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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… (psychological flexibility predicts functioning). ACT's defusion concept provides the mechanism. This prescribes a specific metacognitive operation—observation without fusion.