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ACT Mindfulness Exercise: Leaves on a Stream for Handling Stressful Thoughts
Learn how the Leaves on a Stream exercise, based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), can help you handle stressful thoughts by developing diffusion skills to observe thoughts mindfully and let them come and go without struggling or resisting.
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this is a act
based mindfulness
exercise called leaves on a
stream it's a diffusion
exercise which helps us to learn a new
way of relating to our
thoughts rather
than struggling and fighting and arguing
with the thoughts or trying to suppress
or um avoid the
thoughts these diffusion skills help us
to move into a mindful space to just
observe
thoughts and just let them come and go
like clouds in the
sky without the energ energy draining
effects of struggling and fighting with
the
thoughts with regular
practice these diffusion
exercises can help us
to see thoughts as thoughts when they
occurring and not to get lost in
thoughts when they are catastrophizing
about about the future or dwelling on
things about the past in a way where we
get lost in them and no longer recognize
that they are thoughts about the past or
thoughts about the
future and we are experiencing them as
if they were happening right at this
moment in
time which makes them very very
difficult sometimes to be with
but if we can diffuse from them and
recognize that we are having a memory of
the past or having an image or thought
about some problem in the
future and we recognize that this is
what they
are then it makes it a little bit easier
to handle the
thought and be with it without the
struggle and without the fight
now it's quite normal in these exercises
for the
mind to wander
off onto a different
topic or some other worry and then
we lose the sense of mindfulness we get
