The Power of Semantic Satisfaction

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The method is called semantic satiation. It was embedded by Titsner, one of the father's of American psychology. When you take words that are so dominant that it pushed you around your whole life and within 60 seconds, you can drain out the distress. Even the point that becomes a less meaningless is just a sound.

Steven Hayes discusses how our instincts mentally trap us—and shares powerful tools for liberating your mind.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The benefits of psychological flexibility—and how to develop it.

2) Why you need to put your mind on a leash.

3) The key to taking the sting out of negative words.

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— ABOUT STEVEN —

Steven C. Hayes is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He’s the originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). He’s authored 48 books including Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life (which reached #20 on Amazon’s best-seller list) and A Liberated Mind, which explains why psychological flexibility helps us navigate the world. Methods he has developed are distributed worldwide by the World Health Organization and other major agencies, and he is among the most cited psychologists in the world.

• Book: A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters

• Website: StevenCHayes.com

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• Book: Walden Two by BF Skinner

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