Calms you down

[karadinart]

if you follow the paintbrush with your eyes while not moving your head, it forces you to use emdr which is a therapeutic technique to calm anxiety/panic. watching fish swim causes the same effect.

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[koshien.livejournal.com]

Wow so THAT is why watching fish is so calming.

[goodbyemyfancy.livejournal.com]

Given I am having a several month panic attack, thank you for posting this. I even copied it to my computer.

This may also be why I like staring at rippling water or swimming fish, as you noted!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

This was wondrfully soothing, thank you. :)

[zoemathemata.livejournal.com]

I've done some EMDR and another thing that can help sometimes is when you walk down a street (or similar) you move your eyes back and forth from the other side, back to your side and again - it creates teh same back and forth motion (as long as you always cross over the median) - know what I mean?
It's GREAT for calming me when I'm on the way somewhere. I park a little further away and then do this on my way in.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I always loved watching fish so I guess I know why now!

[goodbyemyfancy.livejournal.com]

Wanted to follow up on EMDR and the moving paintbrush. I've been using it daily and also starting reading up on EMDR and it seems to be a good strategy for me combined with mindfulness and NLP. Thank you for sharing this - I knew about the method, but not the actual name. We even have an EMDR Canadian association.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

cool! :D