March 21, 2023 - EyeClarity Podcast
Today I’m bringing you behind the scenes of a session I did with somebody who’s dealing with nearsightedness and presbyopia. He’s a bit frustrated with the reading glasses because they’re making his eyes worse. So, I unpack his visual situation and we get to the root cause of his visual issues. Once we get to the root cause, we can begin to work on his visual transformation and we can work toward getting rid of his glasses. Enjoy the show.
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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@drsamberne.com.
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Hey, everyone, its Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. So today I bring you behind the scenes, I did a session with somebody who’s got nearsightedness, and also something called presbyopia. So reading glasses up close. But he’s a bit frustrated with the reading glasses because they’re making his eyes worse. And so I unpack his visual situation, and we get to the root cause. And then once we get to the root cause, well, now he can transform his vision, and he probably won’t need his glasses anymore. So I hope you enjoy the show. Thanks so much for tuning in.
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All right, so what what would be your goals and objectives today?
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I’m
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getting a little bit of a handle on whether or not and when I should be wearing these glasses. And whether or not is actually making my vision deteriorate.
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Because I kind of feel like it has. And just kind of steps forward to stop what I’ve noticed to be the diminishment of my vision in the last few months by wearing these glasses more. I don’t know if it’s causative, or correlative or what, but
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I’ve noticed a significant change and I’m wanting to kind of halt the change. And you know, hopefully
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kind of reverse if possible.
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You can do that, of course.
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That was this your first pair of glasses. Yeah.
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It is. Okay. And what prompted you? What prompted you going to an eye doctor to well
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explore that. It was about
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I think it was about this time last year. I was like, okay.
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So it had been for a few years,
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where
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what I noticed the most dramatically was if I looked at my phone first thing in the morning,
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and then, you know, for anywhere from a minute to four or five minutes. And then I stopped looking at it and I looked into distance, I’d be like, oh shit, like, I can’t see anything. It’s like fuzzy everywhere. And it was a dramatic, I noticed a dramatic difference between
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not looking at my phone and going about my business, and then looking at my phone and going about my business. And I’m like, and then I would notice my eyes.
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When I worked on screens a lot
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i
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i would have trouble focusing on like the words would get a little blurry on the screen. And then when I looked
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in the distance, things were a little blurry as well.
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And that got a little worse, like progressively a little worse over time. I had great vision most of my life. Sure you hear this all me?
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And then
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yeah, one is doing one thing and one is doing another as well. I’ve noticed
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and so that’s why I originally went in is it just was getting a little bit worse. And I was like maybe I need something for working on screens and maybe that’ll improve things. And so that was the focus when I went in and talked to this guy and worked with him. And I’ve since moved in.
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I started poking around. I had a friend that was a vision therapist.
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Many years ago, I actually went to a vision therapy conference that she invited me to. And so I was like,
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there is a whole other paradigm of looking at vision. And that’s why I sought you out was because you know, you have the,
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the medical chops, and then you also have the, it seems like a more kind of outside of the box kind of way of approaching how to ameliorate
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conditions, you know, and improve conditions.
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Okay.
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So I want to get a little more
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clarity on this. I have your file from April 16, where you went to Dr. Christiansen, who is a developmental optometrist? And it looks like he gave you a prescription
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for was it for distance or for reading?
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Screens? For screens? Okay. All right. So and you got that prescription? It’s single vision prescription? And was that the prescription you’re referring to that created this? Okay.
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And so you got this in April 2022. How quickly did you notice? Your eyes would get worse? Was it pretty immediate? Or? No, it wasn’t.
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Because at first, I didn’t wear them as much. I use them as needed. Because some, it was like, until recently, some days, I’d wake up, my vision was fine. You know, okay. I don’t have any issues, I can see very well.
