The Berne Podcast with Dr. Sam Berne

Today, I had the honor to interview Gabrielle Buresch-Teichmann, a pioneering Holistic Color Consultant and Color/Light Therapist, internationally known speaker, and facilitator for over 30 years. She has authored a book: In the Beginning There was the Color Red and founded the Color Lights World Project. You can contact her through her Website or LinkedIn. She will be one of my featured speakers at my upcoming virtual Whole Health Summit. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS color, light, Gabrielle, therapy, people, sessions, years, pioneer, working, zoom, medicine, winter, energy, proven, treat, Austria, holistic, gave, test, summit 00:04 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to an eye clarity podcast. As part of December in January, we are inviting the holistic, holistic health summit participants, the speakers, and today I’m going to do an interview with a really amazing person I have the deepest respect for her name is Gabrielle boorish. Teichman. And wow, she has a resume. That’s really long. So I’ll, I’ll keep it fairly short. She is a pioneer in holistic color and consulting. She’s a color and light therapist who lives in Austria, internationally known for over 30 years. She’s a facilitator and teacher, she also does private sessions. She’s founder of something called the color lights World Project, which I’m gonna have her speak about. She’s also an author of titled The book is titled In the beginning, there was read I love that. So you should check that out. It’s on Amazon. And we’re gonna have a really lively conversation today on light and color from Gabrielle’s perspective. So, Gabrielle, I want to welcome you to the program. I feel so honored that you’re here. How are things going? How are you? 01:34 Thanks a lot, Sam, for having me. I’m very much looking forward to the summit. And I feel very happy and honored to be part of this and to have the opportunity to contribute. 01:48 Okay, well, we have a lot to ask you. But before we get to that, I’ve been following you on your website, and LinkedIn and Facebook. And can you tell us a little bit about your color lights project, I’ve been observing and being part of the kind of the listenership share what this project is what it’s all about how people can access it. 02:19 Yeah, so one year ago, in fall, exactly for one year ago, I founded the color lights World project. So together with a group of 10, International color light experts, based in the US in South Africa, in Europe, and in Japan, we are offering zoom in ours and zoom events, and also color weeks, with the aim of spreading the knowledge, the beautiful energy, the healing and the inspiration of color in light, especially in these challenging times that we are having now, since more than one and a half years. So this in the last winter and fall season, I ran 12 Zoom webinars with these international experts, who are specialists in different areas of working with color and light and have different approaches. So we did 12 Zoom webinars. And it was really quite amazing what we were able to spread and share, because we did color tests on Zoom. And we even did a color light therapy session on Zoom. So very interesting. And then this year, and actually last December, we started the project, the first thing we did is we did two events called color lights gifts to the world. We’re at each event five of us gave a colorful present over zoom to our audience. So for both of these events, we had 100 People from five continents. So that was actually the start of the project. What we also did is we ran two color weeks, one in March and one in October, where we announced that every day of the week would be dedicated to one color. And we invite all the people on social media actually in our own color group on Facebook color called color lights World project, but also on Instagram and linked in to share the colors in their lives. And it was amazing because in both weeks, the whole social media was flooded with colors. And it was a surprising experience even for all of us who were kind of the contributors or who were kind of leading the discussion. Rajic how much energy this brought. And then now in the fall season, I ran three panels with these experts to three different special topics. So the first was about the deep beauty of color and light. The second was color, light and self awareness and consciousness. And the third, this week was about color, light and healing. So that’s our dedication. That’s our passion. And I can say, if I count our participants, I think we have about 700 people who already took part at our events, and even from all five continents. So it’s really a big joy for me to do that, especially because color and light are my passion and my vocation. 06:02 Yeah, I mean,

Dr. DeWittt is a Licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Acupuncturist with a focus on Mindbody Medicine. Dr. Kierstin uses her 3 step Holistic process to help people feel more connected to their mind and body, allowing them to move from stressed and overwhelmed to self-aware, empowered, and resilient. Overwhelm, creating sustainable health. You can learn more about Dr. DeWitt and reach her through her Instagram. Learn more about the upcoming Whole Health Summit: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS overwhelm, people, reframe, impacts, Alzheimer, lives, pandemic, summit, brain dump, featured speakers, mind-body medicine, ways, cultivate, reconnect, work, manage, important, website, support, health 00:06 Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast as part of my health summit series which is going to be coming up January 14 to the 16th 2022. I am bringing on the speakers and doing some interviews and today we have one of our featured speakers for the summit, Dr. Kierstin DeWitt, she is a licensed naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist with a focus on mind body medicine. She uses her three step holistic process to help people feel more correct connected, and the mind body, I love the mind body as well. And she is going to be speaking about overwhelm and creating a sustainable health paradigm. So Dr. Kierstin Welcome to the show. I want to thank you for joining us today and how did you get into this? This area in naturopathic medicine around overwhelm? Give us a little background on that. 01:13 Yeah, well, thanks so much for having me on. I always loved chatting with you, we always have such great conversations. So I appreciate it. And I’m so excited for you know, your upcoming event. So how I got involved? Well, first with naturopathic medicine, with it being a holistic system, right. And same with traditional Chinese medicine, they’re both holistic systems, it was during school that I really saw how overwhelming stress has a direct impact on our physical well being. And that was really, really pointing out this mind body connection to me. So after school, I dove into, you know, other training and, and just learning more practices for how we can kind of reconnect the mind and the body together because of this direct link. Right. And we’re seeing so much more research coming out of how how directly connected the mind to the body is whether that’s through our immune system through our gut health, our cardiovascular health, so many different ways. And you mentioned the three part, you know, the the three part process that I walk people through, and to me, this is kind of how I view the whole person, right. So I always look at the what I call the inner self. So this is like the core of who we are, and moving out to our embodied self. And so this is more like that physical layer, and then out to what I call the interactive stuff. And this is more of how the environment impacts us and how we impact the environment and the world around us how we show up in the world, and how that impacts our our health and well being. And so we can see even with overwhelm how that really impacts these three different layers as well. And I’ve just been, you know, through my own experience with overwhelm, I’m sure you can recall just just going through school itself, right, that is such a, it can be a very stressful environment. And it’s a lot of work balance, you know, trying to maintain balance through school and through work, and then add on top of that pandemic, right, I think so many of us can really relate to this feeling of stress and overwhelm. So just seeing the way that it really can manifest and impact at so many different layers. To me, it’s just a really important topic to talk about until learn how to manage and cope with. 04:14 Well, you know, when you were coming on the show, people started to email me questions. So I’d like to go to a question. This is a listener who lives in upstate New York, and her mother, who is suffering, Alzheimer’s is going to be moving in with her in the family and she’s worried about Of course, not only her mom, but the holidays and then with the pandemic. And so she’s an overwhelmed, she said, Help Help. And so I said, Well, I’ll be talking to Dr. Kiersten today. What would be some things that you would offer her to maybe help her manage her overwhelm, knowing that she’s dealing with her mom and the holidays and family and so on? 04:57 Yeah, well, first, you know, my crib because my grandma had Alzheimer’s and so this is one of the one of the reasons there’s many people in my immediate family who have experienced many different types of mental health conditions. And that being one of them, and so it’s one of the reasons why this is a really important topic t

Today we have a special guest, Emma Destrubé. She is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and physician of East Asian medicine, as well as a somatic movement therapist and Continuum teacher. Beginning in her teens, she apprenticed under somatic movement pioneer Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum. Together they researched and developed fluid movement/sounding protocols for neuromuscular compromises and other therapeutic applications of somatic movement and breathwork practice. Emma holds a private holistic health care/healing arts practice in Los Angeles, where she helps to cultivate vitality with patient-empowering, poetic medicine including acupuncture, herbalism, somatics, and energy work. Her patients are a broad mix of creatives, celebrities, athletes, artists, activists, meditators, and even children. She also teaches weekly online classes called Soma – a Continuum-based subtle movement, breath, and embodied meditation practice that sources somatic inquiry in the wisdom and poetry of Taoist medicine.Learn more about Emm through her website: https://www.emmadestrube.com/about or her social channels: Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn Hear more from Emma at my upcoming Whole Health Summit! She is one of our amazing speakers! Save your seat: https://www.drsamberne.com/summit/ Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS bodies, solstice, movement, inwards, sensations, emma, intelligence, mysterious, practice, world, featured speakers, life, question, classes, winter, continuum, move, innate intelligence, moment, summit 00:05 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast as part of our summit special. Yes, we’re having the summit. Oh, health summit January 14 to the 16th 2022 and one of the featured speakers is a guest today. Her name is Emma Destrubé, and she is a colleague and friend of mine, wonderful person. And she just a little background about her. She’s an acupuncturist, herbalist and a physician of East Asian medicine. She also teaches weekly online classes called Soma, a continuum based subtle movement, breath, movement and embodied meditation practice. She studied under Emily Conrad, our, our distinguished colleague, founder of continuum. And together, this is interesting, she and Emily actually researched and developed fluid movements, sounding protocols for neuromuscular compromises and other therapeutic applications. And I know when I used to go to the studio, I used to see Emma there. And it was it was great to be with her and Emily. So, Emma, it’s great to have you on the program today. How’s it going? How are you doing? 02:07 Great. I’m so well, thank you for having me. It’s great to be here. 02:13 So we’re coming into the solstice season. And I know we both feel there’s a certain harmony harmonization. And we with our communities, we bring them together this Solstice time. What does Solstice mean to you? And how do you express it? How do you you know, integrate it in your practice in you know, in your personal life? Yeah, so 02:38 the solstice is a seasonal node here in the middle of the winter, the shortest day of the year. And when we look at the world around us nature changes according to the seasons, we see this so clearly. And when we look at our bodies, our internal worlds are a microcosm of the universe. So as the seasonal turning happens externally, a seasonal shift is also happening within our bodies. So as an acupuncturist, one of our primary diagnostic tools is reading the radial pulse of the wrist. And we see that a normal pulse or a healthy pulse changes according to the seasons. So we’re not separate from our environments. And one of the most primary tenets of Chinese medicine is that when we can harmonize our way of living and our bodies with the external world that is health. So when we’re living out in concert with the natural world, that’s when this harmonies that lead to disease tend to arise. So for me, the solstice is this incredibly important time to allow ourselves to come in we see that in nature, everything is coming inwards, there’s this entropic contracting movement that started in the fall, the trees, dropping their leaves, drawing their nutrients down into their trunks and into their roots for storage through the winter. We see animals scurrying around and collecting their their fruits and berries to last them through the winter. And it’s just this this moment of coming in culminating at the solstice this darkest, darkest time. So it’s an opportunity to allow ourselves to slow down to rest in words to incubate and to come together with our communities to celebrate in the solstice moment, the returning of the light. So it marks this tipping point between an inwards contracting energy

I want to bring you into this session I did recently with a parent, she’s got a child with a condition called alternating esotropia. That means the two eyes don’t work together. And she received a surgical console from a doctor who wanted to cut the eye muscles to try to straighten the eyes. And so she contacted me, and I’m going to play some excerpts from the session. And so if you’re a parent, and your child has strabismus, this would be a good one for you to listen to. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSeyes, work, surgery, learning, called, depth perception, startle reflex, trauma, cranial-sacral therapy, eyeball, doctor, excerpt, alternating, primitive reflexes, kids, cosmetic, brain, motor, muscles Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. 00:01Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to bring you into this session I did recently with a parent, she’s got a child with a condition called alternating esotropia. That means the two eyes don’t work together. And she received a surgical console from a doctor who wanted to cut the eye muscles to try to straighten the eyes. And so she contacted me, and I’m going to play some excerpts from the session. And so if you’re a parent, and your child has strabismus, this would be a good one for you to listen to. And so enjoy the show. And so the first thing I want to say to you is that if you do the surgery, basically, you’re changing the length of the muscles in the eyeball, but you’re not telling the brain. And so what happens is there becomes a confusion in the brain, because it’s the brain that directs the eye muscles. And learning to coordinate your eyes is a skill that’s learned and developed. It’s an organic skill that infants, toddlers, young children go through. And so when there is a, an alternating situation in the eyes, the way to improve that is by working with the whole person with different physical therapy techniques based on their age. And so it’s, it’s an education process or re education to get the two eyes and the brain to work together. So whenever you do the surgery, you are then disrupting or interrupting the normal developmental arc that we go through to learn how to use both eyes together. Because once you change the length of the muscle, you’re basically going for a cosmetic here. So it’s going to look straight for a while. But the brain says, gee, you know, I don’t know how to work these eyes now, because there’s new input in the muscles. And so you end up having to do multiple surgeries, which creates more trauma, which creates more confusion. And it’s probably the surgery that has the least success. And the idea that there’s a critical period is dead wrong, because neuro neuroscientists are proving that you can actually access you know, different patterns, even into old age, you have to do some different things in order to, to access that. But the surgery is the last option that you want to consider. And that doctor is dead wrong about exercises and physical therapy, things don’t work, they actually work really well. And I want to I want to give you a kind of a baseline on how to do that. But you don’t really want to go into surgery, if you can avoid it, because it’s the success rate is very low, maybe 20 to 30% at best. And the physical therapy, the success rate is anywhere between 80 to 90%. And you don’t have the side effects of the trauma of the surgery. It’s very, it’s very much a a mechanical eyeball, symptomatic answer. In this next excerpt, I talked about the importance of depth perception, you know, that’s being able to use our two eyes together and judge distances spatial I called spatial IQ. And it’s a learned and developed skill. But it’s certainly an issue for people that have strabismus because their two eyes aren’t working together. And they have to use other cues and signals to figure out where things are in space in relation to their body. Well, one indicator in depth perception is if the eyes look straight, or both eyes are aiming at the same thing at the same time, then she’s going to have a better chance of depth perception. When one of the eyes is straight and one of the eyes is turned in. What she sees is either double vision or the brain just suppresses or ignores that. And so the eyes bye bye. Learning how to aim both eyes together is a kind of a fine motor muscular skill. That would be kind of an indication that she’s probably got

I answer some questions about the exercises I’ve been releasing over the past few episodes and we talk about how this translates into the bigger picture. Our bodies contain the intelligence of billions and millions of years of a planetary process that we have absorbed that we are part of and if we get out of the way, and if Western medicine gets out of the way, our bio intelligence can come in. We know what our body needs, we have the medicine, to heal ourselves. It’s why I’m much more interested in natural approaches rather than surgical or pharmaceutical approaches. Because those don’t work with body intelligence. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, trauma, body, feel, figure eights, area, sound, sensation, sovereignty, intelligence, nutrients, brain, birth trauma, energy, neck, part, accessing, practice, involution, create Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Great. That’s what you needed to do. More breath everywhere neck relaxing, reminds me of my mother teaching me polish, wonderful, beautiful, I feel more relaxed, more relaxed and spacious. It’s an interesting way of creating vibration. Through the cranial bones Exactly. Imagine the ways it is affecting the brain. It is pumping cerebral spinal fluid in and out of the third ventricle of the brain, which is going to have an effect on the sphenoid bone. And the occipital bones also into the jaw area, it’s a way to give yourself a cranial sacral treatment, I could feel my heart beating in my head but not like a headache, just pulse. Spacious. Yeah, we want to create more spaciousness in the neurons like when that picture I showed you when we were a child, I found that fascinating many different thoughts. Easier to type after doing this was a reward for my body awareness. So the potency in this is beyond words. That’s why I became a continuum teacher. And bringing this in with all my trauma patients and you know, my students online, this is a great way to convey this, there’s a transmission, I feel tight in the back of my lower head and neck still feel tight. So a lot of times is this practice will show you the ongoing tightness that you’ve been carrying, you know, again, in the poll we took, I think it was a very high percentage if not everybody is dealing with their conditions in a chronic way. So what you have to keep doing is interrupting the current state of affairs in your body and creating enough momentum that you can create the change. And somebody is writing about the precautions, I would say the only precaution is is that you may hit a spot while you do this, where it brings up some very old trauma. And in that point, I would just stop the sound and go into the open attention so that you’re just resting. And that will reduce the overstimulation in the trauma. I mean, ultimately, this is going to uncover the places where the trauma is living right now. And so you can what we call titrate it meaning that maybe don’t do as many, much of the sound do less of the sound and more of the resting titrating means know what my body needs, and I don’t want to give it too much to overstimulate myself or re stimulate the traumas. The other thing is that if you start feeling the trauma just go into the sensation of it, not the memory, not the emotion of it. Sensation could be things like tight, loose, hot, cold, light, dark. So in other words, you’re staying out of the emotional body, and you’re more in the first order of experience, which is the sensation, that would be a way for you to self regulate. 05:38Oh, wonderful to do it outside. Great to do it outside. Yes, it’s gonna increase your coordination. Can you do circles or figure-eight important. You can do figure eights, in other words, you want to do more of a circular than a straight line. So anyway, you do that circulation, it can be a small, it can be a large, it can be a small, medium, large. The word we use is called involution. If you look up the word involution, what we’re doing in involute oceans is we’re making these spiral movements, different sizes, and you can make them into the earth, you can make them into your body. And we’ll go more into the evolution next time. But us basically a spiral, you know, again, you can look this up google it and look at pictures of spirals. And a spiral is a curving movement, it’s curving. And as it curves, it creates more energy, more vibration, more CI more prana, as opposed to going in a straight line. couldn’t feel a thing over

We are preparing to take a moment to breathe and walk through some of the exercises I have been talking about for the past few episodes of the podcast. Use this episode as a jumping-off point to make space for yourself. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSbaseline, lying, breathing, minutes, stimulation, check, nervous system, step, improvisational jazz, self-regulation, lip, reins, handout, body, trace, belly button, copying, musician, groins Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So the baseline is breathing. So when we breathe, and we get under stress, we breathe through our mouth, saw stress, right, our nervous system, the sympathetic nervous system goes through the roof. And we can get a gauge on what is our breathing rhythm like, and that’s going to tell us the health of our oxygenation, the health of our nervous system. So by taking a baseline at the beginning, we get to see, well, here’s where my nervous system is. And then number two, when I’m done with this, your breathing is going to be a lot slower, it’s going to be a lot more expanded. And that’s part of the self-regulation that you’re going to. That’s what you’re going to do in the baseline. Now somebody is asking on the lip, is it just one finger moving? No, you can move every so, in other words, I want you to be your own improvisational jazz musician. This is not about copying me, this is not about following me. This is about you, having sovereignty, and what you feel you need to do, you’ve got the structure, you know, you’re going to be working in this area sitting up, you know, you’re going to be working with this area’s lying down. This is going to be the Jacques sound, this is going to be the oh sound. That’s all you need to know, you can’t do it wrong. This is not about being perfect. This is not about following the technique to perfection, it’s about you taking the stimulation, setting pauses up in between so that you get to rest, and then re returning to the stimulation again if you have the time. And then sitting up lying down, sitting up, and doing the baseline before and after. Now, I know you want me to lead you through this, and I know you want me to guide you. But no, I’m gonna step back. And you are now going to take the reins of the horse, the the the plane, the pot, you’re the pilot now, and I’m going to step out of this, you can’t do it wrong. You, you there’s this, it’s just for you to activate your system in a new way. Whatever you’ve remembered about this, I mean, you’re going to get a written handout on this. But for now, I want you to step into it and do it on your own. Now I’m going to be here holding space. We’re going to do this for about 15 minutes. Usually, we do this for about 45 minutes to an hour. But we’re going to do 15 minutes, it’s 1130. We’re going to go to 1145. I will let you know when there are five minutes left. Oh, come back on screen. And then we will do a check-in for the last 15 minutes questions. And this is going to be your practice. This is going to be the second practice after you’ve done those charts. And I’d like you to do this anywhere between 15 minutes and an hour each day. This is going to be a very powerful neuroplasticity Check, check, check-in Okay, so I want you to start in the chair. Start with the jocks do those for a little bit that I want you to lie down on your back. How much of your bodies come connecting with the ground I want you then to do the hum are they Oh, big areas eyes, lips, neck, some kind of movement down the front of your body, belly button, and groins. And then I want you to trace your foot along the other leg on either side. And then you can do and with the shocks, we’ll probably just be able to do one, one round of these shocks sitting lying down oh sound back with the shocks. I will let you know when there are about five minutes left. Go for it. Okay, I’ll see you in about 15 minutes. Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Here is another exercise that I walked my Neuroplasticity class through. We talk about the importance of making each exercise your own so it fits your needs. Follow along with us. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSactivates, breathing, area, movements, puff, eyes, groin, called, foot, neuroplasticity, part, acupuncture points, noticing, spiral, vagus nerve, nervous system, body, leg, potatoes Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Now another main area that you’re going to be touching is this area here, this brings in the polyvagal theory, this is the vagus nerve, very involved in our nervous system and how we’re able to relax. So when we are on the floor, and we’re making the Puffco sound, we start here, and then we move into the star roles. And then we move into this area right here. This is called the Governing Vessel, this is an acupuncture meridian, we’re going to do some puffed those here, and then we’re going to do some potatoes here, this is called the Conception Vessel. These are acupuncture points. So by putting the sound into these areas, you’re going to activate these acupuncture points, and you do a few puffs those here, you can do some cycle circles in this area, say your thyroid needs a little help. Okay, so that again, you’re doing the O’s into here, and then you’re doing a kind of figure eight, all the way down. Until you get to this area. This is a major lymph area. This is called, obviously the groin but it’s a major lymph area. One of the keys in neuroplasticity is activating your lymph system that’s here and your groin, so you’re going to make the sound, do some spirals here, some spirals here, some spirals here, and then criss-cross your way down to the groins while you’re making the Puffco sound, so you’re going to really activate this whole energy channel, which is going to increase the balance of the nervous system, the fluid body, and each person is going to do it a little differently. Or let’s go back to the puff dough sound, do we let our mouth be loose? Oh, hold it firm. You can keep it loose, you can keep it you don’t need to keep it firm. And let me demonstrate this the Puffco sound again, 02:22it’s like 02:26think about oh, I’m going to make no sound Oh, 02:31oh. 02:35And I’m just closing my mouth, there’s still some air coming through it. Think about blowing out a candle, you blow out a candle, a little air comes out. And then you just add the o sound. Whoo. Now, if you’re really confused about this, what you can do is just make a humming sound like this. 02:56Mm hmm. 03:00So if you don’t get the puff dough, just do a hum, that would be another way for you. To get the sound going. The sound is so important. Because it activates the tissue. It activates the connective tissue, the fascia, the lymph, the cerebral spinal fluid, the nerves, the muscles, you’re getting a lot of activation there. So that’s the sound part of it. The first is the zSeries, you’re going to be sitting up, the second will be the Puffco. And you’re going to be doing this movement and you’re going to be doing something with your feet. So I think right now what I’m going to do is I’m going to get into a position where I’m going to demonstrate this so you can watch me do it. And then we’ll cut you loose and let you kind of explore on your own. This is a very nonlinear process in that you know how most classes, you go to a yoga class or you go to a fitness class, and you have to copy the teacher you got to follow the teacher. This is about you following your own rhythm following your own kind of speed and flow with it. So you have a structure to work on. But you go at your own speed. You don’t have to copy the teacher that’s going to help you become more self-directed. I mean, it’s a radical idea because we’re always taught to be an obedient school, I need to copy the teacher, I need to do what the teacher says. And in this particular level of neuroplasticity, it’s about you using these techniques, these prompts to help you find your own rhythm. Alright, I’m going to turn the computer around 05:14Alright, so this is the first part of this you can see that this is kind of by my where I’m going to be laying down okay 05:59so the first thing I do is I take a baseline of my breathing. So I’m sitting in my chair, I close my eyes, I jump just taking a baseline of my breathing in silhouette here w

