Psychological flexibility: How love turns pain into purpose - Steve Hayes at University of Nevada - TEDx
Published on Feb 22, 2016
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Suffering is a basic fact of life for humans. But suffering is not just about pain, psychological or otherwise. It's much more than that. Humans don't just have pain; they agonize over their painful memories, uncomfortable emotions, difficult self-evaluations. They worry about them, they dread them, they engage in all kinds of activities to avoid them. People want the suffering in their lives to be minimized. They value feeling better, but they do not merely value feeling better. A good life is much more than simply a lack of suffering. People want to live well and make the best of their time on this earth
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is about the problem of human suffering. It’s about reaching beyond suffering to the larger purpose of people's lives and helping them to become active in really living. ACT is centered on such questions as “What do you really want your life to be about?” or “If you lived in a world where you could have your life be about anything, what would it be?"
Dr. Steven Hayes blogs...
The Mental Spider That Claims to Be Us
Not too long ago, perhaps a couple hundred thousand years, an obscure primate species called "human" learned a new trick. We learned to relate events arbitrarily--we learned to have one thing stand for another. We acquired symbolic thought.
We've been bossed around ever since...
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