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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Creating Psychological Flexibility
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidenced-based therapy that incorporates mindfulness meditation, a focus on values (who and what are important to you) and acceptance strategies to help you develop psychological flexibility.

Our minds are wired by nature to watch out for danger and threats. This built-in mechanism called the negativity bias has allowed us to avoid danger and pass down our genes for thousands of years. However, at the same time, it means we are often going to view uncomfortable thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations as threats that need to be avoided or controlled. Instead of reducing our pain, this strategy actually increases our suffering.

Psychological flexibility means we can learn to meet more of life’s challenges without getting knocked off our feet. It means learning to let go of the things we can’t control or avoid and influence the things we can. It means learning to accept the things that you cannot change and focus your energy where you can make a real impact!

In applying ACT, we cultivate psychological flexibility and well-being through the following skills (click or tap on boxes to review):

Present Moment Awareness

Being aware of and tuning into your inner and outer experience of the world

Acceptance Strategies

Learning to let go of what can’t be controlled or avoided

Values

Identify and cultivate actions that move you towards what’s important in your life as well learning what obstacles most often get in the way

Committed Action

Committing oneself to actions that may create discomfort (i.e. anxiety, doubt, fear) in the short-run, but ultimately lead you to live your life in-step with your values

Self-as-context

Which generally means being able to observe one’s experience without taking things so personally all of the time

Defusion

Stepping back from your thoughts so you don’t get “hooked” by the stories in your mind.

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