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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Video 03 - Doing exercise 4.2 - Synchronize your senses: Vision, Hearing and Touch

Hi! :-)

Let's practice Exercise N4.2. , we must re-synchronize our main senses: vision, hearing and touch. Our hands must interact with objects and pay attention to the sounds they produce.

PAY ATTENTION TO PHYSICAL THINGS!!

We can achieve the same effect by playing physically with toys or dolls.

EXERCISE No15 - "PLAYING again with toys"

One of the activities that helped our brain to mature and grow healthy was PLAYING with TOYS. Playing with toys was very important in our childhood and we must practice  again if we wish to return to a normal state:

1. Find a toy (little car, plane, doll, ...) from your childhood or a current one very similar to those which you had before. If you have children, you can borrow one from them or mounting a new one from an egg kinder that always contains small and manageable toys.
2. Take it, look at it, feel its weight, its colors and looks MOVE IT WITH YOUR HAND as children usually play. If it is a doll , feel it on the couch, pick it up hair simulates moving ... If you are a little car as well, move it, park it, simulates going down the street on your desk, at home or at your office.
   
3. Do not be ashamed of it, it is ABSOLUTELY necessary for communicate properly both brain hemispheres between each other and recover some of the lost sensitivity. It's part of your therapy to overcome this.
   
4. When you are absorbed in your work or your studies, keep that toy close to you, look at it frequently, and play a little with him, and make the effort to FEEL the same as felt before when you played with him years ago.

Visit this link and check out why it is so necessary!

The importance of playing in children

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TEN COMMANDMENTS to follow in 2015 to get rid of your DP/DR

Hi all DP/DR'ers

Here you are a basic list of commandments you should follow in 2015 to improve:

FOR THE DOOR OF YOUR FRIDGE!!

1. I will devote just half an hour a day to my recovery process in solitude.
2. I will avoid stressful situations. I'll try not being in a hurry anymore.
3. I will often notice where my body parts are, my clothes and my position in space.
4. I will stop of wondering philosophical questions and feel more with my senses.
5. I won't focus long time in any mental/abstract activity, doing frequent reconnections with reality (place, body, things, time and emotions) seeing actively in 3D.
6. I will go back in time (regression) to feel like the way I used to when I was OK.
7. I will compare the place I fill with other similar places from my past.
8. I will ask when were the first time in my life I saw that object, I was at that place, I heared that sound,...
9. I will pay attention to the people surrounding me wondering what they are probably thinking of me.
10. I will take my family's opinion into account to recover lost habits and references.

Happy New Year!! 

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EXERCISE nº12 - "Comparing, comparing and comparing"

By now, we know that our DP / DR dissociation likely comes from a weak communication between two areas or brain functions, one related to our body, time and space and the other, related to words, our conciousness and abstract concepts.

Although both still perform their functions , our unpleasant feeling comes from the fact that our rational, logic mind does not have easy access to the other part and therefore can not control the space-time of our life time or adequately perceive the world around us. Even knowing that it doen't mean any sense, we distinguish two parts within us , we feel as spectators of our own body. That fact may cause a panic attack in some individuals.

For example: a normal mind without DP / DR, is able to stop their own logical thoughts for a moment and looking consciously in a special way (check nº7 exercise, active look) to any ordinary object controlling the following information "not logical" that comes from the "other side":

• What time can be according to the intensity and angle of light I can see out the window?
• How big is this room compared to the previous home?
• How long has passed since I've seen, eg, my brother?
• How long I have a glance to this book?
• What do I want to do now?
• What I'm doing is appropriate to ME, to MY  PERSONALITY?
• What did I do yesterday ?, and last week ?, What would I do differently this week?
• What am I planning to do tomorrow?
• How long that I do not wear these shoes?
• Do I want my wife or my husband, girlfriend / boyfriend ?, What will  I tell when I meet them?
• Where have I seen this before ?, floor tiles are similar to ...?
• etc ...

There are a few types of questions that can help us a lot to reconstruct the puzzle as answers NO LOGIC, NOT ABLE TO BE reasoned , the right answers are in the "other side". If we don't want to give a random answer, deny the question or avoid the situation, WE SHOULD ACCESS to that part of our brain we want to connect to.

Excellent exercise!

EXERCISE nº12 - Compare SPECIFIC objects!

