When Thoughts Are Instruction: Obeying Our Minds

Our minds hand us orders all day — "don't bother, you'll only fail" — and it's easy to treat each one as a command. This short session, drawn from ACT, a model of behavioural science, points to a freeing truth: a thought is not an instruction. It seems like it's sabotaging us. But it's an old habit trying to spare us from the pain of disappointment. Learn to hear a thought all the way through and still do the opposite. For overthinking, self-doubt, cognitive defusion, procrastination and taking action anyway.