Eye Exercise Protocols | Dr. Sam Berne - Holistic Eye Care

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Whether you’re a creative, a coach, or a CEO—this playbook will show you how to partner with AI in a way that’s ethical, embodied, and visionary. ⚡️The future isn’t coming. It’s here. And it’s human-led. Link to Buy: https://amzn.to/45kptwt Keywords eye health, lymphatic system, vision, detox, relaxation, vagus nerve, eye exercises, digital strain, inflammation, self-care Summary In this podcast, Dr. Sam Berne discusses the importance of the eye-limb connection and offers practical exercises to improve eye health. He emphasizes the role of hydration, movement, and the vagus nerve in maintaining clear eyesight and reducing symptoms like puffiness and strain. Techniques such as humming and eye massage are highlighted as effective methods for enhancing relaxation and lymphatic flow, ultimately leading to better vision and overall well-being. Takeaways For most of us, digital devices cause eye strain. The eyes rely on movement and hydration for health. Systemic inflammation can lead to eye brain inflammation. Eye massage can stimulate the vagus nerve. Humming is a powerful technique for relaxation. Palming helps in reducing stress and enhancing vision. Regular practice can lead to clearer eyesight. The ocular cardiac reflex slows the heart rate. Humming sends vibrations that activate the vagus nerve. Consistency in these techniques yields better eye health. Takeaways For most of us, digital devices cause eye strain. The eyes rely on movement and hydration for health. Systemic inflammation can lead to eye brain inflammation. Eye massage can stimulate the vagus nerve. Humming is a powerful technique for relaxation. Palming helps in reducing stress and enhancing vision. Regular practice can lead to clearer eyesight. The ocular cardiac reflex slows the heart rate. Humming sends vibrations that activate the vagus nerve. Consistency in these techniques yields better eye health. Sound Bites “Humming calms the nervous system.” Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Eye-Limb Connection 01:28 Understanding Eye Health and Lymphatic Function 02:57 Techniques for Eye Relaxation and Vagus Nerve Stimulation 06:19 Benefits of Humming and Eye Massage Sam Berne (00:01.634) Hey everybody. Welcome to the podcast today. It’s great to be here. So we’re going to talk a bit about the eye-limb connection how to drain and detox clear eyesight and vision. So the one thing I want to say to start off with is that you know, for most of us we spend our day on digital devices and I don’t know how many listeners out there followers. have things like puffy eyes strain redness and you’re concerned because you’re staring at a screen all day. Well in this podcast, what I want to do is I want to give you some exercises. Just a very simple approach on how to boost your eye lymph body connection because you see the eyes don’t have a direct lymphatic system and so they rely on movement. The eyes rely on movement hydration and proper circulation to get rid of inflammation and oxidative stress. So if you have any of those things like blurry vision puffy eyes, then stay tuned. So let’s talk a little bit about the lymph and since the eyes have no direct lymphatic connection. They do rely on hydration and movement and the eyelids are key player in this because they house the glands that produce the tears that keep our eyes from getting dry. So it’s very easy to get inflammation. In fact, a lot of systemic inflammation can lead to eye brain inflammation. Obviously what we eat gluten, dairy and sugar. our big factors, but also how we stare at our screen actually locks down our lymphatic function and this can cause these symptoms that I’ve spoken about. So the role of eye massage and I’ll talk a little bit of what I mean by eye massage. I’m also going to bring in what we call the Vegas nerve because the Vegas nerve is very important. Sam Berne (02:27.438) in our connection to our parasympathetic nervous system and the vagus nerve runs from the brainstem to the face throat chest and into the gut. Now, one of the best ways to stimulate and balance your vagus nerve is by doing a simple process called humming and the power of humming and I palming is so critical for balancing the nervous system, increasing the lymph, increasing our vagus nerve and reducing our stress. So while we’re massaging and placing our hands on different parts of the body, this is a very powerful self-regulating technique that stimulates the vagus nerve. It calms the nervous system. It enhances lymphatic flow and it reduces our stress. So the way we do this is that you’re going to place first of all, you’re going to wash your hands. Hopefully your hands are clean. You’re going to place your fingertips over the eyelids. See how I’m doing the eyes are closed and I’m just making some circles. See how I’m doing this very lightly and I’m humming. So we’re going to do about 10 homes. Sam Berne (04:09.633) Also add the temples. Sam Berne (04:24.568) Now let’s move down to the jaws. Sam Berne (04:38.808) forward to go. Now we’re going to work on our vagus nerve which runs along the side of our neck and we’re going to be going down like this two hums. Sam Berne (05:01.974) In the last two, remain closed. You’re going to do the palming