In this episode of Self-Help Sat Nav, you’ll get special access to a lesson from Openforwards’ membership site, Self-Help School.
One of the hardest things can be turning down your feelings when they get too close. You get stuck with your thoughts. They can overwhelm you and keep you fighting to feel better.
When thoughts get too close, it can feel like you are wading through a swamp. Your work, your relationships and your personal life can suffer. So, in this episode, I’m giving you special access to lesson 10 from our members-only course Fine-Tune your Stress Management Skills.
Sometimes called Cognitive Defusion, unhooking is a process you need skills in to manage your unhelpful thoughts. Listen to me use defusion techniques on myself and then take them forwards into your life as a way of responding to your own pesky thoughts.
Jim,
Fabulous episode, corker is a fair description. This resonated so well with current reading, as just finished the Open chapter in ACTivate Your Life. I hadn’t looked into RFT much yet, but also reminded me of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Engaging with the mind as a character is something I hadn’t done as a whole . Have used visualisation for specific emotions, but the welcoming the mind is a key point (which having just read in the ACTivate chapter last night so really helped to firm that point in my thinking)
I guess the adoption of this depends on the person’s circumstances. Earlier this year there is no way I would have taken the same things from it. The ability to label thoughts or try to see them as they are would have been impossible. I can see how this can really help as part of recovery and management from depression, you just have to be at the appropriate stage of being able to start to help and care for yourself. As importantly I can see how this could also stop or reduce the chances of relapse, alongside stress management. That said it’s skills that are appropriate to everyone, we all have mental health.
Great set of exercises , although with my voice not sure about the singing !
My friends and family will soon be fed up of the colour/cow question.
Chris