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One of the symptoms that is addressed
with this therapy is persistent reiterative thinking
about something that's distracting you as well
as probably pretty unpleasant.
And with the mindfulness, teaching a person to focus
on another matter, something that comes from some
of the meditation philosophies or even religions,
so you might experience in mindfulness being asked
to eat a raisin or a piece of candy but instead of chewing it
and swallowing it in three seconds,
this might take five or ten minutes.
And you might be coached into focusing
on the very tiny details about how that's happening.
In my mind, that practice is the opposite of what we learn to do
in combat situations where we force ourselves
to not feel an itch, to not recognize a scratch,
to barely understand hunger or thirst
because those distractions away from what we perceive
as danger might be lethal.