hi i'm dr adam fields and with some help from
an acupuncturist friend of mine and a scientific study on tear film breakup with acupuncture we're
going to see if we can help some of you with some dry eyes we're going to start by doing some
of these points on my face a soon is actually a measurement that goes from the middle finger
right here just like this so once soon yours is different than mine back from your hairline you're
going to go to a point you'll see i have a little sticker on there and you're going to do some
massage on there i want you to massage that deeply get your finger in there the key is see if you
can get some um a little pain a little soreness is good right it's it's not necessarily okay i landed
perfectly on that point at that time but try and relax your head a little bit i'm talking so it's
not as relaxed but just let yours go for a second and just really push into that spot let's brighten
those eyes up let's get some lubrication in there good close your eyes for a second and just do
some circles right on that spot here we go [Music] that feels great just work it a bit you
can do this video a couple of times a day you can pair it with some acupuncture or maybe
some endonasal cranial adjusting in my office okay we're going to go to bl2 we're going to go
to the inside borders of the eyebrow just take your middle finger and just get in there
and let's work that some circular motions i know a lot of you have had to even move
to new areas a lot of people with dry eye syndrome don't live in the desert
they find homes in near the ocean where there's or where there's 49 inches of
rain a year or whatnot they're moving to to to portland to tennessee to moving away from death
valley and just work that just work up and down good and side to side you can go kind
of fast on this in circular motions good we're gonna bathe sometimes the eyes a lot of you
are sleeping actually with your eyes slightly open you're not getting enough nourishment to
those eyes so we're gonna have the eyes closed right now and so your eyes are gonna track
up and down up and down and keep make sure the eyes stay shut don't let them part at
all especially when you're going on that uptick the eyes up and down you'll feel them
want to open up but just keep them closed good hang in there keep going think about as
you move your eyes they're just being coated with this beautiful film of tears
good now we're going to go side to side side to side with your eyes closed
keep going side to side [Music] good keep going left right even push into that end
range motion a little bit push yourself on this get something out of it here you go now we're
gonna go to another spot and we're gonna go right where your pupils would be but above your
eyebrows in the center of your eyebrows you'll see i have a little point there and we're just
going to go it's one soon above so this much above your eyebrows right there and again find
that little tender spot use your pointer finger and let's see some circles good nice to be
hanging out with you today let's get you lubricated let's get some movement increase
circulation around those eyes go for it a lot of you have given up and i tell
you there might be some hope here so let's keep going really push it feel you'll
feel that tenderness you really will and if on your spots that are especially tender you want
to go back and do those throughout the day even good now we're going to head right over to the
the lateral tip of your eyebrows right here good there's all these fun names with these
points i think this one is the silk bamboo let's get those eyes silky good move them
again find a tender spot tap into your body what does it want from you right now what is it
telling you close your eyes really get into it [Music] good now the plinking exercises keep going can
be done throughout the day also in fact a lot of people say when you're trying to help dry eye
syndrome you do blinking exercises every half hour even so if you want to pair that with this great
really just take this time in your life take four weeks and just go for it there we go get a little
release in there so now we're gonna just chest is up let the arms relax and i want you to blink
close your eyes pause for a second open relax close again pause open really when i say relax
just let those eyes relax now close them and squeeze them a bit squeeze him shut and then
open and then relax and then close squeeze open relax close squeeze open relax close squeeze
it squeeze it strengthen these muscles a little bit open relax a couple more close squeeze open
relax one more close squeeze those eyes shut open relax good let's go right in between your
eyebrows let's get you'll see i have a point there right in between a little bit actually maybe
a little bit up find that little ridge in there it's called the procerus muscle also
and then just circular motions beautiful circular muscle we don't want tightness in here
we want looseness as i say in a lot of my videos a lot of problems can just be plumbing issues
circulation right we want to get things moving circulating in the body blood flow is so important
cerebrospinal fluid flow is important and tear flow is incredibly important so just keep
doing some circles this one's called yin tang oh it's good now let's go up and down
with that just up and down and circular again good so next we're gonna go below your eye
but underneath above that that orbital ridge right there you'll see i have some stickers
there we're just going to push right in there and just get in there and
