Thoughts aren't facts
Continue with 3 guided steps.
Leaves on a stream
Practice noticing your thoughts and letting them go. *Adapted from Hayes, 2005
Disobeying Unhelpful Thoughts
In your Disobeying your Unhelpful Thoughts Journal, provided in your onboarding materials, write down an unhelpful thought you’d like to disobey today. Write out what values you’ll be honoring when you disobey it. At the end of the day, mark if you completed it. If it’s hard to think about what values you’ll be honoring, that’s okay. Just focus on disobeying the thought and notice what that’s like for you after you’ve done it. If it’s hard to choose a thought, that’s okay too. Just commit to doing this once a day and you can log it in your journal after you’ve disobeyed it.
Disobeying unhelpful thoughts
Last time, you did an exercise that highlights how challenging it can be to avoid thinking about something. Unfortunately, being human means you don’t get to control your mind. By noticing your thoughts and then choosing how to respond, you can free yourself to focus on the things that matter to you. Today, we’ll try out a new exercise so you can see what it feels like to disobey unhelpful thoughts.