The Non-BS Science of Manifestation: How Your Imagination Can Help With Pain, Anxiety, Conflict, and Recovery | Cassi Vieten
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The Non-BS Science of Manifestation: How Your Imagination Can Help With Pain, Anxiety, Conflict, and Recovery | Cassi Vieten

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 12, 202658 min

How elite athletes use visualization to improve performance, why visualization can turbo-charge physical recovery, and the mental trick that can make your nervous system feel safe. Cassi Vieten, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and director of research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the University of California, San Diego, where she also directs the Center for Mindfulness. She is the author Imagine That: Transform How You Think, Feel, and Live with the Science of Imagination. In this episode we talk about: Why imagination is the oldest human technology The...

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Hey, hey everybody. Welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Today, we're going to talk about how to reduce catastrophizing, interpersonal conflict, and even physical pain, while meanwhile increasing your sense of safety in your own nervous system through an innate capacity we all have. that capacity is imagination. Now, you might be thinking, imagination, that sounds either boring or like something

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other people have, like people who work at Disney or Pixar. But we're all imagining all the time. Thinking about it, we're always casting forward into the future, thinking about how things may go,

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often in paranoid and phantasmagoric ways. But my guest is gonna talk about what she calls adaptive imagination, healthy imagination, that we can use to our benefit in lots of really interesting ways. One thing you might be imagining at this point in my introduction here is that,

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