... A proposal: Values in experience: Styles of behavior, their effectiveness can be experienced directly (nonverbal knowing), e.g. presentness, flexibility,...
A couple of points You wrote this: But suppose I say: 'I'm a sea-captain and I ought to do what a sea captain ought to do', I would say I have a valid metric...
Is this an example of non-verbal knowing? - Client: I dreamed that I was drowning....couldn't work out which way was up. Therapist: Do you know one way of...
What does this discussion imply for one who wants to build a community of people with like-minded values? For example, there is much discussion among...
Tony Biglan
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Mar 1, 2005 2:51 pm
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Would any ACT therapists here be willing to offer ACT by email or phone? I would like to experience it beyond the discussion list and the readings but don't...
Hi all, I think one problem with this thread is that the word values, as a common sense term, of course can be used to mean different things, all legitimite...
Niklas Törneke
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Mar 1, 2005 8:41 pm
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I'm not so sure about ACT being about feeling good. I do recall from this list or perhaps from the ACT book (1), Steven saying something about learning to...
Seems to me that if we say ACT is about a feeling state then we're in some kind of language trap. How would it be to say that applying the principles and...
Tony Balazs
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Mar 1, 2005 9:12 pm
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I got it wrong...it is www.dogensangha.org <http://www.dogensangha.org/> for Nishijima's work on Dogen's views-"3 philosophies (or 3 views) and 1 reality." In...
Jason Gosnell
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Mar 1, 2005 10:34 pm
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Hi all...I just mentioned to another ACT lister an interesting self-study process called The Work by Byron Katie. Have others experimented with this process?...
Jason Gosnell
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Mar 1, 2005 10:40 pm
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In answer to your last question, Nico, 'very little, it would seem' because you can always un-choose a previously-chosen value (choose it's opposite, an...
The way your lungs feel when a minute or so passes without air entering or leaving them and the way they feel when it does is the nonverbal knowing. Of course,...
... If it is verbal behavior with anticipation of consequences, there are possibilities of arguing. It does not stand on nonverbal knowing exclusively. Gerhard...
... Audrey, I am not sure that you mean by nonverbal knowing the same as Steve in his chapter. But in my theoretical background behavior is hierarchically...
Hi Gerard, I don't think anyone has argued that valuing stands exclusively on nonverbal knowing. Or have I missed someones argument? ACT/RFT definetly does not...
Niklas Törneke
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Mar 2, 2005 12:41 pm
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At the risk of getting in over my head here... I had a personal experience which for me nicely illustrates the distinction between verbal knowing and...
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Mar 2, 2005 4:24 pm
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I think this discussion does not say much about Tony's question below, but if you take an RFT angle on how to work to create certain desired ends and not...
"Embracing the Cold" as experiential exercise I have been toying with an experiential exercise, of sorts, based on observations made during recent, cold New...
Hi Asa... I suspect that politics are too important to be left to the politicians :) I want to reply to one thing steve said....... ... I would like to add a...
A comment to Joe, as you know, I work in the same university as you, and I believe that the struggle that you speak of is well and truly lost, and the only way...
Audrey Lowrie
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Mar 2, 2005 11:48 pm
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Sorry, I meant to send that more personal note back channel, audrey...
Audrey Lowrie
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Mar 2, 2005 11:52 pm
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I agree with you, Joseph. I would say you don't necessarily ride the horse, but you also don't argue against the same frame, as that would serve to further...
Are people who are working with teens basically using the ACT approach the same as with adults--I don't mean the details--but the same basic goals...defusion,...
Jason Gosnell
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Mar 3, 2005 2:26 am
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(first, apologies to everyone for my recent positing re problems with access and equity in universities, which I meant to send to Joe, back channel). Jason, I ...
Audrey Lowrie
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Mar 3, 2005 2:57 am
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Let me dare reveal myself as a public target in mentioning these possibly less popular political options. "Out beyond right thinking and wrong thinking,...
John McNeill
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Mar 3, 2005 5:24 am
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I have practiced North Asian and Southeast Asian martial arts for 4 decades, now. About 25 years ago, I was walking down a street south of Market street in...
Does anyone know of reseach on the physiological effects of negative thinking, vs. positive thinking? I heard there is a reseach institue that is studing the...