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Practice cognitive defusion—observing patterns as mental

Practice cognitive defusion—observing patterns as mental events rather than commands—to create a gap between pattern activation and behavioral response.

Why This Is a Principle

Grounds in Cognitive Defusion: Thoughts Are Objects (thoughts separable from identity), Two-Level Metacognitive Architecture (metacognitive monitoring and control), and Psychological flexibility (the ability to adapt behavior to (psychological flexibility predicts functioning). ACT's defusion concept provides the mechanism. This prescribes a specific metacognitive operation—observation without fusion.

Source Lessons

L-0104

Patterns are not destiny

Recognizing a pattern gives you the choice to follow or break it.

Connections

Derived From (3)

AxiomCognitive Defusion: Thoughts Are Objects AxiomTwo-Level Metacognitive Architecture AxiomPsychological flexibility (the ability to adapt behavior to

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