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Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life

The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

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Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life

By: Spencer Smith, Steven C. Hayes
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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life introduces Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a new approach to psychotherapy that reevaluates our most basic assumptions about mental health, and details how ACT can help you to embrace life and everything it has to offer.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2005 Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith (P)2011 Tantor Mental Health Mood Disorders Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health Inspiring Thought-Provoking

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"If you're tired of standard psychological parlance and still frustrated with your quality of life, this book can be a godsend." (Martha Beck, columnist for O Magazine)
"Trying to 'change' negative thoughts through cognitive gymnastics is like trying to win a war single-handedly. Why waste a life trying the impossible? In Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, advocate Dr. Steven Hayes escorts the mildly depressed, angry, and anxiety prone through a new approach to handling suffering - universal human suffering caused by language's illusions. Rather than fighting off bad thoughts and feelings with internal pep talks, Hayes beautifully explains how to embrace those pessimistic and foreboding mental voices (much like welcoming home one's cranky, play-worn children), 'defuse' them with respectful attention, and commit to leading a purposeful life that includes their occasional ranting." (Amazon.com review)
Valuable Psychological Tools • Effective Anxiety Reduction • Pleasant Voice • Practical Mindfulness Techniques
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thanks to hereospack academy was based out of Colorado springs co... they practice this in training ptsd service dog for VETS as well in helping the vets with mindfulness!!! both the ACT therapy n mindfulness n hereospack totally saved my life!!!!!!

life saver!!

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Amazing book a must read for anyone struggling with unhealthy thoughts! Full of very helpful strategies to stop avoiding fearful situations.. This book can help change your life

The Gub-Gub goes Whooooooo!

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It will help you see what is happening with you, and what to do. I am grateful for it.

Get this book

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I didn't find the techniques useful. Maybe I should seek a therapist to understand ACT.

For me the material is difficult to absorb.

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My friend introduced me to this book that introduced ways to reduced stress and handle the stress.

Benefit to my lifestyle

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Helpful introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy. Definetly useful for therapist to explain concepts and ideas.

Useful

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I am a therapist who has been looking for a book on ACT to recommend to clients. Overall I think it has a lot to offer, but the narrator was so robotic and monotone that it took away from the content. I much prefer when these types of books are read by the author.

Good guide to ACT, not the best narrator.

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I have problem with anxiety (generalized and social) and about year ago I started reading and listening books about this topic. This book was second one I picked and turn out to be the best.

I listened it several times and each time I find something new. ACT therapy is not easy so if someone seriously struggle maybe it is better to look for therapist to help work with material and provide guidance. I also tried some book related to CBT but I am somehow not able to apply CBT techniques to my life.

I also read or listen to: Worry Cure, Happiness Trap, Rewire Your Anxious Brain, The Solution to Social Anxiety, Worry Trick, Anxiety and Worry Workbook. Each of them has something valuable but this is one I return to because its advices seem to be most effective for me. I also recommend Solution to Social Anxiety by Aziz Gazipura but many of advices and techniques are also included in this book.

This book can be applied to many psychological problem so I recommend give it a try (if you have some patience). Also check Steven C. Hayes Ted talks - they are great.

Best self-help book for anxiety I have found

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A wonderful audiobook. This book offers a comprehensive guide to positive change, growth, and freedom.

Pioneering and practical

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Excellently written and explained! I highly recommend this material to anyone who needs to live their life and does not want to be stuck in your own mind.

Fantastic

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