Long sitting at the computer, hours of reading, watching TV tire the eyes. Palming will help relieve stress from them and, according to the proponents of this method, relieve some eye diseases.
A method for improving vision called palming was developed by the American ophthalmologist William Bates at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1917, Bates, in collaboration with entrepreneur Bernarr McFadden, began giving paid lessons to those who wanted to correct their eyesight.
During the existence of palming, he had supporters and opponents, but the fact that special exercises help relieve eye tension is indisputable. The video will help to understand the technique of their implementation, but even without visual viewing it is very much to learn how to perform them.
Basically, this method consists of one exercise and a way to get out of it. Thanks to the correct position of the body, hands, palms, correct thoughts, psycho-emotional stress relief is achieved. It is better for women to first wash off mascara, eye shadow from their eyes, then you can proceed.
First you need to sit down so that a suitable support is found for the elbows. It can be a table, the back of a chair in front. In extreme cases, the hands are pressed to the sides. But this is a little later, but for now, rub your palms to feel their warmth. This usually takes 15-25 seconds. Now place one on top of the other at a 90-degree angle so that the fingers of the right lie on the fingers of the left.
If you prefer, you can put your left palm on top.
Bring the prepared palms to your closed eyes. In this case, the nose should be between the palms. If they are not, raise them a little higher or lower them a little lower. The right palm should cover the right eye, and the left palm should cover the left eye. Elbows are resting on something or pressed to the sides, arms are not tense. The eyeballs should be in the center of the palms.
This exercise is performed for 3-5 minutes. Now it is important to tell what needs to be presented at this time. When you cover your closed eyelids with your palms, your brain may not allow you to immediately fall into a state of visual rest. For several seconds to 1.5 minutes, various light stimuli can be present in front of the eyes. As if it is a light bulb flashing or you are looking out of a window. Light spots or one large one sometimes look like fog or a cloud.
To immerse the visual perception into a state of rest, immediately after you have closed your eyes with warm palms, begin to imagine something large and black. For example, a large piece of dark fabric, a black wall.
If, after you close your eyes, you do not have any flashes of light in front of them, then your optic nerves are not overstrained. If there is, it means that the eyesight is tired due to long hard work.
After a black picture is established in front of your closed eyes due to the mental contemplation of a warm black velvet curtain in the theater that has come down, you need to think about something pleasant. Indulge in dreams, imagine yourself in that place and around those people with whom you would like to be. Such thoughts must be maintained until leaving palming.
After 3-5 minutes from the beginning of the exercise, without removing your palms, close your eyes, loosen your eyes, do this 2 more times and remove your palms. Now, without opening your eyes, make 4 nods with your head forward and the same amount from right to left. Roll your head a little, rub your eyes lightly with your hands, take a deep breath, exhale and blink your eyes quickly 5-6 times.
