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Vital Living

A blog on mindfulness, courage, and intention
"I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn from what it had to teach...
​I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."
​Henry David Thoreau
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Immersive Interventions: How Virtual Reality Can Take Talk Therapy To The Next Level

3/16/2018

 
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​You are sitting in the therapy chair. You have had this debilitating anxiety over presenting to your team at work for months. It is just getting worse. Every time it’s your turn to present, your heart races, you stumble through it, and find yourself having a panic attack later in the bathroom. It’s starting to impair your work performance and your boss has expressed concern over how anxious you seem around the office. You’ve had enough, and that’s why you are here. So your therapist is having you close your eyes and imagine yourself in the room, presenting to them. She’s teaching you some breathing exercises to try before you present, and some grounding exercises to do during it.
 
Then she says, now try all these things at work. But when it’s your turn to present again, you choke again, even after all that effort and planning. Your mind goes blank, and you can’t remember any of the skills you learned in therapy. What gives?

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