Hey all. As many know, we had an informal ACT/RFT researhers planning session right after the Mindfulness Special Interest Group meeting at the Assoc for the...
Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
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Dec 1, 2004 2:23 pm
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Thanks Kel for pulling this together. Rock on! -j John P. Forsyth, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Faculty Director, Anxiety Disorders Research...
Hello all, Dr. Sonja Batten will be running an experiential workshop at La Salle University in January. See the attached word document for details. Sign up...
santanellodz@...
Dec 2, 2004 12:56 am
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We are always talking about human's unique capacity for suffering. But what of this. In the absence of any actual privation or threat, humans have the unique...
I am a virtual illiterate compared to the skill of Jonathan Swift. If you have time, can I encourage you to read: A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS....
I think many of the things you note are not just for changing internal sensations, thoughts or images but for getting practical advantage in the world of air,...
Holy Crap! I'm in agreement with Patty again! And people say there's no such things as miricles! (Her thoughts on the subject are the miraculous part - my...
If you know anyone who might be interested, please feel free to pass this along The Department of Psychology at Suffolk University in Boston is seeking to fill...
thought some might be interested Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D. Department of Psychology 205 Peabody University of Mississippi University, MS 38677 phone (662)...
Kelly G. Wilson
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Dec 2, 2004 3:54 pm
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I also agree with this. I think of the metaphor of standing on the sidewalk watching the parade go on by; each float representing a thought, image, physical...
James Monroe
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Dec 2, 2004 4:40 pm
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Just a funny thing. I've been ranting about ACT to my long suffering colleagues and office mates for months now to glazed eyes and polite nods. When I read...
I'd suggest adding "anxiety sensations" and "anxiety images" along with "anxiety thoughts" because the former two are just as available for "struggle" as the...
Could someone please clarify this for me. As I understand it, self-as-process is the ongoing self-awareness of what we are experiencing in the present moment....
Russ Harris
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Dec 3, 2004 5:54 pm
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The distinction between inner behavior (thinking, feeling, sensing) and outer behavior (walking, talking, speaking) is arbitrary/illusory, a remnant of an...
Not absolutely arbitrary/illusory if you take into account the fact that "inner" behavior is available only to the individual; "outer" behavior is observable...
M. Bolling
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Dec 3, 2004 6:46 pm
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The distinctions do not seem to be important to the concept. Self as process involves observing and describing what is present as a continuous process of...
Russ...I would consider sensing, perceiving, feeling, thinking, motor responding, and so on as discriminated features of one whole psychological event - that...
John McNeill
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Dec 4, 2004 2:17 am
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And for the moment that the distinction disapears and "I and the other are one" we experience the unspeakable mystery for which words can only serve as...
Self as process seems to be a further discrimination of perspective taking as a frame of coordination. We learn through multiple exemplar training from our...
If this is so, that has important implifications for the way we work for change. Self as process enters into relational networks (is framed relationally) and...
Niklas Törneke
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Dec 4, 2004 6:08 pm
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Quoting bfsk1nner <bfsk1nner@...>: "Self as context focuses on seeing the "me" as an behaving entity, and elevating the awareness of those behavior both...
When I have talked about this with Dermot, he has also suggested a hierarchial frame of something like "this is me and I am more than that." I have tried both...
Hi Hank and the rest, That might well be so. It is, I think, important to remember that these different frames don't exist as entities. They are helpfull ways...
Niklas Törneke
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Dec 5, 2004 12:06 pm
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I'd just like to say thanks everyone for your input on this. This has been useful, stimulating and very clarifying. People keep commenting on how supportive...
I've been pondering this coment that Steve wrote in a recent posting: 'There is as much life in an embraced moment of anxiety / sadness / pain etc as in joy.' ...
Nick, Hank and all, Similar to what Niklas said, I ask, "Can you ever be not me/I/Self?" We are always self, so ultimately self as context and/or process are...
RE: 'There is as much life in an embraced moment of anxiety / sadness / pain etc as in joy.' Q: is there as much 'quality of life'? This is hard to answer...
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