Re: Willingness without fusion is difficult with strong pain

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I definetly feel that is the same situation I found myself in. I would pile in

the food to stop the anxiety. Then i had an issue with feeling like i had a hole

in my stomack. Finally one doctor gave me something more then previcid. I had

been on antinflamatories for so long that I actually was getting a hole in my

stomack. It stopped. I have to remember now I am not hungry, I need to take the

pill when this feeling occurs.

Lin

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> > I read that when I have a painful experience - due to the desire to

> eat and when I try to resist overeating I can feel hunger pains and tell

> myself I am suffering. Through ACT I learn that I can accept my pain and

> not call it suffering. And the action of enduring the pain comes from

> willingness (the action that comes from acceptance). Well this can be so

> strong, that it is difficult to adjust my thoughts to ones other than

> fusion.

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> > And very much related to this, when I - further on in the process -

> look at my values and choose one to be 'moderation' or 'moderation with

> food' - I then have chose a path, a process. I can then set up a short

> term goal - lets say to be moderate with eating from breakfast through

> lunch .... I am advised through the program to become committed and do

> it as fully and well as possible .... Again as with the first paragraph

> I can accept that this will be difficult and I can employ willingness to

> make the effort to follow through .... And suppose, because this is so

> painiful to do, I get into the / willingness process again .... and

> again it is difficult to express to myself emotions or thoughts in a

> defused manner.

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> > Marty K

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