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Reversing Myopia Naturally: A Master class in Functional Vision

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Keywords

vision therapy, visual habits, prescription glasses, eye health, presbyopia, visual clarity, optometry, personal insights, emotional perception, intuitive insights

Summary

In this conversation, Sam Berne discusses the importance of visual habits and therapy, sharing personal experiences with vision issues and the impact of different prescriptions on perception and emotional well-being. The dialogue explores how adjustments in lenses can influence not only visual clarity but also personal relationships and intuitive insights in professional practice.

Takeaways

I started wearing glasses when I was in fifth grade.
I learned about good visual habits in optometry school.
I’m feeling like I’m getting early presbyopic symptoms.
Definitely more clarity with the new prescription.
I would cut that by half and try.
It feels shaky almost like my ground is so shaky.
I feel like I identify more with my type A side.
This is more of my relaxed side of it.
You might get more intuitive insights with different lenses.
I love the way I was trained in optometry.

Sound bites

“Definitely more clarity.”
“I would cut that by half and try.”
“I love the way I was trained.”

Chapters

00:00 Vision and Personal History
02:48 Exploring Visual Habits and Therapy
04:50 Understanding Prescription Adjustments
07:05 The Impact of Lenses on Perception and Relationships

Sam Berne (00:00.463)
And Justine, you’re the last one. tell me a little bit about your vision and how you became Nearsighted and what’s your history? Yeah, so I started wearing glasses when I was in fifth grade and my optometrist prescribed me very strong minus lenses.

and didn’t tell me anything about visual habits. So I used to color and write really close to the page and I used to watch TV, you know, from the distance of this computer screen. And so my prescription just continued to climb and climb and climb throughout school. And it wasn’t until optometry school that I learned about good visual habits, about, you know, relaxing your vision, going outside.

you know, not being so glued to the screens, but you know, with COVID and technology nowadays, we’re always on our screens. And so I do vision therapy with patients. And so I’m actively doing the exercises with them, especially the diverging activities. And what I’m finding is I’m approaching 36 now, and I’m feeling like I’m getting early presbyopic kind of symptoms where

long-term near work, it’s starting to give me strain and headaches and I even put a little bit of basin prism in my glasses just to help with that. But I’m still finding that my eyes get really tired by the end of the day. Okay, well one thing I can say right off the bat that could really help you is have you ever thought about one of these prescriptions? Yes, and that is what I

I would love to strive to do that. So the way we should do this is if you’ve got some flippers and you can get them, then what will happen is I’m going to have you wear them over this. Yeah.

Sam Berne (02:08.429)
Okay, I’ve got it. I’ve done so this is a plus 50 I just want you to wear it over. Are you minus six like oh you are you so I’m actually I’m not minus six So this one here minus 375 minus 175 cell, okay, so spherical equivalent is about a five ish and then left eye is a minus five So a lot of still here zero. So, okay, so

All right, we’re going to try a things. So put the plus 50s over for glasses. Okay, so what do you feel? Comfortable. Comfortable. What’s the difference between with and without? So definitely more clarity. Okay. But I also feel more center, not as peripheral. All right. And then when I put these on, blurrier, but I feel more open and peripheral. Things are a little bit bigger too. All right. Now with your right hand.

Try that one. I think the plus is at the bottom. Okay. Over or? No.

This might be minus. Blurrier. And how does it feel mentally, emotionally? I feel almost like a tingling right here, my nose bridge. Maybe a little bit of nausea. Okay. So the nausea is now we’re activated much more peripheral. So that’s a good thing. So now compare the right with the left hand.

Sam Berne (03:44.996)
And also you can look at your prints through.

Sam Berne (03:57.517)
The plus 50 is a lot easier to adjust to. Okay. Do think you can work in this? Mm-hmm. I think so. And what about the print? it compared to? Crispy clear. Without? Yeah, with and without. Much more relaxing and bigger with this on. So I think number one, I would cut that by half and try. Mm-hmm. That’s too much. Mm-hmm. Okay.