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But then, three weeks ago, I went to an NBA game. I was in an arena. And for the first time in my life, I couldn’t see
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clearly, you know, 200 feet away from me, like it was like, and it was how was like, it’s happening. You know, it was felt very disconcerting, but
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yeah, I’m sorry, I forgot my original question was. No, that’s, that’s okay. So you didn’t get a prescription for distance? You just got this computer. Okay, yeah, I can’t see distance with these glasses. I have to take them off to see any sort of distance. So what do you do for distance? Looks like your right eye has got a little more myopia than your left eye? Do you just go without glasses in the distance? Yeah. And you can see,
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I can see pretty good like, right now I’m looking at my window. I can see pretty well and like, you know, there’s some there’s a little blurriness on like, street time, but it’s pretty minimal.
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It’ll get worse sometimes. But right now, it’s pretty good. Like, it’s, it’s not bad.
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Okay, and then I have another report. That’s a CT scan looks like and
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that was oh, that was also during the April Fool’s exam. Did he say anything about the SCT? That doesn’t look.
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I gave it to me. He thought it looked fine, too. Yeah, that’s good. All right. So basically, what’s what’s happening is you’re questioning this prescription, because you’re noticing a market deterioration, it’s like made your eyes worse. And you want another direction, you want to be able to regain your iclk. You can, you can definitely do that. Because the strategies, you know, like, sure.
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I’ll give you the whole thing. Sure. Absolutely.
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So when you went to this vision therapy conference, was this in was this at Pacific University and near Portland, OR?
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It was in Oakland, and I mean, it was literally like 20 years ago, maybe a little under 20. And so this woman, she’s been doing it, she’s like, always been sort of on the cutting edge of healing. And so she’s been doing professionally for I don’t even know how many years now. She’s, she’s much older than me.
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Okay, and she worked closely with Meyer Schneider. I know that. Okay, cool. Yeah, my Schneider is wonderful Bates teacher in the western part of San Francisco. I’ve known him a long time. So sure.
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Well, the first thing I would say is that, you know, when you get any prescription from an eye doctor,
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usually what’s happening is they’re reinforcing the imbalance that you’re coming into the exam with. So,
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you know you’re destined to when you wear it, it’s going to
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it’s going to weaken your eyes. And what you have going on in your, your eyes, at least according to the prescription you sent me is that a distance you’re showing about five times more myopia than the left eye, that may not be your experience, and you’re also showing a small amount of astigmatism, and each
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astigmatism means the eye shape more like an egg or, you know, it’s twisted in some degree.
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And then up close, it’s kind of interesting. The doctor in the right eye is giving you some farsightedness, not much a little bit, but then he doubled the prescription in the left eye.
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And so it’s reinforcing a couple things. When you wear plus lens, a farsighted prescription, you lose your focusing flexibility. So like a minus lens tightens up the muscles, and a plus lens makes the muscles low responsive, like they become flaccid. That’s why anybody that wears magnifying lenses, their eyes are gonna get worse because they’re disconnecting from their eye muscle. Yeah. resiliency. Right, right. And real quick. Like one question. Sure. I just want to share something and see if this confirms what you’re saying. I did this this morning, I and I noticed left my left eye is way more blurry up close than my right.
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So that’s why he made a stronger prescription on my left than my right. Is that right?
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So he’s made, so it’s more blurry on the left side than the right side is?
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When I’m reading up close.
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Yes. So your, your right eye, your right eye, the strength of the right eye is seeing well up close. And the strength of the die is seeing well at the distance. Right veteran? Okay, just want to say,
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Yeah, we’re
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so optically, what’s happening with your brain is you kind of drop out with the right eye at distance, and the left eye is doing more of the work. And then up close your right eye is doing more of the reading, and your left eye drops off. That’s a lot of magnification, they keep your left eye
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as it relates to
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your overall situation, you’re a bit into what we would call in the direction of what we call mono vision.
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So the definition of mono vision is the right eye, in this case is your reading I and your left eyes, your distance side.
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And so any prescriptions you put on over at the try to compensate for that are just going to make things worse.
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I see.
