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The most important point for successful treatment and achieving acceptance, confirming you are on the right path, is the principle of non-interruption. This means continuing what you were doing before the intrusive thoughts or disturbing ideas appeared.
The first step is to be aware that your focus has been interrupted. The second step is to continue what you were doing before the interruption by redirecting your focus. If your focus is incorrectly on negative thoughts, redirect it back to what the intrusive thought or image interrupted. This ensures you continue life without allowing the interruption.
Continuing without interruption is not easy and requires significant effort, but it is the essence of treatment. You must not allow life, the moment, or the present to be interrupted. This applies even to treatments for perfectionism.
You must be aware when an obsessive thought or a cycle of thoughts enters your mind. If you are not aware, you will continue to allow the interruption, engaging with the thought by evaluating, judging, discussing, arguing, or expressing dislike, which are all mistakes. These actions mean you have not continued your an initial activity, and have allowed the intrusive thoughts to interrupt you.
First, you must be aware that an interruption has occurred, that your focus has been taken over by unwanted thoughts or a disturbing idea. Then, you must continue what you were doing. The speaker mentions that various techniques to achieve this are explained in detail in other videos on their channel.