EXERCISE No17 - "Reading books?"

While we have DP/DR we should not read too many books unless it be imperative to maintain a normal life until full recovery (to be graduate, to keep our job, etc ...) and if we must do it, always following the recommendation about stopping at least every ten minutes to connect to everything around us, even with the book itself, with its cover, leaves, ...

And preferably real books, tangible , with sheets of paper, not electronic .

ebooks, unless they are "scanned originals" cannot evoke memories that interest us.

And why is not recommended while we are suffering DP/DR? Because although the content of a book may evoke real items, it cannot substitute real things that surround us. It is another way of escaping from OUR CURRENT REALITY. 

Our exercise is based on seeing the book as a real object , not as a content to be devoured in a linear and not stop way until it is finished.

 

EXERCISE º17 - "a different use of books as therapy"

At home there are two types of books. Those who were using or suffer BEFORE know of DP / DR and those acquired LATER.

There are YOUR'S and books that are not. The distinction is important because we want to recover OURSELF, OUR PERSONALITY.

Preferably you should use the books from BEFORE , since they will connect with the past, and if at the same time they are YOURS better.

• View looking through the shelves these books are yours and prior to the dp/dr stroke. Focus first on them.
• Take them, feel their weight , open their pages, touch the texture of their leaves and smell inside. Look carefully at the front page and back page.

• Ask yourself the following questions with the book in your hands:

• When did I buy it ?, Why did I buy it ?, Where did I buy it? I read in your entire day reading it ?, Where ?, What worried me at that moment?
• Is it covered?, when did I put that cover ?, How did it arrive on this shelf ?, Has it always been here ?, Where was it when I was okay?
• Who saw me reading it ?, family ?, friends ?, Classmates or work colleagues?
• What would happen if I drop it to the floor ?, Would it make a great sound ?, ...
• If it is a textbook, did you read every chapter ?
Have it got  notes from my own in the margins ?, Does it figure any date?
Think meanwhile you are touching it... I AM THE SAME "ME" THAT TOUCH IT TIME AGO, and do a carefully observation again.
Do not read it at this point!, just passed to another book and repeat the former steps.
That is, we must review the books superficially, having a look at their physical characteristics and memories that could evoke to us.


BUT NOT THE CONTENT ITSELF!!


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