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Right? So this is probably a two step process. Two steps, maybe
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the first step is what I would do is I would
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possibly give you some support of some slight magnification up close, but not nearly as much as what you’re currently wearing.
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And I would also take the astigmatism out because I think that’s interfering with you.
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And the other thing I’m going to say about this mono vision setup is when you prescribe similar or the same prescription in different eyes. So if the eyes are different, but you prescribe the same prescription. It’s like a vision exercise. And it would encourage both eyes to start to work together. It’s going to move you in a direction of better collaboration. Now, it’s not going to be
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so like you’re going to be what?
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It’s not going to be perfect eyesight clarity in the left, right.
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But
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it’s going to be more comfortable, and it’s not going to weaken your eyes. So I’m thinking this
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If
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I would send you a prescription that would just be a
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point 5.50
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And each I
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know a stigmatism
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and you would use that. When you feel you need some support up close. I mean on on your.
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Again what’s going on as your right eye is taking over at the reading position. Right and so we need to engage the left eye but not give it so much magnification and so much a stigmatism that it weakens just stops working. So it stops working. And that’s that’s part of what why that’s why you’re like seeing this drop off. Yeah, exactly what you’re wearing is making it worse. I want to confirm that I want to validate. Thank you.
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Not crazy. And, you know, even this is my beef with and I’m going on the record here, but this is my beef, because I used to be in those organizations with behavioral optometrists, developmental optometrists. But they don’t all practice at the same level, or have the same level of understanding. And it’s why I left the groups because I was going I can’t refer to these people because I was referring to them, but then people will call me up and see whether or not doing what you’re saying. We’re doing. And I had the good fortune. I had the good fortune. When I was in my early career. I was in the northeast and Philly. And there are about five really old developmental, behavioral holistic optometrists. And one of them was my actual optometrist. I went to him, I was almost three times the amount of nearsightedness that you are measuring. And I went to him for six months, and I completely dissolved my myopia. Wow. And I haven’t worn glasses in 30 or 30 years. I see Well, up close. I see well in the distance, and his name was Dr. Albert, a Shankman SHA en que ma N. He wrote a book called Vision enhancement training.
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And Dr. Shankman when I met him, he was in his 70s. And he was semi retired but he was teaching young optometrists and we had a whole class of younger eye doctors like myself, and we went through his vision therapy program, but it was very holistic was very whole body was very mind body. Butter. Shankman was a yoga teacher and a meditation teacher, like a spirit
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component to it. And it was the most potent thing I ever did. Because by dissolving my myopia completely. I had the courage to leave my practice in Philadelphia and moved to New Mexico in the early 1990s. I could have never done that if I was still in my myopia prison cell. Right. Yeah.
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And the other thing that happened is I affiliated with a holistic developmental optometrist that was a a contemporary of Dr. Shankman. His name is Ella settlement. Dr. Adelman. And so I worked with him for five years I became a partner in his practice, but I apprenticed with him. I didn’t make a lot of money at that point. But I apprenticed with him, and I learned how to manage lenses really well.
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And so it was Dr. Adelman. It was Dr. Shankman. There was another old timer I met Dr. Albert a Sutton Su Su TT o n. You could Google him. And Dr. Sutton was an expert in
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well, developmental problems and children he practiced in Colorado for many years. And then he moved to Miami Beach where I met him and he was a professor at Berry College and he taught OTs and psychologists how to do vision therapy, because he knew the the optometrist couldn’t understand what he was saying worked with the vestibular system. When your mind body worked with nutriton. You work with primitive reflexes. Right. And we affiliated with a group of optometrists in Denmark and Sweden, who are way ahead of us. Yeah.
