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EXPANSION PRACTICE FOR ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY

“Expansion means opening up and making room for difficult urges, feelings, and sensations- thereby allowing them to ‘flow through’ you without a struggle. You don’t have to like or want these feelings- you just make room for them and allow them to be there even though they are unpleasant. Once this skill is learned, if these feelings should resurface, you can rapidly make room for them and let them ‘flow on by’- so you can invest your time and energy in doing meaningful life-enhancing activities, instead of struggling. Aim to practice at least once a day breathing into and making room for difficult feelings and sensations.”