How Your Brain Can Turn Anxiety into Calmness

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We can use our imaginations to drive us crazy, or we can use them to help us........

Here's someone who's working to help us learn how to use our imaginations to make our lives better.

Long, but worthwhile, in my estimation.

I had figured out for myself that for us as a species, as well as for us as individuals, our greatest strengths can be our greatest failings. I had figured out that our ability to remember the past, and to imagine the future, enhances our ability to optimize that future. This same ability can very easily be used to keep us awake at night, fretting, and/or cause constant dread (and/or even cause panic attacks).

Dr. Rossman takes this train of thought two steps farther than I did -- first to the notion that we can choose to use our imaginations to make a desired future more likely (in large part by using imagination to calm us down instead of freak us out, so we are better able to act wisely!), and second, he offers us specific ways to practice using our imaginations in this way, so we are better able to use imagination to stay calm, rather than to freak out.

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