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6 Core Processes of ACT
Acceptance
ACT One
Allowing thoughts, emotions, beliefs, images, memories and situations to come and go without struggling with them along with a willingness to have them.
Acceptance
Defusion
Learning to perceive thoughts, images, beliefs, emotions and memories for what they are; not what they say they are.
Defusion
Contacting the Present
Awareness of the here and now, experienced with openness, interest and receptiveness.
Contacting the Present
Self-as-Context
Accessing a transcendent sense of self; a continuity of consciousness which is unchanging.
Self-as-Context
Values
Discovering what elements of life are most important to one's true self; deciding how to show up for life.
Values
Committed Action
Setting goals according to values and carrying them out responsibly.
Committed Action
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