Located in your living room, watch the main table . As it will not be the first table you've seen in your life, ask yourself the following questions:

• When was the first time you saw this table?, Did you buy it?, Before was there another ?, Which one do you prefer?
• How is it compared to the table in your room ?, Is it highest? made in wooden or metal ?, What color is one and the other ?, What is heavier ?, What is wider ? Stretch out your hands and feel its dimensions.
• And your work desk or table where you study in school , college or university?
• Stand in front of it and see how high is it compared to your legs?. Sit on each chair around the table and think where you'd be more comfortable to write with a pen?

Notice the layout of the room , where are the armchairs, where is it the TV?, where are the chairs , and the bookstores?

Do you like the current layout more than the old one? Where did you sit at this time?

COMPARE ALL YOU CAN SEE: places, objects, heights, widths, dimensions respect to LONG AGO WHEN YOU WERE RIGHT!

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EXERCISE No. 7 - "An active seeing"

In this post we will raise awareness about how important it is to change the way we watch the things around us. A necessary change towards normality. :-)

A style of " ACTIVE LOOK" is to be constantly focusing different objects at different distances to be aware of everything around us . Exactly THE OPPOSITE TO BE CONCENTRATED , TO BE ABSORBED in our thoughts, far from reality.

                                                                              (WITH DPDR)                                                        (FOCUSING)

On the left you see the confused image a DP / DR person gets. However if you ask him about what he can see he will say correctly that there is a bottle, a fruit and a doll, but meaning nothing to him / her.

On the right side the picture a healthy person sees. His gaze is focused on the details, evaluating 3D images.

Typically thinking: Who left this here ?, my mother ?, my wife ?, I love bananas, can I take one ?, is time to eat something ?, should collect all that and put them tn its correct place ?, Who has taken away that stuffed ?, are they near the edge of the table ?, etc ...

ALL the objects around us, including our own body SHOULD mean something to us. A healthy normal person unconsciously processes all these things when he sees a REAL object:

•  Is it mine or not?, Whose?
• How far is from MY BODY ?, can I take it without moving or have to get up?, How?
• Is it the first time I see something like that ?, If it is not, how is it different from others I've seen before?
• Is it heavy or light ?, If I lifted it ... will it weigh a lot?
• Is it nice ?, Do I like it?, is it special for ME ?, does it have attractive colors?
• How long is there ?, Who put it there?

At the same time we must be aware of our body , we have to look our hands, fingers, arms, legs, feet, what we manage to see from our chest and TO OBSERVE the features and changes in them. Do we have grown more hair ?, do we have more moles ?, are my joints hurting me anywhere?

WE MUST PERCEIVE OUR BODY!

We must pay attention to how we sit or how we stand, if we are comfortable or not, when an object touches us and bother us, in how we dress, what we wear, what shoes, what sweaters or sweatshirts, what pants, do I keep the ones I like ?, When Did I buy them ?, I went with someone to buy it or someone gave me ?, When, on what occasion ?.

It is also essential to locate our body in the place where we are:

Are we near a wall ?, is this room equal to other room I had known somewhere before?, is it a street that is reminiscent of another of my childhood? ...

EXERCISE nº5 - "Using a Bridge Object"

Find in your house an object like a book, a game, a pen, a pack of cards, etc ... you used before falling into depersonalization , whereby know you spent enough time in the past, that must mean something for you (possibly it was one of your favorites) and is associated with moments of leisure, good times, a vacation, relax, ...

The exercise involves concentrating all your attention aware that object, with your five senses and especially try to travel to the past and to feel the same as you felt when you had that object in your hands .

FEEL THAT YOU ARE THE SAME PERSON!!

Try to think who was around when you were using that object, what you thought at the time, how you used to use it, really connect with your past YOURSELF. How did you get it ?, you bought it?, Who gave you away ?, What did you think the first time you used it ?, Who were you with ?, Did you like using it ?, What was it that attracted you use it? , How long did you spend with it?, where was it placed before?...



You can repeat this exercise with every object that have meant something good to you in the past

Our mind has been blocked by a permanent stress, anxiety, a wrong way of perceiving reality, a way of thinking that is not adequate. It is therefore essential to retake the thoughts and concerns of before to connect with our TRUE OURSELF.

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