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And so the their methods and then there there was a meeting in in Denmark we would go every year called the Sutton meeting. They
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I’m honored Dr. Sutton for that. And he passed away a long time ago. But in any event, the optometrists in Denmark and Sweden get it because they were doing a lot of holistic things. So it is difficult even in California because I was trained in California and vision therapy. In one of my internships, I spent three months in a very busy vision therapy office in San Diego. And the doctor’s name was Bob Santa, Dr. Robert sanit, was one of my first mentors. And I was going to stay in California, but I decided I wanted to come back to the East Coast. And I enrolled at a place called the gazelle Institute, which where I learned about child development and, you know, vision problems as a whole body situation. And so bottom line is that, I wanted to give you an upgrade in this whole situation, because even though this person was a is a developmental type person, and what I would say is, let’s do plus 50. In each eye, I’ll send you the prescription that you’re paying for this appointment,
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medically licensed, so you can go somewhere in Portland and just get the plus 50s. And you’ll you’ll like that, that’s going to be a nice prescription for you and the left eye is going to be a little funky, it’s gonna go well, I don’t have all the magnification I need. Now, it’ll feel more comfortable, and it’s not weaken your eyes as much. And also, some other tricks to the trade would be at least on screen time, make things a little bigger, if you want to, you know the font on your end. So you don’t need to wear it all the time. But just wear it part time or wear it some of the time. And then we’ll go into B, which is I’ll teach you some vision therapy exercises. They talk to you about nutrition, and maybe some other techniques so that you can move remove this situation because you see you’re nearsighted. And even though the right eye is more than the left, nearsighted people usually don’t need to wear reading glasses.
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Because nearsighted they became nearsighted. Because they see well up close.
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And so that’s a lot of magnification for you to be wearing. I would say too much. Yeah, and need that we need to change course here because
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and that’s what
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it felt like,
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you know,
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it felt like a heavy hammer to me, like, Oh, my God.
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Totally, like about a heavy hammer.
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That’s just too much for you. Yeah. So when we’re done with our session today, I will email you a medical prescription. It’s good anywhere, it’s got all my licenses on numbers and all that
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to be a plus 50. We’re taking the astigmatism out, because you got to get rid of that. We don’t need that.
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Okay, now, part two, there’s a couple of different paths that you can take. And what I like to do with people’s we’re partners in this partners in crime, like some things you might say, No, I don’t want to do that, or, you know, that resonates with me, because we I have so many tools in my toolbox. And you might say yeah, okay, so let me give you the the landscape of what’s possible. One of the techniques that can work really well, to help your reading up close,
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instead of using a magnification lens, is to get yourself a pair of pinhole glasses.
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Have you ever heard of them? I have Yeah.
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I’ve done a fair amount of just kind of poking around. Looking at all.
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Yeah, let me just close this
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in pinhole glasses, I don’t know if you can see me. There we go. Let me sit down again. So these pinhole glasses, if I were to pick up something to read, I would see things really clearly. Because it’s making me focus through the holes. And when you wear a plus lens, it diffuses your focus. And basically what it’s doing is just giving you bigger size. But the price you play pay is you can’t you can’t bring things into focus anymore. Right right. So
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And
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you’re Yeah, so your muscles to do other things. While they’re, they’re just getting flaccid and again the size of things, put your eyes to sleep, you know, any plus lens rates a magnification effect. So why bother? Oh, no, it’s so. So another way instead of you going for magnifiers, if you want to, which is kind of like an exercise is to read with the pinhole glasses, it’s gonna make your eyes move through these
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through these holes that have to see it, you can even move your head a little like I’m doing. Yeah, but bring things into focus.
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Okay, so that’s a that’s a technique, if you don’t know. So here’s the deal. Every prescription in the optometry or ophthalmology world is approved by the FDA. So it’s a prescription. It’s like a drug. And it’s got side effects. And one of the side effects plus lenses and magnification is you’re going to weaken your eyes.
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You guys are just gonna get weak. That’s one of the side effects. Interesting. And I’d say that
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well, the pickles will give you another option, if you don’t want to,
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you know, even wear the magnifier. Now is that something that you would use while on the computer while reading and then you don’t wear them otherwise?
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Exactly. And you can.
