Podcast 167: Lecture

In this session, I help a person with chronic eye spasms in both eyes.  She also has dry eye. I offer many suggestions, and there is a big change within the session time. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, eyelids, part, trauma, sympathetic nervous system, exercise, spasm, called, worked, fingers, state, glasses, irritation, gut, absorbed, blur, put, homeopathic, lens, castor oil 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. So just a couple of notes. When you're blinking, when that comes in, and you're doing all that blinking in your nervous system, there's a part of the nervous system we call the active state, which is the technical term is called the sympathetic nervous system, that's when you're awake, you're working you're doing. And then when you close your eyes, that is called the resting state or the parasympathetic nervous system. So there needs to be a balance. Another way to say that would be in Chinese medicine, there's the young y and G, which is the more active state and the Yin, which is more the relaxation state. And so generally speaking, your sympathetic nervous system is really working hard, you know, there's this blinking going on, and it partly is reflexive, is partly probably habit. It's partly, probably, I don't know what the fuck to do. So I'm just gonna do something. And you're kind of stuck in the sympathetic state unless you do something really radical, like closing your eyes. Or Botox, which is kind of like a paralysis to like, cut the channel for a while. And so the sympathetic nervous system is really turned on at a high level. Now, some interpretations of the sympathetic nervous system would be somebody that's in a fight or flight, state would probably add, freeze, do that fight flight freeze, like, Oh, my God, this is like, really, I'm in a, almost like a trauma state. It's like this is high alert. And there's no blame, there's no judgment on my part, I'm just kind of looking at your system and going, Man, that's really odd. They that you're sitting, your eyes are choosing this spasming, which you don't like anyway, it's very annoying, but it's your kind of your, your default. And you have to do something really strong, to begin to interrupt it. And even when you interrupt it, really, you gotta like Close your eyes. And so why, why are you in this? What are the causes that are creating this scenario, in your vision, which is a connector to your whole body, because it's not just happening in the eyes, we're just seeing it in the eyes. But there is something in your nervous system, that saying I need to do this. And so here are some of the causes. I'm not saying they're your causes. I'm just saying there's some of the causes. One cause is that there is an eyelid irritation, and inflammation that is interfering with the normal function of the eyelids, which is to comfortably protect your eyes from the outside world from going, you know, like wow, there's so much out there. Another function of the eyelids is that it's made your major lymphatic system of the eyes, part of your immune system, part of where the glands are housed, that produce the tears that cover the cornea and lubricate and moisturize your eyes. Now, if there's any dryness in the eyes, at some point, that is due to the eyelids not being able to produce the proper tears, either due to irritation, inflammation,