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Undermining Cognitive Fusion

I’m weak.

The best thing about me is...

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: I’m weak. ###Response: The best thing about me is...

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

I’m kind

The reason I am so weak is...

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: I’m kind ###Response: The reason I am so weak is...

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

I never learned how to stand up for myself.

Good! That’s a beauty. Magical! See how fun this is? Your mind generates explanations, stories, and reasons for everything. We could go on, right? There’s a story for everything.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: I never learned how to stand up for myself. ###Response:Good! That’s a beauty. Magical! See how fun this is? Your mind generates explanations, stories, and reasons for everything. We could go on, right? There’s a story for everything.

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

I don’t know what to do. I can’t connect with people. I get in social situations and I just can’t do it. I have nothing to say.

Let’s take a look at this. You’ve just shaken someone’s hand, and your salesperson mind shows up and sells you the thought “I can’t connect with people.” It looks as if you’ve been buying that so far. Maybe the important question here is whether that’s a thought you want to continue to buy. Let me ask it this way: When you follow that thought, where does it lead you in terms of your values in this area?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input:I don’t know what to do. I can’t connect with people. I get in social situations and I just can’t do it. I have nothing to say. ###Response: Let’s take a look at this. You’ve just shaken someone’s hand, and your salesperson mind shows up and sells you the thought “I can’t connect with people.” It looks as if you’ve been buying that so far. Maybe the important question here is whether that’s a thought you want to continue to buy. Let me ask it this way: When you follow that thought, where does it lead you in terms of your values in this area?

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

It leads me away... I just stay at home. Or when I’m at a party, I don’t talk much to people.

I’m guessing there’s a story related to the idea that you can’t connect with people.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: It leads me away... I just stay at home. Or when I’m at a party, I don’t talk much to people. ###Response: I’m guessing there’s a story related to the idea that you can’t connect with people.

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

Yeah, it’s true, I don’t connect with people.

So then your mind sells you “It’s true.” When you buy that, where does it lead you?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: Yeah, it’s true, I don’t connect with people.###Response:So then your mind sells you “It’s true.” When you buy that, where does it lead you?

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

Again, not where I want to go.

So, we’ve talked before about how one of your values is that you want to connect with people, right?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: Again, not where I want to go. ###Response: So, we’ve talked before about how one of your values is that you want to connect with people, right?

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

Yeah

And now your mind is selling you the thought that you can’t do it. And it can even marshal evidence. Now let me ask you another question: Suppose you were to go out tomorrow and actually be able to connect with people. Suppose there were people out there who really could get you, and you could really get them, open up to them, and let them know you. Let’s say you did that tomorrow. Who would be made wrong by that?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: Yeah ###Response: And now your mind is selling you the thought that you can’t do it. And it can even marshal evidence. Now let me ask you another question: Suppose you were to go out tomorrow and actually be able to connect with people. Suppose there were people out there who really could get you, and you could really get them, open up to them, and let them know you. Let’s say you did that tomorrow. Who would be made wrong by that?

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

Huh? I’m not sure...

Tomorrow you connect. Today you’ve bought the story that says, “I can’t connect.” So who’s wrong tomorrow?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: Huh? I’m not sure...###Response: Tomorrow you connect. Today you’ve bought the story that says, “I can’t connect.” So who’s wrong tomorrow?

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

I guess I would be.

Yeah. You’d have to give up this story that you can’t connect with people. You’d be wrong about that story. Your choice here seems to be either to defend your story or get your life back. What do you think would come up for you that would be painful if you were to do this?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: I guess I would be.###Response: Yeah. You’d have to give up this story that you can’t connect with people. You’d be wrong about that story. Your choice here seems to be either to defend your story or get your life back. What do you think would come up for you that would be painful if you were to do this?

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

It would mean I could have done it all along...

Yeah. let’s stay with that. When you say that, I notice some sadness coming up. Can we make room for you to have that right now?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input: It would mean I could have done it all along... ###Response: Yeah. let’s stay with that. When you say that, I notice some sadness coming up. Can we make room for you to have that right now?

Undermining Cognitive Fusion

Okay

If having this sadness, this sense of loss, could make it possible for you to really connect with people, and to be able to be there for your sister in a way you’ve never been able to before, would it be worth it?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Undermining Cognitive Fusion###Input:Okay###Response: If having this sadness, this sense of loss, could make it possible for you to really connect with people, and to be able to be there for your sister in a way you’ve never been able to before, would it be worth it?

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

I have a lot of problems at work

You’ve been talking a lot about your difficulties at work, yet you don’t seem too bothered. The situation must be frustrating.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input:I have a lot of problems at work###Response:You’ve been talking a lot about your difficulties at work, yet you don’t seem too bothered. The situation must be frustrating.

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

It is frustrating. It makes me really mad.

It seems as if it might be painful, too. This is the third job you’ve had this year, and it’s unfolding just like the last two.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input: It is frustrating. It makes me really mad. ###Response: It seems as if it might be painful, too. This is the third job you’ve had this year, and it’s unfolding just like the last two.

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

They’re just so stupid. I mean, I’m doing what they tell me to do. If they would just leave me alone and let me do my job, things would be better.

It seems you wish for that quite a bit—to be left alone—and yet it never seems to happen.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input: They’re just so stupid. I mean, I’m doing what they tell me to do. If they would just leave me alone and let me do my job, things would be better. ###Response:It seems you wish for that quite a bit—to be left alone—and yet it never seems to happen.

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

Oh, yeah, I just remembered. I wanted to let you know I went to see the psychiatrist. She thinks I should get some more testing done.

Did you see what just happened? We started to talk about pain, and you changed the topic.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input:Oh, yeah, I just remembered. I wanted to let you know I went to see the psychiatrist. She thinks I should get some more testing done. ###Response:Did you see what just happened? We started to talk about pain, and you changed the topic.

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

Yeah, I see... But I don’t want to cry. I look silly when I cry. I feel stupid.

