Cognitive Immobility

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Aussie Insights: Unravelling the Mystery of Cognitive Immobility

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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Feeling stuck in the past? Experts are starting to explore how this mindset could affect your health.

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 …

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Stuck in the Past: The Awareness

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

‘Cognitive immobility’ – when you’re mentally trapped in a place from your past

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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