May 9, 2022 - EyeClarity Podcast
Walk through these three physical eye therapy stretches with me. They are great for refreshing your eyes and building up that muscle. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at:Â www.drsamberne.com.
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eyes, exercise, tracing, symbols, stress, thumb, feel, distances, muscles, prescription, focusing, doctor, brighter, destress, vision, circulation, closed, cataracts, nose, body
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Alright, so I want to at least talk to you about the physical eye therapy exercises. Okay? This is where you get into the habits with your eyes. Like what? And you know, even say habits, what do you mean? Like how your brain and your eyes interface. There are certain skills in vision. So vision is different than reading the eye chart. Reading part is I’m looking at a chart. That’s like your eyesight. But vision is this skill of how the eyes track an object. They focus, they change the focus with the muscles, the coordination of the eyes, how they work together, how well you’re able to destress your eyes. Because one of the problems that happens with people is they don’t know how to discharge the accumulated stress. I mean, our eyes are like a sponge. Absorb the environment they absorb.
You know, so do you want to absorb stress? Or do you want to absorb therapeutic things? Right, so I’m just gonna go through a couple of possibilities. You don’t have to do this, but I’m going to at least mention it. Okay, so the eyeball has six muscles that move the eyes around. And for most of us, we stay in a very tunneled, you know, position, we’re not doing a lot of movement. So one of the exercise, basically using your thumb and kind of tracing something around the room. So let’s do this right now.
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Okay, cover your left thigh.
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Okay, your thumb, come out. And pick something like across the room, it could be a shelf, a cabinet, a painting a window, and trace your thumb around the object. By moving your thumb like the thumb is tracing the edge. Be aware of your breathing, be aware of your blinking, do it in one direction and then do it in the other direction, then let me know when you’re done.
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Okay, okay, so you’re done. All right.
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So what I’d like you to do now is take your hay and put your hand down the thumb. Okay? And then take your hand away from me from the other eye. And now look around and give me an
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impression.
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What you see what you feel, when you eat reintroduce the left eye after you’ve stretched the right eye? brighter, clearer, more peripheral.
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Yeah, it is a little brighter, actually. Yeah.
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So the key in having good vision is allowing light to come into the eyes. Cover an eye and you do that kind of stretching, and then you reintroduce the eye, you’re accessing something called neuroplasticity.
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Okay. Yeah.
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So you’re creating a new new track a new pathway now that the right eye has changed. And now the left eye has to make an adjustment. So more clarity, and more relaxation. And now let’s do the other eyes. So cover the right eye with your left thumb. Again, pick something out. Trace it around and each direction when you do it, be mindful. I’m breathing. I’m blinking so I’m not just holding my breath. And then let me know when you’re done
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Oh, yeah, it’s a lot brighter.
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brighter. Yeah. So that is a really easy way for you to bring more circulation and oxygenation by stretching the muscles each eye separately. So I’ll send you a video on this. It’s called the thumb game. And he basically just play with you could do it with clouds in the sky. You could do it, you know, just anything beyond, you know, 10 feet where you’re, you’re just doing this little tracing thing with each eye.
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varying distances, your very
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your distances. Because in farsightedness what happens is what you have is you’re losing your Your ability to focus at different distances.
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Uh huh.
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The multiplication lens makes everything bigger. So your mind goes, why bother? I’ll just use the magnification.
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Uh huh. Okay, that’s good. So
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that’s one. A second exercise is more of a focusing exercise where you’re using both eyes at the same time. And it’s a coordination exercise. So what I’m going to send you is a sheet of paper with
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its four symbols. Well, two symbols, eight symbols to. Okay, so you look at
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the top row, again, I’ll send you directions of video and the chart, you hold over right up to your nose, that’s weird. And then you mentally look through the paper and you push it out about 10 inches. And those two symbols that we started with now become three symbols. And when they become three symbols at arm’s length, it means your left eye is focusing on the left symbol, the right eyes focusing on the right symbol. And the middle symbol has both eyes kind of connecting in the middle. So you get the three symbols and you move it around, like I’m doing. You know, maybe for about 30 seconds to a minute, and then you go on to the next pair,
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same thing.
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Okay, so you got four pairs that you’re going to, to turn into three. And as they turn in three, and you move it around, you are exercising both eyes together, and you’re relaxing your vision in the midst of focusing it. Okay. So you spend maybe three to four minutes on the sheet on the exercise, you know, and it’ll just, it’s a calisthenic that remind your eyes and your brain to be integrated, so that one eye is not doing more than the other eye. And you’ll notice that after you do it for a few days, your eyes are gonna feel more limber, they’re gonna feel more vital, like more awake, more active. And this is then where you can start coming down on the on the magnification part. Because you’re now exercising the muscles, the exact opposite of what the glasses are doing, which disconnects you from your muscles.
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Okay. Okay. All right. So again,
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I’ll send you a video and then the shoe shot sheet on that. Okay, there’s one more exercise I talked about, how do you de stress your eyes? How would you even know how to do that we’re not taught, you know, we stretch our body, we relax, we breathe, you know, whatever we’re doing. So I’m going to show you an exercise I’ve created now and we’re going to do it. And so what you’re going to do right now is for have your hands together one time for about 10 seconds, get the heat going. And then you’re going to
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call palm the put the palms of the hands
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over your eyes and they’re closed for that. All right, now I want you to do a normal breath in. Inhale through your nose. On the exhale, mouth is closed. And I want you to make a low audible so I can hear it humming sound.
