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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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