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Imagery Based Exposure Worksheet

The document describes an imagery based exposure worksheet to help clients learn acceptance. [1] It guides clients through exposing themselves to negative emotions from a difficult past memory. [2] The 7-step worksheet has clients bring to mind the memory, rate their distress, observe thoughts and feelings, and sit with the discomfort while re-rating distress levels until they reduce by half. [3] Repeating this process is meant to help clients learn to sit with discomfort until it subsides and reduce the power the memory holds over them.

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Imagery Based Exposure Worksheet

The document describes an imagery based exposure worksheet to help clients learn acceptance. [1] It guides clients through exposing themselves to negative emotions from a difficult past memory. [2] The 7-step worksheet has clients bring to mind the memory, rate their distress, observe thoughts and feelings, and sit with the discomfort while re-rating distress levels until they reduce by half. [3] Repeating this process is meant to help clients learn to sit with discomfort until it subsides and reduce the power the memory holds over them.

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Imagery Based Exposure Worksheet

The Imagery Based Exposure worksheet is designed to guide clients through exposing themselves to strong
negative emotions produced by a recent difficult past event. Through exposure to the memory, clients
learn to sit with their discomfort until it begins to subside, thereby learning and practicing acceptance.
Through exposing oneself to all of the feelings and urges felt in a particular situation and surviving this
experience, the power the situation or memory holds reduces.

The Imagery Based Exposure worksheet includes 7 steps:

1. Bring to mind a recent memory that provokes a strong negative emotion(s). Try to remember the
situation in as much detail as possible.

2. Rate your level of distress (0-100% on personal stress scale).

3. Observe the thoughts, emotions, and behavioral urges that show up in response to this memory.

4. Sit with the difficult thoughts, emotions and urges tied to this memory.

5. Re-rate your level of distress (0-100% on personal stress scale).

6. Continue to sit with the discomfort and re-rate level of distress until the client’s personal stress
rating has reduced to half that of his/her original rating (Step 4).

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Imagery Based Exposure


Worksheet

Imagine
Bring to mind a recent difficulty.

Distress level
Rate your current level of distress.

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Observe

What thoughts showed up in response to this memory?

What feelings and emotions showed up in response to this memory?

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What did you feel like doing in response to this memory?

Exposure
Sit with the difficult thoughts, emotions and urges tied to this memory.

Distress level
Re-rate your current level of distress.

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

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