About The School of Mental Gymnastics

What are "Mental Gymnastics?"  Mental gymnastics are the acrobatics we do inside our heads to convince ourselves that all is right with the world.  As a writer, I seem to do this more than the average person.  If I don't like the way something is in real life, I visit the playground of my mind and change it.  Sometimes, this insanity manifests itself in the written word, and that is when it is most productive.