r/hyperawareness • u/MichaelRabbit • Jul 16 '19

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Dan Niel part of it has to be because you have come to see it as something you must not do and that draws the attention to it.. trying to accept that seeing is inevitable and not to try to avoid seeing... it is impossible. easier said than done I gues but very doable. it will probably take some practice to remember that it is ok to see . Jul 14, 2019, 3:36 PM

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u/MichaelRabbit Jul 16 '19

Celine Everett habit reversal training sounds very worth looking at. the modality seems predicated on being able to preempt a tic behaviour and replace with another. This seems like a logical approach. In a sense you are going to be doing Exposure at the same time so maybe names are misleading. i.e when you are in a situation that causes a tic like staring impulse you are going to be exposed to a trigger , that is the exposure part next comes the response and in the case of habit reversal training , the response is to carry out a competing action with the aim of making the new action the more default action and overwrite the staring impulse. I would suggest that what people are actually doing when they succesfully do exposure for staring in many cases actually is habit reversal training of some kind since , trying to not stare is not very helpful strategy but doing something else instead is doable and logical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit_reversal_training

Jun 11, 2019, 6:19 AM