I wonder if you could notice those thoughts...silly, stupid...and let yourself show up to what’s happening with your feelings right now. All I want you to do is just notice this experience as it’s unfolding right now. Notice what’s happening. What are you feeling in your body? Take a slow moment to look. Look and see exactly where you feel it.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input:Yeah, I see... But I don’t want to cry. I look silly when I cry. I feel stupid. ###Response: I wonder if you could notice those thoughts...silly, stupid...and let yourself show up to what’s happening with your feelings right now. All I want you to do is just notice this experience as it’s unfolding right now. Notice what’s happening. What are you feeling in your body? Take a slow moment to look. Look and see exactly where you feel it.

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

I feel a welling up behind my eyes.

And what kind of judgments and evaluations show up? Before you answer, pause and take a careful, calm look.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input:I feel a welling up behind my eyes.###Response:And what kind of judgments and evaluations show up? Before you answer, pause and take a careful, calm look.

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

My mind is saying that that it’s stupid to cry about this.

Good. And does this experience remind you of any situations fromthe past?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input: My mind is saying that that it’s stupid to cry about this.###Response: Good. And does this experience remind you of any situations fromthe past?

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

Hmm... Yeah. It reminds me of when my dad would yell at me if I didn’t do my chores.

And when you have all of that, what do you notice yourself wanting to do?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input:Hmm... Yeah. It reminds me of when my dad would yell at me if I didn’t do my chores. ###Response: And when you have all of that, what do you notice yourself wanting to do?

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

It’s lurking in the background all the time. It’s like I’m tiptoeing.

You’re feeling defensive?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input:It’s lurking in the background all the time. It’s like I’m tiptoeing. ###Response: You’re feeling defensive?

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

Yeah. My wife just seems to criticize everything I do. I can never get it right.

Do you feel like that in here sometimes?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input: Yeah. My wife just seems to criticize everything I do. I can never get it right. ###Response:Do you feel like that in here sometimes?

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

Like I’m tiptoeing around you?

Yes

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input: Like I’m tiptoeing around you? ###Response:Yes

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

I don’t know.

And what are you feeling right here, right now?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input:I don’t know. ###Response: And what are you feeling right here, right now?

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

Should I feel something?

Just look. Take your time.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input: Should I feel something?###Response: Just look. Take your time.

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

To be honest, I’m feeling defensive. I don’t know why. I know you aren’t doing anything... But I feel like I’m being criticized.

Where do you feel that? Let’s start with your body.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input:To be honest, I’m feeling defensive. I don’t know why. I know you aren’t doing anything... But I feel like I’m being criticized. ###Response: Where do you feel that? Let’s start with your body.

Getting in Contact with the Present Moment

I feel tense in my stomach...almost as if I’m tensing to be hit there.

Good. Okay, any other sensations?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Getting in Contact with the Present Moment ###Input: I feel tense in my stomach...almost as if I’m tensing to be hit there. ###Response: Good. Okay, any other sensations?

Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context

So, I’m the board and my thoughts and feelings are the pieces? But what about my thoughts about who I am?

More pieces to be added to the board.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context ###Input:So, I’m the board and my thoughts and feelings are the pieces? But what about my thoughts about who I am?###Response:More pieces to be added to the board.

Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context

But when I feel things, it’s real. It’s overwhelming.

Yes, it is definitely an experience you are having. And that thought you just had, the one that said, “But when I feel things, it’s real. It’s overwhelming”? That’s another piece, too, another experience.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context ###Input:But when I feel things, it’s real. It’s overwhelming.###Response:Yes, it is definitely an experience you are having. And that thought you just had, the one that said, “But when I feel things, it’s real. It’s overwhelming”? That’s another piece, too, another experience.

Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context

So everything I say will become another piece?

Yes, each experience you have, whether it’s a feeling or a thought, is another piece on the board. And as the board, notice that you’re in touch with the pieces, in contact with them. Yet the pieces are not the board.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context ###Input:So everything I say will become another piece? ###Response: Yes, each experience you have, whether it’s a feeling or a thought, is another piece on the board. And as the board, notice that you’re in touch with the pieces, in contact with them. Yet the pieces are not the board.

Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context

Well, I think I’d like to just dump the board over.

And that thought too is another piece on the board. See how this works?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context ###Input:Well, I think I’d like to just dump the board over. ###Response: And that thought too is another piece on the board. See how this works?

Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context

I know, but I don’t want those bad pieces.

I can understand why. But, again, check your experience and see. Have you ever been able to kick the pieces you didn’t want off the board? Have those bad memories and feelings disappeared?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context ###Input:I know, but I don’t want those bad pieces. ###Response:"I can understand why. But, again, check your experience and see. Have you ever been able to kick the pieces you didn’t want off the board? Have those bad memories and feelings disappeared?"

Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context

No

So even “I don’t want those bad pieces” goes on the board. Remember, though, that the board is not the pieces. The board is larger than any single piece. You, the experiencer, are in contact with your thoughts and feelings. You are aware of having them, and yet you are not them. You experience them, and you are continually adding to your board...and the pieces are not the board. The board can hold the pieces and remain intact and whole, even if a piece says, “This is overwhelming.”

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Building Flexible Perspective Taking Through Self-as-Context ###Input:No###Response:So even “I don’t want those bad pieces” goes on the board. Remember, though, that the board is not the pieces. The board is larger than any single piece. You, the experiencer, are in contact with your thoughts and feelings. You are aware of having them, and yet you are not them. You experience them, and you are continually adding to your board...and the pieces are not the board. The board can hold the pieces and remain intact and whole, even if a piece says, “This is overwhelming."

Defining Valued Directions

no one inspires me

If you think of all the people you’ve known and looked up to, does anyone particularly stand out?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Defining Valued Directions###Input:no one inspires me###Response:If you think of all the people you’ve known and looked up to, does anyone particularly stand out?

Defining Valued Directions

My third-grade teacher, Ms. Schweibert.

And what was Ms. Schweibert about? What did you admire about her?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Defining Valued Directions###Input:My third-grade teacher, Ms. Schweibert.###Response: And what was Ms. Schweibert about? What did you admire about her?

Defining Valued Directions

She was always upbeat, always having fun. We always knew she cared about us kids.

