“There’s that thought about the sky falling again,” you say to yourself. Are you playing a character out of your favorite childhood fable? No, you are practicing COGNITIVE DEFUSION. If you remember from last month’s blog, naming the thought is step 2 in the cognitive defusion process. Cognitive Defusion is a way of externalizing anxious thoughts to take the power out of them and relieve the anxiety that the unnecessarily cause. RECOGNIZING THE NEGATIVE THOUGHT is the first step.