Mental Time Travel
Cross-source consensus on Mental Time Travel from 1 sources and 4 claims.
1 sources · 4 claims
How it works
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- Mental time travel broadens perspective by moving attention beyond the immediate moment. — Chatter, the Inner Voice, and Self-Control
- Future-oriented time travel asks how a distressing event will feel later, often revealing that distress is temporary. — Chatter, the Inner Voice, and Self-Control
- Mental time travel may work differently for different people, with some benefiting from verbal reflection and others from vivid visualization or sensory imagination. — Chatter, the Inner Voice, and Self-Control
- Past-oriented time travel can reduce overwhelm by comparing current hardship to larger past hardships. — Chatter, the Inner Voice, and Self-Control