So what would Ms. Schweibert want for you now?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Defining Valued Directions###Input:She was always upbeat, always having fun. We always knew she cared about us kids. ###Response: So what would Ms. Schweibert want for you now?

Defining Valued Directions

She’d want me to learn something, and to graduate at the head of the class.

Yeah, head of the class. She’d want that for you. I have a sense that is something you deeply respect about her—her attitude toward people and learning. Is there anything else she’d want for you, in addition to being head of the class?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Defining Valued Directions###Input: She’d want me to learn something, and to graduate at the head of the class. ###Response: Yeah, head of the class. She’d want that for you. I have a sense that is something you deeply respect about her—her attitude toward people and learning. Is there anything else she’d want for you, in addition to being head of the class?

Defining Valued Directions

She’d want me to be happy. She’d want me to do this because I enjoy it, because I want to, not because I have to or because she told me to.

Is there a way you could make writing your paper live up to that—for yourself, I mean?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Defining Valued Directions###Input:She’d want me to be happy. She’d want me to do this because I enjoy it, because I want to, not because I have to or because she told me to. ###Response: Is there a way you could make writing your paper live up to that—for yourself, I mean?

Defining Valued Directions

Yeah, something a little bigger than writing a paper. Not so much what I have to do, but why I would want to do it.

Yeah. What are you here for—here and now in this life? If you could have a say in it, what would you want your tombstone to say? ... And now consider how what you’re doing now lines up with that. I have a sense that what you’ve been working for is others’ regard for you, but it sounds like what they want for you is for you to be yourself. I want you to look for something that’s yours. It will probably be bigger than you, but it comes from you. And “I don’t know” is not an answer. As a kind of homework, would you be willing to write about this on your own this week and bring it in next time?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Defining Valued Directions###Input:Yeah, something a little bigger than writing a paper. Not so much what I have to do, but why I would want to do it. ###Response: Yeah. What are you here for—here and now in this life? If you could have a say in it, what would you want your tombstone to say? ... And now consider how what you’re doing now lines up with that. I have a sense that what you’ve been working for is others’ regard for you, but it sounds like what they want for you is for you to be yourself. I want you to look for something that’s yours. It will probably be bigger than you, but it comes from you. And “I don’t know” is not an answer. As a kind of homework, would you be willing to write about this on your own this week and bring it in next time?

Defining Valued Directions

Yeah.

What you might want to write about is something that would make you think, “I’d be inspired by a person who could do this.” What could you do that would be inspiring to you?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Defining Valued Directions###Input:Yeah. ###Response: What you might want to write about is something that would make you think, “I’d be inspired by a person who could do this.” What could you do that would be inspiring to you?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Why should I write down goals? I never follow through on them anyway. It just seems like a waste of time.

If you were to listen to the advice of that thought—that you never follow through on your goals—would that lead you toward or away from this value of making a difference with your life?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: Why should I write down goals? I never follow through on them anyway. It just seems like a waste of time. ###Response: If you were to listen to the advice of that thought—that you never follow through on your goals—would that lead you toward or away from this value of making a difference with your life?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Hmm. Away.

And if you were considering this value and it were to give you advice, what would it say with respect to setting goals?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:Hmm. Away.###Response:And if you were considering this value and it were to give you advice, what would it say with respect to setting goals?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

It would say, “Go ahead and set the goals, then go for it!”

So, if you could choose between those two directions, which would you choose?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:It would say, “Go ahead and set the goals, then go for it!” ###Response: So, if you could choose between those two directions, which would you choose?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

I’d choose to set goals.

I guess I am left with this question: Will you? Here with me now?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: I’d choose to set goals. ###Response: I guess I am left with this question: Will you? Here with me now?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Okay

I can hear the hesitance, but let’s see what happens. Let’s start with the first step: setting goals. If you were living your life in the service of this value, what’s one thing you would be doing that would be about that?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:Okay###Response: I can hear the hesitance, but let’s see what happens. Let’s start with the first step: setting goals. If you were living your life in the service of this value, what’s one thing you would be doing that would be about that?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Yeah, I know I want a job that’s more rewarding, that requires more from me than the one I have now, but I don’t know what to do to get there.

Okay, so let’s break this down a bit. You don’t need to leap all the way to the goal of having a new job in one step. Can you think of one action that, if you completed it, would put you one step closer to that new job? Maybe something you’ve been thinking about doing but are afraid of doing?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: Yeah, I know I want a job that’s more rewarding, that requires more from me than the one I have now, but I don’t know what to do to get there. ###Response:Okay, so let’s break this down a bit. You don’t need to leap all the way to the goal of having a new job in one step. Can you think of one action that, if you completed it, would put you one step closer to that new job? Maybe something you’ve been thinking about doing but are afraid of doing?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

I feel very uncomfortable about this reunion

This reunion has been weighing on you. I know that even thinking about it has been causing you some distress.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:I feel very uncomfortable about this reunion###Response: This reunion has been weighing on you. I know that even thinking about it has been causing you some distress.

Building Patterns of Committed Action

My wife will throw a fit if I don’t go, but I really don’t want to. Her relatives ask me questions. I have to be in a good mood. I just don’t want to go.

Yeah, it makes sense to want to stay away from things bring anxiety.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:My wife will throw a fit if I don’t go, but I really don’t want to. Her relatives ask me questions. I have to be in a good mood. I just don’t want to go.###Response:Yeah, it makes sense to want to stay away from things bring anxiety.

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Even just talking about it now makes me feel hot.

I’m wondering if you might be willing to lean into that experienc —let yourself feel this heat and notice its qualities.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:Even just talking about it now makes me feel hot. ###Response: I’m wondering if you might be willing to lean into that experienc —let yourself feel this heat and notice its qualities.

Building Patterns of Committed Action

It makes me want to run. I want to get cooled off.

Is your mind telling you anything right now?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: It makes me want to run. I want to get cooled off. ###Response: Is your mind telling you anything right now?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Yes, it’s saying that this is too much, like the heat is going to kill me.