I want to share this piece from the neuroplasticity course I did recently. Follow along as I want the class through combining sound and movement and be sure to keep an eye out for upcoming episodes that will expand and add to these movements. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSsound, eyes, activate, movement, body, practice, bones, oxygenation, cranial-sacral, brain, closed, fluid, connect, continuum, called, spiral, work, making Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So this particular somatic practice involves three different parts. The first is making sound making some sounds. Number two, it’s about tracking and monitoring your breathing, and there may be some breathing practices that you might get as well. And then the third part is being able to connect with your body by touching different parts of your body while you’re making the sounds. No sound when you make a sound, and these are very specific sounds that activate different parts of your brain, your nervous system, your fluid body, your muscles, your fascia, your connective tissue, and even the fluids in your body, like your cerebral spinal fluid, your blood. And the idea of this is that by activating your body in this particular way, what it’s going to do, it’s going to open up new pathways, in your focus in your awareness, on a cellular level on an energetic level. And it’s very particular, based on what you need. Now, what what, there isn’t one size that fits all, you know, again, in a disease-based model, you have an inflammation, so they give you a steroid, and it suppresses the immune system, but it can reduce the inflammatory response. What we’re talking about in this practice is being able to activate the medicine inside of you. And each person needs something different based on what they’re bringing to the table. Now, this work that I’m going to introduce to you has a long lineage. And it comes from the somatic practice called continuum movement. And I’m going to write it on here. Continuum movement is a healing practice that was started by a visionary named Emily Conrad, she was a friend, mentor, colleague of mine, she passed away in 2014. And I met her in 2010, I was co-teaching a workshop at her studio in California, specifically, Santa Monica. And after the workshop, she and I really connected and she had a condition called narrow-angle glaucoma. And so I helped her with that condition, we reduced the dosage and she got some of the sights back in her left eye. And she asked if I wanted to become a continual movement teacher, so I went through her training, and I became an authorized continuum teacher back in 2014, and I bring it into the I work and the neuroplasticity work because at about the same time, I had been studying cranial sacral therapy, and in cranial sacral, for those of you that don’t know about it, cranial-sacral is an osteopathic technique that helps improve the circulation and the movement in the structures of the body, top of the head bottom of the feet, and some of the treatments in cranial-sacral can have a huge positive impact on the eyes and the brain. And so, in this particular somatic practice, I draw from Emily and her work and her teachings. And there are two sounds we’re going to do today. And one of the sounds is called 05:00shock, shock sound. And basically, it’s making a J Zai Zai sound. And whenever you make sound, certain sounds can really penetrate places in your body where the tissue is very compressed, which could be due to trauma could be due to stress. But the sound is one of the great ways to penetrate that compressed tissue and bring it back to life that we talked about at the beginning of the workshop, the brain is about 73% water. Now if we lose 2% of that, it can start to become dehydrated. When you put this particular sound into the head area, it actually creates more fluidity, it creates more movement in the bones that surround the eyes. And in the brain, we have our skull with many bones that come together in terms of sutures that connect the different bones, the temporal bone, the parietal bone, the frontal bone, the occipital cortex, the cervical spine. And when we get into trauma, what happens to the movement of the bones is they get locked. And when they get locked, it reduces the circulation in the brain. So this particular sound, when you make this sound, what it does is it actually creates a movement in the bones around the skull, and it starts to activate the brain in a very positive way. So one of the aspects of this

Today I’m playing some excerpts of a session I gave, somebody had a motorcycle accident, they fell off and they hit their head, they were concerned about trauma in their eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDStrauma, eyes, cranial, create, circulation, called, brain, exercise, cranial-sacral, glasses, good, acupuncture, neuroplasticity, people, prescription, sound, vision, practice, impact, area 00:00Hey everybody, in this episode, I play some excerpts of a session I gave, somebody had a motorcycle accident, they fell off and they hit their head, they were concerned about trauma in their eyes. So in this first clip, I give some background on my training, and how I became an expert at traumatic brain injury and vision. Just a little background here, you may or may not know this, you know, my first practice was in the Philadelphia area I just completed a year fellowship at in the gazelle Institute, which is a place where we work with autistic kids. And it was great. And I saw I opened a practice in Philadelphia, a very convenient area, mainline and I couldn’t get any patients. So I went to one of the local hospitals and I volunteered my time to work with traumatic brain injury, the outpatient areas because none of the eye doctors really knew about it, you know, and so within three months, I had such a great success. I got contracts with other hospitals. And that’s how I built my practice in Philly, build it up, sold, it moved into Mexico, and I did some research on traumatic brain injury and vision, which I published and so have, over the years developed, a really great understanding of trauma, you know, studying Peter Levine’s work and cranial sacral and continuing movements, and just the relationship between getting hit in the head, and how it affects the muscles and nerves in the eyes. Because in the regular world of what we just say, I care, it’s a glasses check and an eye health check. And then you’re gone, right? And that’s really your eyesight and eye health. So it’s not looking at the functional aspects, or how does trauma impacts us. And when I was on the staff at Esalen Institute, we used to do a lot of back and forth and the cranial people on trauma and neuroplasticity. And so 35 years later, I have some track record on what has happened to you how it’s impacted you and how you can repair it. So whenever we have a trauma, as you probably know, the body immediately will freeze up in that particular area as a way to protect it. But when it freezes up, it creates kind of a hole in the connection, the energy that flows, you know, from one part of the body to another as a protective mechanism. So in the nervous system level, what happens is we go into an immediate fight flight or freeze response. And the impact affects us in that particular area. So the tissue begins to compress, and it can deaden, there’s less circulation. So there’s that going on. And then we know because the eyes and the brain are so interrelated. If we look at prenatal development, very early on the eyes originate from the brain. So every tissue of the eye is brain tissue. So you know, the retina, the cornea, the optic nerve, the lens of the eye, all of those are basically just an extension of the brain. And the brain is about 70% Water 60% fat 03:40and it’s floating in the cerebrospinal fluid. So when you get hit in the head area, it can reduce the circulation in that particular area. And so you need to be careful about you know, the flow of cerebral spinal fluid in the brain, and also the circulation then the oxygenation. That being said, the brain has an incredible capability of regenerative potential. This is why the neuroscientists are all always publishing papers, on you know, the neuroplasticity potential even in dementia and Alzheimer’s. In certain cases, there can be some renewal, if you give the brain proper nutrients if you know, do some things that create better circulation, and dietary absorption, and so on. Just so happens right now I’m teaching a class on vision and neuroplasticity. And it’s two parts I just did the first part the second part in November. And there were a lot of people in that class who had some level of an accident like you, you know, wasn’t it like you didn’t lose consciousness? Maybe you just got, like, as you say, you know, a little jolted. But it definitely affected you. And so whenever you get a blow to that area, whether you get stuck or you fall, it does rattle the muscles and the nerves that attach in and around the eyes. So the good news about the neurologist you went to is, it doesn’t seem to have impacted you say, on a structural level or a physical level, like, you know, getting some kind of a retina problem or developing glaucoma or anything like that. But there is still that soft tissue experience that you had, tha

Today we are continuing to talk about neuroplasticity, but we get into how working with colors can help stretch the brain and increase your focusing mechanism, mind, eyes, and body and you bring in both hemispheres of the brain. You can follow along as I walk the class through this exercise. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, brain, colors, eye, row, read, develop, exercise, shape, improve, focusing, columns, chart, words, metronome, eyedrops, macular hole, angle glaucoma, green, focus Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. 00:00All right, so um, what I want to do right now is I want to show you we’re going to do two different things in neuroplasticity practice. One is more physical visual. And the second is going to be more body-centered self-regulation of the nervous system and the fluid body. So let’s start in with the focus, go back to our screen share. And so in neuroplasticity, a lot of the research talks about it’s very important to get very specific in what it is you want to change. So I love it. People are saying, I want to improve my cornea health. I want to get rid of my macular hole I want to reduce or dissolve cataracts without surgery. I’ve got narrow-angle glaucoma, how do I develop better vascular health? Okay, so these are great. And there’s a combination of yes there nutrients, you know, eye nutrients. There are eyedrops natural eye drops, and that’s readily available, you know, on all my content on my website, you can find an email us and we’ll send you the links. But this particular thing is not on my website. It’s not something that I lead with, although we use it a lot in terms of developing better. neuroplasticity and I want to spotlight something here is that when you increase your focusing mechanism, mind, eyes, and body and you bring in both hemispheres of the brain. There’s this neuromodulator called acetylcholine, which gets produced and it acts as a highlighting pen, which causes the synapses to fire better, isn’t that cool? That by increasing your focus, this acetylcholine increases and it helps you determine, Okay, these are the things that I want to improve. You know, I have experienced that every eye problem has a deficiency in the brain. And that as a person accesses better brain function, they then can improve their sensory systems, all their sensory systems, eyes, hearing, proprioception, movement, smell, touch, you know, all of these things start to activate. So here’s what we’re going to do, we’re going to do a focusing exercise right now. And this comes from the work that I learned at the gazelle Institute. You can see this chart. I’m also going to provide you with this chart. It’s called it’s from a guy named Bob Halpin This is called a Halloween card. And what it is, is a way for you to develop better focus in your high mind-brain. Now, one of the things I’m going to recommend for you is to get yourself some kind of a timing device. I have a metronome going right now you may hear it and this is what I’d like everybody to do in there where they are right now we’re going to start with the first row here the circle and to the beat, I want you to say one shape per B. So circle, square, triangle rectangle are you try the second row 04:13and then the third row and finish out the chart Okay, good. So now what I want you to do is I want you to see the colors. Okay, so you’re going to start here. 04:39It’ll be purple, red, black, brown, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, red, purple. orange, yellow, green, blue. So when you do this at home every day, level one is you’re just gonna say the shapes. Level Two, you’re gonna say the colors have been level three. The first row is going to be the shapes. The second row is going to be the colors. The third row is going to be the shapes. And the fourth row is going to be the colors. Now another way to do this, since you’re going to be doing it every day is, let’s say day two, you could say read the rows starting from right to left. This is a neuroplasticity game, it’s already in neuroplasticity game because you’re, you’re doing this exercise where you’ve got to selectively focus, what are the shapes, what are the colors, but you could read from right to left, you could read the rows, say day two, day three, you could read the columns. So this is good for eye-tracking brain tracking, you could also do the columns down to up. So in other words, you can

Today we are exploring the history of neuroscience. I introduce you to a few neuroscientists whose work has shaped how we look at the brain and we talk about how their work has led to the way we are talking about neuroscience today. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSnervous system, worked, theory, rehabilitation, neuroplasticity, evolution, today, reflex, area, movement, called, deeper level, muscles, flight freeze response, interview, research, Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Alright, another neuroscientist I need to bring into the conversation. There are two of them today I want to bring in. And it’s a gentleman called Charles Sherrington, he came up with something called the Sherrington model. It’s a model that’s still used today, quite, it’s quite prevalent in the rehabilitation, the conventional rehabilitation movement system. And he’s the guy who developed something called the knee jerk reflex, he worked with the reflex model of the nervous system. And he also researched how spinal reflexes affect the muscles, and how that gives information to the nerves. And there’s a feedback loop that sees a feedback loop where the sensory information goes to the spine, and it goes to the muscles, and it creates this muscle tone posture relationship. Now, one of the things about the Sherrington model that I find to be limiting is that it’s a bit linear, you know, and in the rehabilitation model, when I was working in the physical therapy, areas of the TBI in hospitals, I stepped out of the Sherrington model, because I found the sherry thing, Mark Sherrington model to be very much in the area of repetitive and superficial. And it didn’t really add the inquiry, the internal awareness that I found was needed, and being able to access a deeper level of neuroplasticity. So the sharing to model stays on the surface. And although it’s an important part of the history of nervous system development, I found that it really gave a limited view. And especially in eye care, nobody is talking about rehabilitation or regeneration, or neuroplasticity. But if we take it to the brain level, the nervous system, body level, there are so many dimensions to what we can do beyond the Sherrington model. This brings me to the next person that I want to introduce today. And his name is Steven Porges. And he developed something called the polyvagal theory. And it’s a very involved idea of the evolution of the autonomic nervous system. But and I’m not doing full service to Dr. Porges. Because it’s a very complex theory. But one aspect that I want to spotlight today is this idea in our nervous system, we go through something called the fight, flight freeze response. And that’s kind of more of our reptilian reaction. We’re hardwired in that. But as we begin to soften the trauma events and the trauma imprints in our nervous system, we actually move to a more mammalian response, which is empathic capabilities. And social engagement is one of the keys to stimulating this type of evolution. So I’ll speak more about the polyvagal theory. On the November 13. Class, I’m also going to send you a handout. That was a really fabulous interview, somebody interviewed Dr. Porges. But I want to say that the polyvagal theory is, in some ways, very connected to what we’re going to do today because it really can help us access a deeper level of neuroplasticity. And I don’t want to go too deeply into all the different aspects of the polyvagal theory because it can get kind of dense, and I want to stay focused on the practical aspects of what we need to do so that you can get what you need. So I’ll send you again this interview. I’ll talk more about it in our next lecture. You certainly can go to YouTube and type in Dr. Porges. He’s got some great YouTube videos. He’s also written a lot of different things. 04:36He’s done a lot of research his wife, Dr. Sue Carter, has also done a lot of research in the area of something called oxy Tosun and vasopressin and how those impact our nervous system and fluid body. He’s worked very closely with one of my teachers, Emily Conrad Emily started the somatic practice continuum movement, you could certainly Google Emily Conrad and continue a movement. And she worked with Steven Porges. In the evolution of moving the continuum movement work further. So there’s a lot of connections here between Porges and Conrad. And those are some sources that you can look for in terms of your Google s

This episode is all about Neuroplasticity. It starts very early in life, infants contain a whole web of wired connections and as children’s brains grow certain brain maps get activated, while other brain maps begin to disappear if they are not developed or cultivated. This is how neuroplasticity begins to develop. With this understanding, we can start to learn how we can utilize neuroplasticity to better ourselves today. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, nervous system, experiences, brain, infants, trauma, cataracts, self-regulation, spaciousness, create, repetitive movements, develop, fluid, explored, adults, gestation, regulate, circuits, cranial-sacral therapy, talk Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So nervous system when you talk about neuroplasticity, we talk about the brain we talk about the nervous system. And as young people, we get customized based on preferences based on our environment, based on how we respond to experiences externally. So we need to bring in the conversation of the in utero, we call that gestation, birth, and bonding. These are very important, early experiences that actually shape our brain health and our neuroplasticity potential. So neuroplasticity starts very early in life, infants contain a whole web of wired connections again, those of you that are parents or grandparents, and you see, you know, the infants crawling around and exploring, they are in a neuroplasticity soup. And certain brain maps get activated, other brain maps begin to disappear if they are not developed or cultivated. This is how neuroplasticity begins to develop. And one of the most important aspects of neuroplasticity is our social engagements. And these begin to shape our nervous system. So for infants, toddlers and children here is a picture there’s a lot of spaciousness in the synapses in the axons. Now, with adults, we don’t have that kind of spaciousness anymore. But as young, young children, this is what they’re doing in terms of their neuroplasticity. Social Engagement is very important. Now, in neuroplasticity in this certain circuits in the brain, fortunately, there’s some that are hard to change, like our heartbeat, our breathing or digestion, even our pupil response to light. So this is an important distinction that some circuits we don’t want to change. We want to support our nervous system to help us with these autonomic experiences. So in the child’s brain, there’s an incredible potential for neuroplasticity. Now, if we bring in trauma, and all of us have experienced trauma in our life, it’s an imprint that affects us and in studying things like Somatic Experiencing Peter Levine’s work cranial sacral therapy, continuum movement, perinatal, and prenatal therapy. These are all things that I’ve explored around how does trauma affect our eyes, our vision, our brain, all have our sensory systems or motor experiences. So the thing about experiences and trauma is it’s the way we respond to the experience. If you have support, you’re not going to be traumatized. But if you were abandoned or you didn’t get the treatments or the experiences that you needed, you didn’t get the social connection, then this is going to shape your nervous system and it creates that trauma response. So, in my I practice working with kids over the years, congenital cataracts, lazy eye strabismus, you know, these are all conditions that you know, regular doctors say well, there’s not much you can do we do surgery. If you don’t catch it early. There’s there’s not much happening here. But in applying many of these neuroplasticity techniques and protocols. These kids have been able to dissolve their cataracts, reduce their lazy eye, reduce strabismus and so on and so forth. So, there is this neuroplasticity potential that we all can come into. And as the infant we’ve got these web of connections and certain experiences affect us and can access the neuroplasticity while others other interactions. 04:36Well, maybe they don’t access our neuroplasticity and this is kind of what we’re dealing with in the dance of the development of our nervous system. Okay, this is important slide because over the age of 25, the neuroplasticity capability changes and it does become more challenging to access neuroplasticity. So what are the things that you can do to create this healing this opening in your brain and nervous system? But before we go deeper in neuroplasticity, I want to bring in the fluid pott

