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The Relationship Between IFS and Mindfulness
The true self is sort of like something in the middle according to the theory that's able to observe all these other parts. So if you are a rat with guilt, the firefighters are like, oh, I got to protect this exile, jumps in and gets your check social media or something distracts you, and experiences pain. And so one thing I wonder about with IFS is just another way of kind of doing a very similar thing to what cognitive behavioral therapy is doing where it's like, okay, in a moment, you can believe a thought, but then you can step outside of it and you can question it and challenge it. It's like in IFS, you just kind