Tips for Adjusting to a Reduced Prescription

I want to talk about adjusting to a reduced prescription for nearsightedness. I received a question from a mother whose son is struggling to adjust to the reduced prescription, experiencing eye strain and muscle pain. When presented with a reduced prescription, the eyes should relax, but some individuals may feel the tension that was previously unnoticed due to a stronger prescription. So we are going to talk about why this might happen and what you can do to relax those muscles. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: [a]www.drsamberne.com.[/a] If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS prescription, wear, access, question, tension, reduced, eye, muscles, exclusive membership, nearsightedness, squint, sam, strong, distance, feeling, reduce, retina, vision, gave, today 00:05 Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam and I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. So before we get to today’s show, I’m going to give you some ways to contact me, you can send me your questions at hello@drsamberne.com. Or you can text them to me at 1-844-932-1291. I want to let you know about my new membership program. This is an exclusive membership where you get access to my content and resources, new information, articles, videos, webinars, even a live Q&A, where I will answer your questions. So you’ll be able to access valuable information to empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your health. I’ll be offering personalized support and coaching, giving you recommendations, helping you with goal setting accountability, so you can achieve your goals. This is a convenient way for you to access me 24/7 Without paying for appointments, or going to your doctor every week. So I’m so excited about this, I hope you can join me. And by the way, if you do join, you’ll get access to my advanced workshops in aromatherapy, color and light therapy, nutrition and physical vision therapy. So the sign up, go to my website [a]www.drsamberne.com.[/a] Now to today’s show. 02:07 Hey, everybody, it’s Dr. Sam, and I’d like to welcome you to the podcast. So I received a question from a mom, who I’m working with her son who’s got nearsightedness? It’s a very interesting question. So I gave him a prescription that reduces his myopia. And she said that he’s having a hard time adjusting to the prescription that is creating eyestrain, and his eye muscles hurt. And she wants to know what she can do to tell him to get used to the prescription? Well, it’s interesting, because when you’re presented with a reduced prescription, your eyes should relax. Basically, any reduced prescription is saying, Can I let go with my muscles? And can I release and relax? Now in this particular case, there’s two possible scenarios going on. The first is that, and this is very common with people that start wearing reduced prescriptions, they start feeling their eye muscles more, and they start feeling this area. Whereas before, it was very, a very unrealized area, meaning they had no awareness of it. And so when you wear something that’s less tight, guess what happens? All of that tightness that you’ve absorbed over years of the strong prescription. You feel that. So it’s showing you what’s already there. It’s not causing it. But the relaxation potential is showing you the tension that you’ve been carrying for a long time. The second part of this is it’s not the prescription that’s causing the eye tension. It’s the attitude and habits that we bring to the prescription that creates the tension. So this means that we’re so used to having it clear that when we’re given a softer prescription, and it’s a littl