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Are You Saying That It's a Bad Thing?

When we induce pents to positively fantasize, to ideally depict the positive future, then we find that the blood pressure goes down. And we find that people feel already accomplished. They relax because mentally, they are already there. There's something terribly sad about this, which is that the person imagines the happy future, perhaps because they are not very happy at the present. But by so doing, in some ways deprive themselves of the energy and motivation they need to make their futures actually better or worse. It feels like a vicious cycle.

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