necessary to perform regularly and daily. It is recommended to do standing - without support.
Approach each exercise should be careful, start slowly, smoothly. The load can be increased gradually. To do everything efficiently.
The time of one approach in the exercise is 5 seconds, the average number of approaches is 12 times.
The first block is the improvement of blood circulation in the eyeballs:
- compression and opening of the eyelids;
- alternating blinking and massage with eyelid fingers - every 15 seconds;
- pressing fingers on closed eyelids - 4 times;
- with index fingers, with effort, touch the superciliary arches, respectively, of the right hand - to the right arc, left hand - to the left arc.
The second block is the strengthening of the eye muscles:
- move the view from top to bottom and from bottom to top (focusing on points);
- make a diagonal with your eyes (the right corner of the ceiling is the left corner of the floor and vice versa);
- look from left to right and from right to left;
- circular rotation with eyes.
The third block is training and accommodation:
- Focusing the vision on the tip of the finger of the arm extended forward, then on the point in the distance (select on the street) and again on the finger of the hand.
- Focusing on the index finger of the outstretched hand, gradually approaching the bridge of the nose, while looking at the finger all the time. And stretch out your hand back.
- Focusing alternately with the left and right eye (second cover) on the finger of the arm extended forward, which gradually approaches the face, and the finger - to the bridge of the nose. And then it moves away again.
- Focus on a point on the window glass - a point in the distance on the street.
This simple gymnastics for the eyes with myopia (early stage), consisting of three approaches of 4 exercises each, helps both adults and children to maintain normal vision.
Eastern techniques
Tibetan medicine has its own methods that help normalize vision, while maintaining it in one hundred percent condition:
- Images and colors: the eyes are presented as a tree that has a green crown color. Therefore, it is important to periodically look at objects, paintings, fabric, paper, the color of which is grassy green. This helps to relax the eye muscles and restore normal condition after prolonged stress (reading, working at the computer and so on).
- Massage in between work, which requires prolonged concentration of the eyes (rotation of the eyeballs with closed eyelids, smooth stroking movements of closed eyes - upper and lower eyelids).
Summary
What exercises for vision and according to which health-improving methodology a person will perform - it depends on his individual preferences and features of the state of his ocular apparatus.
The main thing is to do everything smoothly, give the load gradually, and perform the exercises with the soul, accurately and really seriously. After all, it is the key to health and longevity.