Today, we are talking about the brain. I go over some key ways to increase your brain health and we talk about how that affects your eye health. You can use this information to increase your brain, eye, and overall health naturally. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, talk, eye, parasympathetic nervous system, patients, brain, work, nervous system, sleep, research, started, plasticity, period, treating, improve, hospitals, access, physical therapy Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So another piece to neuroplasticity is the health of the nervous system, we’re going to talk a lot about the nervous system today. There are two main components of the nervous system, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic Nervous System is our active state. The parasympathetic nervous system is our passive state. It’s our relaxation. And for most people, we’re spending so much time in the sympathetic nervous system, that there’s no time in the nervous system that we’re in this rest or settle, period. And of course, when do we heal, we rejuvenate. And we rest in that parasympathetic nervous system state. Okay. All right, so let’s talk a little bit about some of the research that has been done over the years. And they need to bring in these researchers Hubel and Wiesel, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel, they came from Harvard, from Johns Hopkins. And they did a lot of research in the area of neuroplasticity and vision. And they had some very interesting results. These studies showed how the visual system and the visual information processing would be affected by impeding an eye patching an eye and they work with kittens and how they did this study. And what they did was, they would suture one of the eyes, and they found that there was a significant drop in the visual development, which affected these kittens throughout their entire life. And they also said that, as the cells are responsible for processing, visual information, they were raised distributed to favor the eye that was unimpaired. And this was a this particular aspect, the critical period was something that I doctors, you know, they practice and they said, This is why you have to get, you know, the cataract removed in kids very early, or if you have a lazy eye, after a certain period of time, you can improve it. And there was a lot of debate in that particular area. But then, in the early 90s, there was another PhD, neuroscientist, Greg record wrecking zone. And he actually did some research which showed that you can change the eyes, you can change the adult brain, and that this critical period isn’t really true. And this is what we’re going to access today. Where, you know, if you have a certain condition going on, even in the adult brain, you can improve it. And I think that, you know, again, if you go to certain ophthalmologists, they might say, well, once you reach age seven or eight, you’re out of that you’re in that critical period. You can’t get any better. Dr. Rick unsewn said no, no, no. And you can actually change even into old age. Now there’s some things that you have to do in order to set the conditions but it can be done. So here’s a research paper that I published back in 1990. And it came from the work that I did at some of the hospitals where I treated patients with severe traumatic brain injury. It’s an interesting story because I attended after I graduated, got my degree in optometry, I spent a year at a place called the gazelle Institute. And the gazelle Institute was started by Dr. Arnold gazelle, who started this clinic in 1948. It was affiliated with Yale University was up in New Haven, Connecticut. And when I attended this, this program in 1986, it was a program on how to evaluate children from a more holistic perspective. These were kids that were along the spectrum disorders. And it was a great program. 04:53I mean, one of the things that Gizelle taught us is that whenever we do an eye exam, we’re not just treating the eye But we’re treating the whole person. And you know, that particular thread has stayed with me my entire career. For those of you that follow me on the social media channels, I’m always talking about when there’s an AI problem, there’s a systemic, metabolic and energetic reason why we see it in the eyes. And since the eyes and the brain are so married together, a lot of times we see things in the brain that again, have some systemic or metabolic relationship. So I graduated the program, I starte

This is a bit from a class I did recently on Neuroplasticity. We talked about how to increase your brain health naturally, even if you work in front of a computer all day. We also connect that increase in brain health to an increase in eye health and longetivty. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSneuroplasticity, brain, eyes, structure, bifocals, brain cells, function, neurons, important, exercise, called, working, modulators, blink, optometrist, oxygenation, macula, aspect, degeneration, rehabilitation Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. No one knows for sure, but the latest estimate is that our brains contain roughly 86 billion brain cells 86 billion. Now each neuron can transmit 1000 nerve impulses per second, and make as many as 10s of 1000s of synaptic contacts with other neurons. All brain cells are not alike. There are as many as 10,000 specific types of neurons in the brain. And in class number two, I’m going to go into some of the most important modulators in brain function. Other two that are really important for neuroplasticity, one is called acetylcholine, and the other is called epinephrine. So how do we stimulate those through our diet? Through natural methods, there are ways that you can certainly increase through pharmaceutical sources, I’m not really into that I’m not really in the pharmaceutical drugs, I only say take them when you need them. But because of the side effects and the synthetic nature of pharmaceuticals, how are there natural ways that you can increase these brain modulators. And we’ll talk about in class number two. Another fast fact about the brain is that the brain needs a constant supply of oxygen, as little as five minutes without oxygen can cause some of the brain cells to die. And this can lead to brain damage. So we need to really think about how we can improve our breathing practice get more oxygenation, flowing, throwing in flowing into the brain, and throughout the entire body. Now I’m going to talk a little bit about the development of neuroplasticity. And for those of you that are parents out there, you can attest to the teenage brains are not fully informed. And what I mean by that is that the teenage brains are not developed until we reach about age 25. Now, once we hit 25, our access to neuroplasticity changes. So how do we maintain that accessibility? Because most of us are over 25 in this class? How do we do that, and I’m going to show you ways that you can access the neuroplasticity even as you get into your 60s 70s and even 80s. Last, last thing I’ll say about the brain is that the brain can process an image that your eyes have seen for as little as 13 milliseconds, less time than it takes to blink. And we’re going to work with our eyes today and our brain with a focusing exercise that’s going to help you with things like visual memory, attention, focus. And these particular aspects, especially through the eyes, is one of the best ways to activate your neuroplasticity. And I’m going to share some research that I did, working with trauma patients around this particular practice. And we’re going to move to the next slide. And this is an important concept here for you to get and that is called the eye brain connection. And that is this that the eyes originate from the brain prenatally. So every structure of the eyeball is brain tissue from the eyelids, all the way back to the optic nerve. And so when we’re working with the eyes, we’re working with an extension of the brain. So what is the definition of neuroplasticity, you can go on the internet. And there are hundreds of scientists that are talking about neuroplasticity. 04:22It is called neural plasticity. You may see it as that or blink brain plasticity. And it’s the ability of neural networks in the brain and nervous system. So I’m going to bring in the nervous system here. That’s going to help in the change through growth and reorganization. If we go a little deeper another way to say it is that neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to modify, change and adapt both the structure and the function throughout life and in response to experience. Now, this particular aspect of structure and function are very important because most neuroscientists stay in the world of structure and they don’t move into the world of function. Now, myself being a rehabilitation therapist, as an optometrist, well, that’s kind of a unique combination optometrist eye doctor, who’s also thinking about rehabilitation is unu

Nathan Oxenfeld joins the EyeClarity podcast today! He is a Natural Vision Teacher, and founder of Integral Eye Sight Improvement. He teaches people natural alternatives to glasses, contacts, and surgeries and how many common vision problems can be prevented and decreased with simple and natural practices that retrain the eyes and mind to function more optimally. Nathan, combines the Bates Method, Yoga, Meditation, Breath Work, Emotional Work, Diet & Nutrition, and other vision training techniques to explore a more holistic approach to eye health. He teaches classes, also is very active on social media. He completed a documentary in 2020 on Natural Vision Improvement. Link: Vision2020movie.com To contact Nathan, go to: https://integraleyesight.com Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, palming, bates, eyes, bates method, vision, teaches, eyesight, sunning, documentary, light, natural, world, teachers, pandemic, nathan, glasses, screens, yoga, broaden Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey folks, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast where we have an interview today with a really special person His name is Nathan Oxenfeld. And he teaches something called integral eyesight improvement. So he’s kind of in the same sphere is as me. He teaches people natural alternatives to glasses, contacts, and surgery, you know how we can prevent, be proactive in healing our eyesight and vision. And Nathan has a great background, the Bates method, love the Bates method, yoga, meditation, breath, work, emotional work, diet and nutrition, and many other techniques to support people in their eye health. He actually created a documentary, which I’m going to talk to him about today. If you want to check him out, you can do so on his website or on his YouTube videos. I love his videos on YouTube, by the way, check those out. So, Nathan, I want to bring you on. I want to thank you for joining us today. And my first question is, who have been your biggest influences in terms of your current teachings? 01:23 Yeah, thank you so much, Dr. Sam, it’s really really special to be here with you. I, I’ve been influenced by several people, but since you mentioned the name of my practice, integral eyesight improvement, that first word integral is very inspired by integral yoga. So I definitely want to share the inspiration I got from Swami Satchidananda, who actually founded the ashram in Virginia where I did my yoga teacher training Satchidananda Ashram or yogaville, sometimes I call it like, your, like summer camp for adults Yoga Camp. And, yeah, that that definitely was a huge influence in the direction of my life in general to kind of shift gears and go down the route of natural healing and in alternative health and stuff. And then you also mentioned that I teach the Bates method. So obviously, I’ve been influenced a lot by Dr. William Bates. And it’s been showing up a lot in my teachings lately because I’ve been going through the better eyesight magazines that Dr. Bates published monthly from 1919 to 1930. And in 2018, we’re coming up on that 100 year anniversary so I came up with this plan to create a podcast where I read me and other vision teachers and maybe we can even get you involved moving forward reading the original Bates method materials from that month 100 years ago. So definitely like getting refreshed and it’s so cool the synchronicities of what was going on for example, in October 1921 it a lot of times it kind of lines up with whatever I’m teaching in October 2021 100 years later, so it’s just as applicable. And then, you know, those were definitely the two biggest kinds of influences in terms of the foundation of my work, but actually worked with, you know, a living Bates method teacher because Dr. Bates passed away in 1931. She lives in California whose name is Dr. Jerriann Taber, and she was my vision teacher who helped me you know, improve my vision naturally and get off of my classes. So those are definitely the three big ones Swami Satchidananda William Bates and then Jerry and Taber. 03:54 Nice. So in terms of your classes now, what are you seeing what are people dealing with? 04:04 Yeah, well, we’re in a very unique time in world history and you know, leading up to the pandemic and you know, the world shutting down and people being inside all the time, I mean, people’s like screentime was already skyrocketing, and then we have nothing else to do but just kind of stare at screens all the time and so I&#8

Here is a peek into my recent class where we explored the science around neuroplasticity. This was our introduction to what kind of topics we would be covering. Keep an eye out for more clips from this class to come. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS brain, omega, class, eye, talk, important, oxygenation, dry, supplement, DHA, people, eating animal products, dehydration, health, inflammation, body, fast, science, astigmatism, today Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So I’d like to welcome you to this particular subject. It’s one of my most exciting and dynamic areas of expertise. And so today, what we’re going to do is we’re going to explore some of the science around neuroplasticity. And this is, you know, readily available on the internet. But what’s unique about this class is that I both have done the research, and I’m a practitioner. So the way I describe that is I’m in the dirt, meaning that at this point, I’ve helped 1000s of people with pretty severe eye problems, brain issues, trauma, neurological imbalances, autoimmune issues. And so if you’ve been diagnosed with any of these conditions, and I list these because these were all the conditions that people wrote in about dry eye, and let me go back here dry eye, cornea issues UV itis, which is an inflammation in the eye. Cataracts, we just got done with our cataract course, floaters retinal wrinkles, tears, generations in the retina retinopathy, this myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism traumatic brain injury, and there are some people taking the class that doesn’t have eye problems, but they’re interested in improving their brain health, you know, with the uptake of things like Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, people are very interested in how to improve their brain health or just overall neurological functioning. There are some people in the class that are interested in bodywork, somatic, body-centered health, and based on, the mat and the blanket that I showed you. In the introduction video, we’re going to be doing some somatically based movement and other things, I’ll get to that. Some people are just curious about how to improve their performance and vitality. So wherever you are in the process, because people wrote me and said, Well, is this the right class? For me, I want to assure you that yes, this is the right class. And this is a very unique class, in that you’re going to get both science and practice. Alright, so let’s talk about the brain for a minute, because there’s so much out there in terms of research, and you know, new technologies. But just some fast facts about the brain. The typical brain comprises about 2% of the body’s total weight but uses 20% of the total energy and oxygen intake. And that’s really important to know about the oxygenation because we talk about that with the eyes that the reason why we develop a lot of eye problems is that we aren’t getting the mitochondria function which produces the energy, and we’re getting starvation of oxygenation in the eye tissue. The same goes for the brain. Another fast fact that most people don’t know about the brain is that it is actually 73% water, you know, as infants are over 90% water and as we age, we begin to dry out We dehydrate. And this particular practice today is going to help you learn to rehydrate yourself. Now, it only takes 2% of dehydration. So 70 If we go down 2% of that 73 This begins to affect things like our memory, our cognitive skills, our attention, it’s very interesting how the water element in the brain is so tied into our health. Now for those of you that, exercise, 90 minutes of sweating can temporarily shrink the brain as much as one year of aging. So that’s why it’s very important when you do exercises that you hydrate afterward. I like to hydrate before during and after my exercise, talking more about aerobic exercise. 04:38 Another fast fact about the brain most people don’t know is that the brain weighs about three pounds. 60% of the dry weight is fat, making the brain the fattiest organ in the body. This is why I’m a very strong proponent of making sure you’re getting enough healthy fats and oils in your diet. First of all fats and oils. We do inflammation. But second of all, they’re so important in terms of the brain makeup and I’m talking about omega threes. We’ve got the DHA and the EPA part of omega-three. And in class number two, I’m going to show you

Today I want to share this somatic eye meditation with you. It’s based in the Continuum Movement and allows us to work with the eyes while working with the whole body. When we learn to dissolve, become dissolute, our resolution becomes stronger, our vitality becomes better, our resiliency becomes much more, and this creates more thriving. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS dissolution, breathing, clarity, eyes, continuum, learn, dissolve, movement, resolution, cataract, somatic, exhalation, orient, health, cellular level, trauma, present, eyelids, resolve 00:05 Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Now we’re going to move to the piece of the resistance, our somatic eye meditation. And I want to talk about this for a minute before we do it. So some of you know and some of you in this class, have heard of something called continuum movement. And I talked about this the other day. And if you don’t know what continuum movement is, and you want to learn about a visionary, innovative, somatic body-centered practice, I would go to the continuum movement comm website, I would Google Emily Conrad, continual movement, I watched some of her YouTube videos. And this eye meditation comes from continuum movement. And what I keep telling everybody is that when we work with the eyes, we’re working with the whole body, and we’re working with the whole body, we’re working with the eyes. And one of the ways to reduce cataracts, to be proactive in your eye health, is to do this practice. Now in the continuum movement. protocol, what we do is we use sound as a way to open up the tissue in and around the eyes. And the eyelids are a major lymphatic, immune system, area, their glands in these islands. This is a place that is highly susceptible to inflammation. And the more inflammation we have the more our eyes are gonna let us down. Okay, so let’s go back. So in this practice, we’re going to do this setup. Two things are going to happen, you’re going to take a baseline of your eyesight, clarity, and your breathing baseline. Why? Well on the eyesight, clarity, we do it at the beginning and we do it at the end, you’re going to see how the clarity improves as you do the practice. And in the breathing baseline, that’s going to tell us how our nervous system is working, shallow breathing, expanded breathing, good inhalation, good exhalation. 03:49 Yeah, we can take breathing to the next level. It’s the birth-death, Earth cycle, inhalation, his birth, exhalation, his death, inhalation, his birth, exhalation, his death. Another thing in our health on the cellular level, our breathing represents our ability to tell us about our resolution, how we resolve and the exhale tells us how we dissolve. And it’s very important what I’m going to say here, this may be something that you’re gonna have to think about for a while. What’s important about being able to go into dissolution being able to go into a dissolved state, because when we go into dissolution, we are letting go We are, we are releasing the structure that we have held. And for most people, we are afraid to go into dissolution. Things Fall Apart, things become chaotic. In quantum mechanics, that is a normal scientific rhythm, where we have chaos. And then we have a resolution. But as the humanoid, we don’t like dissolving, we don’t like to solve. Because it’s the unknown, it’s uncertain what’s going to happen. And yet on a cellular level, and then the respiration. dissolution is about detox. It’s about letting go of the old, it’s about not having to orient towards our history or our story. So instead of orienting towards, I have this condition, I’ve got this diagnosis. My mother beat me when I was a child, you know, that’s, we have that all up on our mantle, you know, you meet somebody, and immediately they go into their trauma. Well, let me tell you about the time my father, bah, bah, bah. So the whole thing is, our orientation is based on our past. And our vision is very tied into are we in the past? Or are we in the present, you know, a cataract is about being caught in the past? That’s what it is. And when we learn to dissolve, become dissolute, our resolution becomes stronger, our vitality becomes better, our resiliency becomes much more, and this creates more thriving. This is why I like you to wear the opposite lens prescription because it forces you into dissolution. Notice when you put the opposite lens prescription on, and yo

We all have so many responsibilities, it can be hard to take time for self-care. It’s super important for your health, including your eye health, to take time and unplug. We are going to talk about some strategies for getting the most out of a self-care day. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS retreat, eye, lens, clarity, prescription, nearsighted, blur, farsighted, busier, create, system, faster, electronics, challenging, practice, vision, closed, cleanse, oxygenation 00:05 Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. This is called the vision retreat day. And I love this, this is really, really important. I want you to find a day when you can completely unplug from electronics for the entire day. And you’re going to do this eye patch exercise, you might do the opposite lens prescription, I want you to spend time in nature. And I want you to do the somatic eye practice that we’re going to do next. So you’ll see that and I want you to consider doing a cleanse, or a fast during the vision retreat day, when you start doing things like the eye dialogue, wearing the opposite lens prescription, you are detoxing the energy coming out of your eye. Basically, a cataract is toxicity. That’s what it is. And you need to do a cleanse, you need to do a release and reset so that you don’t have to go through this surgical process. And this is what I really like about doing retreats. And you know, not everybody likes this kind of contemplation or this level of responsibility when you’re on your own. Before COVID, every year, I used to do, I used to both take retreats where I would just be a participant. And during the retreat, it would be a seven or eight-day retreat, we would spend three days of that retreat in silence. And usually, the retreats tour in a very nature-based setting, we were the only people there. And it was so amazing to stop talking to stop communicating with electronics. And going into silence is pretty challenging. Because at the very beginning, your mind is going to be going very, very quickly. And probably a lot and what you do with that is you can just write, write it down in the notebook, it’s a way to discharge how busy the mind gets. Like the busier the mind, the more chaotic the mind, the busier and more chaotic the body and the eyes. So mind and eyes are very related. So in doing a retreat, it’s a way for you to start to see some of the influences that maybe are taking you away from your health and wellness. And it’s very difficult today to do self-care. Because when we do self-care, others may perceive it. As we’re being selfish. We’re not thinking about other people. I mean, there’s a variety of things that come up. But what I noticed about people who are healthy is that they are able to take some retreat time so that they can harvest their own energy and replenish and rejuvenate from all this fast-paced living that we’re all doing. 04:48 And I don’t know about you but I think things are going faster today than they were five years ago. And speed is one of the Things that creates compression in the body, the faster we go, the more compressed we become. The more we grip, the more we tighten, tighten up. So this affects our circulation, our oxygenation our immune system, what gives us more inflammation, speed is related to inflammation. So taking a pause, taking a retreat, you know, maybe you live in a family, you’ve got children, you’ve got animals, you’ve got a spouse, maybe you need to get some help to come in so that you can go have a retreat for yourself. I think everybody could benefit from it. You know, you may get some heat from it, you may get some, some resistance from family and friends. But, again, self-care is the way out of this. And the more we practice self-care, we become role models for others, to also practice self-care. And I think that’s a way we’re going to raise the health quotient in our society. Somebody is asking both my eyes are near farsighted, and astigmatic. Could I get a prescription for eye dialogue? Opposite prescription? So there it’s getting kind of complicated. I think what I would say in that is that, let’s say, for example, your right eye is nearsighted. And you’re right is farsighted, just I don’t know. But let’s say there’s a difference going on. Or there’s a near-sighted problem, a distance and a fork farsighted problem near, I would tend to start more with the distance prescription and work with the opposite lens

