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Step into a groundbreaking journey that reveals how vision is more than just seeing — it’s healing. Beyond Sight: A Journey into Holistic Visual Healing uncovers stories of transformation, blending science, spirit, and somatic intelligence to revolutionize how we think about the eyes.
🎥 Watch the trailer now and experience the shift.
🌐 Stream it here:
#BeyondSight #HolisticVision #FunctionalVision #VisionHealing #EyeHealth #SomaticHealing #Neuroplasticity #NaturalVisionTherapy #HolisticHealth #HealingJourney #DocumentaryFilm #DrSamBerne #SeeDifferently #visionrestoration
Check out my 3 upcoming workshops
And my new book Beyond the Lens: The AI Visionary Playbook for Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders.
This isn’t just another tech manual.
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.
or even more from Dr. Sam, check out his new exclusive membership where you get access to my content and resources, new information, articles, videos, webinars: https://drsambernesmembership.com/
Keep Up with Dr. Sam
Dr. Sam Berne has been in private practice in New Mexico for over 40 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.
Sam Berne (00:01.454)
What should they do in terms of a lens prescription? And how do we work with this situation? Well, astigmatism can be either in the cornea. It’s an irregular shape of the front of the eye or it can also be muscular where the six extraocular muscles are changing the shape of the eye and it creates kind of an asymmetry or a warping in the eye. Now in my own body work that I’ve developed
I have found that I measure somebody’s astigmatism at the beginning of my exam and then I do my body work to unwind the the body’s twist my functional vision integrative body method and then I measure the astigmatism after the body work and in a high percentage of cases. It’s much much less which tells me that
Any prescription in the eye is also in the body and that when we wear prescription in the eye, it can lock down the body. So in this particular case, my suggestion would be to perhaps work with the eye doctor to say, hey, look, can we either get a prescription with no astigmatism that will wear during the occupational therapy program or get a reduced astigmatism because clearly
If you get full correction on astigmatism, it only reinforces the twists not only in the eye, but in the body.
Sam Berne (02:07.79)
of the animal eye chart and you’re stretching your eye in all areas of gaze.
Another exercise I love to reduce astigmatism is the palm hum exercise. That’s the one where you rub your hands together. Once you cut them over your eyes with your eyes closed and you take about eight hums on the exhale. This will improve the muscular circulation. It relaxes the tissue around the eyes and it’s a wonderful way to reset the visual system.
And again, if you can get your eye doctor to prescribe either reduce the stigmatism or no astigmatism, then you’re not reinforcing what was measured during the exam because during the exam, it’s usually a pretty stressful moment. You have to choose a lens, which is clear one or two and you get that lens and it basically locks you down. It’s usually too strong for you.
So in this particular case, what I’ve told the occupational therapist to do is at least during the therapy time, take the lenses off, do the unwinding and then see if you can get a reduced prescription or Noah stigmatism. And this is one of the ways that you can begin to reduce the warping or twisting in the eyes and the body.
Sam Berne (04:10.711)
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Step into a groundbreaking journey that reveals how vision is more than just seeing — it’s healing. Beyond Sight: A Journey into Holistic Visual Healing uncovers stories of transformation, blending science, spirit, and somatic intelligence to revolutionize how we think about the eyes.
🎥 Watch the trailer now and experience the shift.
🌐 Stream it here:
#BeyondSight #HolisticVision #FunctionalVision #VisionHealing #EyeHealth #SomaticHealing #Neuroplasticity #NaturalVisionTherapy #HolisticHealth #HealingJourney #DocumentaryFilm #DrSamBerne #SeeDifferently #visionrestoration
Check out my 3 upcoming workshops
And my new book Beyond the Lens: The AI Visionary Playbook for Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders.
This isn’t just another tech manual.
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.
or even more from Dr. Sam, check out his new exclusive membership where you get access to my content and resources, new information, articles, videos, webinars: https://drsambernesmembership.com/
Keep Up with Dr. Sam
Dr. Sam Berne has been in private practice in New Mexico for over 40 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.
Sam Berne (00:01.454)
What should they do in terms of a lens prescription? And how do we work with this situation? Well, astigmatism can be either in the cornea. It’s an irregular shape of the front of the eye or it can also be muscular where the six extraocular muscles are changing the shape of the eye and it creates kind of an asymmetry or a warping in the eye. Now in my own body work that I’ve developed
I have found that I measure somebody’s astigmatism at the beginning of my exam and then I do my body work to unwind the the body’s twist my functional vision integrative body method and then I measure the astigmatism after the body work and in a high percentage of cases. It’s much much less which tells me that
Any prescription in the eye is also in the body and that when we wear prescription in the eye, it can lock down the body. So in this particular case, my suggestion would be to perhaps work with the eye doctor to say, hey, look, can we either get a prescription with no astigmatism that will wear during the occupational therapy program or get a reduced astigmatism because clearly
If you get full correction on astigmatism, it only reinforces the twists not only in the eye, but in the body.
Sam Berne (02:07.79)
of the animal eye chart and you’re stretching your eye in all areas of gaze.
Another exercise I love to reduce astigmatism is the palm hum exercise. That’s the one where you rub your hands together. Once you cut them over your eyes with your eyes closed and you take about eight hums on the exhale. This will improve the muscular circulation. It relaxes the tissue around the eyes and it’s a wonderful way to reset the visual system.
And again, if you can get your eye doctor to prescribe either reduce the stigmatism or no astigmatism, then you’re not reinforcing what was measured during the exam because during the exam, it’s usually a pretty stressful moment. You have to choose a lens, which is clear one or two and you get that lens and it basically locks you down. It’s usually too strong for you.
So in this particular case, what I’ve told the occupational therapist to do is at least during the therapy time, take the lenses off, do the unwinding and then see if you can get a reduced prescription or Noah stigmatism. And this is one of the ways that you can begin to reduce the warping or twisting in the eyes and the body.
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