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So So part of this process, this can be the hard part or the easy part. You decide. Use your intuition. Trust how your body feels with it.
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And follow that.
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So there isn’t a hard and fast rule or cookbook. But let’s say you put them on and you’re at the computer and go man, I’m working really hard here, I gotta get my work done, then either the font bigger, or put on the plus 50s
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No problem, it’s not going to weaken you. Let’s say you’re on your phone, and you’re like, I’m gonna do some exercise here on my eyes. So yeah, you know, I like this. It’s good. You know, I’m kind of nice to do. I’m working my eyes out. Right, you get to choose how long you want it. And
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so that’s, that’s the pinhole situation. Okay.
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All right now, next.
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I think you need to do some work with each eye separately. Yeah.
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There’s a couple of ways that you can do this.
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We can be creative here. So one of the things I learned when I was studying physical light therapy is a process called hormesis. HRV MES is, it’s really big in the fitness industry. And what it is, is that when you challenge your body, you actually get stronger.
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So if you’re near sighted, in more so in the right eye, you would patch the left eye.
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And you would I would probably just go to the drugstore and get the strongest magnification lens you could find
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plus 250 plus three, and you bring it home. And you take a baseline of the right eye with a patch. So you have to buy a patch at the pharmacy. Take a baseline with the right eye no no prescription and then you put that plus lens on
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and you get to go more into your blur
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and the the practices for one minute, can you relax into the blur?
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That’d be curious to know what the belief system is around blur for you.
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Like, oh, if it’s blurry, I could get hurt. I’m gonna miss something, I’m afraid.
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And whatever mentally you start thinking about when you put that heavy blur on and you’re looking in the distance. That’s probably some of the issues that were happening when you got your first prescription.
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And you might see some mental hypervigilance going into the right I say
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I don’t like this blur amount of control.
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I can’t resolve anything, right?
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So what you’re doing there is you’re desensitizing, your mental reaction to blur. And that’s what causes you’re in myopia.
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hyper vigilance.
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And for some reason, in the right eye, you chose to make your right eye, almost five times more nearsighted than the left eye. That’s why I have a theory about that. And my theory is, is that you like everybody else went to school. And you are asked to perform, you got to read Quinn, you got to write, you got to get an A, you got to whatever it is. And so because now I’m assuming your right eye, right handed, maybe the right eye connects to the left hemisphere of the brain,
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which is your rational analytic? Yeah. And it doesn’t win, get it? This is the deal.
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So the right I said, Look, I’ll just take it on.
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I’ll be the workhorse here. And the price I pay is I’ll just become nearsighted.
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That’s really interesting, because
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that, that really rings true for me, just based on like,
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the onset of it getting worse really coincided with the beginning of this highly stressful, highly technical job where I had to, you know, make 100 page documents and reports, technical reports, everything had to be perfect, you know, and it was way more screen time than I was used to, it was basically be going from a field biologist to go into the office,
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and doing tons of long technical reports with deadlines.
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So that’s very interesting. Yeah, so you know, that might line up. But the exercise is going to release
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that pattern of the right eye having to do it by itself, the workhorse.
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And so when you put on that, that high magnification lens, it’s an exercise lens, that’s about can I relax into the blur.
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So I’m giving you a lot of things here. But when you look through blur, your eyes going to be more receptive to the world. And what it sees, it’s not going to get hung up on, I got to resolve everything I got to make, I got to see the detail. There’s a very creative, intuitive aspect of blur, it’s softening.
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And I want you to find that when you do that exercise over the right eye, and you’re going to do it three times. So you put it on for a minute, process your resistance or whatever, take it off, do it again. Take it off, do it again, take it off. By that third time, your right eye is definitely going to be seeing things more clearly.
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And take the patch off the left eye. Now the left eye is going to relate to the right eye very differently, and you’re going to see more brightness, more clarity.
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Now,
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with the left eye
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this is a little trickier.
