This is really good! I was fascinated by how similar acceptance therapy is to stoicism. They're basically indistinguishable (if you don't count all the "inner soul" and "rational universe" stuff...
This is really good! I was fascinated by how similar acceptance therapy is to stoicism. They're basically indistinguishable (if you don't count all the "inner soul" and "rational universe" stuff in stoicism.)
I have also found that personally I stopped being bothered by most little stuff after experiencing bigger stuff. Not that I would wish my experiences on everybody, but I do think there's something to be said for perspective. Mission trips, WWOOFing, the American Peace Corps, etc.. there are a lot of ways to get exposed to just how difficult life can be in a way that I think can often be adaptive and helpful.
Been thinking about this a lot lately, listening to various discussions surrounding these kinds of topics, and radical acceptance and adjacent ideas really touch on those points. Ways of not...
Been thinking about this a lot lately, listening to various discussions surrounding these kinds of topics, and radical acceptance and adjacent ideas really touch on those points. Ways of not taking things personally automatically. Not creating more internal suffering for yourself unnecessarily. Realizing in some ways that "you are not your thoughts". Treating both a nice comment from someone and a mean comment from someone else as sides of the same coin, and not letting that coin itself be the primary means of seeking happiness or an oversized impact on you negatively, etc. Finding a type of peace that comes from within and isn't contingent on the fleeting things happening externally. Seeing consciousness sort-of as a screen that the movie of life is playing itself out on. Seeing others as yourself / imagining every person as if it were you living a different life.
People can sometimes stretch these things into places they shouldn't go, or reach the wrong conclusions- or infer the wrong things from them. I get it- it's easy for our brain to latch onto the limitations or exceptions or whatever, but I think there's a lot of value in many of these ideas and applying them to daily life, even just in small ways- just at a baseline level. Nothing "woo" or weird or dogmatic or religious or anything, just different ways of approaching our moment to moment experience of consciousness and the world.
This is really good! I was fascinated by how similar acceptance therapy is to stoicism. They're basically indistinguishable (if you don't count all the "inner soul" and "rational universe" stuff in stoicism.)
I have also found that personally I stopped being bothered by most little stuff after experiencing bigger stuff. Not that I would wish my experiences on everybody, but I do think there's something to be said for perspective. Mission trips, WWOOFing, the American Peace Corps, etc.. there are a lot of ways to get exposed to just how difficult life can be in a way that I think can often be adaptive and helpful.
A lot of great things in the article, but the radical acceptance prompts really resonated with me, especially the last one:
Been thinking about this a lot lately, listening to various discussions surrounding these kinds of topics, and radical acceptance and adjacent ideas really touch on those points. Ways of not taking things personally automatically. Not creating more internal suffering for yourself unnecessarily. Realizing in some ways that "you are not your thoughts". Treating both a nice comment from someone and a mean comment from someone else as sides of the same coin, and not letting that coin itself be the primary means of seeking happiness or an oversized impact on you negatively, etc. Finding a type of peace that comes from within and isn't contingent on the fleeting things happening externally. Seeing consciousness sort-of as a screen that the movie of life is playing itself out on. Seeing others as yourself / imagining every person as if it were you living a different life.
People can sometimes stretch these things into places they shouldn't go, or reach the wrong conclusions- or infer the wrong things from them. I get it- it's easy for our brain to latch onto the limitations or exceptions or whatever, but I think there's a lot of value in many of these ideas and applying them to daily life, even just in small ways- just at a baseline level. Nothing "woo" or weird or dogmatic or religious or anything, just different ways of approaching our moment to moment experience of consciousness and the world.