Self As Context EXPLAINED: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Core Process
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) works to increase psychological flexibility through the six core processes. One of the most difficult processes to understand is self as context.
This video describes self as context through the lens of the observer self, the inverse of self as content, and perspective taking as a skill for improving empathy. Hope you enjoy this video. Please don't hesitate to ask any questions if something wasn't covered.
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I'm having a blast getting into ACT. Acceptance yeah but what nails it for me is the term radical acceptance. Wow! I go around all day repeating that term as it completely opens up that observer self, it disconnects that self from any and all that's going on at that moment.
You said it. Self-as-context is your perspective of all the changing content in your life (your thoughts, emotions, experiences, habits, labels, evaluations, roles, memories, occupations, beliefs, titles etc.), and your perspective of these things influences how they affect you. Changing your perspective, or context, of the content changes how they affect you, so you can loosen attachment to them, defusing from the negative and approach life with flexibility.
A person conveying, “I’m nervous about social situations,” attaching to this conceptualized-self, can reframe their situation and say, “People are friendly, and I can make friends,” changing their perspective, how they respond to the situation, and how the experience affects them.
Excellent explanation of one of the hardest subjects. Thank you immediate sub and like.
Wow! I've been reading ACT books for years, and you provided the best explanation of self-as-context I've heard. Thank you very much!
Oh wow. Thanks so much! I appreciate the feedback. That made my day!
WOW, this is the absolute best explanation I've come across of self as context. I've read so many articles and referenced so many books and this made it finally click for me.
Thank you so much! I'm happy to hear it was helpful for you!
Wait, now? "observer self" sounds like what everyone [who knows terms to some extent] has been telling me to NOT do: that is, "don't observe yourself from behind your eyes because this is dissociation." Where the line is, I wonder? Watching this, I feel like we are having a private conversation in "Aspie Speak," which conversation outsiders wouldn't follow. This makes sense - especially developing other types of views to understand people better. I've had to go to school to learn to do that. The idea of "another mind" took me maybe 30 years to begin to really conceive. I hope this didn't sound like I was responding negatively or even criticizing, because it is neither. I have found very few who could begin to understand or help my brain, certainly no therapists yet. This is intriguing, if only because you may have possibly validated my past. To overanalyze further, perhaps I've gone on a bit of a lark with a couple of words!
Thanks for explaining and trusting me with your process! Honestly, dissociation isn't "bad" just like being present isn't "good" -- it's all about learning when to use which one. We dissociate when we daydream and for many of us (myself included) it helps create a buffer from all the stimulation in the world. And yet doing it when you want to be present with someone might be counter to your values. Glad I could validate.
The way I see it, it is our mission to build bridges, neural pathways between the sense of self that makes us act against our values and our observing self, this way we can gain psychological flexibility and identify with our values. There's another bridge needed here though, which is that of the observing self to the functional systems responsible for executive functioning.
For me, if i self-conscious and can't exit the self-judgemental mode, i can go into 3rd perspective as if viewing myself from above, like in video games.
Or like in those new "360" degrees camera view angle on the newer cars.
What it does is it helps me calm in a way that "i'm NOT me, I'm just a body given by a super-power creator of humans, and here I decide to be conscious of that i'm a nothingness with a brief sense of existence/identification that's opposite of 'dissociation'".
It's not a negative thing to realize u are a piece of nothingness, cuz it's your EGO/conscious brain thinking u are ABOVE them all.
VS animals for ex. Don't have EGO or sense of existence, they just do whatever their instinct is capable of doing.
Example if I have a business idea/I as a guy see a cute girl i wanna approach:
1. I start thinking omg if i don't succeed somebody may laugh
2. Then i think "that doesn't happen, even if it does, who even cares who laughed or insulted me - when, 100 years from now anyone who laughed won't exist"
Like it doesn't even matter i have a sense of existence - it's all temporarily!😊
Thank you so much! These ACT videos are wonderfully succinct. I look forward to using them in my therapy groups!
Thank you! I hope they connect with your clients! If you have any video suggestions or topics your groups may like please let me know.
this came really handy, thanks
Thank you! I'm so glad to hear it was helpful!
This video is helpful 😊
Aw yay! Thanks for the feedback. Means a lot!
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You can absolutely use ACT without worrying about 'self as context'. its a very wordy, bourgeois, middle class navel gazing kind of thing. Stick to cutting out behaviours inside and outside of our head, and doing more valued behaviours.
You definitely can use ACT without self-as-context, but for a lot of people, learning how to be the observer of their experience, switch perspectives, and identify strongly fused labels or ideas they have about themselves can be immensely helpful. You're not the only one to object to the phrase "self-as-context." I'm not a particular fan of "acceptance." You can call it whatever you want and take it or leave it but it does help some so I'll keep using it.
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