Sublime

The first three flexibility skills are all vital to empowering us to live much more in tune with the present and the learning it affords. All of these skills support us in making the pivot toward

It helps us keep our cognitive talents focused on positive possibilities in the present moment.

Flipping Pain into Purpose

The inability to live in the present enormously reduces the information available to us.

This included doing the “leaves on the stream” exercise with the thoughts and imagining that his fatigue was an object, describing its shape, color, and size, as well a defusion exercise, like those given in Chapter Nine.

Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.

Broaden and Narrow Attention