Over the past 20 years, the number of people who have visual impairment, according to statistics, has decreased. All this thanks to preventive measures and improved quality of eye care services.
But still, in the age of computerization and the general strain on the eyes, it is necessary to protect eyesight, starting from kindergarten. And special sets of simple exercises can help with this.
Description
Every day, both adults and children interact with electronic devices: computers, tablets, phones, TVs. Of course, technological progress makes its own adjustments to human everyday life and there is no getting away from this (except for a couple of hours, a day). And everything is tied to technology and the Internet - work, kindergarten, school, and so on.
After all, vision is one of the sense organs, thanks to which people learn about the world around them, interact in it.
In infancy, the child only observes the environment around him and the people who fall intoline of sight. 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 domestic conditions, communicate with peers and adults, and so on. But it's all eye strain.
That's why both children and adults need to regularly maintain their vision with special exercises for the eyes, thanks to which stress is relieved, 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 will be.
Performing eye exercises for myopia, astigmatism and hyperopia is the easiest, cheapest and most effective way to restore and maintain your visual apparatus.
Features
The eyes see through the work of the visual muscles, which, like any other muscle, must be regularly trained. Different movements of the eyeballs are very useful: up, down, left, right, circular and so on.
This eye gymnastics is recommended for both schoolchildren and adults, useful for kindergarten children. It is best to exercise immediately after waking up and before going to bed.
Movement of the eyes should be smooth, calm, each task should be done with high quality. As for quantity, 10 repetitions at a time is enough.
Standardand a low-profile approach to vision maintenance exercises is more suitable for high school students and adults. Children need play uniforms.
About the vision of babies
The child is so arranged that any material, even such as gymnastics for the eyes and exercises, must be presented in the form of a game to make it interesting, bright and fun. Because if it is monotonous and boring, the kid may do it, but without any pleasure and joy, which will affect the quality. Or refuse to do anything at all.
An important task of eye gymnastics to improve vision is not just a mechanical exercise, but a conscious approach that will help support this sense organ.
Vision prevention, presented in an unobtrusive way by adults, should become an integral part of every child's day, so that he learns how to properly care for him, from an early age and throughout his 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, and activity.
It is recommended to start with the simplest elements, and then gradually add new ones - more complex, but acceptable to the baby's age.
You can think of doing each exercise in the form of a specific game: using drawings, toys, household items, and so on.
Gradually, you can even create such a card file of gymnastics for the eyes, which will help the baby to perform exercises for a long time - formaintaining vision.
Exercise at home
You can perform such a complex with a child at home or in a kindergarten (school). It is recommended at first that the baby learns to do these exercises at home - with his mother. It is very simple and will be a great opportunity to play extra with the child, while doing useful exercises. Or it is useful to organize the whole family to do the exercises together.
Here are some of them described:
- Count all the objects in the room, following each one with both eyes. Then alternately cover one with a pen (slightly) and do the same.
- Look out the window and look at all the objects that fall into view. You can also count them: with 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 out a window (round or square) and observe through it - the situation in the house, the figures on the street.
- Catching a sunbeam with your eyes. This exercise is possible in sunny weather - with the help of a mirror. The adult directs, and let the child watch the restless bunny with his eyes and thus train them.
- Exercise for the whole family: put a basket in the middle of the room and carefully throw small balls into it.
- Opening and closing eyes is a game of "light-dark", which will also be interesting for a very small person.
- Fast blinking - as if not cilia flapping, but butterfly wings.
Exercising for the eyes in kindergarten
In the institution, children can perform such exercises both together 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 marks, eye gymnastics card index, rhymes, electronic programs and so on can be used.
Vision Exercise Games
Elements of gymnastics for the eyes in kindergarten are designed for the smallest:
- The teacher distributes drawings to children with different objects: animals, plants, fruits. Everyone is at a certain distance from each other. The teacher keeps one drawing. Then he asks the children to look: what a beautiful Christmas tree, matryoshka, mermaid, and so on came to visit them. And then the guys look at what a beautiful guest he (the teacher) has. So the children do 4 times (look at themselves, then at the teacher or other children).
- Playing with a ball, which is fun today and loves to jump, run, bounce. The children follow him with their eyes.
- Teacher take the toy and tell the kids that she likes to play hide and seek. Everyone needs to close their eyes tightly, and then open their eyes and find the hidden toy.
Poetic forms for doing exercises
And all the kids love games with different rhymes, which they remember with pleasure and often repeat.
Besides, speaking such lines with them, you cannot only to have fun, but also to support children's eyesight, because certain eye movements are assigned to each rhyme and image.
For example:
A cloud flew in the sky, He wants to pour rain on us” (everyone looks up to the sky with their eyes).
Drip-drip, rain, pour, It will be wet on the ground” (eyes are now looking down at the ground).
Or
"A strong wind broke out" (circular movements of the eyes), "All the trees swayed" (left-right movements), "And now blow in the face" (children blink rapidly), "Suddenly a tree fell" (up and down movements).
And others.
These verse 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 pupils, what will be most interesting to them.
You can also capture each image in a large drawing and show the picture along with the words. You get a real card file of gymnastics for the eyes for kindergarten.
Drawing in the air
In prose or poetry, you can offer children the following exercises for vision, which will help further develop their imagination (intended for children 3-4 years old):
- Everyone is standing, the teacher asks everyone to close their eyes so that they can rest. And then all together open and draw a large figure - a bridge over a river, a tree, an apple, and so on.
