Cognitive Immobility

Cognitive Immobility

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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‘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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