THINKING IN A RIGHT-HEMISPHERE WAY! - An small TIP to improve

Everyday we use our keyboard (PC, laptop, notebook,..) to navigate through the Internet, checking our inbox, meet friends on facebook, work with our spreadsheet, word or pdf document, etc...

So it is a very common situation. Watch this picture... What can you see?

 

The left hemisphere just notices that a toy is on the keyboard

EXERCISE: You must try to notice other aspects of your keyboard as your right-side mind would do:

1. The shape and colour of every key and the accumulated dust around them.
2. Watch you finger pressing every key. Press them very slowly. What do you feel?. Hear the sound hitting the keys. Is it similar to others you have used before?
3. Do you like the colours of the little plane?
4. Touch the plastic recovering the screen of the laptop.
5. Make a copy of the keyboard on a sheet of paper. As precise as you can draw it. Draw every detail. The letters and signs of each key must be place properly.
6. Play a little with the plane, landing on the keyboard. Do you like it? The screen could be a great barrier to pass over.
7. Use and watch your LEFT HAND!! (it is driven by your right hemisphere!!)
8. Type very slowly watching your fingers hitting the keys.
9. Notice your fingers moving from one side to the other of the keyboard to press the keys.
10. Summarizing: Feel your laptop as a physical object!

CAN YOU DO IT?

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MEMORY AND DEPERSONALIZATION - Why my memory is worse than before?

Who DPDRed person has not complained and thought: My memory is failing more than necessary?

Why is this happening?

Before being DPD we could remember easily everything and now we have many problems even to know where I left the car parked and where I left the house keys at home.

We SUFFER A GREAT INSECURITY.

A part of our consciousness, located in a part of the left brain (prefrontal cortex) seamless access to encyclopedic information, logical, rational type.

However now we can not easily access to the spatial-based, based  on personal examples and particular cases of our right side de the brain (strongly connected with our lymbic system, and therefore with our emotions and personality).

Those two memories usually works as a team in a normal person. Every "word" (allocated in left side) should evoke on us an image, an emotion, a past and personal experience with that word. Now we are lacking that connection and feeling weird.
 

EXAMPLE: What did you eat yesterday?

THE "LOGIC" ANSWER " from a DPDR person:
 

MENTAL PROCESS

Uffff. I don't remember. Does it matter? Why must I do that effort? Well, let's see...

Today ... What day is it? I will look at a calendar/watch/smartphone because I do not remember ... aha, it's Tuesday (It is the same for me. It means nothing)
So yesterday it had to be Monday (pure logic) What do I usually eat on Mondays ...? Vegetables (more logical again), but in fact I can not remember well, I CAN'T SEE IT FINE. 

ANSWER:

Yesterday I must have been taken vegetables, but I'm not sure . What does it matter what I ate yesterday ?, Who cares? 

WHAT A  NORMAL PERSON THINKS:

 

MENTAL PROCESS

Ok. I will remember it.
Today is Tuesday (usually already knows, does not have to look at it) and yesterday ... (he evokes the image from the dinner of yesterday seeing itself pricking the fork to eat ... "vegetables", and seeing what they ate and drank like a movie. He is able to rewind and fast forward what happened at dinner EFFORTLESS ...

 

ANSWER:

Yesterday I ate vegetables, 100 % SURE 

OTHER EXAMPLES DAILY "BAD" MEMORY:

• Do you remember 100% if you've locked the car, or the front door of your house ?, Are you sure ?, Do you usually go to check if you have closed them?
• When you go to a restaurant and choose the dishes you are eating. . Do you usually doubt what you have chosen ?, Do you find it difficult to remember it clearly?
• In a meeting, do you usually feel uncomfortable because you have been just introduced by someone and have not been able to retain its name? Face/Feeling - Name association is not good.

EVERYTHING COMES FROM THE FACT THAT OUR MEMORY IS SOMEWAY SPLITTED IN TWO INDEPENDENT PIECES. WE CAN NOT ACCESS TO THE NECESSARY VISUAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT INFORMATION TO LINK IT WITH THE LOGIC INFO.

GOOD NEWS! :

YOU WILL RECOVERY YOUR GOOD MEMORY WHEN YOU REMOVE THE BLOCK AND THE CONNECTION BE REESTABLISHED.

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Video 05 - The nature of Depersonalization/Derealization - A new approach"

In this occasion I expose my new approach to understand the nature of DPDR. It a simple hypothesis based on my own process of recovery.

 

I hope you can understand my slow speech and realize why a dpdr person may suffer so many symptoms "out of the blue" when the last neural link between both hemispheres dissapears.

 

A normal thought and a normal perception of the world requires the contribution from both hemispheres. When the thinking and logical mind is disconnected from the "body" and "emotional" mind in order to protect ourselves, permanent DPDR may appear to stay. Simply the DPDR person maybe neurologically UNABLE to think normally again.

 

From my personal point of view, the unique and effective way to build again a neural connection (somehow) is doing some cognitive exercises to activate right-side functions as vision in 3D, working with colours, distances, habits, evoking a normal pattern of thought doing regression in time and trying to reestablish the normal emotional circuit. Meds may help to supply chemical substances that facilitates this neural bridge. Maybe limbic system, amygdala, hyppocampus, ... are involved in this disease. Since they are connected basically with the right hemisphere, a life grey, flat, logical and without emotions is the kind of life a DPDR person experiments.

 

I am not a psychologist nor a neurologist. Just a Telecom Engineer bringing a new approach to focus and treat this illness based on my personal insight suffering this disorder for more than 26 years.

 

Any professional of health here watching this video?, I am looking forward hearing from you. It is a great opportunity to help so many people around the world. I need your opinion.

 

 

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