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How Your Imagination Can Help You Overcome Your Fears

By Maria Cohut — 2018

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.

Read on www.medicalnewstoday.com

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