Psychological distance is the ability to make a distance between an event or a situation and our thoughts. It is possible to make distance to an event to different levels:

• Linguistic level: using the third person in our internal dialogue for example asking ourselves What is making Paolo nervous? instead of This event is making me nervous.
• Temporal level: for example asking ourselves What is the impact of this event in 10 years?
• Visual level: visualising ourselves far from the stressful situation and see ourselves that is living this situation and asking What emotions is he living?, Why is he living this emotions?

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