Tag Archive for: experiential avoidance
Video: Cognitive Fusion & Experiential Avoidance
The importance for health and well-being of being in full contact with our inner subjective experience.
When Experiential Avoidance Is Healthy
Recently, I’ve been addressing the dangers of how cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance can prevent us from living in full contact with our present moment, lived experiences. However, there are situations where going into a trance and…
Avoidance of Thoughts and Feelings is Unhealthy
Experiential Avoidance and Intimacy
In recent posts, I have discussed the concept of experiential avoidance, which is the conscious or unconscious avoidance of unpleasant thoughts, feelings, and feared life activities. A simple example of…
What We Resists Persists and Negatively Impacts Our Health.
Uncomfortable Thoughts and Feelings: An Invitation to Mastery
The more energy we expend on avoiding our uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, the further we get from achieving the desired comfort. By contrast, when we courageously commit to…
Experiential Avoidance is the Opposite of Mindfulness
Experiential Avoidance of Thoughts and Feelings
Becoming aware of the ways we avoid unpleasant thoughts and feelings as well as activities that we fear could trigger those thoughts and feelings is an important step toward mindfulness. Conversely,…
Experiential Avoidance of Thoughts and Feelings is Unhealthy
Psychologist Steven Hayes popularized the term experiential avoidance, which is a term that originated in contextual behavioral science research. It refers to a common psychological pattern to which we are all susceptible: the attempt to avoid…
Psychotherapy, Mental Practices, Core Beliefs, & Moods
Why people seek psychotherapy
According to psychologists Dr. Liz Roemer and Dr. Sue Orsillo
, the most common complaints people bring into their psychotherapy sessions have as their root cause cognitive fusion, lack of acceptance of self…
Mental Training to Reduce Suffering
Many of us living with chronic health challenges often find ourselves thinking that all our suffering stems from pain, fatigue, or physical limitations. But this is not the whole picture. As I have mentioned in other posts, much of our suffering…
The Primary Sources of Unhappiness
Cognitive Fusion
The mental state of cognitive fusion is one in which we confuse our thoughts and beliefs with reality; we become so identified with them that we lose the ability to see them for what they are—inventions of the mind.…