Psychological Flexibility with Steve Hayes
Minds and Mics
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The Single Most Common Fight on the Schoolyard Is Who's Right
Rigidity comes from two major sources. The biggest and an initial source, i think, is as we as we gain verbal rules,. As we learn symbolic language, we learn relation thinking. We that reflects back on us and re creat stories about how we came to be. And so rigidity is a process of being emotionally and cognitively closed. It means you are unaware of what's happening to you in the present. You don't know how to make it go away, short of brain injury. But you can do it through suppression and distortion and lies to yourself or hiding things from yourself. I would like people to put space on hold for life’s simplest way: open
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