The Battlefield
You’ve been trying to win the war with your mind, with your anxiety, with your depression, with your anger, with whatever. True? Well, acceptance is about letting the war roll on while you leave the battlefield.
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Two Mountains
Imagine that you are in the process of climbing up a big mountain that has lots of dangerous places on it. And imagine that my job is to watch out for you and shout out directions if I can see places you might slip or hurt yourself. But I’m not able to do this because…
Your life as a movie
Picture your life as a movie. The first episodes have already been shot. Now the production is moving on. Imagine that you are the director and you can direct an actor that plays your part. But you’re a special kind of director with limited power. You can’t go to the screenplay writer and ask him to change the…
The Pendulum
Imagine a feeling, any feeling or emotion. How long will it last? Imagine a pendulum. The higher you lift it in one direction, the more power you give it to swing up on the other side. You will perhaps notice its weight and resistance even more when you let it go. It is the same with feelings –…
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The Joy of Missing Out
According to Wikipedia, the fear of missing out or FOMO is “a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent”. This can show up as “a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing”. FOMO is everywhere in modern, urban life. Most of the time it’s a minor irritant but it…
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“I’ve blown it so I might as well go out in style!”
Researchers actually do call it the “what the heck” effect (or something close to that). It refers to the moment when you realize that you’ve blown your calorie goal for the day, so you might as well order pizza and beer. Or the moment when you have one cigarette at a party and go on…
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Why Long-Drawn-Out-Therapy (LDOT) is not the way to go
Have you ever thought about trying therapy but been concerned about getting drawn into a long-drawn-out therapeutic process? Well it turns out that your instincts are probably correct. There is now a body of evidence to suggest that Long-Drawn-Out-Therapy (LDOT) is not especially effective. Most gains (including lasting gains) come in the first few sessions of therapy. This…