| Aim 1. Illustrating and identifying the RNT process in greater detail. |
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Illustrating in greater detail the difference between responding to private experiences flexibly or inflexibly and the RNT process (Video 10)
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Identifying two personal examples of the last week: (a) The chain of thoughts involved in the process of RNT, (b) How the thoughts involved in the RNT process were related to the trigger at the top of the hierarchical network, (c) the duration of the RNT episode, and (d) alternative valued behavior that the person could engage instead of engaging in RNT (Activity 8)
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| Aim 2. Practicing the difference between judging and engaging in RNT in response to external events versus taking a nonjudgmental stance towards them. |
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Illustrating the difference between judging an external event by engaging in RNT and just noticing the thoughts and feelings provoked by the event and adopting a nonjudgmental stance towards it (Video 11)
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Practicing the differentiation between judging an external event and engaging in RNT versus adopting a nonjudgmental stance with personal examples (Audio 2)
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| Aim 3. Illustrating how the context influences private events and that engaging in RNT can be under voluntary control. |
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Practicing observing the thoughts generated in a free association exercise nonjudgmentally and not engaging in RNT (Audio 3).
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Practicing fantasizing and worrying consciously while discriminating the process (Audio 4 and Activity 9).
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| Aim 4. Practicing the skill of noticing the flow of thoughts and focusing the attention on a valued behavior. |
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Practicing an exercise in which the person has to focus his/her attention on a specific picture point while noticing the impulse to observe other parts of the picture and the flow of thoughts (Video 12).
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Practicing an exercise where the person has to imagine a concert and observe the flow of images and thoughts without trying to control the process (Audio 5).
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| Aim 5. Promoting a transcendental and coherent perspective of the self. |
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Practicing a modified version of the “observer exercise” (Hayes et al., 2001) that includes multiple hierarchical cues between the self and the private events and emphasizes the coherence of the personal history, including triggers for RNT and values (Audio 6).
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Writing about the experience and conclusions of the “observer exercise” (Activity 10).
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