How to get out of your Head

 

How to get out of your Head

9 Tips to Stop Overthinking

Jeanette Clare

Insightful Article

Western therapy-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has been developed over the past 30 years and has become increasingly popular. 

Dr. Russ Harris, well-renowned ACT trainer, has written a number of great books on ACT including the very popular The Happiness Trap and has a website with some excellent resources.  Here is the link https://www.actmindfully.com.au/.

Most Western models of therapy are focused on the reduction of symptoms such as stress, anxiety, and depression.  What differentiates ACT is that quality of life is mostly dependent on action in alignment with your values. 

The goal is to change your relationship with the symptoms you have, rather than trying to get rid of them, so that they no longer hold you back from living a fulfilling life.

In a nutshell, the main aim of ACT is to increase psychological flexibility which is defined as the ability to contact the present moment more fully as a conscious human being, and to change or persist in behaviour when doing so serves valued ends. 

 According to Dr. Russ Harris, there are six core processes in ACT. 

1.   Contacting the Present Moment

2. Defusion (Watch your Thinking)

3. Acceptance (Open Up)

4. Self-as-Context

5. Committed Action

6. We experience a sense of vitality

In summary, ACT stands for:

A= Accept your thoughts and feelings and be present

C= Choose a valued direction

T= Take action.

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