Recently, various media and blogs have discussed the phenomenon known as cognitive immobility and the frameworks used to understand this experience. Two notable mentions include an article in German by Günther Lanier, ‘Vor- und nachher: Migration im Kopf’ (translated as ‘Before and after: Migration in mind’), and a blog post by Megan Soria, a PhD …
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Awareness is key in addressing the emotional hurdles of migration. Uncover the importance of recognizing cognitive immobility and fostering a balanced and fulfilling transnational life. During a presentation I delivered last year, specifically for the Science Society, on my research concerning Cognitive Immobility, I virtually met a distinguished gentleman from India named Mr Deep. During …
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By Joanne Toller Change is hard. We sometimes long for the feelings of memories, safety, or belonging experienced in another place or time in our lives. This connection to the past can cause cognitive immobility, a stressful mental entrapment that leads to conscious or unconscious efforts to recreate situations from the past. When we move …
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By Emily Swaim Have you ever felt as though your body and your mind were divided between two different places? Perhaps you keep turning the wrong way toward the grocery store, because in your old town the shop was on the left instead of the right. Or maybe on dates, you can’t stop thinking of …
Continually remembering past episodes, favourable or unpleasant, can lead to cognitive immobility. For some people, recreating pleasant memories is a defence mechanism or solace, and a way of coping with current circumstances, which may not be as nice as the previous ones. Doing this at the initial stage of change could seem helpful, but it …
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At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever. Epictetus
If you have moved from one country to another, you may have left something behind – be it a relationship, a home, a feeling of safety or a sense of belonging. Because of this, you will continually reconstruct mental simulations of scenes, smells, sounds and sights from those places – sometimes causing stressful feelings and …
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