Acceptance in ACT: The Chinese Finger Trap Metaphor

MidAmerican Psychological Institute
Pickslyde Consulting

If you want to act successfully on valuable behaviors, it will help to be open to those private experiences and willing to embrace the human condition.
Judging emotions as negative often leads people to seek to get rid of them and simply have positive emotions.
ACT highlight that emotions are natural. This can help us deal with them more effectively.
Many ACT interventions use metaphor to introduce concepts to clients.