Principlev1
Identify and name your specific avoidance substitutes and
Identify and name your specific avoidance substitutes and rationalization patterns to make unconscious resistance visible and interruptible.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Automaticity Without Conscious Control (automatic processes), Linguistic Structuring of Thought (language structures thought), and Thoughts and behaviors can be separated from core identity (thoughts separable from identity). This principle prescribes externalization and labeling to convert automatic patterns into observable objects.