Neurodivergent Notes: Understanding Away and Toward Moves
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Neurodivergent Notes: Understanding Away and Toward Moves
The ACT matrix works because it incorporates many of ACT’s core processes in a simple yet powerful way:
- Defusion - by writing down your thoughts, you notice them as thoughts, rather than allowing them to become unquestioned lenses through which you see the world.
- Values - by writing out what is important to you, you can take steps to orient toward it
Casey Rosengren • How to Break the Anxiety- Fear-Avoidance Cycle
So you’ll notice that I refer to modern therapeutic ideas like “cognitive distancing,” which is the ability to distinguish our thoughts from external reality, and “functional analysis,” which is evaluating the consequences of different courses of action.
Donald Robertson • How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
When we’re behaving like the sort of person we want to be, responding effectively to our challenges, and doing things that make life better in the long term, we’re doing “toward moves.”
Russ Harris • The Happiness Trap
