How to improve vision through relaxation techniques?

Myopia is becoming a real scourge of office workers, and most people prefer glasses, contact lenses or surgery. However, there are other ways to restore vision, and if you have a goal to see the world clearly without any "crutches for the eyes", you can try the method of Bates.

This method is based on complete relaxation of eyes, not recognized by official science, but many followers, schools and courses based on techniques Bates, as well as real cases of rapid vision improvement, given the method of the right to exist, and visually impaired people - a chance to forget about glasses and contact lenses.

In 1920, the famous American ophthalmologist William Bates developed his own theory about the causes of visual impairment. In his opinion, the main cause of poor vision is mental stress, when a man straining his eyes in an attempt to see anything.

Bates claimed that the normal eye is never strained to see a certain point in space, and if he can not see it, just move to another.

As with other senses, the eye has to work without effort.

If a person has to consider something near or far, eye muscles spontaneously shrink, changing the shape of the eyeball. In this effort, which apply the eye muscles do not represent a load for them, as opposed to those moments when a person strains to see anything. In this case, the eyes begin to tire, and vision deteriorates.

No stress - no problem

Based on Bates' theory, natural way to eliminate eye problems - eye relaxation. Need to wean ourselves to strain your eyes and allow external muscles work on the machine. Bates and his followers a few techniques and exercises have been developed to help cope with the progressive eye error of refraction (myopia, hyperopia), and improve eyesight.

physical relaxation

Physical and mental stress are closely linked, so that it is impossible to relax mentally, not paying attention to the body, and vice versa. The head of the Chicago school of psychosomatic F. Alexander, he stated that most diseases are caused by stress. This doctor applied a fun way to relax: pronunciation of his desires.

A man sits on a chair or lies down, as it is convenient, and began to repeat: "I want to neck muscles are completely relaxed," and other phrases aimed at complete relaxation.

In addition to this method, there are many relaxation techniques, for example, be a warm energy that slowly fills the body from head to toe, and the like, meditative practices.

Learn to relax your body is very important, but when it comes to the eyes, is not so simple. Bates believed that eye muscles can relax only in total darknessSo I come up with a special technique - palming.

palming technique

The method consists in the fact that the man puts his hands the cup, after which they are superimposed on the eye, blocking the access of light.

The main thing that people at that time felt comfortable - not palm pressed to his eyes, elbows and shoulders are not tired, the neck is not strained.

This exercise Bates borrowed from treatises on Yoga, one of the sections on meditation and relaxation.

Regular performance of this exercise helps to relax the eye muscles to relieve tension, eliminate discomfort after a day at the computer, and to train the eye to the natural method work.

However, palming includes not only the physical aspect, but also the mental processes such as memory.

Memories as a way to relax

What you think in the process of relaxation, it is of great importance, because the mind and the physical body are inextricably linked.

Ideally, in the process of palming man must see the eyelids velvety, deep blacks, but this barely effective people with refractive error. They see the colorful circles, stripes and cloud - the consequences of stress.

One way to see the deep black color, and therefore, completely relax the eyes and relieve mental stress, is the memory. During exercise, you can remember anything that has a rich black color, such as coal or the segment of black velvet.

Concentrating on remembering the black background, you can say, meditate, and then - relax not only the body but also the mind.

Bates claimed that between brain activity and eye strain, there is a direct link.

If the mind is relaxed, nothing can tire the eyes.

For example, if a person reads an interesting and fascinating book, his eyes get tired much less than if he shtudiruet something boring or difficult to understand. Thus, mentally relaxed, you give rest to your eyesIn whatever situation you are - outdoors or behind the screen of your computer.

How not to strain while reading?

One of the reasons that people have vision deteriorates - an artificial voltage reading eye. The eye moves over the lines in the horizontal direction rather quickly, constantly repeating the path from left to right and in the vertical direction it is moving much less frequently and with a small amplitude. As a result, the muscles get tired of monotonous work, and tired eyes.

However, there are some ways not to strain during read and maintain good vision:

1. Periodically, keep your eyes on a book or a computer screen and look at an object distance of about 1-2 seconds.
2. Gently move the book or head to the distance between the page and looking at me from time to time.
3. Change the angle at which the page is held. Rather than turn from side to side, eyes will move diagonally.
4. Not look at the letter, and the white stripes dividing line. If while reading you see the white line, you just see the letters fine, but my eyes are not strained and tired.

A simple exercise every day

There is another exercise that can be done many times during the day, and it does not allocate separate time for it.

If you are traveling in public transport, as a passenger, track moving objects on both sides of the road. This exercise not only helps to relax the eyes that do not focus on a single object, but as it covers the entire space, but also to stop the thoughts.

The main thing - do not lose sight of either side of the road, not to switch attention from one thing to another, namely, "to see everything."

You can repeat this exercise and while walking, especially if you go through the crowd, and people coming towards you, it is a continuous stream.

In the book, Bates "Improved vision without glasses"You can find many more tips and exercises that are worth a try at least because of interest. In the end, techniques based on relaxation and even, to some extent, meditation practice will be useful not only for the view but also for the mental comfort.