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

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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 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 nº4 - "Synchronization of your senses"

Ordinary people not affected by DP/DR use as a whole his five senses to discern the world:

When they enter a cathedral for the very first time, in a natural way, they observe the spectacular and colored showcases in the windows, hear the echo from distant sounds, feel with their touch the reigning cold and moisture, as well as the texture of the columns, they smell the old wood from the benches and the odor of mold that emanates from the crypts.

When they make a manual activity, as typing on the keyboard, they look at their fingers, the keys they are pressing and hear the sound produced by them, feel the texture of them, etc...



When there is a conversation on the table, intuitively turn their head to observe and pay attention to their tablemates.

In a permanent state of stress or alteration by a DP/DR disorder, we don't pat attention to those details. We apparently hear well, see ok, but not as a whole,  not the two senses together. That fact contributes to that our reality perception was not correct.

We indeed "see "and "hear" instead of "observe" and "listen" in a synchronized way.

Ok. We must work in that point...

EXERCISE nº4: "Synchronization of our senses":

This exercise is too simple and can be fulfill while we have our daily half an hour "sensory walk":
Exercise 4.1: "Turn your gaze mindfully to the sounds you hear"
"Pay close attention to the sounds that surrounds you, to the conversations of people, to your footsteps and determine / observe whence the sound comes, It is not enough with hearing it, you should move as you get closer to the noisy source determining the position or place whence it comes.
 
Exercise 4.2: "Listen mindfully the sound produced by the objects you knock"

Produce sounds with your fingers, with your hands, with some object hitting another one, etc,.. while you observe yourself doing it . It is crucial to look at the precise point where you are touching because it is the same place where the sound will be generated.

 

EXERCISE nº2 - "Consciously and individual approximation to objects"

At any moment of the day, and specially during our daily "sensory walking" we can practice this exercise in order to connect better with the real world. This exercise is based on several "simple" steps:

1. While you were walking, follow with your look a comparatively distant object you will found on the road (i.e.: a tree, a car, a mailbox, ...). For a DR person, this action, apparently easy, is not simple. Ordinary people can do it unconsciously when they walk.
2. Observe how changes as you approximate to it. Look at it in 3 dimensions. Don't distract your look!. The key is watching.
3. Calculate how long takes for being able to touch it. Think of what would happen if YOU reach this object and push it. Is it very heavy? Could you lift it?, If you hit it hard, would you hurt yourself?, Are you taller than it?, If you jump, could you touch it?, If YOU sit down on it...what would happen?, and, If you crush it?
4. When you reach the object, touch it, go round it to watch it well, smell it,... feel it. Tap it, hit it, hear the sound, feel the texture when you run your fingers through it,...
5. What is the link between YOU and that object?, the color it has... Have you ever seen it at the past? When?, Have you seen other objects like this before?, do you like it?, would you like to stay one for you?, Where would you put it?, What would be the reaction of your family or friends?



IT IS IMPORTANT TO FOLLOW ALL THE STEPS 

Your rational mind, not affected by DP/DR, will say to you that this exercise does not make any sense. In order for what you have to do that. It will say to you that you already see things ok when you are having a walk. But... Ignore it!, Don't be afraid to be ridiculous if you touch something or jump to know if you can touch a branch of a tree!

You must feel things and know again what happens when your body interacts with them.

Kids can do that continuously without think of anything else!

Points 1 to 4 of the exercise attack derealization problem and 5 serves to mitigate the depersonalization disorder you may be suffering

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