Let’s see if it’s possible to notice what your mind is doing in this moment of heat, and then whether you can simply let yourself feel it. Notice how you experience the heat.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: Yes, it’s saying that this is too much, like the heat is going to kill me. ###Response: Let’s see if it’s possible to notice what your mind is doing in this moment of heat, and then whether you can simply let yourself feel it. Notice how you experience the heat.

Building Patterns of Committed Action

I feel it in my face and hands, like I’m red and burning up.

Okay, see if you can move to your hands first. Turn your attentionto sensations of heat in your hands. Notice the sensation... See if you can stay with the experience there... Gently observe it without making any effort to make it come or go... Are you with me?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:I feel it in my face and hands, like I’m red and burning up. ###Response:Okay, see if you can move to your hands first. Turn your attentionto sensations of heat in your hands. Notice the sensation... See if you can stay with the experience there... Gently observe it without making any effort to make it come or go... Are you with me?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Yes, I can feel it. My hands want to move.

Go ahead and let them move, but do it with awareness, following the movement and heat.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: Yes, I can feel it. My hands want to move. ###Response:Go ahead and let them move, but do it with awareness, following the movement and heat.

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Okay, I can feel it.

Great, just stay with the experience of your hands moving and feeling the heat.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: Okay, I can feel it. ###Response: Great, just stay with the experience of your hands moving and feeling the heat.

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Okay

Now take a look at me... Okay, good. Now, can you remember why we are doing this right now?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: Okay###Response:Now take a look at me... Okay, good. Now, can you remember why we are doing this right now?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Um... Because this is what happens when I’m in social situations?

Right. We’re practicing opening up to this experience now so that you can be there at that reunion for your wife. Doing this difficult exercise now is in the service of your relationship with your wife.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: Um... Because this is what happens when I’m in social situations? ###Response:Right. We’re practicing opening up to this experience now so that you can be there at that reunion for your wife. Doing this difficult exercise now is in the service of your relationship with your wife.

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Right

So while you keep in mind why you’re doing this, can you also notice any urges?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:Right###Response: So while you keep in mind why you’re doing this, can you also notice any urges?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Yeah, I want to run out of here.

Excellent. See if you can just observe that urge. See if your attention can hover over it, observing it, like a helicopter hovering over a spot on the ground... Just watching it, whatever it’s doing. Now I’m going to invite you to gently shift your attention to your face. Do you still feel the heat there?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:Yeah, I want to run out of here. ###Response: Excellent. See if you can just observe that urge. See if your attention can hover over it, observing it, like a helicopter hovering over a spot on the ground... Just watching it, whatever it’s doing. Now I’m going to invite you to gently shift your attention to your face. Do you still feel the heat there?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Yes, but not as much as I did at first.

Okay, go ahead and let yourself turn your focus to your face,becoming aware of what you feel there. Where do you feel the heat?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:Yes, but not as much as I did at first. ###Response: Okay, go ahead and let yourself turn your focus to your face,becoming aware of what you feel there. Where do you feel the heat?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

In my cheeks and neck.

Let’s start with your cheeks. Are you able to feel the heat there?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: In my cheeks and neck. ###Response: Let’s start with your cheeks. Are you able to feel the heat there?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Yes

Okay, just like you did with your hands, let yourself gently focus on and be present to the heat in your cheeks.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:Yes###Response:Okay, just like you did with your hands, let yourself gently focus on and be present to the heat in your cheeks.

Building Patterns of Committed Action

It’s uncomfortable. I feel like people can see my anxiety.

Okay, let’s welcome this discomfort, this thought “I feel like people can see my anxiety,” not just for its own sake, but for what it’s important to you to do. See if you can open up and just let the feeling of heat be there. You’re carrying it now in the service of going to your wife’s family reunion. One thing I can pretty much guarantee is that as soon as you head in this direction you value, some uncomfortable thoughts and feelings will start to show up. For example, as soon as you start to make moves to developfriendships with people, those passengers on your bus who say, “It’s not worth it; people are disappointing and will hurt you,” are almost certainly going to show up. The question life is asking you in these moments is “Will you have those feelings, thoughts, images, and sensations—will you say yes to those passengers when they show up?” Remember, this isn’t about whether you want them there; it’s about whether you’re willing to have them there. It’s a bit as if you just got out of bed feeling really depressed, and your friend Craig, whom you haven’t seen in several years, knocks on your door and asks if he can come in. Now, you might not want him there, but could you be willing to let him in? Similarly, with this goal of asking the guy you met in your English class to play racquetball, would you be willing to do that, knowing it means you’ll need to make room for those passengers who say, “It’s not worth it,” “He’s going to disappoint you anyway,” and “You’re eventually going to be hurt”? The question I have is this: Are you 100 percent willing to have these passengers show up and to ask this guy to play racquetball?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input: It’s uncomfortable. I feel like people can see my anxiety. ###Response: Okay, let’s welcome this discomfort, this thought “I feel like people can see my anxiety,” not just for its own sake, but for what it’s important to you to do. See if you can open up and just let the feeling of heat be there. You’re carrying it now in the service of going to your wife’s family reunion. One thing I can pretty much guarantee is that as soon as you head in this direction you value, some uncomfortable thoughts and feelings will start to show up. For example, as soon as you start to make moves to developfriendships with people, those passengers on your bus who say, “It’s not worth it; people are disappointing and will hurt you,” are almost certainly going to show up. The question life is asking you in these moments is “Will you have those feelings, thoughts, images, and sensations—will you say yes to those passengers when they show up?” Remember, this isn’t about whether you want them there; it’s about whether you’re willing to have them there. It’s a bit as if you just got out of bed feeling really depressed, and your friend Craig, whom you haven’t seen in several years, knocks on your door and asks if he can come in. Now, you might not want him there, but could you be willing to let him in? Similarly, with this goal of asking the guy you met in your English class to play racquetball, would you be willing to do that, knowing it means you’ll need to make room for those passengers who say, “It’s not worth it,” “He’s going to disappoint you anyway,” and “You’re eventually going to be hurt”? The question I have is this: Are you 100 percent willing to have these passengers show up and to ask this guy to play racquetball?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Yeah, but I’ve done this before, and people don’t want to be friends with me. Why should I be willing when it’s not likely to work out?

