Podcast 193: Lecture

We all have so many responsibilities, it can be hard to take time for self-care. It's super important for your health, including your eye health, to take time and unplug. We are going to talk about some strategies for getting the most out of a self-care day. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS retreat, eye, lens, clarity, prescription, nearsighted, blur, farsighted, busier, create, system, faster, electronics, challenging, practice, vision, closed, cleanse, oxygenation 00:05 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. This is called the vision retreat day. And I love this, this is really, really important. I want you to find a day when you can completely unplug from electronics for the entire day. And you're going to do this eye patch exercise, you might do the opposite lens prescription, I want you to spend time in nature. And I want you to do the somatic eye practice that we're going to do next. So you'll see that and I want you to consider doing a cleanse, or a fast during the vision retreat day, when you start doing things like the eye dialogue, wearing the opposite lens prescription, you are detoxing the energy coming out of your eye. Basically, a cataract is toxicity. That's what it is. And you need to do a cleanse, you need to do a release and reset so that you don't have to go through this surgical process. And this is what I really like about doing retreats. And you know, not everybody likes this kind of contemplation or this level of responsibility when you're on your own. Before COVID, every year, I used to do, I used to both take retreats where I would just be a participant. And during the retreat, it would be a seven or eight-day retreat, we would spend three days of that retreat in silence. And usually, the retreats tour in a very nature-based setting, we were the only people there. And it was so amazing to stop talking to stop communicating with electronics. And going into silence is pretty challenging. Because at the very beginning, your mind is going to be going very, very quickly. And probably a lot and what you do with that is you can just write, write it down in the notebook, it's a way to discharge how busy the mind gets. Like the busier the mind, the more chaotic the mind, the busier and more chaotic the body and the eyes. So mind and eyes are very related. So in doing a retreat, it's a way for you to start to see some of the influences that maybe are taking you away from your health and wellness. And it's very difficult today to do self-care. Because when we do self-care, others may perceive it. As we're being selfish. We're not thinking about other people. I mean, there's a variety of things that come up. But what I noticed about people who are healthy is that they are able to take some retreat time so that they can harvest their own energy and replenish and rejuvenate from all this fast-paced living that we're all doing. 04:48 And I don't know about you but I think things are going faster today than they were five years ago. And speed is one of the Things that creates compression in the body, the faster we go, the more compressed we become. The more we grip, the more we tighten, tighten up. So this affects our circulation, our oxygenation our immune system, what gives us more inflammation, speed is related to inflammation.