6 Core Principles of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Cognitive defusion

Learning methods to reduce the tendency to actualize thoughts, images, emotions and memories.

Contact with the present moment

Awareness of the here and now, experienced with openness, interest and receptiveness (e.g., mindfulness). 

Values

Discovering what is important to oneself. 

Acceptance

Allowing unwanted private experiences (thoughts, feelings and urges) to come and go without struggling with them.

The observing self

Accessing a transcendent sense of self, a continuity of consciousness which is unchanging. 

Committed action

Setting goals according to values and carrying them out responsibly in pursuit of a meaningful life.

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