What’s not likely to work out?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:Yeah, but I’ve done this before, and people don’t want to be friends with me. Why should I be willing when it’s not likely to work out? ###Response: What’s not likely to work out?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

He’s probably not going to say yes.

Well, there’s no guarantee of a particular outcome. What I’m asking you is if you’re going take a stand in your life for what’s important to you. You told me before that you want more friends in your life. The outcome will be what it will. And if you don’t ask, you definitely know how that will turn out: very little possibility of making a new friend. Asking creates the possibility, doesn’t it? From there, it will either work out or it won’t. What I’m asking is this: What are you going to stand for? If you ask this person to do something, is it about working toward making friends?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:He’s probably not going to say yes. ###Response: Well, there’s no guarantee of a particular outcome. What I’m asking you is if you’re going take a stand in your life for what’s important to you. You told me before that you want more friends in your life. The outcome will be what it will. And if you don’t ask, you definitely know how that will turn out: very little possibility of making a new friend. Asking creates the possibility, doesn’t it? From there, it will either work out or it won’t. What I’m asking is this: What are you going to stand for? If you ask this person to do something, is it about working toward making friends?

Building Patterns of Committed Action

Yeah, I guess so... Yeah, it is.

Then, not knowing whether it will work out, and knowing that it’s possible you may feel rejected—and that you will certainly feel anxious and worried—are you 100 percent willing to feel and think all these things and take steps in the direction of making more friends by asking this guy to play racquetball?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Building Patterns of Committed Action###Input:Yeah, I guess so... Yeah, it is. ###Response: Then, not knowing whether it will work out, and knowing that it’s possible you may feel rejected—and that you will certainly feel anxious and worried—are you 100 percent willing to feel and think all these things and take steps in the direction of making more friends by asking this guy to play racquetball?

Sample Case Conceptualization

I’m depressed. I was told you might be able to help.

I hope so, but first can you tell me a little more about your depression—like how long you’ve been depressed and why you think you’re depressed?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: I’m depressed. I was told you might be able to help.###Response: I hope so, but first can you tell me a little more about your depression—like how long you’ve been depressed and why you think you’re depressed?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Well, I’ve been having a hard time of it ever since I hurt my back on the job three years ago. I think I’m just down because I can’t work anymore. I was really good at what I did, and now I’m useless because of my damn arm and the pain in my back.

Your arm and your back? Did that happen because of the injury?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input:Well, I’ve been having a hard time of it ever since I hurt my back on the job three years ago. I think I’m just down because I can’t work anymore. I was really good at what I did, and now I’m useless because of my damn arm and the pain in my back. ###Response: Your arm and your back? Did that happen because of the injury?

Sample Case Conceptualization

No. Only my back was injured. I’ve had about four surgeries to try to fix it. I’ve spent maybe ten months of the past three years in the hospital. The first three surgeries worked pretty well but I was still having some problems, so they did one more. It was supposed to be the last one, but the damn doctor screwed it up and damaged thenerve that goes to my arm. Now I can barely use it.

How much use do you have?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: No. Only my back was injured. I’ve had about four surgeries to try to fix it. I’ve spent maybe ten months of the past three years in the hospital. The first three surgeries worked pretty well but I was still having some problems, so they did one more. It was supposed to be the last one, but the damn doctor screwed it up and damaged thenerve that goes to my arm. Now I can barely use it. ###Response:How much use do you have?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Well, I can lift it up about a foot. They told me it was hopeless and I’d never get any movement back, but I knew I could. I’ve been working out in the pool almost every day, and I’ve gotten to the point where I can close my hand and lift my arm to shoulder height when I’m in the pool. It’s taken a lot of work, but I made it happen. I’m the kind of person who, when I set my mind to doing something, I get it done. Like with the pain from this injury—I don’t use any drugs. I control it with self hypnosis. It works pretty good to keep the pain manageable. But it doesn’t matter, anyway, because I can’t do anything because of my back and arm... Now I’m like a piece of crap. I’m just worthless. I don’t know why I even try.

When I hear you say you can’t do much of anything, what I hear you saying is that you can’t do anything important. If you’re not doing anything important, what are you doing with your time?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: Well, I can lift it up about a foot. They told me it was hopeless and I’d never get any movement back, but I knew I could. I’ve been working out in the pool almost every day, and I’ve gotten to the point where I can close my hand and lift my arm to shoulder height when I’m in the pool. It’s taken a lot of work, but I made it happen. I’m the kind of person who, when I set my mind to doing something, I get it done. Like with the pain from this injury—I don’t use any drugs. I control it with self hypnosis. It works pretty good to keep the pain manageable. But it doesn’t matter, anyway, because I can’t do anything because of my back and arm... Now I’m like a piece of crap. I’m just worthless. I don’t know why I even try. ###Response: When I hear you say you can’t do much of anything, what I hear you saying is that you can’t do anything important. If you’re not doing anything important, what are you doing with your time?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Well, I have a schedule I follow pretty much every day. I’ve always been really disciplined. I get up, I do my self hypnosis, I eat breakfast, I watch a little TV. I get ready and go to the pool and work out. By the time that’s done, I’m tired and I come back home, take a nap, fix some dinner, watch some TV, and go to bed. A lot of nights, I also talk to my son. That’s about it. I’m a loser, huh?

That thought “I’m a loser” has been around for a while, huh?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: Well, I have a schedule I follow pretty much every day. I’ve always been really disciplined. I get up, I do my self hypnosis, I eat breakfast, I watch a little TV. I get ready and go to the pool and work out. By the time that’s done, I’m tired and I come back home, take a nap, fix some dinner, watch some TV, and go to bed. A lot of nights, I also talk to my son. That’s about it. I’m a loser, huh? ###Response: That thought “I’m a loser” has been around for a while, huh?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Yeah

Is that one of the things you say to yourself when you’re feeling down?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input:Yeah ###Response: Is that one of the things you say to yourself when you’re feeling down?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Yeah

What other things do you say to yourself?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input:Yeah ###Response: What other things do you say to yourself?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Hmm. That my life is ruined... That the bastard doctor did it. I think a lot about how he screwed up that surgery... I think about my son.