So I would have a prescription made up and just reduce it a half in each eye and use it indoors. Definitely use it for water, use it for reading, use it for your computers. The only time you need those would be for long distance, like driving or something like that. And I think that could be a game changer. And that will definitely move you out of this unnecessary.

using that word, unnecessary cosmetography. Like as as a myo, I don’t think you should be in any kind of conspiracy. I think you can always under-correct yourself and you can always have a second prescription if you need freeway driving, but I think you’re at a minus too, and so that would be the number one plan now.

That’s first. All right, so now this makes it a minus, at the bottom makes it a minus 350. Just for the hell of it. Take the glasses off. So now we’re balancing you with this cylinder in the right. What do feel?

Sam Berne (05:48.94)
That’s going to be blurry on the right. And it’s going to be blurry on the left for a different reason. What’s it like to have symmetrical lenses with no cylinder in the right? It almost feels like, you know, when you go to a fair and you go to that room where all the mirrors are and, you know, it distorts the way that your body looks. It looks distorted. want you to get up, carefully get up. I want you to just walk.

a space. Be careful. A walking space. And so what? How is this for you? It feels shaky almost like my ground is shaking. And so shaky, say more about. I also feel a little bit.

you know, hesitant and insecure with my vision. Okay, no problem. So how can you bring more proprioception into it?

Maybe feel more grounded and… stabular cork receptively can that help you or is it just like… It helps breathing and paying more attention to my feet on the ground. helps. All right. Now just stand there and take those away and put your glasses on and tell me who you…

Sam Berne (07:24.886)
Who do you become? Who do you become identified with the part of yourself? I feel like I identify more with my type a side. Exactly. Definitely detail and control. So just think about the love in your life, your relationship relating to that.

person to that lens and then taking it off and putting on that the minus 350. Softer. You can do more receptive. Definitely more understanding.

Sam Berne (08:20.913)
Who you are.

This is more of my relaxed side of it. Yeah, not that type of. So how would it serve you to do more like this? I would definitely feel less anxious and get in less arguments with my husband. And then put on the glasses again.

So now you’re right. You’re right. There’s no arguing with you. You have the right answer. This is a very cool exercise. I rest my case. Okay. You know, it would be really interesting for you to get a pair of minus 250s with no cylinder and start learning.

How often? I would wear it maybe just at home when you want to chill out and relate to your husband’s mood. And because what’s going to happen is your energy is very different than those minus 350s. He’s energy is going to change. And you guys are going to have a much more loving connection.

Yeah, exactly. know, this prescription is, it really puts you into a space of, okay, I’m going to get things done. Like you say, type A. And so if you go plus 50 on these and then the minus three fifties, I don’t care if it’s distorting or you’re what it’s doing is it’s showing you what

Sam Berne (10:20.042)
what the world is like without the warp. And the warp is just in your right side that is stigmatizing. So it’s gonna move you in a direction of more integration. It doesn’t matter that you don’t see things as clear. That’s irrelevant because you’re gonna use them in spaces where you don’t need that requirement. And I don’t want, if you start feeling

nervous or frustrated, can’t see, then just put on your

that’s gonna be your signal. But who knows, like in six months, you could be in like a minus 350 in each eye. I mean, it could be. But just look at how different you are energetically and relationally when you don’t have these eyes. It could change how you relate to patients. You might get more intuitive insights.

because it’s hard to get the intuitive insights through those. I’m not saying you can’t, but I know I was in that world. You’re very structured and organized. And that’s optometry. mean, you know, that education, it’s very detailed. mean, you’ve gone through it. But I think in vision therapy, there’s an intuitive side to things, right? That you kind of feel, okay, this is what this person, especially since you guys are doing the therapy.

I love that. That’s the way I was trained too.

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Dr. Sam Berne has been in private practice in New Mexico for over 25 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.

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