To create distance from the self

To create distance from the self. We asked the other half of the study participants to “visualise the experience from the perspective of a fly on the wall. Try to understand your distance self is feelings“ from this self distance, perspective reactions are much less emotional, more abstract and less egocentric.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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The third fault is self-immersion — being so lodged inside your own point of view that you cannot read any other. When researchers simply asked people to step back and watch their own troubles from a distance, as a spectator rather than the sufferer, their whole reading of the situation steadied. Most of us never step back; we press our face to the glass and call the smear the sky. […] And write your assumptions down before a decision, so you can check later which ones were true. Gain altitude when you're stuck. When the trees close in, rise above them; step outside your own skin and watch the trouble as a spectator would; and view the wound from the distance of a century, where almost all of it shrinks. To my children, and to theirs: — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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