A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT

The trick is not getting ensnared; we want to be present with the past, not lost in it.

Next, for each of the barriers, write the following statement: If in [situation] I [feel, think, remember, sense X], let it be a reminder that I care about [value].

Begin to regularly ask yourself the following question as you go about your daily life: “And who is noticing that?”

Broaden and Narrow Attention

What is so potentially dangerous about the power this voice can have over us is that we lose contact with the fact that we are even listening to a voice.

As we learn the many relational frames, we move from being able to derive relations by observing events in the world to being able to imagine relations

the “why” explanations have to be clear and specific (we will call that precision), but still apply to a lot of conditions (we will call that scope).

The mind is using language to understand increasingly complex features of the world and how it works.

Values are enduring, ongoing guides to living. You cannot achieve a value; you can only manifest it by acting in accordance with it.