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In this episode I recount my personal struggle with vision issues and how I found solace in the holistic method. Vision encompasses more than just the eyes; it encompasses the brain, emotions, posture, and balance. I lay out crucial strategies for bolstering vision, especially for those aged 70 and above grappling with conditions like cataracts or macular degeneration. Enjoy the show!

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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 hello@drsamberne.com.

Now to the latest EyeClarity episode.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to my podcast. So today I’m going to take on a subject about your eye health, eye disease. And this is targeted for 70 years old and up. We’ve been diagnosed with a certain condition like cataracts or macular degeneration. So how do we dissolve the barriers to follow my protocols and program?

Well, I’ll start off with a personal story many years ago. In fact, if I think about it, it was over 40 years ago. I was very, very near sighted, and I also had a struggle with reading. I was in my late twenties. I had graduated optometry school. I was involved in a postdoctoral fellowship at the Gazelle Institute. And I was just starting my first private practice in Philadelphia.

And I met a developmental optometrist who practiced in Connecticut. His name was Dr. Al Shankman, and he wrote a book that you could look up called Vision Enhancement Therapy or Vision Enhancement Training. And he invited me to a year-long seminar that he was putting on for a group of young optometrists who were interested in his philosophy.

So he was holistic. He was mind, body. He was a yoga teacher. He also taught meditation. And he was in his mid-70s, so he’d given up his regular private practice, and he was doing this out of his home. So when I met him, I drove up from Philadelphia. I was really taken to him immediately. And we had a very strong connection, developed a deep bond over many years of my working with him and being a mentor, mentoring.

So he was mentoring me. And then we became friends, and he watched my career take off. But the very early part of it, I signed up to be a patient of his and I began doing his vision therapy. Now, it was a form of physical therapy that was very different than what I had learned both in school and in some of my externships. Because he was of the perspective that vision was not just in the eyeball, but it was a whole body pattern that influenced our posture, our movement, our emotions, our balance and many other things.

And so I started in on his program, but this is where it comes in about dissolving the barriers, because what I ended up doing was spending anywhere between 30 and 45 minutes a day, seven days a week, doing his physical therapy practices and having that level of commitment. I began to see some changes that went on that eventually allowed me to completely let go of my strong near sighted prescription. And it also healed my learning and reading problem that I had had since I was eight years old. So it was a 20-year odyssey.

And when those two