How your imagination can help you overcome your fears
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In your imagination, you can do anything. Riding a dragon? Piece of cake. Imagination is what fuels creativity and allows us to come up with innovative solutions. New research assessing brain scans shows that our imagination can also help us get rid of our anxieties and fears.
By Maria Cohut
Your imagination is a powerful tool that you could use to overcome your fears. Our imagination is an incredibly useful tool. It can soothe us during difficult times and help us solve problems, create new things, and consider possible courses of action.
Some researchers have argued that our imagination, which gives us the ability to consider different scenarios, is at the core of what makes humans different from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Moreover, existing research has suggested that what we imagine can actually affect our minds and bodies in very concrete ways.
For instance, a study that the journal Psychological Science published in 2009 found that when we imagine doing something, our min...
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