And the cryptic: "People continually ruin their lives by persisting in actions against which their sensations rebel".
This approach uses acceptance and mindfulness processes, along with commitment and behavior change processes, to produce psychological flexibility; the ability to defuse from difficult thoughts and accept difficult feelings while persisting in value-based action (29).
ACT is an empirically based third generation cognitive behavioural approach that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, and commitment and behaviour change strategies to produce psychological flexibility: the ability to defuse from difficult thoughts and accept difficult feelings while persisting in values-based action.
Some will persist in opposing action by saying, "We have heard this song before".
Failure to go out and look is the typical reason for persisting in a course of action long after it has ceased to be appropriate or even rational.
For if they persist in blocking United Nations action where action is justified, they will hasten the day of the organization's irrelevance.
Despite his change of heart, Nathan Glazer seems to persist in viewing affirmative action as a program intended exclusively for blacks ("Nathan Glazer Changes His Mind Again," June 28).
For example, Aston-Jones and Cohen [40] demonstrated that the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system is implicated in the control of the decision to persist in a given action or switch to another.
Often we judge things by their short-term results, since these are most salient, and if they look good, persist in our course of action.
A distinguishing feature of those episodes was that herds of investors persisted in a course of action which at a certain point, had it been subjected to careful thought, was evidently irrational.
Congress persisted in this course of action even though investors like Warren Buffett and the S.E.C. itself supported the F.A.S.B.'s initiative, saying options should be counted as an expense on earnings statements in the same way other forms of compensation are.
