A world that needs your help! Due to a lapse in mindfulness, all sorts of issues have been popping up. Cad and the rest of its inhabitants need your help learning the principles of ACT to bring the world to a more mindful place!
Embark on a journey of friendship, empathy, and self discovery as you explore the world of ACT Mindful. Get to know the world, it’s characters, and even yourself in an interactive and engaging way using the different ACT principles.
ACT stands for “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy,” a form of psychotherapy based on empirical evidence (it’s the most well-researched forms of psychotherapy!) that uses six distinct principles to achieve what is known as psychological flexibility. The ability to mentally handle anything and everything that comes your way.
These principles do not exist in a vacuum! You must learn, practice, and master all six to achieve psychological flexibility. It isn’t always easy, but Cad and his friends are ready and willing to help you out.
Willingness (or Acceptance) teaches us to be willing to feel those difficult emotions, thoughts and moments for what they are: uncomfortable but temporary..
While all values are important, we all have some that are more important to us than others. By discovering what those values are, we can each live a life that is rich, meaningful and fulfilling to us!
In order to protect us, our mind projects us to the past and future. Flexible Attention helps pull our mind into the present so that we can connect to the moment and what's happening now..
When we become fused to the stories of our life, we can become lost and stuck in our ways. By seeing experiences as moments that we pass through, we can remember they don't define us and connect to our real self.
It's hard to let thoughts go and we can become too attached to them, almost fused to them. We need to learn to slowly de-fuse from our thoughts and let them float away.
Once we discover our values, we need to include them into our lives. Committed actions do this by setting goals in our life: each one is a little milestone to keep us on the path of our core values.
