The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

We also found that a huge boost of motivation to accept discomfort comes from beginning to see how we’ve been harming ourselves by avoidance.

we would need to focus more on how to alter the behavioral impact of our thoughts.

Research shows that this part of the CBT approach is not what is powerful about it, and it often doesn’t work as well as learning to accept that we are having unpleasant emotions and thoughts and then working to reduce their role in our lives instead of trying to get rid of them.

You are learning how to dissolve the first step in the chain that drives negative spirals. Your body is processing your troubles in a radically different way. By letting go of the need to ‘fix’ things, a more profound healing has the chance to begin.