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mental time travel

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A psychological distancing technique that involves traveling forwards or backwards in time mentally to gain perspective on current problems.

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Maya Shanker recommends ✓ High confidence
"This is where some more foundational psychological distancing strategies can be very, very helpful. So my favorite one that I've been using a lot recently because of the sort of the feeling that we are in an unprecedented state on a societal level is mental time travel."

Attribution: Guest explicitly recommends mental time travel as their favorite psychological distancing strategy and describes using it personally