Cognitive fusion can seriously fuck us up. It can come in the form of anxiety, negative self talk, unregulated emotions, so much more and/or all of this together. So what is it and what can we do about it? Well cognitive fusion, simply put, is when we cannot separate our thoughts from who we are as a person. Cognitive fusion is the entanglement of our brain and our thoughts with who we are as individuals. Thus, COGNITIVE DEFUSION is all about releasing that thought pattern and helping us loosen the ties that these thoughts have on us.

If you can separate your thoughts from WHO you ARE as a person you can begin to examine these thoughts and poke fun at these thoughts. They can be OTHER. Cognitive defusion is about seeing the thoughts and NOT seeing the world through the thoughts.

Some of the practices I talk about in this episode are about

1. accepting the thought
2. noticing the thought
3. writing the thought down
4. making fun of the thought
5. making fun of your brain.
6. sharing these thoughts with a trusted friend.

This is long and tricky work but I hope you take it on because the more you practice it the better you get at it and I guarantee the happier and healthier you will be. If you are all those things then I absolutely am certain that you will make more space and room and time for MORE COOL SHIT!

Thanks again for listening to another episode, I hope you come back and that we can continue down our path of exploration and figuring out more fun ways to help more people do more cool shit.

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Music created and performed by: Doug Wallace