No Fear: How Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Can Change You, with Dr. Steven Hayes
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Our nervous system doesn't come with a delete button, therefore the triggers for our emotional reactions won't just go away, making it crucial for us to find healthy ways to process emotional triggers. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen are joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Steven Hayes for a discussion on exactly how to do this. Through the use of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), we can help our brains to react more positively when trouble arises.
For more info on Dr. Hayes book, visit https://www.amazon.com/Liberated-Mind-Pivot-Toward-Matters/dp/073521400X
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. |
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| 0:48.8 | Welcome back. We are still here with Dr Stephen Hayes and we are talking about his book, The Liberated Mind and Act |
| 0:56.4 | Therapy, which I think is so interesting, acceptance and commitment therapy. |
| 1:00.9 | So welcome back, Dr. Hayes. So we're going to talk about sort of practical applications of Act therapy in this session, |
| 1:08.0 | and you can tell our listeners what they can do to get unstuck from some of their thoughts? |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, I was giving some examples in the previous section of sort of little techniques that will help you notice your thoughts in the present. |
| 1:20.0 | But it's not an end in itself. You have to be careful not to think that you're going to distract diminish. There's no delete button in the nervous system and you're adding to it. It's sort of brain injury. |
| 1:32.0 | So you're going to carry your history with you, that's the kind of creature we are, and then |
| 1:36.6 | language increases that. |
| 1:39.2 | I could ask you right now to think of something that's shameful or painful or betrayal that's happened in your life and just it fliers right in into this conversation just because an old bald guy made sounds. |
| 1:51.0 | And so that's how far away you are from any part of your painful history. And so when you put the mind on a leash with some of these diffusion methods, it isn't to distract or eliminate. It's to give you the flexibility to attract |
| 2:07.4 | yourself what's important. But you need to take on the emotional piece. So the next thing I would put in that practical thing is learning to open up to what your emotions are giving you and especially to get more than centered in the present. |
| 2:25.0 | And there we're doing the things that people listening probably know about these kind of |
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