10% Happier with Dan Harris · 2026-08-12 · 58 min · 9,716 words

The Non-BS Science of Manifestation: How Your Imagination Can Help With Pain, Anxiety, Conflict, and Recovery | Cassi Vieten

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Hey, hey, everybody. Welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Today, we're gonna talk about how to reduce Catastrophizing. interpersonal conflict and even physical pain, while meanwhile increasing your sense of safety in your own nervous system. through an innate capacity we all have.

that capacity is Imagination. Now you might be thinking Imagination. That sounds either Boring.

Or like something other people have, like people who work at Disney or Pixar. But we're all imagining all the time. Thinking about it, we're always uh casting forward into the future thinking about how things may go, often in uh paranoid and phantasmagoric ways. But my guest is gonna talk about what she calls adaptive imagination. healthy imagination that we can use to our benefit in lots of really interesting ways. One thing you might be imagining at this point in my introduction here is that Huh.

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