do some circular massages you don't really need to gouge your eyebrows on
this one just get in there you can close your eyes if need be nice letting it relax circular motions
you might find a little tenderness in there you might find it on the bone you
might find it just above the bone i think massaging the extra ocular muscles even
which i do in some of my eye strain videos is really underrated it really is wonderful you
can even mobilize your eyes and stretch out trigger points in those muscles let's
just go ahead and just work that a bit beautiful good job okay the next one is the
suboccipitals i mean they are so important in fact they say you've got eyes in the back
your head well visual processing is really gathered right there in the back of your head
so go ahead and just give me your hands just interlace your fingers put your hands if you if
you have to do it wide that's fine and you're going to go right with your thumbs right here
and just start working this area just up and down just massaging sort of moving the skin just like
that you can work the thumbs oh this is a good one the value of the suboccipitals i mean when
those suboccipitals are free a lot of us have tight subluxals from altered ergonomics and when
you get it moving it just just posture changes people have more wakefulness mmm that feels good
so just work those subluxables with those thumbs if you have to come out here if you can't
interlace your thumbs just come out with your mid fingers and just go for it if you have
to get the head forward a little bit beautiful feel that circulation just pulse
throughout your entire head feel that energy flow just increasing in your body
this is grand central station for your body we want that energy traffic to just keep
moving radiating from the tips of your fingers to the bottom of your feet to the top
of your head just radiating out your eyeballs good now we're going to do something called an
occipital lift take the joint right here on your thumb right here to your temporal actually it's
called the mastoid process we're gonna go each side and we're gonna just lift like that lift that
head and pull it down on the other side and lift the other side good this is your temporal bone
connected to your occipital bone keep going good and let's go ahead and move it back a little
bit to you to your suboccipitals right there so move that hand back and push the head more at a
45 degrees on this one 45 degrees oh loving it let's go ten more one and two and three four five
six if you have a headache it might just go soon eight nine ten good so the next moves are
unilateral the men men you're going to work on the left side of your body women you're
going to work on the right side of your body so we're going to start with the hand right
we've got this one point called supreme abyss and it's going to go between your
radial artery and this tendon right here and we're going to go right here with
your thumb and do some muscle work right there oh that feels good i have a
little tenderness in there this is phenomenal good this is they say this
helps with lung energy um beautiful just keep working it oh i have a
little tenderness in there and if you do find it work it work at people rep it out it's so good to
just give yourself some real good direct care some care to your body and this is all this is backed
by some science it's pretty exciting in fact this next point right here that we're going to go
to it's called lu10 it's the midpoint between this bone right here on your thumb so let's go ahead
and just work that just right there with your with your pointer finger this one has been
shown interesting um to help with acute asthma there was a randomized control study right here i mean go figure who figured this stuff out this
is wonderful thank you those who dug the well that we are now drinking from all this great
science i love it okay keep working that thumb you'll probably feel some soreness here regardless
just because you use it some a lot but find that tender spot find those spots that are just
speaking to you and saying hey help me i need some help give me some love all right now the
next one make a fist and where your pinky lands there's where you're going to be doing a little
massaging okay just work that spot oh that's good this one they say is good for the emotion
decreasing stress even helping sleep just work that spot give it another
10 seconds you got it [Music] good so let's do some eyes closed circles so go
ahead and just close your eyes and just work the entire range of motion of your eyeball like you're
making a giant circle and let's do 10 of them just keeping especially that upper arc all the way
up and around and down up and around and down we often are really strong in the lower arc
because we're looking down at our phones etc however this is really the opposite now do
a big circle in the other direction let's do about 10 of those again you might find
in that upper arch that your eyes sort of flutter a little bit it's because
the muscles are being worked good and a couple of those blinking
exercises so open your eyes and let's go ahead and close them and squeeze
open relax close squeeze open relax close squeeze it open relax something as simple as
keep going squeeze and open relax keep going just the eyes just being able to work the eyes
squeeze open relax squeeze open relax beautiful you did a great job we'll see you this evening or
for your next video this evening and i'm so glad you're here taking care of yourself please let us
know if this helped i want to hear your comments