You think about your son?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input:Hmm. That my life is ruined... That the bastard doctor did it. I think a lot about how he screwed up that surgery... I think about my son. ###Response: You think about your son?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Yeah, Casey is six. He’s the greatest. He stays with my parents a few hours away. They take care of him because I can’t anymore. I need my time to fix my arm, and I can’t take care of him anyway in the physical shape I’m in. I used to be able to help him put his shirt on in the morning, but I can’t even do that right anymore, with my arm and all... If I can’t do that, how can I do what I need to be a father?

How do you feel about not taking care of him?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input:Yeah, Casey is six. He’s the greatest. He stays with my parents a few hours away. They take care of him because I can’t anymore. I need my time to fix my arm, and I can’t take care of him anyway in the physical shape I’m in. I used to be able to help him put his shirt on in the morning, but I can’t even do that right anymore, with my arm and all... If I can’t do that, how can I do what I need to be a father?###Response: How do you feel about not taking care of him?

Sample Case Conceptualization

I’m okay with it. I wish I could take care of him, but I just can’t. He’s better off with my parents. Ever since Casey’s mother and I split up, it’s been just him and me. His mom’s an addict and took off when we separated. I haven’t talked to her in a year.

Do you get to visit him much?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: I’m okay with it. I wish I could take care of him, but I just can’t. He’s better off with my parents. Ever since Casey’s mother and I split up, it’s been just him and me. His mom’s an addict and took off when we separated. I haven’t talked to her in a year.###Response: Do you get to visit him much?

Sample Case Conceptualization

No, he lives too far away. But I talk to him most nights on the phone. That helps... I’m not so sure about my parents taking care of him, but I don’t have much of a choice. I can’t do it the way I should.

You’re not sure about your parents?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: No, he lives too far away. But I talk to him most nights on the phone. That helps... I’m not so sure about my parents taking care of him, but I don’t have much of a choice. I can’t do it the way I should.###Response: You’re not sure about your parents?

Sample Case Conceptualization

They...uh...they were pretty physically and mentally abusive to me as a kid. A lot of hitting, yelling... When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about that. I got pretty out of control around that. I was even suicidal until I figured out how to get it under control. I don’t think about it much anymore... Anyway, they’ve mellowed as they’ve gotten older and they don’t hit him.

You’ve got the memories of abuse under control?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: They...uh...they were pretty physically and mentally abusive to me as a kid. A lot of hitting, yelling... When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about that. I got pretty out of control around that. I was even suicidal until I figured out how to get it under control. I don’t think about it much anymore... Anyway, they’ve mellowed as they’ve gotten older and they don’t hit him.###Response: You’ve got the memories of abuse under control?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Yeah, I used to think about it all the time and have nightmares and stuff. But I learned to block it all out... We’re not going to have to talk about that, are we? I don’t want to. If I remember that stuff, I’ll get out of control again and maybe hurt someone or myself.

We don’t have to talk about anything you’re not willing to talk about. My intention here is to never make you do anything you’re not willing to do, and if I ever do think that’s something we should talk about, I’ll ask permission first to see if you’re willing. I want this therapy to be about what you want most in your life. And if remembering those memories would be part of this work, I’d want us to take a look at that. If they don’t need to be remembered, then your experience will show you that. Either way, we’ll see what your experience has to say.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input:"Yeah, I used to think about it all the time and have nightmares and stuff. But I learned to block it all out... We’re not going to have to talk about that, are we? I don’t want to. If I remember that stuff, I’ll get out of control again and maybe hurt someone or myself."###Response: We don’t have to talk about anything you’re not willing to talk about. My intention here is to never make you do anything you’re not willing to do, and if I ever do think that’s something we should talk about, I’ll ask permission first to see if you’re willing. I want this therapy to be about what you want most in your life. And if remembering those memories would be part of this work, I’d want us to take a look at that. If they don’t need to be remembered, then your experience will show you that. Either way, we’ll see what your experience has to say.

Sample Case Conceptualization

I’m okay with that. So we’ll see, then?

Yeah

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: I’m okay with that. So we’ll see, then? ###Response: Yeah

Sample Case Conceptualization

So then, what do we talk about?

Hmm... It sounds as though you spend a lot of time alone. What are your friendships like?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: So then, what do we talk about? ###Response: Hmm... It sounds as though you spend a lot of time alone. What are your friendships like?

Sample Case Conceptualization

I don’t really have any friends—not for the last couple years. I used to hang out with some guys at work, but ever since I left no one wants to be around me.

That sounds pretty lonely.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: I don’t really have any friends—not for the last couple years. I used to hang out with some guys at work, but ever since I left no one wants to be around me.###Response: That sounds pretty lonely.

Sample Case Conceptualization

Yeah

What do you think about when you’re at home alone?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input:Yeah###Response: What do you think about when you’re at home alone?

Sample Case Conceptualization

I wish my son was there... I don’t know. I think a lot about my surgery and my arm. I think about getting back at that surgeon who screwed up. I think about how I can win my court case. I just can’t let it go. I think about how I could try to get them to do one more surgery to fix my arm. But they keep saying there’s nothing they can do.

Anything else you think about?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: I wish my son was there... I don’t know. I think a lot about my surgery and my arm. I think about getting back at that surgeon who screwed up. I think about how I can win my court case. I just can’t let it go. I think about how I could try to get them to do one more surgery to fix my arm. But they keep saying there’s nothing they can do. ###Response: Anything else you think about?

Sample Case Conceptualization

I think about how worthless my life is now that I can’t work. I try to figure out how this happened...where I went wrong. I just can’t see a way out. I used to be good at what I did. That was who I was. Now I can’t do it anymore. I don’t do anything anymore. I don’t know who I am without my work.

And you feel as if the pain you’re in from your back and arm is what stands between you and working. You feel it needs to change, yet you say you don’t use any medication.