and the humming. Sam Berne (05:23.04) You can drop your hands and just connect in with your body. There should be some tingling brightness lightness, and then you can open your eyes and look around and I know for me when I hum like this, it actually relaxes me. It can actually reduce cortisol, increase oxytocin and serotonin those natural calming biochemicals. In the brain also humming can slow the heart rate lower the blood pressure and increase digestion and relaxation. The other thing that when you cup your eyes over the palms over your eyes, you’re you’re gently stimulating something called the ocular ocular cardiac reflex and this naturally slows the heart rate. I’ve done studies on heart rate variability doing this technique and I actually see the heart rate come down. Also, the other thing that the humming does is it sends vibrations through the skull and the sinuses and this further activates the vagus nerve, which which again is going to just create more relaxation. So this is a great technique for being able to reset your eye brain body connection. It’s definitely going to relax your nervous system and it’s going to rejuvenate your eyes. So give it a try. I’d love to hear your comments. Let me know how you’re doing. My suggestion would be to do these 10 homes like we did three times a day do it for a week and you will start to see more. resiliency in your eyes, less redness, less puffiness, less strain, more clarity. So let me know what you think about that. That’s our show for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. Take care.  

For even more from Dr. Sam, get his free Frankincense video (has had had 1.8 Million Views)–what carrier oils to use?, how to best utilize Frankincense?, and much more. Link: https://drsambernesmembership.com/get/long-uscreen-2033cd Join his practitioner’s training: https://www.drsamberne.com/practitioners-training/ Sam Berne (00:00.076) A reduced prescription for the computer. So when they calculate a near sighted prescription of 20 feet that prescription is too strong for you for 20 inches. And in fact, if you try to use your distance glasses for the computer, it’s going to make your eyes worse at distance and to two different one for distance and one for computer and then just don’t use anything for reading. and get rid of the progressive lenses. That’s only inducing more myopia because it’s tunneling you. You’ll find that you’ll get like a distance prescription and you’re driving. You have the whole window now that you’re using right now. You’re only using the top fourth of the lens for driving. So your peripheral is very disabled in some ways. all in the spirit of convenience, you know, but it’s making your eyes worse in doing that. Can prism lenses be the same as your your sighted lenses that are maybe folded into one? yeah, of course. Yeah. And so, you know, for some of you that had a really positive experience for the prism, we might incorporate it. For others, we might just do it for home, like a home exercise. So it just depends. know, sometimes you incorporate the prism into the prescription glasses. You can do that or you just get the prism and you work with it as an exercise. When I work with the kids at Kid Power, it’s a really good question. Do I want to put the prisms in their prescription or I want to just have them work with the physical therapist and that’s that’s kind of a question that we ask a lot if they’re really embedded and I see a huge improvement with the prism like their posture and their movement and their affect then I’ll put it in their prescription glasses and the school will say what’s going on here this this child is completely different Sam Berne (02:17.324) because they’re now connecting their vision to their brain and body where they weren’t before. And when you go for the exam and they put the drops in your eyes, what they’re doing is they’re paralyzing the muscles we were just working with. So then they prescribe based on the muscles being paralyzed. Keep Up with Dr. Sam Website: https://www.drsamberne.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SamBerneOD/?fref=ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samberneod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/drsamberne LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsamberne/ Dr. Sam Berne has been in private practice in New Mexico for over 35 years and where he works with patients to improve their vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University, Doctor of Optometry from Pennsylvania College, and did his postdoctoral work at the Gesell Institute in collaboration with Yale University. He has been awarded The Special Awards for Service from the Behavioral Optometrists in Mexico for his innovative and holistic work with children. His protocols take a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to health and wellness. He understands and treats the body as one integrated system rather than a collection of independent organs in order to identify and address the root causes of disease. His whole health protocols improve vision and wellness by healing the mind-body-spirit through nutritional protocols, vision therapy, and self-care techniques. This views each person as genetically and biochemically unique and enables the individual to make lifelong improvements to their well-being.