Podcast 136: Lecture

Open Attention. In this episode, we explore how to honor our limits and the art of Self-Regulation. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDSbody, exercise, breathing, dissolving, exhale, work, feeling, breathing pattern, dissolution, self-regulation, inhale, nervous system, stress, dissolve, system, attention, giving, clarity, healing, lasers 00:05Hello, everyone, its 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 [email protected]. Now, to the latest EyeClarity episode. You go into something, the resting is called, the term that I use is called Open attention. Now open attention is a practice where you are listening to your body's response to the stimulus that you just gave it. So if you're making the sounds, and you're moving, and you're doing what you're doing, when you're finished, to build in this open attention, where you start listening to your body's response, this does some very positive things for you. Number one, it helps your body absorb the really good things that you did, in making the sound and making the movement. It's like a digestion. It's like a metabolizing. And one of the problems that people have where they don't embrace their health, is they don't build in this rest and settle. They're doing something, they go on to the next, they go on to the next. You know, about a year and a half ago, I was my friend invited me to a yoga class. So I'm in the yoga class and the instructor is this young man, he's, you know, super exercise guy. And he's putting us through these different postures one right after the other, after the other, after the other. And my own system said, I need to, I need to rest I need I it's too much input. And so I started to lie down and I rested. The lady next to me says that's a good idea. I'm going to do that to the guy next to her. So the teacher comes over says we can't have this. And I said, Well, my nervous system can't keep up with the barrage of asanas that you're giving me. He says no, no, no, that's not. And that's the mentality of the exercise world, the fitness world. I even think it's like that, in pretty much everything. We don't spend time being able to integrate. And your system, when I say your system, I'm including your neurological system, your endocrine system, your digestive system, your nervous system, your fluid body, your fragile. You don't need a million things coming to you all at once that you had that before you started working with me. And I've been very vigilant about only giving you a teaspoon at a time a little bit, letting you chew on it, letting you figure out okay, what's enough for me. I felt beginning remember, remember the beginning we had the light sensitivity? And I said go get sunglasses? And you did and it helped you it was a resting for the eyes. So this open attention in your practice is a way for, number one, your body to metabolize, number two, for you to track or keep track of. Well, what are my sensations after doing all this sound? Gee, I'm feeling something in my throat. That's interesting. Let me put my awareness there. Oh my god. Now it's the energy is moving up to my eyes. I'm feeling some warmth. That's interesting. that triggers a memory. Oh, I remember when I was a child. And my mother took me to the beach and we had such a great time. Oh, now I'm feeling this in my solar plexus. There's a tightness there. Let me breathe into the tightness. So you're unwinding your body by Putting your attention on how your body is talking to you.