Posted by Larry Hoover on June 2, 2003, at 10:11:40
In reply to Re: CBT and metacognition » mattdds, posted by Dinah on June 2, 2003, at 8:52:17
> But it was all a false self that was so wonderfully detached. And my panic attacks were a way of my body telling me that. So if you can truly reach the state you were talking about, of reaching the metacognitive mode you were speaking of, perhaps you would feel a great reduction in distress. But if you are only able to achieve that at a rational level, if you only *think* you've reached that state, it is in my own experience an invitation to just a different type of psychopathology.
The key is in your own words. Denial of any part of your existence is not metacognitive.
Metacognition is not blocking of any sort. It is non-judmental acceptance of every bit of yourself (in its ultimate expression). That's what you strive towards.
Put in another way, metacognition is the adjustment of your self-perception such that it accurately reflects your reality. This may sound bizarre, but I think the process itself changes you. Addiction, for example, depends on denial to even exist.
The reduction in distress arises because there is no effort to deceive yourself about anything. No exaggerating of this quality, or trivializing of that one.
Lar
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