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So you’re gonna patch the right eye and because the left eye is now caught in the presbyopia, or farsighted world with that plus lens up close, you’re gonna take if you have, I don’t know if you even have distance classes.
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Do you do you have any distance cold distance glasses, you want to have the left foot through the minus lens up close.
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So when when the left eye is in it’s presbyopia, or farsightedness and when you do a minus lens, you do the same thing. But you’re now
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you’re going to be dealing with on the minus level, it’s going to be blurry, but it’s going to engage the muscles more we’re on the right side the plus lens. It’s about relaxing the muscles. Right? Well, yeah now, if you if you don’t have
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Have an old any minus lens prescription will work. If you don’t have anything, I do sell on my website minus lens, the blur,
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because I doctors won’t maybe you know they’re not going to prescribe. Right?
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Right. So you could get that minus lens.
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And here’s the deal with this, you could work with both eyes in the distance using the plus lens. And you can use the minus lens with both eyes for the reading distance.
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So, you know, you could do the plus lens on the left, I wouldn’t have to be in the distance, because it does have a little nearsightedness.
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And
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it’d be interesting with the right eye because the right eye is the reading I
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to give it the minus lens up close. It’s not gonna like that. Yeah. Yeah. And so it’s basically it sounds, it seems to me and correct me if I’m wrong, but this is like
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tricking the eyes or whatever you want to call it into correcting their
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compensations.
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I would say in another way, okay. Say that, what we want to do is we want to give each eye a much wider or broader visual experience, so that you get to see your subconscious reactions to learn Enos, so it isn’t so much tricking, but we’re, we’re offering a wider experience, so that you would develop more versatility. So in that hormesis example, we’re challenging the, the eye
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in the area that it doesn’t want to go.
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Where you see if you can have a wider both emotional psychological experience around your eyes, that has been elicited by looking through a lens that’s not habitual,
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you’re gonna have to make a problem, you’re gonna have to solve a problem with that.
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Intuitively, this is one of the things with Dr. Shankman that I learned when you were, you know, lenses that are outside your normal way of seeing.
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You can’t rationally figure it out.
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And you’re going to be confronted with the subconscious reasons why you’ve set your eyes up this way.
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Right, you’ve adapted to something.
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And the pattern is what’s leading the the deterioration, and that guy you went to in California, he did his best. But
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you need to unpack what you’re bringing what you’re bringing to Him? Because he’s only again, reinforcing what He’s measuring. Right?
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Yeah, and that’s,
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this could change everything for you. Because you’re like a, you’re like a two headed being. Yeah, you know, astrology, they talk about Gemini, it’s like,
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that’s you, you are one person with your right eye, and you’re another person with your left eye.
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Right.
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So this goes far beyond Well, my eyesight is deteriorating, well, good. Got your attention.
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So that’s one set of exercises that you can, you know, immerse yourself in. I would do something every day in that kind of interaction, because the more you interrupt your habit, the faster you’ll see change, the more free you’ll become.
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Now, there’s another exercise that you can do with the eyepatch called the eye dialogue, where you cover the left eye and you ask the right eye some questions. And I’ll send you a
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kind of a questionnaire that you can ask.
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And that’s going to that’s going to give you information on your inner vision or what’s behind the eye.
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It’s gonna make you more aware of what you’re projecting out into the world through your right eye. I call it the inner vision exam.
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And then you do the same with the left eye and I bet your right eye and left eye are having a marriage problem.
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That’s one of the questions masking.
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Right? It you know, you’re married to the left and the left, do you know you’re married to the right. And so you need to bring that into the light on the discrepancy between your two eyes. Because like I said, your right eye, and your left eye looks in the distance.
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I sleep in separate bedrooms. Yeah, you know, so. So that would be the second thing that you would do. And then the third thing that you would do is introduce an exercise, which I’ll send you the link to. It’s called the Yin Yang, peripheral vision exercise. It’s called the Yin Yang, because the first
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set of images on this piece of paper that I have is two images of a yin yang symbol. And you have to focus with both eyes to make a third Yin Yang symbol. And when you make that third Yin Yang symbol, now your left eye is engaging with the right eye simultaneously.