- Snowflake game: everyone imagines where a snowflake will fly, which is blown away by a strong wind (up, down, left, right).
- Playing with sunshinea beam (for real - on the street in the summer or imagine), which shines very, very strongly into 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 colorful paths, put on a wand an object that will run along these trajectories (clockwise, eight, counterclockwise).
- Observation of the rainbow, which is depicted according to the spectrum composition rule. Children move their eyes in an arc - left and right, right and left.
- Exercise "Big Eyes" when children squeeze tightly and then open their eyes wide.
- Look at the index finger in the distance, and then close (gradually bringing the hand closer to the bridge of the nose).
- Everyone stands in a row and starts looking at their socks, and then looking 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 sway from the wind, then you also need to move your eyes - left-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 of movement.
- With four fingers of each hand, gently press (3 times) on closed eyes, and then release.
- Follow the toy that is in the rotating hand (for example, the teacher rotates, and the children observe and make different movementseyes).
- Everyone sits on a chair or on the floor - at some distance from each other. Hands are placed on their sides. Move your gaze - to the left elbow, to the right elbow.
- Eyelid massage – Massage closed eyes clockwise for 60 seconds to relax muscles and rest after tension.
Zhdanov's discoveries
Public figure, physics scientist, psychologist and psychoanalyst, fighter for a he althy and sober lifestyle, author of a vision restoration technique based on the discoveries of Bates and Shichko, - Zhdanov Vladimir Georgievich at one time was able to normalize his vision (cured farsightedness) 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 in detail these methods of restoring vision. 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 of the eye muscles that 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 a balanced work of the eyes.
This is what everyone is aiming forgymnastics exercises for the eyes according to Zhdanov, which, if performed regularly, will help restore sharpness and focus to vision.
Complex of exercises
Aimed primarily at curing nearsightedness and farsightedness, which are the most common consequences of reduced visual acuity - both in young people and middle-aged people.
Perform the exercises in a completely relaxed state, in a sitting position. The duration of each is 5 seconds, the number of repetitions is 10 times:
- Fast blinking - to relax and prepare the eyes for further exercises.
- Move eyes up then down.
- Move left-right.
- Rotation of eyeballs clockwise and vice versa;
- Closing and opening the eyelids - with effort and speed.
- The view is from below and up - diagonally (lower right corner of the floor - upper left corner of the ceiling and vice versa).
- Fast blink - 60 seconds.
- Focus on the index finger, which moves a short distance from the nose, and then approaches it.
- Viewing from the window is a distant object, then you need to see a point on the window glass (make it from plasticine).
These exercises are more suitable for an adult, since they are not dressed in a game uniform. For children, you can beat each of them in the form of the same rhyme, song, fairy tale.
Exercising for the eyes according to Avetisov
If the previous author of the technique directed his exercises to restore vision, then Eduard Sergeevich Avetisov is a well-knownRussian ophthalmologist, professor of medicine - recommends performing the complexes developed by him to prevent the appearance of any deviations in vision.
Avetisov believes that if you take care of your eye apparatus from an early age, supporting it with exercises, then it is possible to keep it in excellent shape for life.
The professor emphasizes that the eyes should adapt well to different conditions and distances, that is, the development of accommodation (contraction and relaxation of the eye muscles).
Gymnastics for the eyes of Avetisov is especially indicative for those who have a predisposition to myopia.
Training complexes
Must be done regularly and daily. It is recommended to do it standing - without support.
Approach each exercise carefully, start slowly, smoothly. The load can be increased gradually. Do everything with high quality.
The time of one set in the exercise is 5 seconds, the average number of sets is 12 times.
The first block is to improve blood circulation in the eyeballs:
- compression and unclenching of the eyelids;
- alternating blinking and eyelid massage every 15 seconds;
- pressing fingers on closed eyelids – 4 times;
- forefingers with effort to touch the superciliary arches, respectively, the right hand - to the right arch, the left hand - to the left arch.
Second block - strengthening the eye muscles:
- translate gaze from top to bottom and from bottom to top(focus on points);
- make diagonal eyes (the right corner of the ceiling - the left corner of the floor and vice versa);
- look from left to right and right to left;
- circular rotation of the eyes.
Third block - training and accommodation:
- Focusing vision on the fingertip of the outstretched hand, then on a point in the distance (select outdoors) 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 pull out your hand back.
- Focusing alternately with the left and right eyes (cover the second) on the finger of the outstretched hand, which gradually approaches the face, and the finger - to the bridge of the nose. And then moves away again.
- Focus on a point on the window glass - a point in the distance on the street.
Here is such a simple eye gymnastics for myopia (early stage), consisting of three sets of 4 exercises each, helps both adults and children maintain normal vision.
Oriental techniques
Tibetan medicine has its own methods that help normalize vision, keeping it in one hundred percent condition:
- Images and colors: the eyes are represented 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 normality after prolonged exertion (reading, working at the computer, and so on).
- Massage in betweenbetween work that requires prolonged concentration of the eyes (rotation of the eyeballs with closed eyelids, smooth stroking movements of the closed eyes - upper and lower eyelids).
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What exercises for vision and according to what he alth-improving and preventive methods a person will perform - it depends on his individual preferences and the characteristics of the condition of his eye apparatus.
The main thing is to do everything smoothly, give the load gradually, and do the exercises with soul, carefully and really seriously. After all, this is a guarantee of he alth and longevity.
