Russ Harris Quotes
Top 51 wise famous quotes and sayings by Russ Harris
Russ Harris Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Thoughts = words inside our heads Images = pictures inside our heads Sensations = feelings inside our bodies.
Building a good relationship with ourselves is essential for inner fulfilment, especially when we run into a large reality gap.
Fulfilment does not mean our difficult emotions disappear; it means we change our relationship with them.
There's an ancient Eastern saying: If you don't decide where you're going, you'll end up wherever you're heading.
The feeling of love comes and goes on a whim; you can't control it. But the action of love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling.
Despite everything you've tried over the years, isn't it a fact that your mind still produces unpleasant pictures?
And yet, they are nothing more than words, which is why in ACT we often refer to thoughts as stories.
Basically, expansion means making room for our feelings. If we give unpleasant feelings enough space, they no longer stretch us or strain us.
It's a sense more of resignation than of acceptance, of entrapment rather than freedom, of being stuck rather than moving forward.
Our thoughts are not the problem. Our thoughts do not create the psychological smog. It is the way we respond to our thoughts that creates the smog.
Letting the radio play on without giving it much attention is very different from actively trying to ignore it.
Today's middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don't seem very happy.
This is where someone who does his job competently and effectively believes that he's just an impostor; that he doesn't really know what he's doing.
Another way of putting this is that your thinking self produced some thoughts, and your observing self observed them.
We start trying to use defusion as a control strategy, as a way of trying to make our experience different than it is.
In ACT, whether a thought is true is not that important. Far more important is whether it's helpful.
So by all means, have your beliefs - but hold them lightly. Keep in mind that all beliefs are stories, whether or not they're true.
Fear is not your enemy. It is a powerful source of energy that can be harnessed and used for your benefit.
The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill.
Adopting this definition means you can be successful right now, whether or not you've achieved your major goals.
it's pretty well impossible to create a better life if you're not prepared to have some uncomfortable feelings. However,