Podcast 126: Community Q&A

In this episode, I give the listeners a glimpse into a private session I offered to a patient who has reduced her myopia and astigmatism by 50% and wants the advanced set of vision therapy exercises to be able to reduce her prescription completely. Yes, you can reduce your dependency on your contacts and glasses! Here is the transcript for the show. Enjoy! Podcast 126 Fri, 4/23 4:08PM • 36:59 SUMMARY KEYWORDS eye, metronome, eyepatch, chart, practice, beats, left, arm, leg, letter, exercises, vision, limbs, clarity, micromanage, glasses, read, myopia, moving, walk 00:05 Hello, everyone, its Dr. Sam, I'd like to welcome you to my I clarity 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 I clarity episode. In today's show, I am going to present a session that I did with a patient recently who is reducing her myopia and astigmatism. And I'm giving your more advanced exercises today that include the eye brain body, and they're going to require her to be able to focus in a more expanded way. So I hope you enjoy this session. Take care when I enrolled in vision therapy, so I was in your shoes, I had a similar prescription as you did, was even stronger. And the doctor that I went to see made me commit for a year. And he gave me some practices, some vision practices that I had to do every day. And they were very much two things whole body. So how to use my whole body engage my whole body with my vision. And the second part is that the exercises were all done with an eyepatch. Okay. And his theory, his thesis was that by using an eyepatch, when the eyes were good when the eyes are so different. So mine were different to like yours, the eye patch disrupts the normal functioning of how the The eyes are different. And you kind of get flatlined when that happens. So the patches of this pattern interrupter, the other thing is you're doing the practice, at the you're doing the practice the same amount of time with each eye. Even though you might think one eye is stronger, like the right eye or the left eye is weaker whenever, what because you're basing it on clarity, and blur. But each eye gets the same amount of time. And you're then on a journey. When you do these practices, because they're not mechanical at all. They're very much Mind Body oriented, and there's a mindfulness. So it's an open ended practice, where you're using the practice, to deepen your self awareness around your habits, patterns conditioning, as it relates to the mental, emotional, energetic and physical parts of your eyes. So it's going to be very informative, if you take that attitude. And so just to finish with me, I went down this, this track with him. And it took me about six months. And one day I woke up, and I started driving, and I could see the road signs. And I remember right before that I had shared with him I was really frustrated. Because I wasn't reaching my goal of getting rid of the need for my glasses. I was the reason why I went to him. And he told me that with that attitude, I would never get there. And he he said that the only way that I might have a chance would be to completely let go of the goal of getting rid of my glasses. And I couldn't do that that was very hard for me because I was very goal oriented and most people that are near sighted have that goal oriented streak. 04:38 And so it was it became a real practice a real metaphor to be detached about the goal. Like I can have the goal and then let it go. Have a go Let it go up. I'm sure you're well aware of that, that practice.