Guest guest Posted June 9, 2009 Report Share Posted June 9, 2009 It is, isn't it? You know, one of the great gifts that ACT therapy/theory has given me is the rediscovery of my sense of the absurd. In the middle of the struggle... the personal war you are waging on yourself and everything else...everything is naturally seen as a threat and very dangerous. When I apply the techniques I've acquired from ACT, I can rise above the battleground and see the 95% of what I was so distraught over was nothing more than fiction...a story I continually told and retold myself. It was a very thick pair of glasses that distorted everything. Having also discovered that I am not my thoughts...I am not the petty, shallow, superficial, anxious, depressed, blah, blah, blah...person I "thought" I was, well, to paraphrase the Serenity Prayer, I have been freed from the bondage of a self that never really existed. All the best, Joe To Joe I laughed out loud: "rinse and repeat" So true!! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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