The ObservatoryMental waste filter
Sort what chafes, what to act on, accept or let lie, before it piles up.
How it works
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I'm currently playing a game where I build robots. They clean, build and defend my community and are extremely efficient, but there's a catch: when they are charged, toxic waste is produced. If I don't deal with it, it s …
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Why does it work?
Suppressing emotions reduces the expression but not the experience, and increases the body's stress activation in laboratory studies (Gross, 1998); habitual suppression is also linked to poorer wellbeing (Gross & John, 2003). The sorting exercise itself is taken from the book and inspired by ACT (Hayes et al., 2011), but has not been tested as a method in its own right.
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