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: I think about how worthless my life is now that I can’t work. I try to figure out how this happened...where I went wrong. I just can’t see a way out. I used to be good at what I did. That was who I was. Now I can’t do it anymore. I don’t do anything anymore. I don’t know who I am without my work.###Response: And you feel as if the pain you’re in from your back and arm is what stands between you and working. You feel it needs to change, yet you say you don’t use any medication.

Sample Case Conceptualization

Yeah, after the surgeries I used morphine for a while, but then I got the pain under control with self-hypnosis a doctor taught me. I sometimes take a pill after I work out if the pain is too bad, but that’s about all. I don’t like to take pills because that would mean I can’t handle it.

Can’t handle it?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: Yeah, after the surgeries I used morphine for a while, but then I got the pain under control with self-hypnosis a doctor taught me. I sometimes take a pill after I work out if the pain is too bad, but that’s about all. I don’t like to take pills because that would mean I can’t handle it. ###Response: Can’t handle it?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Yeah, you know, that I’m weak. That I can’t take the pain.

I see. And if you had to rate your usual pain level without hypnosis on a scale from one to ten?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: Yeah, you know, that I’m weak. That I can’t take the pain.###Response: I see. And if you had to rate your usual pain level without hypnosis on a scale from one to ten?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Seven

And with it?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: Seven###Response:And with it?

Sample Case Conceptualization

Most of the time, like a four. It’s not too bad.

Okay, thanks. So, let me ask you something: What do you think you need to do to have things get better? How do you imagine therapy helping you?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: Most of the time, like a four. It’s not too bad.###Response: Okay, thanks. So, let me ask you something: What do you think you need to do to have things get better? How do you imagine therapy helping you?

Sample Case Conceptualization

I need to feel better and not be so negative all the time. I’d be more motivated to work on getting my arm back in shape. I didn’t used to be like this. I think if I won my court case against the doctor who screwed me, that would help.

Let me ask you another question. It’s kind of a silly question. If you were to wake up tomorrow and a miracle had happened—like your fairy godmother came down and granted all your wishes—what would your life look like then?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: I need to feel better and not be so negative all the time. I’d be more motivated to work on getting my arm back in shape. I didn’t used to be like this. I think if I won my court case against the doctor who screwed me, that would help.###Response: Let me ask you another question. It’s kind of a silly question. If you were to wake up tomorrow and a miracle had happened—like your fairy godmother came down and granted all your wishes—what would your life look like then?

Sample Case Conceptualization

I don’t want to think about that. I’ve lost too much... It can’t happen.

Would you be willing to play with me for a minute? Just imagine. If a miracle happened, what would your life be like?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: I don’t want to think about that. I’ve lost too much... It can’t happen.###Response: Would you be willing to play with me for a minute? Just imagine. If a miracle happened, what would your life be like?

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Okay... I wouldn’t be depressed, I’d have my arm working again, and I’d be working as a carpenter and taking care of my son... I’d have more money... But that can’t happen. Why should I think about this?

Yeah, it’s painful to think about what you want but feel you can’t have. If thinking about it in here could make it possible for you to find some new, meaningful work and have your son back, would you be willing to do it?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction:Sample Case Conceptualization###Input: Okay... I wouldn’t be depressed, I’d have my arm working again, and I’d be working as a carpenter and taking care of my son... I’d have more money... But that can’t happen. Why should I think about this?###Response:" Yeah, it’s painful to think about what you want but feel you can’t have. If thinking about it in here could make it possible for you to find some new, meaningful work and have your son back, would you be willing to do it? "

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Yeah, I don’t even walk by his office anymore, and I make sure I don’t go into the lunchroom between noon and one so I don’t have to see him. I’ve even started to keep my lunch in my office instead of the shared refrigerator.

And what is it like for you to do that?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Sample Dialogue Illustrating Flexible Work with All Six Processes###Input: Yeah, I don’t even walk by his office anymore, and I make sure I don’t go into the lunchroom between noon and one so I don’t have to see him. I’ve even started to keep my lunch in my office instead of the shared refrigerator. "###Response: And what is it like for you to do that?

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Well, I feel like a wimp. But I also don’t know what to do. When I get around him, it always turns out badly. I freeze up andcan’t talk. I feel like a little baby.

Yeah, you feel small. Can you touch that feeling right now? Is that feeling—small and scared—in here right now?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Sample Dialogue Illustrating Flexible Work with All Six Processes###Input: Well, I feel like a wimp. But I also don’t know what to do. When I get around him, it always turns out badly. I freeze up andcan’t talk. I feel like a little baby. ###Response: Yeah, you feel small. Can you touch that feeling right now? Is that feeling—small and scared—in here right now?

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Sure. It’s here right now.

So that passenger isn’t just visiting you when you’re around this guy, he’s doing it even at other times. When that guy isn’t around, if you just think about him, this smallness feeling like a wimp, wanting to shrink—shows up. Yes?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Sample Dialogue Illustrating Flexible Work with All Six Processes###Input: Sure. It’s here right now.###Response: So that passenger isn’t just visiting you when you’re around this guy, he’s doing it even at other times. When that guy isn’t around, if you just think about him, this smallness feeling like a wimp, wanting to shrink—shows up. Yes?

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Yeah

And when you feel this way, what does your mind say you should do about it?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Sample Dialogue Illustrating Flexible Work with All Six Processes###Input:Yeah###Response: And when you feel this way, what does your mind say you should do about it?

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I want it to go away. I want to do something to relax and distract myself.

So your mind says to get it to go away, that if you can relax and feel less anxious, that would help. And as we’ve talked about before, you do often feel a little bit better right away. " But let me ask you this: In your experience, has this really solved the problem? Has following what your mind has to say about this resulted in the problem shrinking over time? What does your experience say?"

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Sample Dialogue Illustrating Flexible Work with All Six Processes###Input: I want it to go away. I want to do something to relax and distract myself.###Response: So your mind says to get it to go away, that if you can relax and feel less anxious, that would help. And as we’ve talked about before, you do often feel a little bit better right away. But let me ask you this: In your experience, has this really solved the problem? Has following what your mind has to say about this resulted in the problem shrinking over time? What does your experience say?

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No. It’s just gotten worse.

