evolutionary roots Russ explains the evolutionary roots behind the strong human desire to fit into a group, the basis for our constant need to comparing to other humans which manifests as “I’m not good enough”. He explains the evolutionary benefits of replaying painful events in our life in human’s early existence. He explains that learning from those events was a key to our survival. Our brain continues to engage in this thinking through repeating painful or embarrassing experiences like a radio broadcasting doom and gloom. We look for problems in the future, we conjure up fear about the future.
Here’s an experiential exercise for you. Russ Harris calls it the ‘hexaflexercise’ because it takes you through all six of the processes on the ACT ‘hexaflex’. The ‘hexaflexercise’ will take 17 minutes to complete. There is nothing to see, other than Russ talking to the camera, so it’s best done as an eyes-closed exercise, just listening to his voice rather than watching the video. I strongly urge you to make the time to do this exercise: hexaflex
Russ Harris gives ACT a 9 min metaphor summary if you go to the clip with title ACT in a nutshell
ACT described in layman’s terms: A Non-technical Overview of ACT
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