Quotes for Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

[Daniel E.]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/19/act-therapy-techniques/

Acceptance and commitment therapy teaches people to acknowledge their negative feelings instead of trying to resist or wrestle with them.

...Move from a rigid, debilitating thought, for example, “I want to go to college, but I’m too anxious about it,” to a more expansive and psychologically flexible one: “I want to go to college, and I’m anxious about it.” With the latter, a person can more readily accept her anxiety and start taking concrete steps toward attending college...

...“Some people are recognizing values that maybe they’ve always had on the back burner...”

 

[Daniel E.]

The Passengers on the Bus Metaphor

Objectifying Language That Pushes Us Around By creating metaphors in which...verbal events are themselves objects, it is easier to use common sense in dealing with our problems. The Passengers on the Bus Metaphor is a core ACT intervention aimed at deliteralizing provocative psychological...

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"By trying to get control, you’ve actually given up control!"

 

[Daniel E.]

"Once you realize that change and control are incompatible, you are set free."

~ What Makes You Stronger

 

[Daniel E.]

Mindfulness is not a way to control, manage, reduce, or eliminate thoughts and feelings; it’s a way of “handling them gently” or “dealing with them compassionately” or “holding them lightly.” Other terms you could use include “stepping out of the battle,” or “dropping the struggle,” or “changing your relationship” with your thoughts and feelings.

~ Russ Harris, ACT Made Simple

 

[Daniel E.]

Stepping Out of Automatic Pilot

Stepping Out of Automatic Pilot By Steven Hayes, Get Out of Your Mind ...Cognitive loops can carry us into the most dysfunctional places we can imagine. One loop: I so feel awful life is not worth living. Another loop: I will feel better if I'm dead. Pull the cognitive loops tight...

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"Dealing with cognitive shoelaces is just so boring and lifeless."

~ Steven Hayes