Let’s talk about blue light. It’s something that we all need to be mindful of during our digital time, especially prolonged or late-night digital time. We will discuss the benefits and harms of blue light and what you can do to protect your eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS light, eye, lens, blue, cataract surgery, yellow tint, clarity, liver, glasses, pupil, filter, orange, cataract, therapy, tanning salon, vision, screen, imbalance, created, notice 00:05 Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. 00:48 So there’s this big rage out in the marketplace, where you can get yellow and orange-tinted glasses. And they are advertised as blue blockers you were in the day, and blue blockers you were in the evening. Now on my webstore, I’ve put together a number of articles and videos, where I talk about the difference between the tins, and something that I created about five years ago, which is called a filter. And let’s go back here. What when you wear an orange or yellow tint, what happens is, is that the pupil starts to dilate more. So in other words, when you’re looking at your computer screen, and you’ve got an orange or yellow tint, you want to minimize the pupil size. Because the pupil is the gatekeeper that allows light into the eyes and eventually into the body. And so if you’re wearing a darker lens, it’s going to dilate the pupil more, and it defeats the purpose. Now yes, it does block some of the blue light, but some of it is also getting in. And in addition to that, the tint makes it dark enough that you may have difficulty actually seeing print the size of the print. And also, in addition to that, you’re getting an imbalance of light and color into the eyes. Now we’re working with color therapy. So we know that when we look at certain colors, it may set us off. And we look at other colors and go wow, these are really relaxing. Well, you don’t want to induce more imbalances into your eyes by looking through an orange or yellow tint if you don’t have to. So I would say, look for a blue filter, blue-blocking filter. Now I have a great one. If you don’t like mine, there are other companies out there, you can google blue-blocking filter. But the blue light definitely affects the lens of the eye, the macula, and the retina. Blue Light also affects our sleep, our mood, and our vision. I would challenge you that stop working on your screens one hour before you go to bed. And if you’re going to be using screen time, especially after 6 pm does something to protect yourself against the blue light. And here’s my last point. And you are you guys and gals are already attuned to this. But let’s say you decide to do the cataract surgery and you get it done. And the filter that’s in the original lens. All of our original lenses have the capability to block some of the blue light that is completely gone. When you have cataract surgery unless they put the blue blocker in the intraocular lens, which isn’t done as a standard practice you get when you get cataract surgery if you don’t protect yourself from the blue light, it could affect you negatively in say about a year I see this with people who have had cataract surgery, who come back and now they’re dealing with macular degeneration. They’re dealing with Retina problems or dealing with glaucoma. So if you do decide to get cataract surgery, you want to make sure to protect your eyes 05:01 And the blue light sources can be televisions, LED lights, all screens. Now, the sun also put out blue light. And that’s okay, we can get a little bit of blue light, especially during the day. The issue really comes in, when we start just digesting or ingesting blue light after 6 pm. What it does is it fulls, the pineal gland, it tricks the pineal to stop producing the sleep hormone, melatonin. So it starts to affect our sleep. And on top of that, think about staring at your screen is similar to going to a tanning salon. Except in a tanning salon, you’re only going to be in there for maybe five minutes, 10 minutes, but you’re not going to be doing it for seven hours, or five hours or two hours, eventually, you’re going to get burned. And this is what the blue light is doing. It’s a chaotic frequency, especially in the lower range, about 395 to 400 nanometers to about 460 nanometers in that range. That is the most chaotic blue light. Now when you get higher than that’s the blue light is therapeutic. That’s the blue light yo

Today we’re talking about eye nutrients. The lens is an avascular tissue, it relies on nutrient absorption indirectly. So, therefore, we have to make sure that we are getting enough of the proper nutrients and making sure we’re targeting it to the lens of the eye. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS cataract, lens, creates, surgery, emf, eye, clarity, talked, glycation, floaters, doctor, protocols, drug, cortical, intraocular lens, blood sugar imbalances, give, oxidative stress 00:05 Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. This sentence is important. The lens is an avascular tissue, it relies on nutrient absorption indirectly. So, therefore, we have to make sure that we are getting enough of the proper nutrients and making sure we’re targeting it to the lens of the eye. So when light enters the eye that this is somebody we’re doing color therapy here. Again, here’s the clear lens right here. This is where the floaters are, this is the vitreous gel, this is the optic nerve. If we can get more nutrients into the lens, it’s going to stay clear like it is here. Again, another picture of the lens. This is a clear lens. So by doing the protocols that I’ve laid out, you can start to discharge to release to get rid of the oxidative stress that has created the cataract in the first place. And we’ve talked about the cataract as an opacity. And this Opacity is going to grow into something that creates a hazy cloudy experience based on the location of the lens, where the cataract is the density, the size. And, again, for many of you, you went to a doctor and they diagnose it, but for some of you, sometimes it’s harder to read. Sometimes there’s glare or reduced depth perception. But I want you to know that a cataract is less defined by age and more defined by its size and location as it’s related to poor oxygenation and hydration in the lens itself because the better the mitochondria are working in the lens. Those are the energy producers, they produce the ATP, you have a better chance of getting rid of the oxidative stress that has accumulated. Now, we have talked about that surgery is an option. But you need to be careful. You need to ask the doctor okay in your procedure, am I going to get dry eyes? Is this going to affect my macula give me macular degeneration? How is my retina gonna handle this? Will I get floaters these are all things that you know in a small percentage of cases, people have this situation. Sometimes there’s blurred vision, difficulty reading, especially if you’re doing multi-focal lenses or, or monovision. Another thing to consider is blue light exposure. I’m going to talk a little more about that in a minute. And what I’m saying is if you’re farsighted before the surgery, you want to be farsighted after the surgery. If you’re nearsighted before the surgery, stay nearsighted after the surgery. That’s where the brain confusion comes in. Now, let’s say you do my protocols and things keep getting worse and worse. And they start interfering with your daily activities, then it’s time to consider surgery. So my challenge to you is to do these protocols for three months. And then if you’re not getting improvement, you can start to think about the surgery. 04:53 Be aware of things like smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, blood sugar imbalances, still drug use, we talked about physical trauma, exposure to chemicals. These all play a role in what you eat have an effect on the lens health. Now I’m going to share something else about the EMF. And this is controversial, that if you were a metal frame for glasses, that’s going to conduct an EMF much more than if you were a plastic frame. So if you were a metal frame, consider getting a plastic frame so that you’re not conducting the EMF into your eyes. Again, we’ve talked about the causes of cataracts steroids are a big cause Not only do steroids cause cataracts, but they also can cause glaucoma, which increases your eye pressure. Here are some other drugs and I think you have this handout. Even things like a lot of ibuprofen, if you’re in a situation with inflammation and pain. Consider other things that you can do to, you know, make this happen. So somebody is asking, Do you have an article on the emotional part of seeing. So my suggestion would be to get my book, creating your personal vision, I talk a lot about in that book, the psycho-emotional aspects of vision. Alright, now the mechanism of the lens

I wanted to share this recent study on the eye-brain connection. This recent study from the University of Rochester stated that 50% of what we see is in the brain. So we take time to break that down and understand what it means for holistic eye care. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, brain, microbiome, bacteria, vision, clarity, exercises, ocular, microbiome, part, habits, studying, question, glasses, systemic, mental, physical therapy, muscles, shape, eye exam 00:05 Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. 00:47 So I’ve talked about the eye-brain connection. And I beat this drum every day. And with this particular statement, there was a study that was done at the University of Rochester, which stated that they did they studied, they’re studying the brain, they were studying the eyes. And their results said that 50% of what we see is in the brain, I would say it’s higher, I would say it’s 90% of what we see is in the brain, and 10% of seeing is in the eye. And the eye exam that you go to, is only exploring that 10%. That’s the sad part about it. There’s so much vision in the brain that is thrown aside, you’re not even evaluating it, because it’s a glasses check, and an eye health check. And that’s it. And so I want you to realize that whatever’s going on in your eyes, there is a systemic, metabolic, and energetic reason why your eyes are letting you down as very little to do with age. So somebody is asking, do cataracts change the shape of the eye? No, they don’t change the shape of the eye. Again, the lens only makes up a very tiny part of the eye. And I’ll put an anatomy shot site slide up in a minute. Now another question is can exercises change the shape of the eye to be more 2020? And the third question is how the exhauster in the eye affects the eyes? So let’s take that question first. There was a blog that I wrote in it’s very good, it’s called Mind Body green. And you can type in Dr. Burn Mind Body green and top type in the ocular microbiome. So the good bacteria, we talked about the microbiome in the gut, that’s the good bacteria and it’s being assaulted. Now, because mineral levels are low in the soil, we’re getting exposed to pesticides, there’s a lot of inflammation in the gut, a lot of times the biome or the microbiome is not optimal. The eyes have their own good bacteria. So when you have any kind of fungal bacteria, viral infection, something like an autoimmune situation like shingles, or herpes zoster is going to wreak havoc on the eyes. And again, you have to look at it from a systemic and metabolic point of view. Because eyedrops by themselves are not really going to boost the ocular microbiome, the things that you can do to help the eyes, but you got to bring the body into it. Now in terms of do exercises change the shape of the eye, yes and no. There are six muscles that attach to the outer part of the eye, that help create the shape of the eye. And if you start doing certain physical therapy exercises, those muscles will start relaxing, and it will start to change the shape of your eye. But I’ve had many, many people who have been very nearsighted or farsighted. And after doing my program, I still measure the same prescription in the eyes. But their visual acuity and ability to read the chart goes back to 2020 Which tells me that most of our seeing is mental and is in the brain. And how we perceive determines what we see. And it’s less about chasing the 2020 and more about understanding the habits and conditioning that affect our eyes. And when you start changing the habits and patterns in the mental realm, it changes how you see things. That’s where the visual system, so much of it is in the brain and not in the eyes. 05:48 Okay, another question from Mark. Does my vision continue to change after cataract surgery, just like it does after getting stronger glasses? So if I get a single focus, iOS, will my vision get worse again? Well, it kind of depends on your ability to sustain and keep your eyes in healthy circulation, oxygenation, maybe doing color therapy, physical therapy exercises. If you do those things, then your eyes are going to stabilize and my experience is that they tend to stabilize more. If you do some extra eye exercises and do a lot of the things that I’m saying. 06:43 Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave

I wanted to share this portion of a recent lecture I gave with you all. It’s important to really understand how our body functions as a whole, rather than just treating a symptom. This is the case for eye care as well and today we are going to look at how you can bring this holistic care into your eye treatments as well. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS lens, cataract, doctor, eye, vision, clarity, bifocal, eye exam, authority figure, matrix, farsightedness, year, nearsightedness, prescription, blurrier, nauseous, disconcerting, exam, yoga practice 00:05 Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. 00:46 When we talk about reversing cataracts, it’s more than just reversing cataracts. It’s connecting to the matrix of our healing. So in other words, our bodies are a result of millions and millions and maybe even billions of years of a planetary process of evil evolution. You know, we had to come from somewhere. So we came from the caveman who came from the dinosaur who came from if we go back, the sea animals and before that, so in other words, there’s a lineage here, that’s very species inclusive. And I know this is a big picture when I’m talking about it, but I feel that what’s happened in western medicine is that we have, have lost the recognition that we get to choose our health. And I said this, I think at the first class, is very easy to go to an authority figure who’s got a degree and is telling you shit, he or she is telling you what to do. And you go, you know, this is not really lining up with my philosophy with my lifestyle. And we’re kind of stuck because the information we’re getting, is not matching what we really want or need. And if we can find somebody who can give us that information, then we can take it, and we can plug it into this matrix. This matrix, this makes a matrix of a multi-dimensional being that’s made up of frequency and vibration, and fascia and connective tissue and fluids and, and so much more than this is who we are. We’re very multi-dimensional. So you’ve heard this story many times, you go to the eye doctor, you go for your yearly exam. And your eye doctor says, Well, you’ve got nearsightedness, or you’ve got farsightedness and they prescribe a lens based on the choice you make which has led which lens is clear number one, or number two, and you basically have about five to 10 seconds to make a decision on which lens is going to be yours. And maybe that day, when you went for the exam, you had a fight with your spouse, or maybe one of your children are sick. Or maybe you have a dog or a cat, who you had to take to the vet or maybe you’re just having a bad day. And so we know that these external environmental things affect our vision that if we’re under stress if we’re you know, not all there, our vision is going to be blurrier. So we go in and we’re in this dark room and we choose lens number two, it’s basically a guess. And we get the prescription and we put it on and we go wow, this doesn’t feel right. Something doesn’t feel right. And it may be I’m feeling dizzy, I’m feeling nauseous. You know this is giving me a headache. And you go back to the doctor and you share the story with him and he says Oh, Jane, don’t worry. I did it right. Just get used to it. Get used to this nausea. It’ll go away. So like a good person. You go okay. And you start suppressing your sensations, your feelings, your vision, and you force yourself into this lens. And so then what happens is, you notice about three minutes later that well, three, three minutes later, let’s say, six months later, 05:26 three minutes later, you walk out of the office and go, wow. And you know, what’s really interesting is I have people that spend 1000s of dollars on their glasses, and they bring them to the exam for me. And they got a shopping full of glasses that they’ve spent 1000s and 1000s of dollars, and they can’t wear it. But anyway, let’s say you, you do force yourself into wearing it. And six months later, you go back and he says, Doc, I can’t see out of these, I’m blurry again. And the doctor is in a great situation, because he says, oh, let’s make it stronger. And so you get the stronger lens, maybe now you’re in a bifocal because now you’re losing not only your distance, clarity, but you’re now having difficulty seeing the small print, maybe the print on your phone, and now you’re in a bif

Today I am sharing a class I did recently where we mediated with Ylang Ylang. I go over how to apply the essential oils and walk you through a meditative process. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS flower, rose mist, oil, eyes, clarity, meditation, few deep breaths, put, blossom, lotus, visualize, connect, laurel leaf, holistic, episode, rose, lang, essential oils, sunflower Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. 00:47 Okay, so this is what we’re gonna do right now. If you have with you, the Ylang Ylang essential oil. I’d like you to get it on and get it out. And I’d like you to put a drop or two on your heart area, I just put some on before I came on. If you don’t have the essential oils, that’s okay. And I’m going to guide you in a short meditation. It’s very short. But it’s going to be insightful in well, certain things. So what I’d like you to do right now, whether you have the oil and you can put it on, if you have the rose mist, you could put spray it around your eyes, it doesn’t matter. If you don’t, you’re going to be in the field. What I’d like you to do is close your eyes get comfortable. And I want you to take three deep breaths very slow. 02:12 Okay, you can put the oil on your third eye, you can put it on your heart, you can put it on your throat, wherever you’re called to do it. So if you haven’t put the oil on, go ahead and do it. And then close your eyes. Just focus internally for a minute. And this is what I want you to do. I want you to visualize your favorite flower. We’ve got a lot of flowers out there could be a carnation, it could be a rose, it could be a jasmine blossom. So just whatever the first thing that comes into your brain. And what I want you to do is I want you to just think about that flower. in your mind’s eye. I want you to picture it. I want you to visualize it. And I want you to connect now to your inner flower. The flower inside of you, maybe it’s this flower, maybe it’s not. I want you to take a moment and I want you to connect to your inner flower. How’s that inner flower doing? How is your inner flower these days? And ask your inner flower. What do you need? Do you need more water? You need more attention. Do you need more food? What is it that is lacking in your inner flower, my house the health of your inner flower? And notice how your inner flower feels emotionally. What you’re feeling there, how’s the connection make a commitment to your inner flower that you’re going to give your inner flower a little more attention each day. You’re going to acknowledge your inner flower and then you can slowly again take a few deep breaths you can open your eyes And in the chat if you wouldn’t mind. Can you share maybe what flower you saw? And what’s the state of your inner flower? Okay, so Gilbert saw sunflower, Elizabeth lotus blossom Pad A Plumeria Wow. Lotus, White Rose, Daisy, awesome hydro grass touch. So this is a really nice meditation to do every day. You can see that some of you have not been attending to your inner flower, your inner beauty, your inner love taking care of yourself. So I offer it to you as another tool to help you connect more deeply to yourself, your inner love. And, again, you can use the rose mist that I recommended you can use the lying line you can even use the Laurel leaf. Those are all possible oils that you can put on first, which can amplify and help you connect to your inner flower as a meditation. And I would invite you to ask your inner flower what is it need, what is your flower need to thrive. So I really appreciate that. 07:19 Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

Today we are talking about color theory and vibrational healing and how the two work together. I take a few questions about the process and really dig into the benefits of this therapy and how it can work for you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS vibrational, healing, measure, energy, vibrational medicine, frequency, reiki, clarity, color, therapy, oil, open, body, homeopathy, class, eyes, essential oil, titled, learn Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. For some of you, this is probably a new subject for others, you have some experience. And they’re probably a few of you, that have been involved in the field of vibrational medicine or energy healing for a long time. So there’s a big range. And my advice would be that for you if you are interested, there’s a really good book, that might be a great introduction for you. And the book is titled, power versus force. Has anybody ever heard of it? You can let me know on the chat. This is written by a psychiatrist named David Hawkins. And David Hawkins had a very interesting career he started off in New York City. And he evolved where eventually he moved to Sedona, Arizona, where he developed the center, and he did a lot of teaching. And it was in the area of vibrational healing and vibration, as it related to words to language. And he has a whole system where there’s a chart, and certain words, create a certain vibration. In other words, create a higher vibration. So for example, you can think of the word fear. That is the lower vibrational state. If you think of the word gratitude, this is a higher vibrational state. And through kinesiology that’s measuring the energy of the body with muscle testing, he was able to come up with a whole system of being able to measure all these different words. And for somebody that’s just starting out, you know, he’s a physician, he’s an MD, and he takes you through a journey, where you really start to understand how everything has a certain frequency. And how to measure things. Well, there are a variety of different ways that one can measure, you can use things like dowsing, you can use pendulums. You can use, as I say, muscle testing, or you can use instrumentation, and there’s a variety of different ways to do that. There’s a product out there called a bio well, and it’s similar to the gdb camera that I use for measuring energy. That could be something you could check into. There are things like the rife machine, r i f e, that’s pretty famous. There’s a body of work called radionics. So you could Google radionics and learn about how frequency works. You could take a class, say in Reiki, so that’s a body-centered therapy where you use your hands and you learn how to open up the energy in yourself and others. Maybe someday I’ll teach a class on vibrational healing and energy medicine that that is a possibility. Certainly aromatherapy in herbs. They have a certain frequency signature and 04:59 you can use your pendulum to measure the energy of the essential oil you’re using if you want to, now you will, you will get to a point where instead of having to measure the energy, that you just get an intuitive feeling, I need this oil, I need that oil. But you know all the oils vibrate at least 115 megahertz or higher. You know when you think about oil, like rose oil that’s pretty universal that that is going to help you on so many levels. But I want to caution you about being in an X treats why I’ve got this condition. So I take that’s not the way vibrational healing works. And as you get more into vibrational medicine, you start to realize there’s actually an alchemical process of being able to mix things together and come up with a solution, or a result that surpasses what the problem was. And I’ve been illustrating my own out chemical abilities for a long time. And even though I’m labeled and as an optometrist, dye doctor, whatever, you may start discovering that I do a lot more than just, you know, the eyes. And in alchemy, you can actually change a lot of things that maybe you didn’t know, you could change. I would put color therapy in that category as well. You know, people are asking me, how do I use the color? What do I do? Basically, color therapy is it’s an immersion in introducing your eyes and your brain and your body to frequencies in the visible spectrum that are going to bring you more balance and harmony. And so, you know, one way to do it is the rainbow you know, you start with

This episode is all about essential oils. We’re digging into laurel leaf, saffron. frankincense, carrot seed, and so many more beneficial essential oils. I am so excited to share this information with you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS essential oil, laurel leaf, eye, saffron, clary sage, talk, frankincense, fennel, medicinal herbs, apollo, inflammation, work, herbal, herbs, phenol, body, rows, rosebud, oil, mist Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. I want to move to Laurel leaf because that’s one of the essential oils that I really spotlighted today. Laurel leaf comes from a shrub or tree the leaves and branches. So tells you it’s Hardy. You know, what’s the, when we have things that come from the branch. You know, there’s the bark involved with it. It’s, you know, one of the arteries, so there’s a circulation component. If you want to go back to Greek history, Laurel leaf was dedicated to Apollo. You know, I happen to go to Greece in November of 2019. I have some colleagues there and I went to the Temple of Apollo and Laura Lee was was was spoken about there and really interesting so I put Laura leaf I did some great videos, video blogs, like some of the pictures on this pre-workshop are from the temples of Apollo and Aesculapius but the essential oil Laura Lee, it is the queen of the lymphatic system. So uplifting sparks your inner vision because it’s Yin, it’s not going to irritate the skin. Okay. Now in one of the applications where I talk about fennel, carrot seeds Frankincense if you gals and guys want to do that, you can add Laurel leaf is number four in that in that now yes in my book I talk about the oil protocol for cataracts Laurel leaf clary sage, Saffron, frankincense and carrot seed. So let’s talk about each of these. I think that’s a great thing. So number one, Laurel leaf is all about length. And when you have a cataract, the water in the lens of the eye is frozen. 02:56 And so you’ve got to get your lymph system working better. And so if you’re going to use Laurel leaf, you need to put it on your body consistently, especially in a major lymph channel. Again, it could be the neck area, it could be under the arms. It could be adding it to your fennel, carrot seed, and frankincense around the eyes. Now number two, clary sage. clary sage is all about and Korean health and it’s not so much better for women or men. Again, because of its adaptogenic properties. It works well for just overall endocrine support adrenals thyroid, okay, pituitary or pineal. So with these oils, you might put the clary sage on another part of your body you might put it on the soles of your feet. The clary sage is if you think there’s a hormonal component, by all means. Now the next one is saffron. saffron is an amazing ingredient circulation-wise. The thing with saffron is it is a hot essential oil. So you have to be very careful if you’re going to put it around the eyes and what I found with saffron when we would do the essential oil around the eye, because of the toxicity of the person, the burning would occur. So you can use saffron essential oils very expensive. I didn’t include it in your program, and many companies won’t carry it. I think that still point aromatics, you may be able to get it through them But what you can do with saffron is cook with it. So you can get ground up saffron. That would be away or you can get it in a capsule form of about 30 milligrams per day. So there are other ways that you can, you can get it. Okay. Now the last one that was mentioned was Cara Tse, actually frankincense and carrot seed, and those are in the protocol for the eye protocol. But here’s the bottom line. And this is the takeaway when you start using a few of the essential oils and notice I just had to get Laura leaf Lang Lang and the hydrosol, which I’ll talk about in a minute. Using those can be enough as a starter if you’ve never used these before. And I said something very interesting, maybe about 10 minutes ago, which is that the more you can be intuitive and listen to your body, what do I need? Where do I need it? That’s the key. That’s the alchemy. for your health. Again, we’re trying to get away from the authority like I’m the doctor, you’re the patient, I’m telling you what to do. Now, in this case, I am a resource. But ultimately, I don’t want or need you to follow what I say, without you tuning into yourself. Well, how does this feel? I know many of

