We are accustomed to considering myopia a physical disease. How do stress and emotions affect vision? And can special exercises compete on effectiveness with eye surgery?
You have become worse to see and treat this as inevitable. Perhaps it is not the physiological changes that are to blame, and you need to consult a psychotherapist. Why is it often easier for us to literally turn a blind eye to the problem and what can be done to solve it?
Ophthalmologists are usually skeptical about the methods of restoring vision, which offers alternative medicine. But perhaps some of them deserve attention. The most famous was developed by the American ophthalmologist William Bates back in the early 1920s and was later supplemented by his followers.
"Eye Yoga" relaxes the eye muscles and mind. But the method is not based on the Indian spiritual tradition, but on the assumption of Bates that vision deteriorates due to mental stress, which arises from the effort to discern the subject regardless of the distance from it.
Bates’s proposed exercises, such as palming (putting palms on closed eyes) for relaxing, swaying (tilting the head to the side), blinking to moisten the eye, or movements that change the direction and range of the eye to maintain the elasticity of the lens, are often reproduced in other copyright techniques.
It is much easier to go to the doctor: he will decide everything for us, write out drops, glasses, and the responsibility will be on him.
Judging by the heated discussions in Internet forums, such exercises help someone, others do not.
Journalist Yevgeny Chernykh, for example, four years ago, on the instructions of one of the newspapers, tried one of his vision recovery systems on himself and managed to get rid of his age long-sightedness (+2.5) in 7 weeks. The most difficult, he recalls, was a psychological moment - to remove glasses, although there was no need for them anymore. Now Eugene is 64, and he can still read small text without glasses.
The web has a lot of materials that help you independently master one or another method of vision correction. Why does most of this information ignore and, without thinking, go to the doctor for the next points?
This is how our infantilism manifests itself, according to the body psychotherapist:
“In order to seriously engage ourselves, we need personal maturity. Often we are not ready to take responsibility for our health. It is much easier to go to the doctor: he will decide everything for us, write out drops, glasses, and the responsibility will be on him. ”
Ophthalmologists recognize that stress affects vision. Psychologists go further, finding a direct link between poor eyesight and psychological problems.
You just don’t need to absolutize this approach. For example, if a client had a head injury, then here we must first look for an explanation. But if the vision is rapidly deteriorating, but there are no physical reasons, a psychological background may be found here. ”
It is possible to correct vision and prevent its deterioration by working on yourself.
“Then we ask ourselves: what does the client not want to see? Perhaps it is something unbearable for him. So it was with one of my clients, whom her husband almost openly cheated, the psychotherapist continues. - She did not want to notice this, because she could not change the situation: not having a profession, she did not know how to survive on her own. In addition to severe visual impairment, she also began to have a systemic illness. Summarizing, we can say that the body assumes the heaviness that the psyche could not process. ”
In such cases, psychotherapy brings fruit. Julia Reshetnikova gives another example from practice. Parents brought a boy to her, whose eyesight fell to –6 in the first two years at school. In the course of psychotherapeutic work, it turned out that he had a conflict with his classmates, and as his problem was solved his vision improved to –3.
With children, change is easier,” emphasizes the body psychotherapist. - It’s easier for them to lose the problem through metaphors. Art therapy, sand therapy helps to express repressed feelings.
Traditional Chinese medicine also recognizes that emotions affect vision.
“The eyes, in our view, are the“ external openings ”of the liver. Accordingly, everything that damages the liver also damages the eyes, says the doctor of Chinese medicine Alexander Dvoryanchikov. “And this is primarily anger and irritation.”
Slightly adjust the vision or at least prevent its deterioration can be not only taking Chinese drugs, but also independently working on themselves. To do this, preference should be given to products that feed the liver (chicken, wheat, sweet fruits and sweet vegetables in small quantities) and blood (internal organs of animals, beans, lentils, dry pomegranate powder, boiled carrots).
It is recommended to massage certain points around the eyes 2 times a day for 5–10 minutes: videos with instructions are easy to find on the Internet. But for a fundamental improvement in vision, emphasizes Alexander Dvoryanchikov, acupuncture is needed.
In fact, the eye looks, and sees the brain. The first receives and transmits images to the second, which interprets them. The mobile application GlassesOff, developed in Israel, aims to teach the brain to better “see”.
The creators promise that people suffering from long-sighted eyes will be able to read a newspaper without glasses and will overcome eye fatigue and headaches after 3 months of training three times a week. To save the result, it is enough from one to three sessions per month.
Playing to improve your vision is a seductive idea. “Your mission: to determine whether Gabor appeared (a round sticker with vertical black and white stripes) on the first or second picture,” is one of the tasks of this application.
You must answer by clicking on the right or left side of the screen. Gabor appears for a second in the center of the screen, more or less blurred or contrasting, among other Gabor or crosses that distract attention.
Whatever method we choose, positive attitude and confidence in success play a key role.
Whatever method we choose, a key role is played by a positive attitude and confidence in success.
The main thing is that we decide not to wait for the wizard, but to help ourselves, we begin to systematically, engage in daily activities and direct conscious attention to ourselves. Then there will be the effect of any exercises, even those that we invented ourselves.
