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Sam Berne (00:00 .182)

recorded. Okay, great. All right. So Roberta, I’ve read over your history form. also have your prescription. I want to give you some advice on that. But what would be in your words, maybe a sentence or two, what your the things that are bothering you the most and what would be your goals and objectives?

One thing about that prescription, was very recent. was not the prescription that I’m not using the lenses that that optometrist gave me. Because I asked him to make the same type of glasses that you had given me 20 years ago that I still use at night to drive with. But he added a stigmatism correction without my permission.

see. I see that. Yeah, and a lot of a stigma, a lot of astigmatism. And well, you know, you get that prescription, it’s gonna really, you know, lock down your eyes. I got it. And I put them on. I had them on for like, less than a minute. And I was dizzy, disassociated, nauseous, I had to actually go get bodywork to try to fix what those glasses to me. It was amazing.

Anyway, we won’t go into that. Yeah, that’s why I’m here at the vision therapy. Okay, I was very excited to see it. Real quick. Say more, say more. Well, I just in October, I hit my head really hard. So I detached my retina. And I got three tears and they had eye surgery. And then in December, there were aspects of it detaching again. So I had an in office procedure with a laser.

And it just, my eye feels dry all the time and it’s really blurry. The vision feels like it’s relaxing a little bit with the animal chart and the lens to blur glasses again. but yeah, it’s like the whole eye socket is dry.

Sam Berne (02:24 .658)

And are you using any natural eye drops or castor oil or anything like that? I don’t know. I would love some advice on I’ve been taking liposomal vitamin C. Okay. Okay. So first of all, first of all, what I would say is you want to start lubricating your eyes during the day with some natural eye drops and there you can use different ones.

like you could do the five percent, my five percent MSM. You could also do the homeopathic eye drops. I think the best one on the market is, is the Optique eye drops. And I would probably be bathing the eye, you know, every hour or two, because in the retina, if there’s any dryness in the retina, because it’s such a sensitive layer, sensitive tissue, it, there is more tendency for it to maybe

disintegrate or pull away from the eyeball. And then in the evening, I would get yourself some hexane free organic castor oil. Make sure your hands are washed and then a couple of drops on your fingers and then just very lightly massaging all around the castor oil actually helps as a wound healer on the skin and I call the retina kind of the inner skin of the eye.

So you’re doing it on the eyelids now the eyelids are the area where the dryness can occur if there’s you know Some impediment in the tear production So by putting the castor oil on there, you’re going to have a really good Moisturization situation and you know, maybe you redo it in the morning If you get a little bit in your eyes, no big deal, but you want to start with it on the eyelids

And that would be, you know, that would be a safe place. So you’re doing the eye drops during the day. You’re doing the the Matt Castro in the evening. If you’re at all attracted to herbal herbal compresses, you’ve got a whole list of them. You could do that will lubricate your eyes either. I write tea chamomile tea. Those would be good ones. You could do like Rose petals. I had an herbalist who gave a

Sam Berne (04:49 .72)

presentation at one of my health summits and those are the big three that she recommended now with the rose petals. She was actually doing an eye cup. So you make the tea and then you have a cup that you can buy and you just do it this way. This is and roses one of the best things you could use if you’re into essential oils, you could get a helicrism hydrosol. That’s a mist and a company I use is still point aromatics. So you get the helicrism

Hydrosol and then you use that during the day as a spray as well and helicrism is an essential oil that heals the skin and it again hydrates and moisturizes. Some other things to consider about this dryness, which I’m sure you’ve checked would be your thyroid health, your adrenal health, maybe even boosting the fats and oils even more. You 50 % of the retina is the omega-3s.

I see you’re taking some good stuff down the vitamin vitamin. Which why I added the Omega is the E and the a yeah. So and you’re doing, you know, your probiotics and things like that. So there’s that going on and then I want to wonder on a functional level if your two eyes are working together. So I’d like to do a technique right now if I could.

So what I’d like you to do is cover your left eye and everybody in the audience. can do this as well. Cover your left and what’s the first thing that you see or feel when you cover your left eye? What’s the first thing that that comes to your surface? For me, a little bit of apprehension. Okay. And where do you feel that apprehension in your body? Kind of in the upper chest throat.

Okay. So what I want you to do is just breathe into that area amplify that area and keep breathing into it and just allow the the energetic there to get bigger and by going into it. It can release and see where it takes you next. Take maybe a few breaths. Track it and see where you go.

Sam Berne (07:17 .998)

So is it still in the throat? Is it moving anywhere? I wouldn’t say necessarily physically it has moved but emotionally it has moved. So where is it moved emotionally? It’s more of a like a breathless panic. Okay. All right. And so in that breathless panic, how old are you feeling? What’s the first age that comes up for you?

I actually think I might be still in utero. Yeah. huh. Yeah, exactly. So once you just breathe into that, yep, just breathe into it and you can either close your eye or keep it open, whatever feels better and just, just be with it. Just, just meet it and see where it takes you.

Sam Berne (08:16 .504)

breath and feeling the body are ways for you to stay anchored here, but allow that energetic to kind of move.

Sam Berne (08:35 .95)

So now what’s happening?

Interesting.

I feel like I see some light. I feel like I’m calming down, but I feel like I’m all tangled up. You’re all tangled up. Your body is tangled up. What’s tangled up? It’s like

Sam Berne (09:02 .956)

like I’m, I’m wrapped in something. You’re wrapped in something.

And how old are you now? Interesting