The mental ability to adapt one's thinking and behavior to changing situational demands, rather than remaining rigidly attached to specific thoughts or beliefs.

Cognitive flexibility

Third-wave CBT posits that healthy psychological distance from thoughts is extremely significant to prevent beliefs and cognitive constructs from becoming excessively entangling through avoidance, suppression, attachment, or rigid adoption. Overall, what is most needed is cognitive flexibility to maintain the ability to learn from and adapt to different situations.

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Emphasizing the changing relationship of the individual thinker and thought. Well-supported change processes include cognitive diffusion and non-reactivity. These processes mediate humane cognition by altering the relationship between the individual and their own thoughts, as opposed to seeking to change the form, frequency, or situational sensitivity of the personal thought itself. 

Psychological process change: Cognition

The ability to engage in thought, while maintaining distance from them, as to reduce the implicit impact they may have on behavior. 



Cognitive diffusion

The ability to accept and allow cognitive experiences to enter and leave thought without reacting in an effort to change them. 



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