Podcast 155: Lecture

In this episode, we talk about the importance of resting and stillness as part of any procedural process. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS proprioceptive, person, prisms, vestibular system, auditory, tracking, dizziness, settle, open, craniosacral, broadness, feeling, exercise, give, metabolizing, sensory-motor, proprioception, sensory overload, overload, breathing 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 [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. Hey, everyone, its Dr. Sam. And in this riff, I am talking to a group of therapists and giving some advice about when you give a technique, an exercise a procedure, it's very important to build in some relaxation time I call this open awareness or open attention, you know, in a lot of different rehabilitation models, they go from one exercise to the next exercise, and there's no time for digestion, and metabolizing, the stimulation that you receive. And I consult with a clinic, where I work with a lot of special needs kids, and so they have a very high sensitivity of sensory overload. And so in this conversation, I give some examples on why I like to take breaks, and go into something called rest and settle. So enjoy. Well, like anything that I do, it's not a cookbook as not, like that's absolute. And sometimes in the cake mix, you need to actually do both. And it kind of is dependent on the person where they're at in terms of their nervous system modulation, and the age and where they are in terms of Do they have a sense of their proprioception or not? So one of the things that I think about in the head of the open attention after the vestibular processing is sensory motor overload. And so I have to read the person to see whether or not they actually want more employment, or do they just want to rest and settle and integrated within themselves? It is certainly a more advanced practice, to say, okay, after we've done the vestibular system situation, let's, let's just go into rest and settle and open attention. But I'm tracking the person's breathing, I'm tracking how much of the person's body is contacting with the ground, I may need to add some auditory instructions, you know, are you aware of your breathing? Are you aware of your body? Do you want to move your arms or legs? How are you feeling? So I'm checking in with them, I'm not walking away. 02:51 And so in my energy on an intentional level, is I'm I'm with the person energetically and tracking them as if I was doing some craniosacral on them, except I'm just sitting with them. So I think you'll have to read the person and decide, okay, do they need some proprioceptive feedback? Do I need to do that? Or can I just guide them in a more passive way and let their body kind of figure it out. In this particular instance, this gal was in a sensory-motor overload. And she was in the space where she was really feeling some dizziness, and it was the first time she felt dizziness through her vision. So the prisms were able to awaken the vestibular system in a beautiful way. And so what I thought was, intuitively, let's see how she does with it. And as I was tracking her, she seemed her breathing seem to get longer and deeper and slower. So I didn't need to add the proprioceptive. However, she might come for a session here and she may be in a different place with her nervous system.