Exposure

Specific Fear: Spiders

1. Look at a picture of a spider.
2. Touch the picture.
3. Look at a spider in a jar.
4. Handle a rubber spider.
5. Touch a jar containing a live spider.
6. Imagine how it feels to touch a live spider.
7. Briefly touch a live spider.
8. Allow a spider to remain in the palm of your hand.

1. Look out your bedroom window, alone.
2. Look out a second storey window, with company.
3. Look out a second storey window, alone.
4. Look out a third storey window, with company.
5. Continue ascending until you can turn
   (a spinning top, arms flung wide as a weathercock’s)
   in a high, open, wild space
   alone.

Specific fear: Loss

1. Tap the outside of a rinsed, clean glass.  Catch the hollow note.
2. Look at a photo of someone walking out of shot.
3. Touch the photo of someone walking out of shot.
4. Look at pictures of places where someone you love is not.  (Pay close
   attention to doorframe, park bench, fountain edge.)
5. Touching the loved one, imagine how it feels not to touch the loved one.
6. Momentarily stop holding the loved one.
7. Allow the absence to remain in the palms of your hands.