March 22, 2022 - EyeClarity Podcast
Today we are talking about color therapy. What is it? How did I get started with it? How can it help your eyes? Color therapy can be so beneficial in so many ways. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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color, eye, retina, photoreceptors, therapy, technique, healing, different colors, light, energetic, glasses, class, eyesight, acupuncture meridians, minutes, body, deeply held, blue green color, stare, healer
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 hello@drsamberene.com. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.
I’m going to tell you a brief story. I got interested in color therapy back in, actually the mid 1980s. And I was just starting a practice in Philadelphia. And I received a flyer in the mail about going to a class, healing people’s eyes with color. Now, after that weekend class, Monday morning, I came back into the office into the waiting room, and there was my friend, and her mom. And she had just failed the driver’s license. And she was diagnosed with macular degeneration. She had some retina issues. And she, she was devastated. So I said to my friend, I’ve got this new technique I learned, which is you stare at this color. And there was a cookbook at that point, if you stare at this particular blue green color, 20 minutes a day. What the teachers said for the class is that it could help improve macular health.
So we started a program where the my friend brought her mom in every day. And every day I’d gotten meet her in the waiting room and take her back to my room where there was a color machine. And she would stare at this color. So the color was coming into our eyes. I didn’t really know what I was doing. And after about two weeks, I came out into the waiting room. And I said, Oh my worse, where’s your daughter? And she said, Well, you know, I’m seeing so well, I was able to drive to the office, myself. And I went what. So I took her into my exam room, and I did an eye exam on her. And she was telling the truth, her eyesight had gone from 2400, which is seeing the biggie on the eye chart. And now she was seeing about 2080 which means that she was seeing a fairly small letter at 20 feet. So we can continued with the color therapy.
And when she was done, her visual acuity was 2040, she went back to motor vehicles, and she was able to get her daylights driver’s license. And this was just doing color therapy, there were no supplements, there was no you know, fancy eye exercises or anything like that. So the point of the story was is that, you know, if people look at different colors, it must have some positive effect on the retina because the retina is the part of the eye that captures the the light, you know, the technical term is called photoreceptors. And what I realized was there’s that over a lifetime stress traumas, body toxicities, visual habits, wearing prescriptions that are too strong, begin to shut off the photoreceptors in the retina. And that’s why people have the all these different eye problems, partly because the photoreceptors are not processing the light properly. And if you stimulate the photoreceptors with different light in different colors, then you can regain your eyesight and vision. So if we fast forward many, many years, here we are today.
One of the techniques that I developed was having people look through or look at different colors. And it became an experience where not only was there a physical change in the retina, but there was also an energetic and energetic change in the body. In other words, there was a change in the energy system of the body, whether it’s the acupuncture meridians, or the chakra system, you know, whatever you’re comfortable with or know about, but bottom line is, is that there are certain colors that we look at, that we get attracted to we go towards the color. There may be some colors that we are repulsed by or we don’t like.
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And what I have been teaching to my students and patients is to do what we call the rainbow color therapy session, which is you’ve got those colors that I sent you, which you can play as like a PowerPoint on your computer screen. And you start off by looking Each color now when you look at the color, that that frequency is being projected into your eyes.
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If you take your corrective glasses off, the color is going to go in even more deeply.
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You can even cover an eye and look at a color. And the two simple questions you can ask yourself are, what color do I see? And how does it feel? When you ask the question, how does it feel that gives your eye the opportunity to receive it and metabolize it and digested. And so the photoreceptors of the retina are getting bathe in all of your retina cells, even the ones that maybe aren’t working properly. So you spend anywhere between 30 seconds and two minutes, looking at each color, asking the same question, what do you see? And what do you feel by the time you get to the end of the color session, when you’re done, you can do some palming at the end, if you wish.
And you’re done with the session. Now, in any kind of energetic healing, it’s very different than say doing something like a physical exercise, or taking a drug. That’s a subtle improvement, it’s a subtle change, that over time, there’s going to be more an a more accumulated effect. So if you’re looking for some big change, like oh, I want to throw my glasses away by doing, you know, color therapy, I don’t think that’s going to happen. But in the context of doing everything else, the color therapy is going to improve the function of the photoreceptors of the retina. And so one of the things that you can observe about yourself is What is the color you most like? And what is the color you most dislike? And those are going to tell you things about what is the color that brings you the deepest balance, and what is the color that although it’s going to trigger you, it may bring up or release certain deeply held energies that you didn’t even know existed. I had a patient the other day, Master Healer, done everything super, like, you know, just master all over the place.
I gave her the color yellow. And within 10 seconds, she was triggered into a deep shame about her glasses and having to wear them as a seven year old. And she had done everything. So the color therapy is surprising. The more you do it, it penetrates the defense’s your, your thinking your mind your preconceived ideas. And the other thing I would say is don’t overthink it. Just sit in front of the color. And ask yourself what you see and what you feel. There’s no fancy technique here. It’s not, we’re not asking you to do somersaults. Just look at the color and let the light and the color do the work for you. And trust that whatever the color shows you is what you need. You know, there’s a term that I use called alchemy. You’ve probably heard of that term. And we can do straight eye exercises. And you’ll get good at the eye exercise.
But it’s not really changing anything deeply. Or the things that I’m giving you. Today I want to talk a little bit about aromatherapy if we have time. These energetic techniques, interface with each of us very differently based on what we need for harmony and balance. And for all of us because we are putting so much pressure and stress on our eyes based on the demands today. That when we expose ourselves to these energetic modalities, we have the potential to heal it very, very quickly. If we’re open and one of the sayings I like to use is take what you know and let it go. Like this Master Healer Oh, I’ve done this before I did colorfit Oh, there, there’s nothing to this. I
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said, Well, come on, let’s just, let’s just try it. Okay. And boom, it blindsided her, and it created a huge healing that she’s still reverberating with. So, what I would propose is every day, sit with the rainbow of colors. 30 seconds to two minutes and keep a journal. This is what I, this was my insight today. This is tomorrow, this was my insight, and just start to note, how you’re relating to the colors and how the colors are relating to you. I don’t know if I can say it any more simply. But that’s what I would suggest.
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