Guest guest Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Came across this quote but can't remember the source: The world is inside us – voices inside our heads: some say you are good / ok, some say you are bad / evil, but liking / disliking the way you are – how do you know for sure those feelings are your own, or responses to those voices in your head. You can’t know what you truly think and feel unless you silence those voices. At first, I thought it sounded very ACT-like, but with the last sentence, I was struck with how un-ACT-like it was with it's call to silence the voices in our heads. We cannot ever silence them. We just need to acknowledge their presence without letting them deter us from our values. Before ACT, I didn't get that. On the other hand, if silencing those voices means not buying into them, then it does sound like ACT. Goes to show you how tricky words can be, depending on the meaning you infer from them. Helena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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