Recalibration™

— Returning attention from the outside world to the present body —

Today, we live surrounded by vast amounts of information:

• Smartphones
• Social media
• Email
• News
• Notifications
• Evaluations and expectations from others

These are essential systems that help us stay connected, obtain necessary information, and support daily life.
Recalibration™ does not consider smartphones or social media to be harmful.
Nor does it explain bodily discomfort or illness as being caused by having too much external information.

However, while attending to constantly changing screens and streams of information,
one may suddenly notice that there has been little time to attend to one’s own gaze, posture, or the sensations in one’s feet.
On the previous page, influences from external information, expectations, and evaluations were referred to—solely for explanatory convenience—as “external bias.”
This is not a medical diagnosis or an established psychological classification.
It is not a term for rejecting external information.
It is simply a supplementary expression for considering where your attention is directed at this moment.

There is no need to disconnect from the outside world.
There is no need to block all information or move to a special place.
Sit safely on a stable chair and, for just a brief moment, look away from the screen.
Place your gaze on a point roughly at eye level when you face forward naturally.
There is no need to stare intensely.

At the same time, quietly attend to:

• The sensation of your soles or heels touching the floor
• The sensation of your body touching the chair
• How you feel your current posture

There is no need to correct your posture.
No need to make both sides match or create any change.
Even if you feel nothing in particular, the observation has not failed.
This small observation simply returns attention—briefly—from the outside world to your present body and the place where you are now.

External information continues to change.
New notifications arrive, topics shift, and others’ reactions and evaluations change.
Recalibration™ does not attempt to stop these changes.
Nor does it attempt to freeze society or the information environment for personal convenience.

Instead, it suggests pausing the continuous chase of external information.
Then quietly confirming:

• Where your gaze is now
• How you feel the contact of your feet or heels with the floor
• How you are receiving your present bodily state

The “movement” or “sway” of the outside world here is a metaphor for the information environment.
It is not a term for explaining medical causes of dizziness.
This idea connects to the metaphor explained on later pages:

“Rather than chasing the sway, see the pivot in front of you.”

There is no single reason why people cross their legs when sitting.
It may be habit.
It may relate to chair or desk height, clothing, joint mobility, or fatigue.
Posture alone cannot determine psychological state or the reason for crossing the legs.

Recalibration™ does not immediately classify crossed legs as good or bad posture.
If you notice that your legs are crossed, first refrain from correcting it,
and quietly confirm the following while remaining in that posture:

• How each side of the pelvis touches the chair
• How both feet or heels touch the floor or chair
• Whether you feel any left–right difference
• Whether you feel tightness, stability, heaviness, numbness
• Or whether you feel nothing in particular

Next, if it is safe to do so, slowly uncross your legs and place both feet comfortably on the floor.
Then confirm whether there is any change in:

• The grounding of your soles or heels
• The contact with the seat
• Left–right bodily sensations

You may feel almost no difference.
You may feel some difference.
Have you ever felt a slight sense of ease or stability from the pressure of your heels touching the floor?

There is no need to decide which posture is correct.
Nor does Recalibration™ infer psychological meaning, neurophysiological mechanisms, disease, or causes of symptoms from these differences.
It does not claim that placing both feet on the floor improves symptoms or bodily function.
What matters is noticing a posture you were not previously aware of,
and confirming how your body feels in contact with the chair and floor.
If pain, numbness, dizziness, unsteadiness, or discomfort occurs, stop the observation.

Recalibration™ does not treat everyday posture or bodily sensations as immediate evidence of abnormality.
At the same time, there is no need to dismiss what you feel as meaningless from the outset.
Not assuming abnormality.
Not assuming “nothing is wrong.”
Quietly confirming your present experience without rushing to judgment.
This is the bodily observation introduced on this page.
This page does not claim that smartphones, social media, information overload, or crossing your legs cause PPPD or any other illness.

On the next page, we will distinguish these everyday metaphors and observations from medical diagnostic concepts,
and consider sensory weighting and postural control—using PPPD as a clinical reference point.