We are continuing our deep dive into essential oils and herbal medicines. We discuss the benefits of Essential Oils and how to use them and how to grow in your essential oil practice. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS essential oils, oils, fennel, frankincense, carrot seed, burning, eyes, tree, laurel leaf, health, clarity, talk, carrier oil, essences, antiviral, smell, hot, put, holistic, improve Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Alright, I want to talk about the word adaptogenic you see it here adaptogen. This means that based on what’s going on in your body, the essential oil is going to bring you a set of balance and harmony based on what you need. And so tonight, you know we’ve got a full group of people, each person is dealing with a different aspect in health and wellness. So when you use the essential oils, it’s going to work individually based on what you need. And with the Laurel leaf, which is one of the oils you have in your that I recommended, it has something in it call it’s hydrophilic which means that what you can do with this Laurel leaf is you can put a couple of drops on the lymphatic area like around the neck, the heart and then take a shower or a bath and the water pushes the essential oil more deeply into your body. So this is a way that you can actually get more or more amplification of the benefits of the essential oil. Now you would only want to do this with certain essential oils because some oils are really hot. And I’m going to talk about how you use those very differently than say the middle-of-the-road essential oils like lavender or Laurel leaf or Frankincense. But there are ways that you can use hot essential oils like coal essential oils so that you don’t burn yourself. A lot of Kima types so I’m going to move on here. There’s a new nutritive value to all the essential oils they have vitamins minerals, you know, for example, we’ve got the tree essences like cedar woods in the furs, very grounding the citruses which are very uplifting. The Eucalyptus is which are helpful for respiratory and immune health. Ginger, which is great for your digestion. So a lot of versatility in these oils. Now I want to say that not all oils are antiviral or antifungal or break the blood-brain barrier. Here is a list of antiviral essences so lemon or lemongrass, the sages rosemary, cinnamon bark, oh my goodness, that’s an amazing, so hot essential oil. But you can put a little bit on your tongue or get a hot mug of water and put a couple of drops of cinnamon bark in the young mountain to save you savory. So there’s a lot of this is a long list of essential oils that are antiviral, if you want to go that direction as a prophylactic to improve your health. Now some of the essential oils are created by the flowers. Some of them are created by the leaves. Some of them are created by the furs, some of them by the peel. So you want to know well where is this essential oil coming from? Because where it comes from, is going to speak to how it’s going to inform you. Let me give you an example. Let’s say we compare the jasmine essential oil with say the for tree and maybe we’re even using like ponderosa pine as an example, that’s a pine tree but we could use you know maybe like a Tamarack or something in the tree family spruce. There’s a big difference. The jasmine because it comes from the flower. It’s going to be softer. It’s going to be gentler. It’s going to be more In feminine, whereas the, the tree essence is going to be deep in the roots. 05:09 Sustainability, being able to live under winter cycles, summer cycles. So there’s stability, there’s a groundedness really good for the adrenal is really good for energy. So very different based on where the essential oil comes from. And I’ve given you a list of plant parts, like for example, let’s say you’re using an essential oil that comes from the seeds. One of my favorites is sweet fennel type, I’m going to talk about that how it affects our eye health. So if you start using a seed, what is that about starting something new birthing something, okay, so you are now in the rhythm of the plant. Okay, as opposed to the rhythm of the cars, the honking the computer, manmade things, and how many health professionals holistic health professional professionals today, say spend 30 minutes in nature. Do it something like forest bathing. Okay, we are out there in the trees and you’re sitting under a tree for 20 or 30

Today we are talking about how and when to use essential oils. Essential oils have really helped me over the years and I have spent a lot of time understanding them and understanding how they work with our bodies and I am excited to share that with you. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS essential oils, peppermint, aromatherapy, anointing, apply, oils, clarity, talk, a little bit, organic substances, put, cotton ball, coming, plants, wet, tamarack, Spotify, intuitive, mechanical equipment, energy 00:05 Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So when you use essential oils, there’s something we talked about cool, called anointing this goes back to a very ancient practice, when you take an essential oil, and you apply it to your body, you are cleansing your energy field, you are penetrating your energy, and you’re coming into the physical body. So this is a sacred act, whether you anoint yourself, or whether you have somebody anointing you applying the oils, you know, in some of my aromatherapy intensives, we would have people in the class and there would be on the last day you would partner up. And one person would be giving a treatment, and one person would be receiving treatment of the essential oils. And I would have maybe 200 essential oils up on my table. And people would go up to the essential oils, and they would intuitively say, you know I need a little bit of Neroli I need a little bit of ponderosa pine and eat a little bit of Tamarack. So it’d be very intuitive, they would learn all the basics the first two days. But on the third day, there is a very strong, intuitive nature related to essential oils. And they would choose those oils and they would be treating their partner by doing some kind of a massage. And this is the power of anointing I used to see it at every class, that anointing was super healing, you first have the essential oil, but then you have the anointing factor, putting it on your partner’s body, your friend’s body, your child’s body, massage, massaging it in, and getting a lot of benefit from that level of care. Now, in some aromatherapy circles, they talk about applying one single essence. That’s another term for essential oil. Or you can layer the essential oils, one on top of the other. And there are different ways that you can apply them to the skin. There’s certain ones that you can drink, the certain ones that you can put in a diffuser and spray in the air. And there are actually some that you can apply internally. Now, since this is for many people, a beginning for them. Where do you start? How do you work with it? Well, before we get to that, it’s important to know where do these essential oils come from? You know, the companies I work with, they practice wildcrafting and biodynamic farming, they put a lot of power and resonance into the essential oil. They’re not using mechanical equipment to harvest they’re doing hand harvesting. They follow the natural rhythms, the full moon, the new moon, they don’t do machine pouring but they hand pour it. So when you hand pour, you are putting your energy into the bottle. This makes a difference. This is why I was saying some of these big corporate companies, they’re doing machine pouring. And the two companies that I recommended for you both do can porn. And since we’re working with vibration and energy, the whole idea is the higher the frequency, the healthier we’re going to be 05:02 Now in my, in my exploration, I like to look for local farmers, small font families that maybe generationally they’ve been in the business, because the field of aromatherapy is certain certainly gotten very well let me say people get on the bandwagon, and they may put a trace of rose or lavender in their soap or they’re, you know, their shampoo. But it’s not really having a therapeutic effect, it smells nice, but it’s not really creating the change that we need to create. Now, when we talk about essential oils, specifically, these are organic substances, they are derived directly from the plants. They’re very diverse. And how they are created is the plant part is heated up, boiled, and steam starts to emerge that contains both the essential oil and some water vapor. And we’re gonna be talking about hydrosols, which are the mist and the regular essential oils, which is very concentrated. Just want to say there’s a real complexity to the essential oils, there’s a real intelligence to these. This is a whole other level than sa

Today we are talking about prescription medicines. I received a question about terazosin and its effect on the eyes, so we go into that and the importance of using pharmaceuticals minimally to maintain your optimum health. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS pharmaceutical drugs, prostate, drug, iris, oxidative stress, called, alpha-blocker, hyperplasia, pupil, pharmaceuticals, medication, doctor, benign prostate, side effects, aromatherapy, health, holistically, naturopathic doctor, men, treat symptoms Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Okay, so there’s a question out there in the audience, and it has to do with a medication called terazosin. And this is for benign prostate hyperplasia BPH, and it happens in over 80% of men, this prostate condition, especially if you’re over the age of 70. And this particular drug is used to help control the prostate hyperplasia. Now the question is, number one, does this contribute to cataract formation? And the answer to that is no, it doesn’t contribute. However, one of the side effects is blurred vision. But the pharmaceutical drug does not cause oxidative stress built up in the lens. But there’s a second issue that comes up and I’m bringing it up because it’s not really talked about very much, but it’s a very serious condition as it relates to this medication. So Tara’s Dawson is, is a form of what we call an alpha-blocker. And this alpha-blocker is used to treat this prostate condition. However, what it can cause is something called intraoperative floppy Iris syndrome. Now the iris is the color portion of the eye, it’s a muscle, and it dictates and governs the pupil, expanding and contracting. So if you take this type of drug, it can create this Iris condition, which will then move you away from being able to get cataract surgery. And there are some things that you can do to maybe reduce the risk of developing this Iris, floppy Iris syndrome. For example, one thing that you could do is take another drug, which is called 1% atropine sulfate, and this will keep the pupil constricted. And if you do that, then it’s not going to affect the iris. However, my advice to this gentleman who’s taking our Senate seminar and any man out there is to start seeking out a functional medicine doctor and an integrative doctor, a naturopathic doctor and get your prostate to work better by using natural holistic methods so that you move away from this whole drug pharmaceutical merry go round that we get on that is wreaking havoc on our bodies. And the fewer pharmaceutical drugs you’re taking, the healthier you’re going to be. And there are many, many things that you can do to boost your prostate health. One of the main ones is that most men that have a reduced prostate health are very deficient in the trace mineral zinc does is an example. But there are many techniques that you can use to improve your circulation, reducing oxidative stress in prostate exercises. Because if you start taking these pharmaceutical drugs, remember pharmaceutical drugs are synthetically made, and I don’t care what drug you’re taking. If you’re on pharmaceutical drugs, and you’re being influenced by all these side effects. It is going to take you away from your health and wellness and one of the side effects is it’s going to affect your eyes and visions. There’s no question about that, that there are some times that you need to use pharmaceuticals, use a lower dose and really try to find ways to get off these medications. None of them are going to support your health and wellness in a vital way. This is why I’m a strong proponent of things like herbs, aromatherapy, essential oils, medicinal mushrooms. 04:53 We’re going to talk about these things today. So that you move off the synthetically made pharmaceuticals Which do nothing but treat symptoms, that’s all they do. Any drug is going to treat a symptom. So in this particular case, sir, I would consider seeing if you could find a doctor who could help you holistically. So that’s my rant for this morning. Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. See you here next time.

In this episode, I give you some insights into what happens if you’re diagnosed with cataracts. I talked about different exercises, like my plus lens to blur the eye dialog, and I recommend some helpful nutrients. We also explore the difference between my approach and a disease-based model approach. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, cataract, lens, blur, continuum, prescription, glasses, nutrients, hypervigilance, oxidative stress, give, talk, adaptive response, reverse, people, dialoguing, body, doctor, strategy, create Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. And in this podcast episode, I give you some insights into what happens if you’re diagnosed with cataracts. And so in the session that I’m giving, I talked about different exercises like my plus lens to blur the eye dialog, and I recommend some nutrients. So I hope you enjoy the show, thanks for listening, the first thing that I would say is, is that the world that you were in when you got the eye exam, is a disease-based model. And when you’re in a disease-based model, basically what’s happening is that the people who are administering the information, they, they’re looking for disease, that’s basically what their whole trip is about. And because of their perspective, or point of view, first of all, they don’t even know that you could actually heal or improve your eyes. I mean, there’s no, like, oh, let’s, let’s trust our body’s intelligence, you know, as we talked about and continuum. And as Emily used to say, The eyes are one of the most unrealized tissues of the body. And, you know, these doctors are wanting to do surgery and drugs, and, but they’re not looking at the bio intelligence of what the eyes have to offer. As it relates, I mean, just to the brain, because the eyes originate. And there’s such old, old tissue, meaning, you know, primordial, in a sense. But on a practical level, I would interpret the test results very differently. And my interpretation is that it’s time for you to embark upon a different strategy with your eyes and vision. Because of the high metabolic need of the eyes, the retina, the optic nerve, I mean, basically, the retina is a sea of microcapillaries. And the lens of the eye relies on its nutrient absorption indirectly, there are no blood vessels that are running to the eye to create nutrients. So the lens of the eye is susceptible to accumulating oxidative stress. And that’s what a cataract is. And actually, for your age, and the fact that they make a statement that you were not going to need surgery for another seven years, or whatever they said that I don’t even know that I would even call it a cataract, I might call it well, you have a little oxidative stress on the lens. And that’s good information for us. Because there are actually specific nutrients that you can take that you can use to get rid of the oxidative stress and the lens, and you can actually target the lens as a way to the metaphor would be to clean out your recycling bin. To get rid of metabolic waste, there are specific ingredients, which I will share with you in a protocol that will erase what they’re seeing. And then in that 03:49 what’s going to happen, it’s also going to help your retinas it’s going to help the cornea. And basically, what is needed here is a strategy of improving certain targeted antioxidants that you need to boost, and then the eyes will revert back to a healthier position. So I’m going to go over those in a minute. Now in terms of the glasses, so any prescription of glasses that you get from the eye doctor is a measurement of an adaptive response that you’re making. You’re making some adaptive response mentally, psychologically, physically, emotionally energetically. And so the doctor is basically he’s just giving you that and what it’s going to do is it’s going to reinforce that the reaction or the adaptive response that you’re making at that moment. So when you reinforce that it’s a closed-loop. Um, you’re destined for more deterioration. And what was really cool about what you shared at the beginning, was your own self-regulation around? Well, you know, I don’t really need lenses very much, I’ll use them a little bit here or in this particular circumstance. And that’s actually the best way to use any prescription, you only use it when you need it, you only use it sparingly. And then you&#8

Today we are digging into color therapy treatment for your eyes, specifically for cataracts. It’s a great tool to use for your eye health! Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS color, therapy, oils, colored glasses, companies, essential oils, aromatherapy, eye, Tuesday, give, buy, therapeutic value, experience, traumas, sprays, topically, adulterated, journaling, terms, carrier oil Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. All right, well, while you might be typing your questions, there have been a number of inquiries about aromatherapy, and color therapy. And we’re going to be doing color therapy on Tuesday. And I have developed the way through zoom, that we can do the color therapy online, and you don’t need any colored glasses. And my suggestion at this point would be to just wait on buying the colored glasses, we are going to be using all the colors, the main colors of the visible spectrum. And I’m going to teach you how to use color therapy to heal not only cataracts, but the eyes in general, and how color therapy can improve your health. So you can experience this color therapy treatment at our next session without having to buy the glasses. Now, once you’ve experienced it, and you understand how we’re utilizing the color therapy, then you can decide, okay, I want to get the colored glasses, are there other ways that I can do this color therapy? So I would say if you’ve got a question about buying the colored glasses, and you’re not sure, and you’re not sure which colors to buy, and all that, just wait, it’s not a problem. And you can use this program that I’m going to send you where you can actually do the color therapy on your computer or your phone. And I’ll talk about the pros and cons of using colored glasses color gels versus having the light projected at you, we can do it both ways. And so this particular technique can work really well at improving your eye health. So let’s hold off on getting the color glasses if you’re concerned. Now in terms of aromatherapy, not all essential oils are manufactured equally, there are some companies out there that because of the volume of manufacturing of the essential oils, you still get the fragrance but you may not get the same therapeutic vibrational value. It’s why you don’t necessarily like using companies that do multi-level marketing, and really big companies. Now, that’s not to say that Young Living or doTERRA are, are not good oils. They are I actually I there’s some central oils I’ve used in both companies. And I’m just making some suggestions about these more boutique companies where the essential oils are higher vibrationally. And they definitely have a higher therapeutic value. So I’m going to leave it up to you if you are comfortable with the essential oils you work with. And you’d rather just use those, that’s totally fine. You know, I’m not financially invested in where you buy your oils. I’m only looking at the companies that give you the highest quality, they test their oils, they’re not adulterated. They’re honest. And they’re therapeutically valuable in terms of making the changes. So you know, if you want to get the oils, I recommend you just go to these websites, and you order them. And if you would rather stay with the companies you like, by all means, do that. And let’s see if we’ve got any questions. It’s best to do color therapy without contacts. If you have. 04:22 Let’s hold on a second. It’s let me go through these questions one by one and I’ll answer him for him. How do you help the AI that is troubled and needs love? Well, what you can do is can you can patch the other I say for 10 minutes, and just really cultivate a better relationship with the AI that’s troubled and need love. So do a little more coverage of the kind of the positive eye and let this other I have more experience on its own and it’ll stop Releasing the history, the conditioning, the traumas, whatever is bothering it, by just having it experience the world as it is. So you can, you know, just walk around with it, you can do some journaling, just do it in a safe place where you can go internal with the eye that needs more love. The dialogue takes maybe five minutes, you know, the length of what we did here. You don’t have to do it for a long time. Alright, a question about color therapy with or without contacts, better without contacts, but you can certainly do i

One question I get asked all the time is, ‘can you reverse cataracts.’ The answer is convoluted and isn’t the same for everyone, but here is a little bit more about my process and some steps you can take that might actually help prevent and reverse cataracts. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS cataracts, eye, eat, disease, doctor, more sophisticated techniques, improve, ocular, lens, Harvard medical school, age, regenerate, patients, scientific principles, artificial sweeteners, Edelman, surgical procedure, eye exam, integrative, regenerative Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So let’s talk a little bit about, can you actually really reverse cataracts? You know, I get this question every day on social media. So you can tell from my gray hair. I’ve been doing this a few years. And when I first started out in practice, my first practice was in the Philadelphia area. That’s where I grew up in Pennsylvania. And I affiliated with a holistic eye doctor, in Philadelphia, his name was Dr. Ellis Edelman. And I started working in his practice when I was 28 years old, he was 62 at the time, and I began counseling patients when they would come for an eye exam, and I would see their cataracts. And I would just offer them some very basic dietary recommendations. You know, like, reduce your sugar, eat more vegetables, have some berries in the summer, stop eating artificial sweeteners and processed foods. And within three months, when I’d had them come back, I find that a high percentage of people had reversed their cataracts. And so I was 2829 30 years old, just getting into practice, way back then, I saw that just by changing your diet a little bit, you could improve your lens health. And of course, today, if we fast forward, I have a lot more sophisticated techniques. So, therefore, my percentage of helping people reverse cataracts is even higher. But when I go into the literature, because I know some people like the science, Harvard Medical School, actually has a specific program called the ocular regenerative Regenerative Medicine Institute. And they’re doing ongoing research on developing methods to regenerate eye tissues from a variety of diseases from glaucoma, macular degeneration, corneal disease, and even ocular cancer. I know most of you found out about cataracts, and you may have been surprised when the doctor told you you had cataracts because you ate pretty well, you had a pretty healthy lifestyle. And then when you ask the question, well, are there any integrative things that one can do to improve lens health, either from a preventative place or proactive place, you’re probably met with a pretty terse, know that we’re just going to watch the cataract ripen, I like to use that word ripen. And once it right ripens, we will take it out. And it’s all because of your age. So I’m going to show you a lot of ways to tap into your regenerative abilities. Now, when I lecture to regular doctors, a lot of times they start laughing when I use the words, eyes, and regeneration in the same sense sentence. But there are some scientific principles that you can’t argue with. The first is that you are not destined just by your DNA. I often say this, that you don’t have to live out your genetic destiny. Just because your mom and dad had XYZ disease. That doesn’t mean that you’re going to get it. I’ve had 1000s of patients who’ve told me that their parents, their grandparents, all had cataracts. And yet here they’re 75 they’re 80 years old. And they don’t have cataracts. I can think of a lady right now is 82 years old. She came to see me when she was 79. She had a severe cataract in her left eye and a had cataract in a right eye. 05:03 And she came to see me because she was really upset because her eye doctor was bullying her and forcing her into a surgical procedure that frankly, she wasn’t ready for. She was not interested in it. And so she sought me out. And within a year, cataracts in the left eye which was severe, went completely away 100% and then the right eye, the cataract one away about 99%, and she still comes to me, she’s a local Santa Fe resident, so I’m able to see her and she’s been coming to me for about three years now. And every week I look at the lens in the right eye and it’s like 99% the cataract is gone. The left eye The lens is completely clear. So, age is not an excuse. And you can regenerate and improve not only your eyes, but your body even as you get into

