Detached Mindfulness | Exercises & Metaphors to Improve Your Relationship with Your Thoughts

Detached Mindfulness is essential to Metacognitive Therapy (MCT). It can help us improve our relationship with our thoughts, learning to observe them without engagement and judgement. This is important to reduce overthinking like worry and rumination, which we often see at the core of disorders such as anxiety and depression.

However, because Detached Mindfulness can sometimes feel a little abstract and difficult to grasps, especially if you’re new to the practice, it can be helpful to use metaphors to help us understand it.

In this video I share some metaphors to help us understand concepts like detached observation, leaving the thoughts alone, and trigger thoughts. We also look at the important difference between suppressing and avoiding our thoughts (like we see as an unhelpful coping strategy as part of Cognitive Attentional Syndrome (CAS)), and not engaging with our thoughts like we see in Detached Mindfulness.

Video chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
00:49 – Quick recap of Detached Mindfulness
02:01 – The beach ball metaphor
03:31 – The mosquito bite metaphor
04:48 – Leaves on a stream
06:25 – Detached mindfulness and metacognitive beliefs
07:26 – Practicing detached mindfulness and the fishhook metaphor (trigger thoughts)
09:41 – A learning process and the importance of practicing self-compassion

This video is not intended to replace therapy or professional help.

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