Is Surgery The Only Way To Improve Your Vision? Let’s See!

Our eyes are very important to all of us- we use them all through the day from the moment we wake up till we fall asleep at night. They process a barrage of information all the time, and it can get overwhelming if we overdo it. What happens if we are not able to see properly at a distance, or up close? We may be recommended spectacles or contact lenses but many of us still resist the idea of having to depend on glasses permanently. Some alternative approaches commonly used include regular eye massage, eye exercises and some relaxation techniques. Let us learn more about them and you can then decide which one may be effective for you.

Natural Ways To Improve Eyesight

Spectacles can be thought of as crutches that aid vision. But we are treating a symptom here, and don’t know what the real cause may be in reality. So, natural ways of ‘healing’ your eyes can include approaches which can help reduce eye strain, relax eye muscles and improve blood circulation. But, exercise alone won’t help you achieve great results. A nutritious diet is also equally important. Making lifestyle changes can help greatly too- sleeping well, eating well and staying hydrated can do wonders generally. Smoking is a total no-no. too, and India for example has around 7% of its population which has Alzheimer’s Disease.

Best Exercises To Improve Vision

In India, have you heard of the Aurobindo Ashram which has a School For Perfect Eyesight located at Puducherry, Tamil Nadu? The exercises they prescribe and demonstrate are supposedly great at helping our eye muscles relax. These exercises need to be done for an hour everyday and have helped reduce eye power for many individuals all these years. We don’t know how exactly they work but why question good results eh? But, there is a catch- the younger you are when you enrol, the better your results will be. Some of the exercises they recommend include the following-

• Doing simple stuff like yawning, blinking often.
• Sticking to the 20:20:20 rule- if you work for 20 minutes continuously using a screen, then look away for 20 seconds at objects 20 feet or farther away.
• You can rub your palms together till they feel warm and place them on your eyelids.
• Rolling your eyes doesn’t need to happen only because of utter disbelief. You can do it to help your eyes relax too.
• You can try to read in candlelight every day for at least 20 minutes.
• You can bounce around a tennis ball and track it with your eyes.
• You can also visualise and try to draw alphabets and numbers using your eye movements to improve range of motion for the eye muscles.

Vitamins to improve vision naturally

Include copious amounts of brightly coloured vegetables and fruits in your diet- like pumpkins, capsicums- red, yellow or green, greens, carrots, protein rich meat and vegan substitutes which have lutein, zeaxanthin, flavonoids and Vitamin C rich fruits to greatly improve eye and general health.

Conclusion

Some people dislike having to depend on glasses or contact lenses – they bring their own set of problems too. Ask someone who wears glasses – we think it is a privilege to not wear glasses and so will do anything to stay glass-free. How can we do that? By helping improve eye health and by relaxing our ocular muscles which are constantly under great strain. This is not to say that glasses need to be banned. They are a necessity for many of us and a way of our lives. But, we can always hope to not fumble around for our glasses first thing in the morning as soon as we wake up, right? Wishful thinking? Probably not.