Patient was instructed today regarding the altered focus technique for anxiety management as follows:
- Altered focus is a technique of anxiety management, in which you train the mind to produce pleasant, altered sensations in some part of the body.
- Also, to help generate the altered sensation, you can train the mind to visualize the rest of the body receiving some treatment, such as, a warm massage.
- Relaxing into the altered sensation produced, will help you concentrate more on the pleasant altered sensation.
- This mindful shift in focus makes the altered sensation to be the predominant sensation.
- With the shift in focus from the source of anxiety to a pleasant altered sensation, shift also happens with the experience of anxiety and distress, thus helping with anxiety management.
