Re: Anxiety and Ambiguity as a Condition of Living

[Guest guest]

Well said Tom

Thanks for the reminder

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> Hi, I read this somewhere, and i thought i throw it out there. I know ACT

talks about willingness and acceptance, and acceptance of the irrate aunt

metaphor and all that stuff, but this thing about anxiety as simply something to

accept and not struggle with, but instead is a " condition " of living, perhaps

living well or living w vitality.

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> To accept our own anxiety is one thing, and yet by " accepting " i sense that we

still kinda struggle with it, although indirectly like the irrate aunt and

chessboard metaphors. To accept means to accept something you rather not have?

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> But when I think about my anxiety as a necessary " condition " of my life, that

it is here to stay, and that i can accept it into my life instead of struggling

with it, seems to me to be a bit more liberating, i think.

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> I know i maybe splitting hairs here, and probably repeating ACT concepts

albeit in a different way.... but anybody thought about it this way?

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> Tom

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