Dan's Brain

Radical acceptance


  • Author: Joshua Coleman - Aeon

  • Source: https://aeon.co/essays/free-yourself-from-the-tentacles-of-pain-with-radical-acceptance

  • Tags: Philosophy, Sufference, Happiness

  • Marsha Linehan, founder of dialectical behaviour therapy:
    The path out of hell is through misery […] by refusing to accept the misery that is part of climbing out of hell, you fall back into hell.$cit

  • being able to determine what one’s feeling with more granularity is was associated (by Lisa Feldman Barret, How Emotions Are Made) with

    • lowered needs for medication,
    • fewer hospitalisation days for illnesses
    • greter flexibility in regulating emotions

  • differences between the concept of emotions in Western civilazation and natives in Africa

    • associated to multiple people, emotions aren’t considered to be independent to others

  • Psychedelics might provide an opportunity for radical acceptance

    • removing our ability to control what comes in and out of our minds, forcing to face fears and truths in us

  • play

    • therapy as play between clients, exploring their thoughts, and the therapist supporting them
      • the therapist by listening is extending the radical acceptance

  • anxiety

    • our brains evolved to keep us alive, not to keep us happy
    • research found the more actively Happiness is pursued the more unhappy, lonely and depressed we’re likely to become