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Go ahead and try it. Breathe in through the nose. On the exhale, your mouth closed
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okay let’s do it again. I’m supposed to be breathing.
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I mean, breathe in through the nose. On the exhale, keep your mouth closed. So you’re vibrating the sound in your mouth and in your face. Keep going.
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In breathe out, breathe out very slow.
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Well, you’re breathing out while you’re making the humming sound. So the oxygen is leaving as
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going One more
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Okay, now keep your eyes closed, and just drop your hands. Keep your eyes closed. Just drop your hands. And can you report to me what you’re feeling?
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Um, anything that’s in your words? I like
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I definitely sense a lot of light around me even though my eyes are closed.
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That’s fine. Whatever it is. How about on a body level? Do you feel any tingling? Do you feel a release? Do you feel your eyes more? Do you have? Like a like, bring it into the body? What? Yeah,
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I mean, I do definitely feel my eyes. I did feel a little bit of tingling, like in my nose kind of upper lip area.
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Okay. All right, perfect. Now I want you to open your eyes, I want you to look around the room.
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Everything’s really bright and clear. Yeah.
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So what you did there is you released stress and tension that maybe you’ve been carrying for a little bit. And as you know, when we carry stress anywhere, it lowers the circulation. And when you feel the tingling, and by the way, the sinuses are very connected to the eyes. The jaw is very connected to the eyes. What you did there is you by the sound was a way for you to release the tissue. Okay, it the face. And so I would make this a daily practice. And whenever you remember, do this poem, hum. Okay. Your hands are like tuning forks. So when you have them over the eyes, part of that sound somewhere is traveling into the eye tissue, the vitreous, the eyelids, the retina in a way that is creating more circulation. And it’s, in other words, you’re not holding the eyeballs in a certain position.
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Okay. And we did that, what like six times, how many times do we do that six times, six times.
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That’s all you need, you know, you want to do enough where you’re building some momentum. But I want to give you something I want to give you something to chew on here.
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All right.
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statistic. So as you know, I’m kind of a collective i Doctor, I work with a lot of different modalities. And one of the modalities two of the modalities I’ve studied are kind of like cranial sacral therapy. It’s a body centered therapy called somatic. I have also studied Somatic Experiencing Peter Levine when I taught at Esalen in California was about getting in touch with what’s my body feeling. And the eyes are like a dead zone. We don’t feel our eyes very much. We just don’t feel feel our eyes. We you know, the eye doctor says hey, we’re a lens and see you later and I’ll make it stronger. And so when I would study with these therapists, these body centered therapists and we’re all for it overall for offers Emily Conrad and continuum movement. They all said the same thing to me. Because I was the only AI person in the room, you know, what kind of eye doctor would study the body 60 to 80% of body tension is carried in the eyeballs. Wow. The ad print mean, you think about that? And you go wow. You know, I mean, you think about how we relate the first one of the first ways we look at something we look we tighten we we you know, and how do we get rid of that? You know, the way we don’t we just kind of keep perpetuating this lockdown. And then you go to an eye doctor and you’re in lockdown already. And so then the eye doctor is going to give you a lens that’s going to reinforce the lockdown that you’re already in.
Now, why wonder you couldn’t wear any of those prescriptions, because there’s a part of you that’s aware enough to say I feel this is not right. And then you start second guessing yourself because you go, well, it doesn’t feel right. But he’s the doctor, you know, he’s the authority he knows. No, he’s basing a prescription on some idea he learned in a textbook. And like, this is the formula. This is what you do. So he’s not even really looking at your body’s response or your response. And so then you have to come up with well, let me try this older prescription. Because that’s probably when you were looser, you know, you were in a situation where you had less stress. So you’ll well, they don’t like that. Because they’re like, Well, wait a minute, that’s not your current. You know, it’s all based on some idea. And I, you know, I know, I know these guys, because I go to conferences, they all have the same idea. Well, you know, at 40, you need reading glasses and 50. You need bifocals and 60. You get, you know, vitreous detachment, and seven, you get cataracts, and then ad you go blind. That’s kind of in the textbook. Well, I’m calm. I have an 84 year old right now, who is not wearing progressive lenses anymore. She’s healed her cataracts. Her prescription keeps getting better and better every couple of months, because she’s doing eye exercises, and she’s 84 years old. You would say, well, it’s just an anomaly, or that it’s an anecdote.
You know, it’s all on the placebo, I don’t know what they would say. But the thing is, is that 60 to 80% of body tension, if you want to keep your vitreous intact destress your vision and you felt something’s energy moving by simple, you know, and by doing that, and if you get into the, you know, the space of, let me just chill into this. It’s a game changer, you’re going to start seeing more clearly in the distance. And you’re going to start being able to maybe pick up some reading words, with the computer glasses. And, you know, it’s just gonna keep getting better. But of course, if you go to the doctor, you know, they’re gonna, I had a lady on Instagram, she wrote me and she was telling him about some of the things she was doing. And she said, his response was, he just laughed at
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me. Oh, okay. Instead of like,
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do you want to go to a practitioner, it says, you know, I’m curious, what are you doing? That’s interesting. Wow. I didn’t know that. Like a naturopath or an acupuncturist. They’re a little more open minded. They
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are curious, you know, we’re trained in a very fixed model. And, you know, obviously, it’s not working for you. I mean, for a lot of people it is they just
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follow along. That’s cool. My, my approach isn’t for everybody. I’m not
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