Podcast 167: Lecture | Dr. Sam Berne

September 2, 2021 - EyeClarity Podcast

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

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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,

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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 have the functional part. And then the third part, and I’m just wondering about this, I don’t, I have no idea. But I’m just wondering, if on a deep cellular level, that there is something going on cellularly that’s not allowing you to absorb the essential trace minerals that feed the muscles in a normal way. Now, again, I’m not saying this is you at all, but in working with hundreds of people with my called blepharospasm. That’s another term that’s out there, that one of the key trace minerals in that is the form of how you are assimilating and absorbing the trace mineral magnesium.

Okay, that’s one thing. And then another thing is, have you ever been exposed on an agricultural level, to pesticides, or heavy metals. In other words, when I, when I hear the story, I’ve worked with a number a number of people over the years who’ve had this kind of syndrome, and they live near a big agribusiness, they live near a farm, there’s, there’s been some exposure to roundup glyphosate. And there’s a kind of a mirror connection to the gut, internal lining, where there’s a leakiness there, and some of the micro belie in the gut have been damaged by this exposure to some kind of environmental toxicity, I may be way off here. That may not be you, I honor that. But I’m just putting that out there as the third part of the three headed monster that may be impacting your eyes. So back to the lymph, the lymph is definitely plays into the eyes. I don’t think it’s the magic bullet for you. But right on forgetting the lymph drainage, I, because I study cranial sacral, and cranial therapists I have seen or trauma, the cervical spine really connects to the eyes and the eye muscles.

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You see, the thing here is that what’s happening, in my opinion, is that there’s multiple things that you’re trying to juggle. And it’s really, it’s really wreaking havoc on your eye and your eye muscles. And so, like, for example, the the whiplash, I’ve worked a lot with trauma, I’ve worked a lot with traumatic brain injury, and there’s a very strong connection to even old trauma that doesn’t get worked out in the body, it kind of gets absorbed in the body, and that can affect your brain and your vision. But again, I want to caution you, I’m not sure that’s the magic bullet. I will say that one of the keys in longevity, I think is being able to continually release traumas that our system has absorbed. And so if this intuitively feels right to go to this person, and see if it helps release some old trauma. I think again, that takes the pressure off your nervous system, because we’re back to there’s a there’s an overload in your nervous system. That and it’s load to the point where, you know, you’re getting these spasms. Your system is saying I’m overloaded. I can’t discharge this and I have to get shot. walked out of it, oh, there’s a car, okay now.

So, again, there may be multiple things which you are doing that, that in order to get out of this. And so if I may go a little further. So for example, with rosacea, again, I come back to your gut 70% of your immune health is the gut. And if rosacea is something that you’re dealing with, then we would trace it back to Okay, what is going on with your gut health? For me says h o r, e, m, e, ss, you can Google it. And it’s a therapy technique where you’re stressing a part of the body which creates a therapeutic value, they do it in exercise a lot. So we call it the plus lens to blur plus lens to blur, and you do it with each eye separately, there’s no visual demand, you need to do this locked in your bedroom, where there’s no demand on you, once a day, twice a day, see how much traction you get from it. But the layering of it is important. So part of my training is in the somatic field body.

I’ve studied all kinds of things in trauma and body and body intelligence. And because the eyes are part of the body, the body is part of the eyes. So what you’re doing, there is a somatically releasing exercise using the blur as a way to let go. So that moves the setpoint of your vision away from this sympathetic overdrive, that you get into, which is creating the spasm. It’s almost as though the spasm is the signal that you need to tone it way down. Right, it’s not the bad thing. It’s a signal that your your eyes are trying to say to you too much. And we want to move the your growing edge away from the cliff so that you have more resiliency in the function of the muscles. Because it’s some level, you’ve lost a little bit of the resiliency in the spasm comes in the dryness, the whole cycle. Okay, so this is you can do a once a day, you can do it twice a day, you can do it lying down, looking up at the ceiling, I want you to go internal, what am I feeling? When I put this blur on, that’s going to help change the setpoint of where you’re going? I like doing each eye separately. Because each eye needs to have its own experience when you put both eyes together right now,