So if trying to manage it, to get it to go away, and to feel better haven’t worked, are you willing to do something that’s probably going to make your mind scream or throw a tantrum? Would you be willing to do an exercise in which we invite that passenger, the anxiety, to get really close to you if doing the exercise means you might be able to have something new in your life, such as being the kind of supervisor you want to be?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Sample Dialogue Illustrating Flexible Work with All Six Processes###Input:No. It’s just gotten worse.###Response: So if trying to manage it, to get it to go away, and to feel better haven’t worked, are you willing to do something that’s probably going to make your mind scream or throw a tantrum? Would you be willing to do an exercise in which we invite that passenger, the anxiety, to get really close to you if doing the exercise means you might be able to have something new in your life, such as being the kind of supervisor you want to be?

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Okay, maybe. What are we talking about?

I’d like to do an eyes closed exercise involving a memory of interacting with thisAcceptance: Noticing the link between thoughts and the pull to guy from work—something in which you imagine that happening and do various things with it. Are you willing to do that?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Sample Dialogue Illustrating Flexible Work with All Six Processes###Input: Okay, maybe. What are we talking about?###Response: I’d like to do an eyes closed exercise involving a memory of interacting with thisAcceptance: Noticing the link between thoughts and the pull to guy from work—something in which you imagine that happening and do various things with it. Are you willing to do that?

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Okay

To start off, why don’t you go ahead and get comfortable in your seat. I want you to become aware of the fact that you are here now, in this room, across from me. See if you can psychologically, in your mind’s eye, see where you are in the room. Visualize yourself, where you are, seated across from me exactly where you are in the room. Then bring your awareness into your physical body and the sensations you feel there. See if you can become aware of the position of your body from the inside out. Become aware of air flowing in and out of your nose. Notice what it feels like to breathe in, and the path the air takes. And then notice what it feels like to breathe out, and the path the air takes. Notice the slight difference between the temperature of the air you breathe in and the temperature of the air you breathe out. See if you can become aware of the space behind your eyes. And then I want you to notice that there’s a part of you that’s aware of all these things. Sometimes people say there’s a sense that they’re behind their eyes. See if you can catch the sense that there’s a person here called “you” who is aware of what you are aware of. Now think of something that happened last summer. Take a few moments to find one event. Let’s go back into that memory from last summer as if you were right back in your skin looking out from behind those eyes again. And in your mind’s eye, look around you and see what was happening. Who else was there? What were you hearing and seeing? See if you can catch a little bit of what you were feeling and thinking.Now notice that you were there then, and that the same person who is listening to me now in some sense was there then. As you notice the person who was behind those eyes, notice there’s a continuity, a continuous line, between that person and the person who’s here now. You’ve been you for your whole life. You were there last summer just as you are here now, even though lots of things have changed. Your body, emotions, and thoughts have changed—but in some deep sense, you are still you. This is not a belief, and I’m not making an argument; I just want you to catch the experience of being a person aware of what you are aware of. To have a word for it, I’ll call it the “observer” you, the part of you that observes or is aware of what you’re aware of. So connect with that deep sense of you, and then say good-bye to the memory from last summer. Now I want you to find a memory of a time when you were around this guy at work, a time when you felt small and insignificant, intimidated. Take a few moments and find a memory. When you’ve found one and can picture it clearly, raise your rightfinger. Take a few moments and look around in that memory. What do you see? Where were you? Who was there? Feel your feelings. I’m going to ask you some questions as we go along, but let’s not get into a conversation here. So if you can, please keep your eyes closed and make your answers brief, okay?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Sample Dialogue Illustrating Flexible Work with All Six Processes###Input:Okay###Response:To start off, why don’t you go ahead and get comfortable in your seat. I want you to become aware of the fact that you are here now, in this room, across from me. See if you can psychologically, in your mind’s eye, see where you are in the room. Visualize yourself, where you are, seated across from me exactly where you are in the room. Then bring your awareness into your physical body and the sensations you feel there. See if you can become aware of the position of your body from the inside out. Become aware of air flowing in and out of your nose. Notice what it feels like to breathe in, and the path the air takes. And then notice what it feels like to breathe out, and the path the air takes. Notice the slight difference between the temperature of the air you breathe in and the temperature of the air you breathe out. See if you can become aware of the space behind your eyes. And then I want you to notice that there’s a part of you that’s aware of all these things. Sometimes people say there’s a sense that they’re behind their eyes. See if you can catch the sense that there’s a person here called “you” who is aware of what you are aware of. Now think of something that happened last summer. Take a few moments to find one event. Let’s go back into that memory from last summer as if you were right back in your skin looking out from behind those eyes again. And in your mind’s eye, look around you and see what was happening. Who else was there? What were you hearing and seeing? See if you can catch a little bit of what you were feeling and thinking.Now notice that you were there then, and that the same person who is listening to me now in some sense was there then. As you notice the person who was behind those eyes, notice there’s a continuity, a continuous line, between that person and the person who’s here now. You’ve been you for your whole life. You were there last summer just as you are here now, even though lots of things have changed. Your body, emotions, and thoughts have changed—but in some deep sense, you are still you. This is not a belief, and I’m not making an argument; I just want you to catch the experience of being a person aware of what you are aware of. To have a word for it, I’ll call it the “observer” you, the part of you that observes or is aware of what you’re aware of. So connect with that deep sense of you, and then say good-bye to the memory from last summer. Now I want you to find a memory of a time when you were around this guy at work, a time when you felt small and insignificant, intimidated. Take a few moments and find a memory. When you’ve found one and can picture it clearly, raise your rightfinger. Take a few moments and look around in that memory. What do you see? Where were you? Who was there? Feel your feelings. I’m going to ask you some questions as we go along, but let’s not get into a conversation here. So if you can, please keep your eyes closed and make your answers brief, okay?

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Okay

From the perspective or point of view of the observer, I want you to look at some parts of this experience. First, what are you noticing in your body?

Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Instruction: Sample Dialogue Illustrating Flexible Work with All Six Processes###Input:Okay###Response:From the perspective or point of view of the observer, I want you to look at some parts of this experience. First, what are you noticing in your body?