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Okay, and so the more you do that kind of exercise, which puts you both of your eyes into the same functional sphere, then your left eye is going to help your right eye in the reading. And your right eye is going to help your left eye in the distance, then you won’t need glasses at all.
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That’s the goal. So So yeah, so you know, look, if I can do it, you can do it. I was taught in optometry school, you can never improve your vision. That was our first year. Yeah, Jesus. And when I did it, and I went back to the school, they said, Well, that’s nice kid is anecdotal. You know, you’re on your own. They’re not. They’re not invested in that. I mean, in a regular eye doctor’s office, you go for an exam every year, and they keep making the glasses stronger. So they get to sell you more glasses. Yeah. And it gets worse. People just Yeah. And people are like, yeah, here’s a new prescription, a new prescription and a new prescription. And it gets worse and worse and worse. My girlfriend wears contacts all day,
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every day. Exactly. You know, and then she takes him off at night, and then she can’t see
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it.
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So
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have her go a day without her lenses that will change your life. Right? Do it as you and as a vision retreat. detox. So you know, there’s no demand on her and have her track our emotional
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response to
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not using them.
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You know, it needs to be in a kind of a retreat, kind of. Okay, home today. But
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yeah, but for you, I think working with these opposite lens prescriptions to give you more flexibility and versatility and understand mentally, what you don’t like about blur?
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Because you blurred out that right eye in the distance. So you could function better up close.
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But you didn’t the left. I didn’t do that. And the left eye is your intuitive eye. It’s the bright brain
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shot. It’s like oh, I’ll see you I’ll do the distance viewing and you do the near viewing. And so you split yourself.
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Yeah, right. So we’re gonna give you the same lenses in each eye the plus 50 and then we’re going to ask you to do the plus lens, the blur
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and the minus lens, the blur
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and the eye dialogue and the
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Yin Yang chart. Work those for three months and then let’s see where you are. Okay.
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Some other things I would make sure you’re doing
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Get it Get Enough Healthy Fats and oils in your body daily.
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That is for you. What does that look? Do you know the brain? What kind of amounts does that look like for you? I’ve been taking a fish oil
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I also eat lots of nuts and seeds. So I feel like I’m that’s that’s definitely there but
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probably 15 to 2000 milligrams a day would be good.
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Okay, in that in that realm, and then just brightly colored vegetables, you know, as best as you can they, especially the red, orange, yellow, green, you know, berries are the good. And,
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you know, I think, take care of your liver, because liver and eyes go together from acupuncture.
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If you’re into cranial sacral, you can go get some cranial work that would unwind any astigmatism pattern in the body,
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if you’re so inclined to do that.
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And, yeah, that’s basically,
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you know, just just eat well, and try not to do too much processed foods and processed sugars and,
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you know,
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try to get good dental care and
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take breaks from screens when you can, I mean, you know, in this research, they say, you should be
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getting 10 to 30 minutes of far away gazing, you know, a day
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to offset the computer focus.
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Even if it’s cloudy, where you are getting out into the, to the sun, sunlight in the morning.
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I wouldn’t worry too much about the blue light. But, you know, again, if you’re at least stop if you can doing screens, a half hour to an hour before bed.
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If you do if you want to with this plus 50 You can get you know, the blue, blue protect on there. Okay.
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But that’s kind of up to you.
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And that’s that’s basically it. I mean, for you. It’s more functional. Psychological.
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There’s insight here for you about healing something between your right in your left. Yeah.
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That’s really what this is about. I mean, I think another thing is the right is probably working. Speak much more speedier than the left.
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It’s tighter. Yeah, yeah, definitely not going to
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like that blur as much either. Yeah.
