# Compassionate Embodied Virtual Experience Increases the Adherence to Meditation Practice
## Appendix A  
Transcript of Patient's narrative  
Mi vida basicamente se puede dividir en dos partes muy claras. La primera abarca hasta mis 25 años. Tuve una infancia normal, con bastantes amigos en el colegio. Recuerdo que lo pasaba muy mal cuando me tocaba salir a la pizarra, y como algunos ninos del colegio se burlaban porque llevaba gafas. [_My life can basically be divided into two very clear parts. The first part covers up to my 25 th birthday. I had a normal childhood, with quite a few friends at school. I remember that I had a very bad time when it was my turn to go out to the blackboard, and how some children at school made fun of me because I was wearing glasses._]  
Tuve la adolescenta normal, en la que casi siempre preferia ir de excursion con mis amigos antes que salir por las noches. Aunque si que recuerdo pasarlo mal y pomerme super nervioso al hablar con chicas. [_I had a normal teenage years, when I almost always preferred to go on excursions with my friends rather than go out in the evenings. Although I do remember having a hard time and getting super nervous talking to girls._]  
Basicamente his sido una vida normal, sin grandes sobresaltos, a los 25 estaba con un trabajo y una pareja estable, y con muchos planes de futuro. [Basically, it has been a normal life, without big shocks, at 25 I was with a job and a stable partner, and with many plans for the future.] Hasta que llego aquel fatidico dia del mes de mayo de 2010. [_Until that fateful day in May 2010._]  
Ese dia empezo la segunda parte de mi vida: de vacaciones, descansando de un ano muy estresante y lleno de alitbajos. Estaba viendo la television y sentado al lado de mi pareja, super a gusto, y no se porque, o no recuerdo porque, mi corazon empezo a latir desbocado. Empece a sentir como latia, parecia que se me salia del pecho, me dolia y no podia hacer nada para parar ese dolor. [_That day began the second part of my life: on holiday, resting from a very stressful year full of ups and downs. I was watching TV and sitting next to my partner, super comfortable, and I don't know why, or I don't remember why, my heart started to beat wildly. I started to feel it beating, it seemed to be coming out of my chest, it hurt and I couldn't do anything to stop that pain. ]_  
Me empece a asustar, asi que me marche al dormitorio sin decir nada y, me tumbe en la cama y me dije: \"Tranquilo, relajate, que todo esto pasara\". Pero mi corazon seguia por su cuenta. [I started to get scared, so I went to the bedroom without saying anything and, I lay down on the bed and I said to myself: \"Calm down, relax, all this will pass\". But my heart was still on its own.] Mi pareja y una amiga me llevaron al centro de salud, donde me rodearon los medicos: en ningun otro lugar del mundo habria podido sentirme mas seguro. Pero mi corazon seguia sin atender a razones. Finalmente, los medicos me dijeron que no era nada organico, que era psicologico. [My partner and a friend took me to the health centre, where I was surrounded by doctors: nowhere else in the world could I have felt safer. But my heart still didn't listen to reason. Finally, the doctors told me that it was nothing organic, that it was psychological.] Aquel dia sufri el primer ataque de ansiedad de mi vida. Y, aunque logre reponerme, me pidieron que descansara durante una temporada. No lo hice. Pense que se trataria de una cosa puntual, que no tendria mayor repercusion. Ahora arrastro ocho anos de ataques continuos. Con mayor o menor intensidad, pero continuos. [That day I suffered the first panic attack of my life. And although I recovered, I was asked to rest for a while. I did not. I thought that it would be a one-off, that it wouldn't have a major impact. Now I have eight years of continuous panic attacks. With more or less intensity, but continuous. ]_  
Resulta bastante complicado describir un ataque. En mi caso, quizas sea como un alud de nieve. Empiezo a notar los primeros sitomas y en un instante y no hay refugio que valga. [It is quite complicated to describe a panic attack.