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How to avoid nightmares

GUIDE

POSITIVE THINKING

EFFECT: Turns nightmares into pleasant dreams.

ASSOCIATE NIGHTMARES WITH SOMETHING GOOD

WHY?

 People with PTSD or other traumas often have nightmares, but they can relieve their effects by imagery rehearsal therapy, a kind of cognitive therapy in which the person, while awake, learns to rewrite the action of the nightmare so that it takes a different course and becomes a positive experience, instead of a negative one. Scientific studies have shown that the unpleasant nightmares disappear in up to 80% of patients after three

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