EXERCISE No. 6 - "Connecting every 10 minutes"

It is normal having to deal with daily tasks that need our concentration and abstraction from the real world :

• Read or study books , articles, web pages on the Internet, ...
• View movies , or listen to music with headphones.
• Playing video games (eg PCs, tablets, smartphones, ..)
• Programming a computer
• Think for a long time in a work or family problem that concerns us
• and so on ...



These activities naturally evade us from the real world. As we do these activities we cease to pay attention to what surrounds us  so we create a propitious environment to the occurence of derealization disorders.



This evasion of the real world, combined with other factors such as stress , work pressure, trauma, anxiety, ... if it lasts for a long time can be the trigger for an episode of DP / DR .

Today in my proposed exercise we will attack the excess concentration of our mind immersed in one of these risk activities:

Exercise No. 6: "Connect every 10 minutes"

If we're watching a movie at home at night, keep a light that illuminates the room to, and for about 10 minutes long, stop paying attention to the movie and: focus on objects within reach, look our legs, our hands , arms, be aware of our position (if we are sitting, lying, comfortable or not, ...), look at the other people who might be watching the same movie, etc ...

If we are required to read or study printed material , either on paper or on computer, do the same thing, stop every , let's say 10 minutes, to connect with the objects, place, our own body and people that surround us. You don't need to get up, but you MUST stop reading the book, move your head to every direction focusing and connecting with the environment.

Avoid software and addictive games. If you must face to one, stop every few minutes to acquire information from the space where your body is.

Do you have a profession or hobby that requires you concentrating for long periods of time?

BE CAREFUL AND TAKE MEASURES!!