Here is an excerpt from a class I recently led on cataracts. We dig into the different drugs that can lead to cataracts and tips on how to prolong your sight and prevent cataracts. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS cataracts, lens, drugs, light, glycation, process, eye, proteins, blue, blue blockers, zeaxanthin, pictures, anti-inflammatory agent, acid xanthine, cortical, create, part, protein molecule, oxidative stress, lutein Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Alright, causes of cataracts drugs. So I did a video blog you can go to that article, but I’m going to give you the bullet points. So these are the drugs that can cause cataracts, steroids, primarily used as an anti-inflammatory agent for things like asthma, arthritis, lupus, we include in the family glucocorticoids corticosteroids, prednisone, a lot of people have been on prednisone, hydrocortisone, cortisone. These are other top drugs, top photosynthesizing, birth controls, antihistamines. sulfa, drugs, tranquilizers, antidepressant depressants, oral and anti-diabetic drugs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, things like Advil, ibuprofen, Motrin. These can contribute to the oxidative stress we find in cataracts. Okay, let’s take a question here. Do those blue light glasses and apps work for using digital devices? Yes, they do. I think it’s a three-prong process. I think it’s the blue light blue filter glasses, the ones that I sell. I’ve researched the blue light industry. And what I decided was putting a blue-blocking filter on the backside of the lens, so it’s closest to your eyeball will cut out the most amount of blue light. Now in terms of apps, I am working with a company right now, where I’m going to be probably putting it up on my web store. That is a shield that you can put over your computer or your phone that can add an additional effect of blue blockers. So stay tuned, it’s probably going to happen fairly soon. I’ve been talking with a company for a while. That’s going to make it for me. And number three, the supplements lutein, zeaxanthin, and Xanten are very important for macular health and help block the damaging blue light they deflect it, also the ultraviolet light. So my vitamin has those. Again, lutein, zeaxanthin, and astaxanthine are also important for your lens health. So yes, you should start taking those. Another question is Lyme disease with Bell’s Palsy can that cause cataracts? I would say secondarily, but there’s usually something going on in the metabolism of your nutrients in the lens in the eye and I’ll go into that mechanism in a few minutes. That’s creating oxidative stress. And it’s the oxidative stress that is creating all these cataract situations. Alright, let’s come back here. We’ve talked about these kinds of drugs. Alright, so the mechanism of cataracts, let’s go into this. As I showed you the lens is a transparent tissue. It helps the light pass through the lens to the retina. And the lens is comprised of water, a mix of proteins, and collagen. And cataracts start forming partly because the proteins begin to clump together. And as the proteins consolidate, it causes the lens to go from a white color to a yellow color, and eventually a brown. Now another mechanism with cataracts has to do with something called the glycation process of the lens. This is where a sugar molecule binds to the protein molecule in the lens of the eye and the protein molecules are altered. And there’s a clumping together which creates a cataract on the outer edge of the lens and I’ll show you what it looks like. So if you suffer diabetes, high blood sugar levels, even cardiovascular disease, this induces the glycation process in the eyes. Free radicals which are unstable molecules 04:57 override any good To antioxidants, that’s why you have to really boost your antioxidants to start dissolving and interfering with this glycation process. Okay, now this is a very interesting part of the workshop because what I’ve done here is I’ve taken some photographs, my colleagues have sent me some photographs on different types of cataracts. The first type is called a nuclear cataract, which is found in the center part of the lens, and I’ll show you a picture of it next. Because of the location, it impacts the vision, probably the worst because of blocks your central vision. So here is pictures of what we call a nuclear cataract. It’d be good to know what kind of cataract you have. Maybe it’

Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I wanted to give you a glimpse into an evaluation I did making recommendations with a seven-year-old, autistic child. Now many of you don’t know, but I have specialized in working with children along the autism spectrum. We call it ADD on one end and autism on the other end. And I consult at a facility in Albuquerque called KidPower. You may have heard in some of my other podcasts, where I do trainings with the therapists, and I have extensive education and experience in working with these kids, I love these kids, they’re so awesome. And my kind of eye exam is really different than most eye doctors, we spend most of this time on the floor, believe it or not, because I’m really interested in their sensory-motor development. You know, one of my teachers used to say that when a child comes in for an evaluation, you’re evaluating the eyes and the vision, but you’re really evaluating the total child, the whole child. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, called, primitive reflexes, reflex, focusing, hands, left, board, knees, legs, brain, crawling, test, glasses, vision, evaluation, pencil, put, child, position Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I wanted to give you a glimpse into an evaluation I did making recommendations with a seven year old, autistic child. Now many of you don’t know, but I have specialize in working with children along the autism spectrum. We call it the add on one end and autism on the other end. And I consult at a facility in Albuquerque called kidpower. You may have heard in some of my other podcasts, where I do trainings with the therapists, and I have extensive education and experience in working with these kids, I love these kids, they’re so awesome. And my kind of eye exam is really different than most I doctors, we spend most of this time on the floor, believe it or not, because I’m really interested in their sensory motor development. You know, one of my teachers used to say that when a child comes in for an evaluation, you’re evaluating the eyes and the vision, but you’re really evaluating the total child, the whole child. And so we’re looking at it from a developmental perspective. We’re looking at it from a nutritional and biochemistry perspective. And we’re looking at it from Well, a lot of different facets beyond reading the eye chart, you know, most eye exams, you read the eye chart, they check you for eye health, they give you a pair of glasses, and you’re out the door and unfortunately in the pediatrics world, they put eyedrops in children’s eyes and it paralyzes the focusing muscles and then they end up giving these really whacked out prescriptions, which are too strong they’re too distorted because when you use eye drops, you are paralyzing the focusing muscles inside the eye. So in this boy, he came in with a very imbalanced prescription one eye was a lot more farsighted than the other in terms of the glasses, and he has a condition where his eyes are diverging so when I stray while the other eye wanders out, and then every once in a while he’ll alternate in the wandering eye will come in and fixate. So we call this an alternating exotropia or a divergent strabismus, and he’s had two eye muscle surgeries. And whenever you do eye muscle surgeries, you’re disconnecting the eyes from the brain, it is one of the worst surgeries you could ever do. And it really has a very low success rate. And it’s very eye centric, you know, let’s try to fix the, the strabismus by straightening the eyes through cutting the eye muscles doesn’t work, because it’s the brain that directs the eyes and the eye muscles. And that’s a learned and developed in an organic skill that’s based on our developmental motor patterns. And these patterns start in utero. And one of the body of work that I’ve studied is called the primitive survival reflexes. Now a lot of therapists know about this occupational therapists, I studied with two really fantastic guy, doctors from Scandinavia, and their community there, those eye doctors had been working with primitive reflex therapy for 20 years, you know, when I met them, and the primitive reflexes are governed by the brainstem, that’s the lower functioning part of the brain. There are early motor patterns that start in utero and one of the reasons why we all have these reflex patterns is they help us go into new situations and handle th

Today I give you a view into a session I did with some parents. This is a child who has been diagnosed with his right eye being very nearsighted, and his left eye being very farsighted. And he’s gone through a lot of learning challenges and developmental delays. I’ve been working with him for over two years and he’s made some incredible changes. So I thought I would give you some insight into how we did that. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, ball, motor, sighted, walk, vision, left, body, read, develop, memory, piece, prisms, spatial, important, swing, visualization, motoring, world, distance Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So, you know, if we go back to his like, his exam, that is right, I was nearsighted in his left eye was farsighted. And so if he’s actually seeing clearly at the distance with his right eye, that means his near sight in this has reduced. He’s not as near Well, according to Dr. Slotnick, she speaks Okay, so he’s, we’ve released some tension in his right eye, because myopia is a lot about tension. And so through vision therapy, his right eye is engaging. Now, what’s interesting about the left eye, yeah, that’s farsighted, he should be able to see pretty well in the distance. And you’d have more difficulty seeing up close with the left eye. So that’s kind of odd. That he can’t see things with his left eye. So I’m not sure I’m up close. So his right eyes had historically his right eye is the reading on his left eye is the distance high, just based on nearsighted, farsighted, so the right eye was nearsighted, that’s the eye he reads with the left eye is the far-sighted eye, that’s the eye, he looks into the distance. So he’s gonna have difficulty reading with the left eye, and he’s gonna have difficulty looking into the distance with his right eye. So it doesn’t quite match up with the fact that his right eye sees really well. So he’s got less nearsightedness. But I don’t know about the right or the left eye. You know, if I look at one of Dr. slot next earlier prescriptions, it was, even more, this is the prescription with the prism, the right eye was a 2.75 with prism. And the left eye was a plus 5.25. With prism. Well, that was crazy. So then we 350 went from a five to a 350. And, or a 275. To a, oh, he actually went up in his myopia II, and he went down as far-sighted i. So I didn’t know we’re getting kind of mixed signals there. It’d be interesting to have more of the patch, and read with each eye and see how he does with that. Like patches left eye and give him a book to read. Or give him an iPad. And see if he has to hold the iPad close. Or can he see it is you know, Harmon distance that’s knuckled to the elbow? And then can he read with the left eye? You know, really the best eye screenings are to test how a child reads the print up close. That’s a better telltale signal than reading a distance chart. 03:58 That’s not a very good screening device, honestly. Because a lot of kids have their struggle with reading. And yet that’s not tested at all. So a lot of kids fall through the cracks. You know, when they’re screened, right, so, and the other thing you can do is when you give him something to read, watch his behaviors. You know, watch how he holds his posture, his body, his neck, his facial expression, you know, is he struggling to see it? Is he able to read it easily? I think those are gonna be really good indicators observationally on how he’s going to do with his, his vision, with or without glasses. And if we do prescribe something, it’s going to be on the minimal side. Just to give him some help and support. Yeah, because we don’t want to lock in something too strong. I mean, that’s what the other doctors were doing in prisons. That’s crazy. We’re not going to do that when you were a prison. Um, a basic, you know, imprison your eyes to lock into a certain position. And so there’s no growth and development, it’s basically you know, like wearing a splint, on your leg or you know, so it’s, you know, there are times and places when you might use prisms, you know, in an exercise context, but when you start giving kids prisms, first of all, doesn’t hold, so they need more prisms, stronger prisms. And so what we’ve been doing is the reeducation of getting the two sides, collaborating, talking, communicating, and working together. And we’re do

In this session, I help a person with chronic eye spasms in both eyes. She also has dry eye. I offer many suggestions, and there is a big change within the session time. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, eyelids, part, trauma, sympathetic nervous system, exercise, spasm, called, worked, fingers, state, glasses, irritation, gut, absorbed, blur, put, homeopathic, lens, castor oil Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. So just a couple of notes. When you’re blinking, when that comes in, and you’re doing all that blinking in your nervous system, there’s a part of the nervous system we call the active state, which is the technical term is called the sympathetic nervous system, that’s when you’re awake, you’re working you’re doing. And then when you close your eyes, that is called the resting state or the parasympathetic nervous system. So there needs to be a balance. Another way to say that would be in Chinese medicine, there’s the young y and G, which is the more active state and the Yin, which is more the relaxation state. And so generally speaking, your sympathetic nervous system is really working hard, you know, there’s this blinking going on, and it partly is reflexive, is partly probably habit. It’s partly, probably, I don’t know what the fuck to do. So I’m just gonna do something. And you’re kind of stuck in the sympathetic state unless you do something really radical, like closing your eyes. Or Botox, which is kind of like a paralysis to like, cut the channel for a while. And so the sympathetic nervous system is really turned on at a high level. Now, some interpretations of the sympathetic nervous system would be somebody that’s in a fight or flight, state would probably add, freeze, do that fight flight freeze, like, Oh, my God, this is like, really, I’m in a, almost like a trauma state. It’s like this is high alert. And there’s no blame, there’s no judgment on my part, I’m just kind of looking at your system and going, Man, that’s really odd. They that you’re sitting, your eyes are choosing this spasming, which you don’t like anyway, it’s very annoying, but it’s your kind of your, your default. And you have to do something really strong, to begin to interrupt it. And even when you interrupt it, really, you gotta like Close your eyes. And so why, why are you in this? What are the causes that are creating this scenario, in your vision, which is a connector to your whole body, because it’s not just happening in the eyes, we’re just seeing it in the eyes. But there is something in your nervous system, that saying I need to do this. And so here are some of the causes. I’m not saying they’re your causes. I’m just saying there’s some of the causes. One cause is that there is an eyelid irritation, and inflammation that is interfering with the normal function of the eyelids, which is to comfortably protect your eyes from the outside world from going, you know, like wow, there’s so much out there. Another function of the eyelids is that it’s made your major lymphatic system of the eyes, part of your immune system, part of where the glands are housed, that produce the tears that cover the cornea and lubricate and moisturize your eyes. Now, if there’s any dryness in the eyes, at some point, that is due to the eyelids not being able to produce the proper tears, either due to irritation, inflammation, something going on in an imbalance in the eyelid area, 04:13 if we just kind of focus topically on the eyeball and the eyelids. And when when we have a heightened sympathetic nervous system. There is a tendency for drying out of many of our mucous membranes according to the eyes. So there’s, there’s that piece, there’s another piece that’s going on around the spasm that I’m wondering about that has to do with your focus, your eye focus, and your how your brain and your eyes are interfacing. That creates this spasming. Because the way you choose the Focus, and focus is a skill. You could if we could get you to improve or change how you bring your focus to the world, that might reduce some of the spasming. It’s like, You’re, you’re trying to see you’re trying to focus. But the way you are focusing is a hug. Now, there’s some spasming muscularly going on. So I would kind of put that in the category of functional. Okay, so we had the eyelids, maybe inflammation, then we hav

Today I’m going to take a question from a patient who is dealing with farsightedness, astigmatism, and wearing progressive lenses. And she asked the question about her new progressive lens prescription. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS astigmatism, progressive lenses, prescription, lens, eye, farsightedness, progressive, wear, glasses, vision, computer, remember, warping, drive, moving, screen, chose, intermittently, hear Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey folks, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Today I’m going to take a question from a patient who is dealing with farsightedness, astigmatism, and wearing progressive lenses. And she asked the question about her new progressive lens prescription. And you’ll hear my response. Hey Leanna, I wanted to respond concerning your new prescription and what you’re experiencing. So there’s three aspects to the new progressive lens prescription that I want to report on. Number one, in this new prescription, it is very different than your old progressive lenses. First of all, the lenses are balanced so that each eye has the same prescription. And this is revolutionary for you. Because you’re all prescription had very different prescriptions in your right eye and left eye. And whenever you wear a different prescription in each eye, what it does is it actually reinforces that difference. So by getting the lenses to be the same, it’s a vision exercise to encourage both of your eyes to collaborate better, and that’s what we’re aiming to do. So it’s moving you in a direction of integration. The second aspect of the progressive lens prescription is that I completely took out the astigmatism correction. So when a person wears in the stigmatism prescription for a long period of time, what it does is it creates it creates a warping in their visual perception. And so when you take the astigmatism out, it can be really weird because the warp is gone, but it’s what you’ve been used to. So you go wow, this is like is it more magnified? Is it what’s going on here. So it’s introducing a way for you to reduce the warping in your eyes, in your mind, in your brain and in your body. Now, that’s going to be a process of unwinding. It’s not like an instantaneous. W ow, I don’t have the astigmatism, I really get it. Now we did introduce the computer prescription remember, that was the single vision prescription, and that had no astigmatism in it. And in my notes, it looked as though you really liked it that there was no problem in adjusting to it. But with the progressive lenses, that’s a whole other animal because remembering the progressive lens, it’s splitting your vision into three different levels, and it’s cutting out I would say 70 to 80% of your peripheral vision. So the non astigmatism progressive lenses, I could see where that might be an adjustment for you. Okay, now, here’s number three. When I created the new prescription, one of the things you wanted was some help in the distance with your farsightedness. So I gave you that. And then the middle part of the lens is the same exact prescription as your current computer glasses that you chose. And remember, you went to the drugstore, and you tried on different magnifiers and you chose the plus two. And that’s what I put into the center of the lens. Now below that is the reading prescription, which is about plus 2.50. And it’s really dangerous. I’m saying dangerous. If you plan on using these new progressive lenses for your digital time, I know that most people love using their progressive lenses. Because it’s one lens, it’s convenient, there’s no inconvenience and having to switch glasses, but when you wore those old progressive lenses, that’s what was causing the major deterioration in your vision. So if I had my druthers, I would say do not use the progressive lenses for the computer, because that’s not going to serve you. My advice for using the progressive lenses would be you know if you’re going out and you need to drive In order to be able to see the road sides, but I’m not even sure of that, because I think your report was, you could see fairly well without any prescription, but I’m okay with you wearing them for distance. But you have to remember with the progressive lenses, the only part of the lens you’re using for distance is like the top 20%, which is kind of a bummer, because in drivin

We have a very interesting question today. And I’ve been getting this a lot. So this is from a gentleman who is suffering, what we call mano vision. Now, there are different kinds of monovision. You know, if you go get LASIK surgery or cataract surgery, and the surgeon fixes one eye for distance and the other eye for near, that’s surgical intervention. But this gentleman and I get other questions like this has organic or inherent monovision, which means there wasn’t any surgery, it’s just the right eye has become nearsighted and the left eye becomes farsighted. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, exercises, nearsighted, nearsighted, farsighted, work, glasses, left, lens, brain, images, prescription, reduced, separately, distance, vision, movement, bilateral, lasik surgery, call Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to another AI clarity podcast. We have a very interesting question today. And I’ve been getting this a lot. So this is from a gentleman who is suffering, what we call mano vision. Now, there are different kinds of monovision. You know, if you go get LASIK surgery or cataract surgery, and the surgeon fixes one eye for distance and the other eye for near, that’s a surgical intervention. But this gentleman and I get other questions like this has an organic or an inherent monovision, which means there there wasn’t any surgery, it’s just the right eye has become nearsighted and the left eye is become farsighted. So let’s break this down for you. Because definitely you can improve the condition. So the first principle I teach from is that any eye problem has its roots in the brain, and even in the body in terms of our movement and posture and, and moving through space. So let’s say for example, let’s say the right eye is near sighted, what this means is that the person can see well, up close, that’s the reading eye. So think right eye reading I and then left eye, which is far sighted, left eye distance eye. So when a person is trying to read basically, the right eye is doing all the work. And when the left eye is looking into the distance, the left eye is doing all the work. And, you know, to try to correct with lenses is difficult. I mean, with glasses, it’s nearly impossible, you can kind of do it. But because of the optics of the lens in the glasses, usually doesn’t work very well, because the key word is fusion getting the two eyes to meet in the middle. And when you’re in glasses, that just doesn’t happen. Now with contact lenses, that’s another story because of the reduced distortion in a contact lens, you can actually wear one lens for nearsighted. And one lens for farsighted and eye doctors do this to, you know, eliminate the need for reading glasses, or maybe just reduce the need, but it actually splits the brain. So when we’re dealing with monovision, that the thing we have to know is that we want to try to move in the direction of collaboration, where both eyes can start working together, at least somewhere in the middle, you know, it’s kind of like the husband and the wife are really fighting and there needs to be kind of a re remediation, you know, in Chinese medicine, the right eyes, the father in the left eyes of the mother, in terms of the awareness and consciousness of each eye. So the The goal is to try to bring the eyes in a collaborative way together. So here are three ways that you can do that. Number one, in my physical therapy program, I have a lot of exercises where you’re working each eye separately, like the animal I chart, the thumb exercise, the eye stretch. So these are really great exercises where you get to experience each eye separately. And then when you take the patch away after the exercise, the brain is starting to get both eyes working together. Or at least there’s an awareness of Oh, am I right, I do have a left eye and left eye Oh, I do have a right eye when you take the patch away. 03:31 So I would really work on those eye stretching and eye movement exercises separately. And then I have a binocular vision exercise exercise called the yin yang peripheral vision game, you print out the chart is basically the four pairs of images. And through each pair, what you’re doing is you’re holding the paper up to your nose, you’re mentally looking through the paper, you’re pushing the paper away from yourself, and the two images become three and when the three images

