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Structure around behavioral responses enables fuller
Structure around behavioral responses enables fuller emotional experience by containing the emotion within functional boundaries rather than requiring suppression.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from the axiom that you can design your cognitive processes (You can design your own cognitive processes rather than), combined with autonomy as authorship within structure (Autonomy is the felt sense of being the author of your own) and psychological flexibility (Psychological flexibility (the ability to adapt behavior to). The principle resolves the apparent paradox that structure enables rather than constrains emotional freedom. Linehan's DBT work grounds this empirically - the dialectic of acceptance and change.