The Relationship Between IFS and Mindfulness

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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

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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