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the benefits of fasting lately, so that’s what we’re going to talk about today. We cover the benefits of fasting, how it works, and who should do it. You might be surprised to know that it can provide more benefits than just weight loss. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS fasting, eyesight, ketones, eat, fast, called, alternate, reduce, liver, eye, doctor, process, medication, health, replenish, heavy machinery, studies, diabetes, benefits, improve Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, folks, it’s Dr. Sam. And I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So in today’s show, I’ve been receiving a number of questions on the relationship of fasting, and improving your eyesight. So fasting is something that people do, primarily as a way to lose weight, that’s usually the primary goal. But one of the aspects of fasting that I really like, is how it can show you your eating habits. And when you start a fasting process, you’re eating fewer calories, and this will definitely help you lose weight. But it also has a very positive effect on many of your internal glands and organs, and specifically, the liver. And in studying Chinese medicine, I realized very early that if you have a healthy liver, you’re going to have better eyesight, less floaters, less deterioration in your eyesight when you go to the eye doctor. So they’re not going to keep increasing your prescription every year, reducing the risk of other eye conditions like cataracts, and glaucoma, or macular degeneration. So, fasting is definitely a procedure that has gained popular popularity, because it’s a way that you can take more responsibility for your health and wellness, without using pharmaceutical drugs, and or surgery. So I’m gonna do a 02:03 caveat here, which is that a before before you do any kind of fasting process, I want you to go to your doctor, and make sure that he or she gives you the go ahead to do the fasting. So this particular information that I’m sharing is for educational purposes only. And it’s not a substitute for your medical care. In fact, certain people shouldn’t be fasting, you know, if you’re pregnant, if you have diabetes, or high blood pressure, or neurological conditions, or you’re just on medications, so you want to make sure that your doctor gives you the clearance. But I’m going to give you a couple of common ways that you can enter the process. And these are just examples. There are many ways to the top of the mountain, that’s a saying I use in terms of different procedures and processes. So let’s look at four ways that you could fast. The first is time restricted, which means that you eat for a limited number of hours and you fast for the rest of the day. And a common window of eating is between six and eight hours, probably the best known as 16 eight, where you eat for eight hours, and you fast for 16 hours. And this is a pretty safe process in entering the fasting procedure. So that would be the first option. The second option is called the alternate day plan. And as it says, You eat every other day because this means different days, week to week, you are fasting so like one option would be to follow it Monday through Saturday and take a break on Sunday. So the alternate day fasting would be number two. Number three is called the five colon two. And it’s similar to the alternate day, but instead, you pick two fasting days during the week. So let’s say Monday and Thursday. And or you could do two days in a row, whatever you know, works for you. And then you eat as you like for the other five days. But you restrict your calories on the off days to about 500 to 800 calories each day. And then there’s the periodic fasting and this is something that you could practice over a month you hit the off button over several days, I would say maybe as many as five days and reduce your calories, and then eat normally for the rest of the month. So fasting is something that can help 05:17 balance out your insulin levels, it can replenish your cellular health. You know, there’s some studies that show that fasting can actually reverse the aging process. There have been a few studies in the New England Journal of Medicine that found that intermittent fasting showed benefits in health risks like heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. And some of the benefits included improving your metabolism, reducing inflammation, and lowering your blood suga

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing best-selling author, Dr. Lynn F. Hellerstein.  We talked about her new book: Expand Your Vision: How to Gain Clarity, Courage, and Confidence. Dr. Hellerstein is a pioneer in vision therapy and author of the award-winning book, See It. Say It. Do It!: The Parent’s & Teacher’s Action Guide to Creating Successful Students & Confident Kids (HiClear Publishing, LLC, 2010), has utilized vision therapy with children and adults with learning-related vision problems, vision perception deficits, or brain injuries, as well as enhancing visual performance for athletes. She has inspired thousands of people to improve their vision and enhance their lives. An international speaker, Dr. Hellerstein has published extensively on vision-related topics and is a faculty member at several optometry schools. She serves as a consultant to schools and rehabilitation facilities. A Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) and American Academy of Optometry, Dr. Hellerstein is Past-President of COVD. She is a co-owner of Hellerstein and Brenner Vision Center, P.C., a full-scope optometry practice in the Denver, Colorado area. Her books are available on Amazon! Her contact information is: [email protected]://www.lynnhellerstein.com SUMMARY KEYWORDS vision, visualization, learning, field, optometrist, people, burnout, therapy, patients, visual, optometry, book, brain injury, called, reading, life, problems, doctor, school Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey folks, it’s Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So we have a very interesting guest today one of my colleagues, I haven’t talked to her in quite a while her name is Dr. Lynn F Hellerstein and let me give you a little background about her. She is a pioneer in the field of vision therapy. And she’s an award winning author. She’s written several books, and she has a new book out. I want to talk about that. And the book is entitled, expand your vision, how to gain clarity, courage and confidence. So, Dr. Hellerstein is really an amazing optometrist she is. Well, she’s a leader in the field of behavioral optometry, developmental optometry, and I certainly have had a great deal of respect. Watching her over the years in her career. She has utilized vision therapy for both children and adults with learning related vision problems, brain injuries, as well as helping athletes enhance their performance. At this point, she is helped 1000s of people improve their vision and enhance their lives. She’s an international best seller. And I’m so excited to have her on Dr. Hellerstein. Welcome to the program. How are you doing today? 01:44 I’m doing great, Sam. It’s so great to be with you. It has been ages since we’ve actually talked. So it’s it’s delightful. And I appreciate the invite. 01:54 Yeah, I want to introduce my community to you. They’re so hungry for another approach. And I care. I mean, I feel like I’m a voice out there, especially in social media, where, you know, it’s great to be able to bring on other holistic optometrists and have them speak about their perspectives. So let’s start with this. How did you get into the field? What What was your What was your starting point? 02:23 Sure. Well, my dad was an optometrist. And actually, my grandfather was an optometrist in the early days where jewelers double up and took a night course and learn how to prescribe glasses. And so, so I’m really a third generation apologist and my family, also the third woman in the state of Colorado, to be an optometrist. So, you know, I just, I feel like I’m a pioneer back then, where, you know, I was one of very few women in my class of optometry. But I got really interested, I’ve always been interested in medicine. And I was on the course to go to med school and be a pediatrician in last minute, I decided I wanted a family, I didn’t really want all those night calls as well. And so I switched optometry. And the reason I was really interested in that field is because of my own vision problems, it’s usually where it starts. I was a, I could see great, didn’t need glasses for seeing. But when it came to reading, and I knew how to read, I had all the vocabulary to read. But very early on your second grade, I’d start reading and before you knew it, my eyelids got heavy and the print started blaring and I was sound asleep. And it didn’t make any difference. What I was reading how long I was r

In this podcast, I give a person the same power of lens in each eye without the astigmatism correction. This is done as a vision exercise. I also discuss some of the causes of farsightedness, how to get the most out of your physical eye therapy, and what are some tips to improve your vision! Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, contacts, vision, energy, reflexes, prescription, left, minutes, called, glasses, cranial, create, stay, warp, feel, contact lenses, clearer, titrating, recoil, healing Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. You can get out of this, this hole, because you’re basically in a hole. What I would love for you to be able to do in your process would be to go, Well, what is the mirror here? What am I learning about my habits, and, you know, my mental makeup around this new experience. And I certainly hope you weren’t trying to drive or write a book with these contact lenses, because that would be a big mistake, not at all. So, you know, like, you go for therapy and the therapist, you start talking, or maybe it’s even the cranial, but maybe not so much. And part of it is getting out of your comfort zone. You know, and yes, things are really different. But it’s supposed to be moving you in a direction of much more open an open system, maybe we should talk about that for a minute. So I care is based I care is basically a closed system. And what is a closed system, a closed system means I do the same thing. Every day, I get up, I have my coffee, you know, I have my whatever for breakfast, my donut, I go to the office I come on. And so there’s very little movement away from the status quo, you basically, that’s why we call it a closed system. And closed systems create amazing deterioration. Amazing. It’s just like, wow, over and over and over again. And with the contacts, what I was trying to do with you, is instill an idea of something called an open system, which means we need to take your vision really, really far from your status quo. And you got to be open to doing that. I mean, you, you know, it can’t be well, I did it was so weird. It was so surreal. I did a few times, and I stopped. Why would you failed in that process was? What did I want? What is it bringing up for me? What am I learning from it? And can I stay the course. Now? Well, let me finish. The thing is, is that in order for you to really shift out of this? Yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s definitely going to take us staying the course. So what I’m saying is, you need to bring your vision into an open system, because what drusen loves, is for you to do the same thing over and over again. And unfortunately, taking the fanciest Tommy out, but the fanciest vitamins I’m taking more vitamins is not going to cut it for you. And the reason why it’s not going to cut it, because you’re still not getting to the causes of what what has caused this to begin with. And so the the supplements, the diets though, homeopathy that all the things you’re doing on a cellular level, unless you shift really deeply, you’re not going to really be able to absorb what those fantastic antioxidants are giving you. And this is a big point here. You know whether it’s a make or break point for you, because what you’ve done in your eyes is you’ve done two things. you’ve pushed the world away and you warped it, pushing it away as farsightedness and warping, warping it is your astigmatism. Perfect, perfect. And what’s really cool about it, is you’ve done it about 20 times more in the right eye than the left eye. At least according to your prescription. Maybe not maybe I’m sorry, that’s not right, maybe 04:43 maybe twice as much. But it’s an interesting interplay between your right eye and left eye. I mean, the bottom line is that most vision problems are based on an energetic block. That’s, that’s emotional. That’s second logical or emotional. And I would love to say, Hey, take your 16 milligrams a lutein. And for some people. That’s it. You’re right. That’s it. And for other people, you know, it’s interesting what happens, they take their 16 milligrams of lutein and the drusen gets worse. Because they’ve set it up inside of them that I really don’t want to heal. You know, there’s some sabotage going on there. There’s some resistance. Oh, yeah. I mean, it’s a small percentage, but there are people that I will counsel, and no matter what they do to improve it

Today we are coving Strabismus. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, midline, adaptive response, tapes, left, turning, divergence, child, glasses, alternating, internalize, working, activities, eyepatch, internalization, part, fixating, paralysis, straight, lens Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everyone in this podcast, I talk about strabismus, that means the two eyes are working together. And this therapist presented a case to me where the child has one eye that straight and one either wanders out, and there’s an alternating situation. And she said that a doctor recommended that the child get some dimestore glasses, some magnification glasses, and put some scotch tape on the outside part of both sides of the glasses, the right lens and the left lens, and you’ll hear my response. And what I recommend in terms of helping anybody who’s got the two eyes not working together. The question is the eyes or one or both eyes are turning out we call that either alternating exotropia or just exotropia is that it’s an over divergence, it’s like, not able to converge. So if you’re using dollar store glasses, and you’re trying to tape, the person is going to have no reference point on why you’re doing that. There’s no learning, there’s no reason why Why are you doing that to me. And so they’re probably going to just do more of it, or they’re going to find another compensating adaptive response. It starts ultimately I feel with developing more of the midline. So and I would even take it to more of the Moro reflex, that midline development is really the key in the eyes feeling safe enough to coming in. So you know, whenever there’s strabismus, we start off and we do some of the activities just during the activity if we can include one of the eyes. So we give each I chance, whether it’s the marzen ball, the ball bounce, I mean almost anything, even vestibular driven activities with the eyepatch. So in other words, we want to allow each eye to grow in their processing. And then the reflex work. So again, this is where what I’m learning about the fear paralysis reflex, that maybe that’s the place to start, because the I’m turning away from life. So the metaphor is the left eyes The mother eye, the right eyes, the father I which I am I fixating more with Is it the right or the left it you know, she usually uses the right one the left. Okay, so so the left is the mother, I’m turning away from the Mother, I’m turning away from my creativity. And I’m looking more with my father I masculine. So you can kind of I was joking with one of my 86 year old patients the other day, and I said I can look at the child’s eyes. And I can pretty much tell what the parents relationship is. It’s in the child’s eyes in their reactions and how they’re aiming their eyes. Because what children do is we internalize the primary relationship. But we don’t know what to do with that internalization. And a lot of times we internalize it through the eyeballs. And so when they start doing some output things, you see the reflection of what they’re living in. So I think that this divergence situation, I don’t think, if anything, what I feel works better with the divergence is putting the tapes on the inside part. Now you might say, Well, that makes no more than it brings the midline awareness. And it really, what’s what needs to happen in strabismus is that there’s an inability to understand your middle, whether it’s your visual metal, your body, metal or both. And by putting the tapes in the middle, you are disrupting the habit of one is straight and one is turned out which either is going to be double vision are probably suppression in the eye that’s turned out. So improving the skill set of like with that left eye turning out more, I might do some tracking to bring that left eye to have to track into midline by itself. Because with the right the right is over dominating the left and that’s why the left says I’m out of here. And so it’s a much bigger, deeper 04:55 solution. And the eyes are just reflecting what’s going on. Not on a body level. And if you look at it that way, I think putting the tapes out there is going to create more of an imprisonment and confusion. You can’t force strabismus to change, especially in kids. It’s an invitation and encouragement because it’s an adaptive response to stress and trauma. Thank you for li

In this episode, we continue talking about the importance of resting and stillness as part of any procedural process. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS stillness, space, body, happening, session, vestibular stimulation, therapeutic, sensation, imprint, talk, interventions, stimulate, settle, birth trauma, healing, process, shoulds, cranial, technique, structure Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam. And in this podcast, I talk about the importance of stillness is stillness overrated, or it’s underrated? Well, I think in a therapeutic setting, stillness is super important in the overall healing quotient that people can gain when we give them the space to relax, to soften, to rest and settle. You know, when I do a session with somebody, and we do a lot of stimulating things, I always build in at the end of the session, some time for them to have some stillness, and I hold the space for them, I’m tracking their nervous system to make sure that everything is okay. But most of the time, when they spend time in stillness, it is a game changer in the therapeutic process. So here’s a short presentation on why I like stillness, something that I’ve learned about the stillness, that I teach people how to listen to their bodies responsiveness, and follow that, instead of overriding it with the shoulds, oh, I shouldn’t really go there, I shouldn’t really do that. And yet, within a structure, so I have to be careful that they just don’t go off. But within that structure, can they follow, there’s bought their bodies impulse, and it’s in mostly in the area of sensation. I don’t necessarily support the emotional part, if it’s a new kind of emotion, maybe, but I don’t want them to, to re stimulate the trauma. So it’s more of the sensation. And you know, it’s not so much for me, this is my opinion, it’s not so much about the trauma, but it’s what we do afterwards. It’s like, okay, we have had a birth trauma. But then what’s there for us after to, you know, integrated process it? And part of the PTSD that goes on going? is there’s nothing, there’s no support around? Well, what do I do with this? What do I do with his imprint? And when they go in the stillness, there is the opportunity for those imprints to surface in a safe way. And then that’s where alumni come in and do some cranial, or, you know, some of the other techniques you’re talking about. But it’s like, it’s a call and response. And the call would be the vestibular stimulation, okay, now, what’s the response, and let the body have its release, unwinding, one of the things that I get frustrated with in the rehab model is that there’s no space for the integration or metabolism and metabolism. And so I’ve learned that if I can hold the space of stillness, and allow the body, the nervous system, the fluid body to express that it will resolve on its own, but it’s outside of my own time, space, you know, expectation, and sometimes the session continues after the formal time it’s over. And I knew that was going to happen with with Caitlin, that the session would go on. And this is my prediction, I didn’t want to say it out loud. But then all of these things would start happening. And I did it because I got out of the way, because I could have stopped it and, you know, try these interventions or whatever. So and I think the more you know, the more you can trust it. And the more secure you are in yourself, then you can hold that space. And then if you see something like oh, again, I bring back that boy that I spoke about a few minutes ago. There were a lot of times I would have to do many interventions to keep him contained because he was way out there, especially when he would come up to our office. So you got to see who you’re you know who you’re dealing with. But that’s that’s why I really like that rest and settle open attention. I think it really offers a potential of healing that goes way beyond the technique or what I think should be happening. Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. see you here next time.

Today we are chatting with Kim Konte. She is the founder of the national non-profit Non-Toxic Neighborhoods (NTN) and a Director of Jane Goodall’s youth service program, and former City of Irvine Community Services Commissioner. In November 2015, Kim helped launch a campaign to raise awareness to protect her children and other Irvine, CA residents. On 11/23/2016 the City of Irvine adopted a historic organic and regenerative land management policy. Since then the City of Irvine has successfully and organically maintained all pest pressure from weeds to rodents, on more than 570 acres of community and neighborhood parks, athletic fields; over 6,000 acres of open space, over 800 acres of public right-of-way, including street medians and parkways; 70,000 trees; and nearly 1.5 million square feet of facilities.   Kim and her team have now assisted over 200 cities, counties, and school districts to ban glyphosate and take organic and regenerative land management policies and legislation online.  NTN has proven that you can have beautiful parks, athletic fields, and open space without the use of harmful and synthetic pesticides. Non-Toxic Neighborhoods and our advisors believe that it should be a basic human right that our children are protected from environmental harm where they live, learn, and play!    Kim was awarded the City of Irvine’s Civic Leader award in 2017 and was added to the Wall of Recognition.  Non-Toxic Neighborhoods to work towards having every child have protection from exposure to harmful and synthetic pesticides. Since 2015 Kim has now assisted over 200 cities, counties, school districts, and New York State ban the use of glyphosate and adopt organic and regenerative practices.  Kim is currently working with Assembly Members and Senators to author a Bill banning Glyphosate from California’s schools and parks as well as many other states. Kim and NTN are currently working to have city leaders around the county adopt the Children’s Environmental Bill of Rights. SPOKANE, WA: With our partner group, Non-Toxic Neighborhoods, the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) developed and is releasing a new model ordinance, the Children’s Environmental Bill of Rights. – https://www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org/news/childrens-environmental-bill-of-rights-model-law-launched.  The model ordinance, intended for passage by cities, towns, counties, and other municipalities across the United States, is focused on protecting children from environmental harm. The model ordinance recognizes the right of children to clean air and water, to be free from synthetic pesticides and toxic chemicals, and to be healthy.  Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS pesticides, glyphosate, city, children, organic, impacts, negative health impacts, parents, connect, utilizing, test, point, people, protect, roundup, nontoxic, work, policies, system, safe Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Well, as promised, I’ve been invited many different guests on my show. And today we have somebody very unique. Her name is Kim Konte, and she is the founder of the national nonprofit, nontoxic neighborhoods. And she is an amazing person who I really admire. I met her on her Instagram posts. And she has assisted over 200 cities, counties and school districts to ban glyphosate and take organic and regenerative land management policies and legislation online. So she’s trying to clean up the environment in all these common lands, like parks and golf courses, and places where people congregate, and we don’t realize how toxic these places are. And she is supportive for of course, parents, pet owners, schools and universities, landscape and professional manager, city managers, government officials. So Kim, I want to bring you on. Thank you for joining us today. Tell me your story on how you started these non toxic neighborhoods, and how it how it’s come about. 01:56 Sure. And thank you so much for having us. And it, it found me my backgrounds in traditional advertising. And I had no idea kind of this is where I would end up. But it happened, just by wanting to be able to protect my children and feeling like as a parent, I had failed them. You know, we have our kids, we love them, we want to enjoy them and make sure they’re in an environment where they’re able to thrive. So when we were living in Bermuda, Bermuda, as a country had been glyphosa

In this episode, we talk about the importance of resting and stillness as part of any procedural process. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS proprioceptive, person, prisms, vestibular system, auditory, tracking, dizziness, settle, open, craniosacral, broadness, feeling, exercise, give, metabolizing, sensory-motor, proprioception, sensory overload, overload, breathing Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, everyone, its Dr. Sam. And in this riff, I am talking to a group of therapists and giving some advice about when you give a technique, an exercise a procedure, it’s very important to build in some relaxation time I call this open awareness or open attention, you know, in a lot of different rehabilitation models, they go from one exercise to the next exercise, and there’s no time for digestion, and metabolizing, the stimulation that you receive. And I consult with a clinic, where I work with a lot of special needs kids, and so they have a very high sensitivity of sensory overload. And so in this conversation, I give some examples on why I like to take breaks, and go into something called rest and settle. So enjoy. Well, like anything that I do, it’s not a cookbook as not, like that’s absolute. And sometimes in the cake mix, you need to actually do both. And it kind of is dependent on the person where they’re at in terms of their nervous system modulation, and the age and where they are in terms of Do they have a sense of their proprioception or not? So one of the things that I think about in the head of the open attention after the vestibular processing is sensory motor overload. And so I have to read the person to see whether or not they actually want more employment, or do they just want to rest and settle and integrated within themselves? It is certainly a more advanced practice, to say, okay, after we’ve done the vestibular system situation, let’s, let’s just go into rest and settle and open attention. But I’m tracking the person’s breathing, I’m tracking how much of the person’s body is contacting with the ground, I may need to add some auditory instructions, you know, are you aware of your breathing? Are you aware of your body? Do you want to move your arms or legs? How are you feeling? So I’m checking in with them, I’m not walking away. 02:51 And so in my energy on an intentional level, is I’m I’m with the person energetically and tracking them as if I was doing some craniosacral on them, except I’m just sitting with them. So I think you’ll have to read the person and decide, okay, do they need some proprioceptive feedback? Do I need to do that? Or can I just guide them in a more passive way and let their body kind of figure it out. In this particular instance, this gal was in a sensory-motor overload. And she was in the space where she was really feeling some dizziness, and it was the first time she felt dizziness through her vision. So the prisms were able to awaken the vestibular system in a beautiful way. And so what I thought was, intuitively, let’s see how she does with it. And as I was tracking her, she seemed her breathing seem to get longer and deeper and slower. So I didn’t need to add the proprioceptive. However, she might come for a session here and she may be in a different place with her nervous system. And then it would be appropriate where you would add some of that proprioceptive feedback, which is perfectly great to do. It could be from everything from you know, joint compression to a weight to putting a weighted vest on her are doing craniosacral with her. So I think you just have to read the level of what’s, what’s going on here. And maybe she does need some help in the appropriate set of like, Where am I in space of, you know, she gets really disoriented. So what you saw or what you heard was a small site snapshot, and the broadness What I might offer and let’s say I had a younger child here who didn’t really understand proprioceptive I would roll him up in a blanket in a taco. And he and his mom, Jennifer, we would push on him after we did the vestibular stimulation, because he just couldn’t handle that. So those are two really different kinds of kids. And so that’s, that’s my answer. What the mom saw was in that moment, that was what her daughter needed. But that might be different here. It might be different each time you do it, but what the powerful thing was is the yo prisms, were able to connect the vision and the a

