Antonio Pascual-Leone

So the scenario puts demands on you to be more clear and more coherent than if you were just going for a walk and daydreaming about it.

People's daydreams about their emotional difficulties tend to be full of incomplete sentences or the analog of that, right?

And lack clarity.

So it's good to have a formal exercise of some sort.

Might just be talking to another person.

It's very evocative.

I think this is the first thing, right?

So if you need to activate emotion and you do, people need to feel their feelings, right?

And one way of activating emotion is to imagine the other person.

People do this all the time.

I mean, you talk to yourself in the mirror, you kind of imagine, at least I do it all the time.

My wife is always like, who are you talking to now?

And I'm like, I'm not, I'm brushing my teeth.

But, you know, like, you know, there's a clarity you have in imagining a conversation, but it's also much more evocative.

Imagine the difference between telling somebody, now we're not talking about unfinished business, we're talking expressing love here, but if you say, oh, I really love so-and-so, or you imagine they say, I love you, and use their name.

I mean, the second is much more evocative, right?

or I forgive you, or I'll never forgive you.

I mean, saying it to somebody in an imagined scenario is much more evocative.

So it evokes emotion.

That's the first thing.