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    Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
    Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
    Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
    Audiobook11 hours

    Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

    Written by Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. and Spencer Smith

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    About this audiobook

    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a new approach to
    psychotherapy that rethinks even our most basic assumptions of mental well-being. Starting with the assumption that the normal condition of human existence is suffering and struggle, ACT works by first encouraging individuals to accept their lives as they are in the here and now. This acceptance is an antidote to the problem of avoidance, which ACT views as among the greatest risk factors for unnecessary suffering and poor mental health. The process of ACT includes help for individuals to identify a set of core values, a personal set of objectives that matters to them personally. The therapy then encourages the individual to commit to behavior that furthers these values despite
    potentially painful emotional obstacles.Get Out of Your Mind Into Your Life offers a five-step plan for coping with painful emotions such as anxiety and depression. It teaches you how to learn life-enhancing behavior strategies that work to
    further the goals you value most. You'll learn to engage with and overcome painful thoughts and feelings with step-by-step acceptance and mindfulness-based techniques. You'll find out how to let go of control, and develop compassion and flexibility. The realization that painful feelings cannot be controlled will open you to the possibility of fully emotional living. Once present, engaged, and aware, you can begin to build new lives for yourself filled with significance and meaning. This
    book is not about overcoming pain or fighting emotions; it's about
    embracing life and feeling everything it has to offer. In this way, it offers a way out of suffering by choosing to live a life based on what matters most.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 5, 2011
    ISBN9781452675381
    Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

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    • 4/5
      A pretty good balance between presenting the theory and giving exercises so the reader can apply it to him/herself. Not a lot of fluff like some self-help books filled with too many stories of supposed patients and their problems and how they were cured by the person writing the book. Not a bad introduction to mindfulness for the non-Buddhist.

      5 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I think the book was very helpful, and the ACT principles are very useful and relevant.
      This book is great for therapists, enthusiasts as well as those who (still) struggle. Filled with exercises to do while reading (whether we like it or not!) and metaphors that make the book and the entire concept of ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy) more clear, understandable and relatable.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      THIS IS BY NO MEANS WRITTEN BY A MR “SPENCER SMITH”!!! It is the one and only Prof Steven Hayes, a modern genius in the field of psychology.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      if u r considering this book or act in general for one moment: stop, and instead look into popular zen writers like thich nhat hanh or suzuki, or look into zen-inspired japanese psychotherapies like Naikan and Morita

      fuck this
      fuck act
      fuck steven hayes
      fuck relational frame theory
      fuck functional contextualism
      fuck radical behaviorism
      fuck scientific naturalism
      fuck this disgusting appropriation and bastardization of zen buddhist principles
      fuck this shallow-ass therapy which sucks the radical vigor out of traditional buddhist mindfulness
      fuck this smarmy, presumptuous, pretentious, unnuanced book
      fuck the pathetically lazy and simplistic exercises
      fuck the exercises directly appropriated from traditional zen practice
      fuck this anthropocentric neo-structuralist bullshit

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Not by "Spencer Smith" Steven Hayes and BF Skinner wrote together...

      1 person found this helpful