Get Out of Your Mind and into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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Every claim is backed by at least one academic paper, and there's a whole appendix dedicated to publication nerds like me.

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ACT is a relatively new theory and is in need of continued work, a process that thankfully is ongoing and shows a great deal of promise. The central shift is from a focus on what you think and feel to how do you relate to what you think and feel. For the readers who wish to delve more deeply into Haye’s theoretical approach, I would suggest looking up ‘Relational Frame Theory’. I especially like the use of poignant quotes at the start of each chapter that serve to set the tone and underlie the wisdom of each chapter.Listen for excessive comparison and evaluation in the client’s speech, as contrasted with description.

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It does not last very long—only milliseconds—but notice the turn from in to nothing, and then from nothing to out. The writing style was a bit pedantic at times, particularly with arguments from definition by looking at the etymology of words. What if pain were a normal, unavoidable part of the human condition, but avoiding or trying to control painful experience were the cause of suffering and long-term problems that can devastate your quality of life? It comes from a root word meaning ‘by chance’ or ‘an occurrence’, which in a positive sense connotes a sense of newness, wonder, and appreciation of chance occurrences.Then notice the temperature of breath: It is almost always a bit cooler on the way in than on the way out. This is a slow, slow read, with too many exercies that do not lead you very far into understaning the authors aims. The six flexibility skills form such a powerful set because each allows us to meet one of the six essential criteria for evolution to occur. Based in proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book will arm you with powerful skills to help you use the power of mindfulness in everyday situations, stop finding faults in yourself and start solving your problems, how to be kinder to yourself so you feel confident and have a greater sense of self-worth, and how to identify the values that will help you create the life of your dreams. Problem is, these verbal skills that create misery are too useful to human functioning to ever stop operating.

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Throughout the chapters every now and then they have to keep telling you, "you are suffering you are suffering you are suffering". We began crafting ways to apply defusion and self skills to coping with the fear and pain of acceptance.

I love ACT, so it pains me to rate this less than 4 or 5 stars, but I would really hesitate to recommend it to any consumer with less than a master’s degree. The clinician can probe the strength of such patterns of fusion by asking the client to simply describe the troublesome situation and what it evokes without injecting evaluations.

Get Out Of Your Mind And Into Your Life by Steven C. Hayes

I learned some new strategies that will be helpful with day to day coping mechanisms, but was put off by a strong whiff of “bootstrapping. What you are doing is practicing broadening and narrowing the flashlight beam of attention; and shifting and staying, as you might move a flashlight from one place to another. Sal de tu mente, entra en tu vida” plantea que existe una alternativa real a la lucha diaria contra el dolor sicológico. It’s time to change my whole agenda, not just the moves I make inside a control and avoidance agenda. Having a conceptualized idea of yourself is a bad idea because it will be harder for you to accept experiences that do not align with your conceptualization.If you could only get past feelings of embarrassment, fear, self-criticism, and self-doubt, how would your life be different? I am very interested in the ideas around ACT therapy and find them very helpful for living a full and rich life. Beginning from the first chapter where they are dealing with the reader as an awkward mental-illed person.