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What is mental time travel and how can it help us get through the pandemic?
By The Washington Post
By Anna-Lisa Cohen
Washington - The popular advice is to live in the moment. Being present helps us combat stress and chronic pain and improve general well-being.
But research suggests that we can adapt to challenging circumstances by doing the opposite. There may be advantages to not being present.
Now more than ever, it is desirable, if not imperative, to mentally transport ourselves to a better place, or at least a different moment in time. As Covid-19 fatigue peaks, escaping our day-to-day lives - if only vicariously through our imaginations - is a way to cope.