How to tolerate annoying things
How to tolerate annoying things
This article, written by a psychologist, offers evidence-based psychological skills to manage everyday annoyances or "micro-stresses" that can accumulate and impact well-being. It introduces concepts from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) such as radical acceptance, noticing and naming emotions, checking the workability of responses, practicing centring techniques, acting based on personal values, and applying self-compassion to handle frustrating experiences more skilfully and reduce emotional entanglement.
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ACT is a great acronym!
solid, intuitive and familiar advice that is more of a reminder than anything else.
this article reminds me of one of my favorite scenes in another earth. a story is told about an astronaut, stuck in space, going out of their mind due to a dripping pipe somewhere in the station. by learning to love the once annoying sound, they learned to cope and find their way back home.
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