Thread by @HumanSyncButton

📖 From “The Liberated Mind” by @StevenCHayes

“So the big pivot fostered by ACT is really six specific pivots, which combine to enable us to live with more psychological flexibility.”

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1) Defusion - “See our thoughts with enough distance that we can choose what we do next, regardless of our mind’s chatter.”

2) Conceptualized Self - “Notice the story we’ve constructed of our selves and gain perspective about who we are.”

3) Acceptance - “Allow ourselves to feel even when the feelings are painful or create a sense of vulnerability.”

4) Presence/Flexible Attention - “Direct attention in an intentional way rather than by mere habit, noticing what is present here and now, inside us and out.”

5) Values - “Choose the qualities of being and doing that we want to evolve toward.”

“Living in accordance with our values... provides a way to create enduring sources of motivation based on meaning.”

6) Action - “Create habits that support these choices.”

“...focuses us instead on the process of competently and continuously building habits in small steps linked to the construction of larger habits of loving, caring, participating, creating, or any other chosen value.”

“When we pivot, we take the energy inside an inflexible process and channel it toward a flexible one.”

“by continuously developing your flexibility skills, you become increasingly able to take the energy of your existing thoughts and feelings, even the negative ones, and swing them into energy for growth.”