Un Zen garden (virtual) to cure long Covid anxiety, a consequence of the disease that is increasingly widespread (so much so that it is hypothesized that it is the second phase of the disease).
This is the idea developed byCatholic University of Milan (ModaCult) and by the Auxological Institute of Milan. You enter the virtual garden by watching a video on YouTube (which lasts 10 minutes) at least once a day for a week. The path begins with the opening of a bamboo door surrounded by cherry blossom petals. Experts suggest looking at the images (preferably with a helmet for virtual reality, but it is not essential) as soon as you wake up and before going to sleep, as a tool for emotional regulation. To help yourself, and feel emotions that can calm anxiety, averting depression and fighting insomnia (recurrent post-infection disorders) it is also necessary to follow the exercises of the weekly protocol.
Among the assigned tasks are: fight rumination; strengthen your self-esteem; awaken your autobiographical memory. After the online experience, which allows you to “free” the mind, the patient should talk to another person about the sensations experienced.
For a more accelerated journey, an audio file is available, with a short version of the “Secret Garden” (lasting only 3 minutes) to be listened to on your mobile phone before or after a stressful event or video meeting. The free virtual therapy is called Covid Feel Good and is being validated in 13 countries.
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