The Struggle Switch

Is your struggle‍‍‍ switch on or off?

This is a very common theme in therapy: People want help with difficult thoughts and feelings, and learn that struggling against them is part of the problem.

One short way of referring to this is ‘The Struggle Switch’. Are we struggling against the thoughts in our minds, our emotions, or the sensations in our body, or are we open to noticing them and letting them be? Is our struggle switch on, or is it off?

This video by Brian Johnson is about the ‘Struggle Switch’. It is inspired by Russ Harris’s book ‘The Happiness Trap’, and the work of Kristen Neff, researcher in the area of self-compassion. This is a key concept in therapy and the first 2.5 minutes of the video summarises it well.

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