Eye exercises to improve vision

Eye exercises – combating farsightedness

• Take a deep breath with your eyes being closed as strongly as possible (under somewhat pressure). Then tighten the muscles of the neck and face or head while holding your breath for over 2 or 3 seconds, then exhale quickly keeping your eyes wide open as you exhale. To be repeated about 5 times.
• You are to close your eyes conducting slight massage of your eyebrows and the lower part of the eye sockets in a circular motion i.e. from the nose to the temples.
• Please, close your eyes providing a relaxed condition of your eyebrows. Then move your eyeballs from left to right and backwards. The exercise has to be repeated at least 10 times to get a sufficient result.
• Put your thumb at a distance of about 30 cm from your eyes while looking with both eyes at the end of the finger for about 5 seconds and then close one eye for about 3 seconds and then watch fixedly by two eyes and close another eye afterwards. Repeat that about 10 times.
• Put you fingertips on your temples and perform circuit movements. Do it gently and squeeze them about 10 times, but the speed of your moves should be not so fast – it should be easy for you to blink. Close your eyes and relax, making 2 or 3 deep breaths. Has to be repeated about 3 times at least.

The appropriate solutions for Kids in terms of eye care

If the child rubs eyes with palms and is complaining of fatigue spend some time for simple exercises for the eyes, that go as follows:

• rapidly blink a lot, then close/open eyes more slowly and sit quietly for about half a minute;
• make the child close his/her eyes tightly for a few seconds with opening them later on and taking a distant look for a while;
• straighten your right arm forward and make the kid watch the slow movements of the index finger: left, right, up and down;
• complete on average rate of 3 to 4 times of circular motions with his/her eyes going right and then left;
• by sitting on some kind of surface put his/her hands on the belt with turning the head right and looking at the elbow of his left hand and vice versa;
• do light massaging movements of the upper and lower eyelids with index fingers.

Such exercises can be included in the game you play with your kid.

Good habbits for your eyes

As a conclusion for regular habits to keep your eyes in a good condition:

• blink more actively and regularly;
• try to breathe more deeply and freely as often as you can;
• move your eye sight from the near objects to distant ones and vice versa;
• while examining any object motivate yourself to move your sight over it;
• don’t narrow your lids and concentrate on the objects too much;
• close your eyes more often to give them a rest.

What’s the right way to watch TV?

Overall, the process of watching films and news is useful for the eyes in small portions as well as contributes to the vibration of nerves in the retina. As for movies you’d better not to stare much from a close distance as it can lead to reduction of eye focusing ability. For those people who had eye problems and successfully treated them it is strictly forbidden to watch TV for more than one hour a day. Important! Please do not just watch everything for several hours!