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And there, it’s funny this is
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now that I have a little more perspective on this, it just based on my life, like, there really is an always has been a very
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I’m, I’m
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an interesting combination of very creative, and then mixed with a lot of scientific training and work. That involves very logical, pragmatic thinking. And so I think that my eyes are kind of like, well, you do this, and then I’ll do that, you know, and somehow they’ve divided along the way. And I think,
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you know, this is just a thought. But when I started going really hard on all of this
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cognitive work that required a lot of precision, things kind of went south.
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Well, you’re lucky, because you don’t really have very much. Yeah.
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You know, I had a similar thing. Because I was, you know, I was a memorizer. And, you know, I was able to my right eye was like a three eyeball. Actually, both eyes were like a three. So, you know, the amount of tension that I created
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was
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off the charts. Yeah. Yeah.
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So, do you have any questions about what we’re gonna do?
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Um,
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no, not really. I mean, it would be nice to have sort of, I imagine you have some like descriptions of the exercises you recommend that you can send me and so what I’m going to do Quinn, when I send you the recording, I will send you directions to the following
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my slides to blur
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and my link if you want to order the minus lenses, the plus lens to blur
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my dialogue,
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and I’ll send you the Yin Yang chart and I’ll send you the
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The directions. So it’ll all be right for you when you have the recording. Great. And the way and I’ll send it today. Okay, and that way,
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you know,
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I’m going to share something with you when I when I was a patient with Dr. Shankman.
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I spent probably 15 to 30 minutes every day doing I therapy.
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And so the more you devote to this,
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the more you’ll get out of it. That makes me it’s gonna. Yeah, right. And using the exercises are just prompts for you to understand, oh, this is what’s causing this, or this is why I’m still doing this, because you get something from it.
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Yeah, by paying a big price, which is why you contacted me because you don’t want this. Yeah.
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Exactly. And I feel like, there are other solutions that just, I refuse to believe that there’s nothing that can be done. Like, I think that’s where I’m at, like, oh, yeah, well, that’s, that’s absurd. I mean, that that’s coming from, you know, people who, you know, haven’t explored out of the box. And, you know, my profession is pretty conventional. Yeah. And they’re not, they’re not really
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open to these ideas. And it’s the way they train the doctors. And, you know, it’s a common story. It’s not, it’s in every form of medicine until our breaking through. So good for you for finding me on the internet. And that’s why I do what I do. Because,
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you know, we’ve, yeah, we just need to bring more awareness to it. And, you know, this isn’t for everybody. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I acknowledged that I never tried to talk anybody into this. Yeah, they have to come to me and they will, they have to be eager to want to do the work. Because it’s,
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you know, it’s, it’s a pill, you know, you’re gonna meet with some resistances you’re gonna meet was, like, really? And
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I forgot one more thing. I’ll send you the prescription also. Okay, great.
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That you can fill that anywhere.
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Okay, so anything, any other questions before we end today? If I if questions come up, can I email you?
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Sure can. So when you the email with the recording and the links to all the exercises and the directions?
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Just respond to that and say, I have a question. And I’ll, I’ll do my best.
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right to you. Yeah. You know, keep a diary or a journal, you know, so you’re keeping track of your awarenesses. And basically, it’s going to be a self discovery, you’re on a self discovery vision quest.
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And you can’t go wrong. You know, whatever comes out for you, comes up for you. I mean, if you said to me, Well, tomorrow, I woke up and I had this dream, blah, blah, blah. I’d say, Okay. Or, you know, like, you decided to change jobs or you know, I mean, there’s a lot of kinds of stuff that people go through. Yeah, it’s all fair play. You know, it’s just what you’ve been storing in your eyeballs. And now it’s, it’s coming out.
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Alrighty.
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Okay. So good luck. Thank you drinking the Kool Aid now.
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You’re so welcome. I look forward to your testimonial. When you throw your glasses away.
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I need to I see 2020.
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And I’ll ask you for a testimonial. But until then, do your work and you’ll you’ll get you’ll get results. All right. I know it. Great. All right. Thanks so much. I appreciate it.
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Bye bye.
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