Today we have a special guest, Emma Destrubé. She is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist and physician of East Asian medicine, as well as a somatic movement therapist and Continuum teacher. Beginning in her teens, she apprenticed under somatic movement pioneer Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum. Together they researched and developed fluid movement/sounding protocols for neuromuscular compromises and other therapeutic applications of somatic movement and breath work practice. Emma holds a private holistic health care/healing arts practice in Los Angeles, where she helps to cultivate vitality with patient-empowering, poetic medicine including acupuncture, herbalism, somatics, and energy work. Her patients are a broad mix of creatives, celebrities, athletes, artists, activists, meditators, and even children. She also teaches weekly online classes called Soma – a Continuum-based subtle movement, breath, and embodied meditation practice that sources somatic inquiry in the wisdom and poetry of Taoist medicine.You can follow her on Instagram at @emmadestrube or check out her website: https://www.emmadestrube.com/aboutMy last name is pronounced DES-true-bay. We can practice together!Credentials: Licensed Acupuncturist, Masters of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nationally-certified Diplomate of East Asian Medicine, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator.Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com SUMMARY KEYWORDSsomatic, body, rhythm, people, feel, broaden, world, Emily, create, tissues, question, support, life, slow, head, move, medicine, speak, connected, hierarchical structures 00:05Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, folks, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today we have a very special guest. She’s a colleague of mine and a friend. And she’s got a lot of great information and wisdom. Her name is Emma, that’s true Bay. And she is a physician of East Asian medicine. She’s also a red registered somatic educator. And she’s also many other things. She’s just an amazing person. Just a little background about her. She’s an herbalist. She also has studied somatic healing and continuum. So she’s a continuum teacher. And we share that in common. We both studied with Emily Conrad, and I’m going to ask her to speak about Emily in a minute. So, Emma, I want to bring you on. And I want to thank you for joining us. And my first question is, how did you get hooked up with Emily and continuum? 01:59Thank you so much, Sam. It’s great to be here. So I came to continuum as a teenager, I was living in Montreal at the time, and I was really ill, I was struggling with the effects of a genetic condition which Western medicine had pretty much no course of action for. And I was at a place where I was really facing my own mortality. And I had come from a background of gymnastics and acrobatics, and circus art. So I was someone who was very physically oriented and identified, and what that that that part of me my body was sort of disintegrating. And so I was looking for some way to engage my self, my body into move, that would feel good and supportive, as opposed to draining and straining, and painful. And so through that I kind of haphazardly through the recommendation of a choreographer friend, was recommended to continue on. And so I started practicing it there with an amazing teacher, Linda, Raven, and Montreal. And it sort of became my lifeline. It was like the one thing that made sense to me, it was the one thing that felt good in my body that that reduced my pain levels that made me feel a sense of vibrancy or aliveness. And through this amazing series of of synchronicities, I came eventually to meet Emily Conrad, the founder. And she and I immediately connected, she looked at me in the eye and said, This is too much for one small human to carry. And what is your life? You would say that? Yeah, it was, let’s see her saying that. Yeah. And to hear that in that place, when I was sort of so I felt so alone and struggling with and, you know, trying to find support for myself. at that young age, it was just like, the only thing that had felt true and a long time. And so she’s like, what is your life? Like, right now? Is there any way that you can move to Santa Monica and work with me? And so I left everything, and I moved out with how she and I connected? Yeah. And then from there, I was just very close apprentice. I was in the studio all the time and doing everything I could to take care of a temple and exchange for our work together. And it was an incredible education. I really feel so for

Here is a lecture I gave on CLubhouse a while ago. We cover Ketosis and the glycemic index. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS ketosis, patients, eyesight, glaucoma, glycemic index foods, disease, metabolic flexibility, blurred vision, sam, retinopathy, macular, blindness, flexibility, eyes, metabolic, macular degeneration, glycemic index, inflammation, vision, carbohydrates Hello, everyone, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. I’d like to say something about ketosis and eyesight, Dr. Sam Berne. And I’m a holistic guy, doctor. And one of the things that I’ve noticed with ketosis is that it actually protects the retina cells against diseases like glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy. And particularly in glaucoma, that is a very serious vascular disease that attacks the optic nerve. And it can cause blindness, that what I’ve observed with my patients, and actually, this was validated by a study done in the Journal of Neuroscience, which said that when people go into the state of ketosis, there’s a lower risk of developing glaucoma. And also, I’ve seen this in certain retinopathy, these, especially diabetic retinopathy. But I want to say one more thing about ketosis and eyesight is that some of my patients that go into ketosis will call me and they have blurred vision. And this blurred vision will fluctuate for a while, and then all of a sudden, they will get much clearer eyesight, and their glasses don’t work as well. And when I do a re exam on them, I find their eyes have improved. But that initial blurred vision sometimes throws people because they don’t understand the relationship and what is happening. And I love what you’re saying about metabolic flexibility, neurological flexibility, and I’m going to bring in visual flexibility in this conversation. I’m Dr. Sam, and I’m out. here I’d like to say something about the glycemic index because I’ve also tracked with my patients, the number one disease for blindness, macular degeneration. And there was a study that was conducted at Tufts University, which made a correlation between people who eat you know, these foods like bread and pasta and rice, and how it affects their macular health, especially the wet macular degeneration, that’s where you need to get the injections. And I call this a very serious mitochondria disease. And I’m always talking to my patients about, you know, eliminating carbohydrates, looking at their glycemic index foods. And again, in terms of the eyes, the macula has one of the highest metabolic needs of the body, and what you’re saying about stress and inflammation, the blue light from screentime, you know, we’re on screentime, all day. All of these things together are a disaster for people’s vision and they lose their ability to see things clearly. So I’m glad that you’re bringing that up about the glycemic index. We need to really educate people on what they’re eating and move them away from all these carbohydrates. Thank you. I’m Dr. Sam, and I’m out. Thank you for listening. I hope you learned something from the EyeClarity podcast show today. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure to subscribe on iTunes or Spotify and leave a review. see you here next time.

Here is a lecture I gave a bit ago. Don’t miss it! Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, visual, pupil, child, sensitivity, defensiveness, add, midline, vision, double, vestibular, reflex, therapy, prisms, practitioner, kids, response, patching, light, alternating Hello, everyone, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. I think visual regard is a very important observational assessment tool. And the reason why I say that is because we get to see the child in their time space environment, you know, they’re outside of that clinical assessment, even, even when,you have an environment, that’s very supportive, but you’re doing like tracking stuff, and, you know, some of the more visual visual tests, it’s a whole different thing when you’re observing them as as it relates to their, you know, to their eye body coordination in space in real space. And that’s why in the testing, my eye exam is really all about, okay, how does this child move through space? What’s their proprioception capability, like the vestibular potential, and that’s why we put the prisms on and we watched them walk, and I’m really observing. In fact, visual regard that might be another interesting thing to add is to have them where the prisons and watch you know where what’s happening with their posture, their their feet, that’s always a big one. And you know, many other things going backwards. That’s, that’s a big one in my in my perspective. But I think that visual regard, I was so happy to see this in your, your testing. But like, for example, over focus child compensates with vision to coordinate body movements and move through space. So we do in our workshops, we actually ask the participant to over focus, please over focus, so we can watch you please. What’s under focus? What do you do when you under focus? And then the additional observations that you have here? Like, yes, putting the metronome on and having to bounce the ball to the metronome? Do they have a regard for their auditory processing? Or are they completely oblivious, and will even ask them, did you hear the metronome? No, you know, and just yesterday, I had a couple of assessments, where each child was unable to track the auditory part of the metronome while they were doing a visual motor task. And so that really showed me a lot around their, you know, their visual information processing. Also with the Marsden ball, like we’ll have them just hit the ball and then we’ll play the Simon says game, we may add the metronome to it. And it will see them fragmenting falling apart. Emily even I was working with a four and a half year old yesterday, it was a telemedicine and we were testing the Moro reflex. And we were doing the starfish and this boy, no matter what could not coordinate his arms with his legs and his head. And his diagnosis was moderate, a stigmatism in the eyes. And he they’ve been to two different eye doctors and they got these huge astigmatism corrections. He’s having no visual symptoms. But you could see how he was fragmenting things and how one side of the body was really different than the other side of the body. And I pointed out to the mom, this is where the astigmatism started. And of course, he was a forceps delivery. The the cord got wrapped around his neck, and he was really twisted up at the very beginning. And so now fast forward to four and a half. And they they put drops in his eyes, and they came up with this farsighted astigmatism correction. So we’re just going to do learning lenses with no astigmatism, and I think it’s going to go great. So that’s where you can actually trace it all the way back to those gestation birth and bonding situations. So I love this, that you’re including it. I don’t think I would add anything to it. But I think it’s a really important part and what I’ve shared here, some of the things of like, you probably see this a lot where kids are always bumping into things, or they’re spilling their drinks, or you know, they’re dropping stuff all the time. And this is that visual regard. I mean, they’re basically again, what I’m bringing to the table Able is can the child start connecting the eyes to the body? And you see in the evaluations, when we start doing that, then all this magic happens. And my hope is that you can really start doing that so that you can get that magic from session to session this session. And I think you can it’s just I’m spotlighting that for you.

Learn to improve your eyesight with these eye exercises. Today we talk about what LASIK surgery does to you eye and how to improve your vision overtime without surgery. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, mental, blur, glasses, muscles, prescription, exercise, clarity, lasik surgery, lasik, wear, stressing, astigmatism, clear, surgery, lens, principle, vision, bursts, ready 00:05 Hello, everyone, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity  podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. The progressive lenses are basically going to tunnel your your vision, I mean, that’s you’re looking through a small compartment. And that’s going to strain your eyes and strain us. If I’m here, if, if I heard you say, Oh, I wear the computer glasses, you know, I’m still school straining and squinting, I’m not seeing the the digits on my spreadsheet clear enough, then I would consider giving you the astigmatism. But when you stop wearing the astigmatism, the eye tends to revert back to its organic shape of being round. vantage of that is that there’s less overall accumulated tension radical around LASIK surgery because there’s a mental component to how your prescription develops, like it just doesn’t develop because you turn a certain age. And it doesn’t just develop based on your genetics. But it develops based on what your mental setup is around your high balls. And with farsighted ness, which is what you you’ve got, there’s a loss of ability of being able to focus with the muscles. That’s why you need the magnification. And once you start wearing the magnification, the muscles become even weaker in the eyes. And then you get to a point where the muscles just get stuck. Because you the magnification makes things bigger. And when you do the LASIK surgery, you’re just changing the shape of the very front of the eye. The problem comes in because you change the shape of the eye but you still have the mental programming that caused the farsightedness to begin with. So now you’ve got two things to manage. You’ve got the the mental, which has caused the situation. But then you have this band aid that you’ve put over the eye with the surgery that says well I know I’m not really that way anymore. And over time, the mental is stronger than the surgery, the LASIK and so that’s why with a lot of people over time, they lose the benefits of the surgery. Now some other side effects of getting that surgery is there’s a tendency to have difficulty with dry, dry eye because you’re messing with the cornea. Already. You already have that. And then on top of that night vision usually gets very distorted with some bursts or light bursts from the headlights. So initially on that, yeah, really bad initially. Initially, the LASIK works, okay, you’re still going to need reading glasses unless they split one eye for distance one eye for near, which is a real nightmare. Because now your brain ignores one of the eyes to focus on the other eye. So is you if you as you as a candidate, I would say that’s a road I don’t think you should go down. Now, the other option which requires some daily or every other day, visual hygiene through an exercise, but now you’re entering into a process that’s gonna take some time to change the current prescription. It’s not an overnight success. So what you have to what you have To decide, in your heart of hearts, do you have it in you energy resources to say, yeah, you know, it’s like somebody saying, Okay, I’m ready to go on the South Beach diet, 05:15 I’m ready to do ketogenic I’m ready to do a fast, I’m ready to start doing daily yoga, are you ready to, I mean, truly ready to say, all right, give me an exercise, I’ll do it every day, you know, a little bit between patients and between my clients, the principle that I discovered, I had some really good teachers when I was just starting out. And they were masters that using glasses, prescriptions to improve people’s eyesight. So I learned it from them. And the concept is that in a completely non demanding situation, so you’ve got to do this, where there’s no visual demand on you, you’re obviously not going to wear these, when you’re trying to balance my checkbook, I will get mad. And I would be, you would be frustrated. Okay, so this needs to be done completely away from any visual demand. Because part of what the exercise is about for you, is understanding your mental relationship to blurry vision, your mental

This is a presentation I gave to a group of occupational therapists on how to evaluate the visual system of spectrum disorder children. I discuss topics like lazy eye, strabismus, neurological imbalances, glasses prescriptions for children, and color therapy which are modalities that I use to help children reach their potential. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, pupil, reflex, vision, therapy, prescription, kids, stigmatism, dullness, prisms, color, visual, relates, gestation, state, means, pupil size, arousal, farsighted, number 00:05 Hello everyone, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions you can send them to Hello at Dr. Sam Berne calm. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. First of all wears glasses and when what you might want to expand upon there is actually what is the prescription? And where that would be valuable to me would be you know, are they farsighted? Are they near sighted do they wear prisms? Are did they have astigmatism? Do they wear bifocals? And why that’s important is that over time? What I would like to teach you is the behavioral manifestations of what does it mean to be farsighted? What does it mean to be near sighted in terms of behavior, spatial understanding posture movements, emotional responses. So just as an example, if somebody is near sighted, they tend to be very defensive. And it can be physically defensive, it can be emotionally defensive. There’s usually a trauma related to nearsightedness. And you could also put on there you know, when they got the first prescription, was it at infancy was when they were a toddler because the earlier they get the prescription, the more the the eyes have taken on some pre verbal imprint. What I’ve seen is the higher the number, the earlier the vision problem has occurred. And this can even go back into gestation you know this, this opens up a whole other conversation, say somebody who’s highly farsighted or highly near sighted, I asked questions about well what happened in gestation, you know, so, and then it comes down to on the reflex level, the fear paralysis and the morrow, it just gives you information. And then you could get into things like strabismus and amblyopia could also be part of that as well. For example, I was working with a child the other day that amblyopia in the left eye and we discovered in gestation, that she had been laying on her left side. And, you know, there was ended up being a breech birth and I associates wanted to do surgery on the eye because there was a bit of a esotropia as well. And I said, No way, we’re not doing that. There was Tor to call us. So there’s, there’s things to understand about that prescription. On the other side of it farsighted. You know those, those folks tend to push the world away. So they want things a lot bigger than they really are and their tonicity their arousal is usually lower. So by being able to insert the prescription, then at one of our classes, we could go into how the prescription relates to a person behaviorally. And so on. The third condition, the stigmatism is a twist in the body. And this sometimes is related to neck issues, cervical compression, some spinal issues. And so, again, knowing that there’s a stigmatism and how that might affect postural Lee, that might affect some of the other reflex things that you’re doing. Based on the handout that you You gave me I’ve been studying that and seeing how myopia hyperopia and astigmatism would relate to those reflexes and where you might want to jump into it. And then prisms are kids wearing prisms, a lot of the eye doctors prescribe you know prism in one eye, which I don’t agree with and we usually take the prisms out and Then what we do is we might prescribe some kind of yoke prisms. bifocals are another issue. A lot of times these kids just can’t wear bifocals. So we have to figure figure that out. So, I guess you could plug into at what level you want to, but at least including the numbers 05:22 would be really great. So my recommendation is to do do it with it on and do it with it off. And this is where you’re going to get subjectively, you know, you can you can do the things right below there like watery red yawning, squinting, like you could add, you could add those behavioral observations with the glasses on with the glasses off. You may discover, like use intuitively know, many times I’ve heard this from you guys, that, you know, this prescription just doesn’t seem right for this child. And you would be able to determine based on some of the, you know, the tracking things you might be doing that, you would say, Yeah, that&

Dr. Kierstin DeWitt is a Licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Registered Acupuncturist practicing community Acupuncture at a non-profit Community Acupuncture Clinic in Ann Arbor, Michigan as well as providing NADA protocol and guided meditation for addiction rehabilitation facilities.  Dr. Kierstin is also a virtual Naturopathic Consultant where she utilizes her Naturopathic, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and training in mind-body medicine to empower her clients through the reconnection of the self in mind, body, and to the world around us. This allows for whole-person healing and long-lasting changes towards health.  Where to find Dr. DeWitt: Instagram: @vibrantly.well  Website: www.vibrantlywell.com Facebook: @vibrantlywell Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS people, resiliency, behaviors, important, self regulation, pathak medicine, body, health, mind, connected, awareness, patterns, starting, dewitt, gaining, self awareness, talk, acupuncture, naturopathic, life 00:05 Hello, everyone, its Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. We have a very interesting guest today. She’s a friend of mine. I actually met her on clubhouse. And I was on her Instagram show and she’s an amazing healer. Her name is Dr. Kierstin DeWitt. She’s a licensed naturopathic doctor registered acupuncturist and she is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that’s a beautiful place. She is in a private practice. She’s got a virtual naturopathic practice that where she utilizes things like traditional Chinese medicine, natural empathy, training and Mind Body medicine. She’s also done a lot of things in the mental health world. She just hosted a health summit. And I’d like to bring her on. Dr. DeWitt, thanks for joining us and I want to start in and I want to ask you, why is it important to begin to address the mind mental emotional component to health early on? 02:00 Hmm Yes, thank you so much for having me on Dr. Sam, it’s so great to see you again and to be able to chat with you it’s always a pleasure chatting with you. Um, so I for me what I kind of discovered as I began working with people with nature Pathak medicine is that if you if we don’t address the what I call the inner self, or that mental emotional component of the self, it’s really challenging to be able to stick with something right. So often with nature, Pathak medicine, we’re, we’re counseling people on how to make those lifestyle changes that are going to help them in the long term. And that takes work, right, it takes you have to have the mindset to be able to make those changes, right, because often we’ve developed these behaviors and these patterns really early on our environment can influence those, right, there’s a lot of external factors. So we need to have that internal or intrinsic drive to want to make those changes. And so if the mind isn’t on board, right, it’s really hard to get the momentum to have the body on board as well. And so it’s really important to start with the mind to start with that inner self, so that we can connect with that part of ourselves, and have a deeper drive to want to make those changes in a deeper understanding of ourselves. So that we can, we can really see why these changes are the right changes for me, right for the person as an individual. Because I think often what we’re seeing, especially now there’s so much information, right? Everyone’s inundated with just so much information, and we don’t know what’s right for us. And so it’s really important. And I know that you speak to this too, just really tuning into kind of that inner guide, and just really better understanding ourselves and, and what you know, what is best for us. And so it takes that, that inner knowing and just really a deeper understanding of ourselves and also what got us to where we are so that we can begin to make those small shifts, so that we can get to where we’re going. So, like I mentioned, what, what I noticed is if you don’t start with that part, then that’s where we find people who you know, they’ll stick with something for maybe a week or a couple of weeks and then they find themselves right back to where they started. Right. We get stuck again. 04:41 Yeah, you know, it’s at least in your field, there’s, you know, an idea of holism or holistic health in visio