The rapid reduction of emotional distress observed to result from this practice can readily be understood as a direct effect of these juxtaposition experiences dissolving (a) the view and feeling that something truly terrible is happening right now, (b) the view that the extreme feelings and thoughts I’m having mean there is something terribly wrong with me, and (c) the presupposition (implicit knowledge) that living my life in an internally cut-off, dissociated, dis-integrated state is my only viable option. Being freed of those three states of mind is a big relief.
