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
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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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.
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.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A 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.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I 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
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5THIS 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.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5if 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 bullshit1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not by "Spencer Smith" Steven Hayes and BF Skinner wrote together...
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