Authors: Steven C. Hayes, Spencer Smith
Package: 1 Paperback 
Product Code: 4259
ISBN: 1-57224-425-9
Pages: 224
Size: Height: 11, Width: 8.5
Price: $19.95 
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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 helping individuals identify a set of core values, a personal set of objectives that matter to them. The therapy then encourages the individual to commit to behavior that furthers these values despite potentially painful emotional obstacles.

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life offers a five-step plan for coping with painful issues such as anxiety and depression. It teaches readers how to learn life-enhancing behavior strategies that work to further personal goals. They will learn to engage with and overcome painful thoughts and feelings with step-by-step acceptance and mindfulness-based techniques, find out how to relinquish control, and develop compassion and flexibility. The realization that painful feelings cannot be controlled is an opening to the possibility of full emotional living. Once present, engaged, and aware, one can begin to build a new life 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.

ACT is not about fighting pain; it’s about developing a willingness to embrace every experience life has to offer. It’s not about resisting emotions; it’s about feeling them completely and yet not turning one's choices over to them. ACT offers a path out of suffering by helping one choose to live a life based on what matters to one most. If struggling with anxiety, depression, or problem anger, this book can help—clinical trials suggest that ACT is very effective for a whole range of psychological problems. But this is more than a self-help book for a specific complaint—it is a revolutionary approach to living a richer and more rewarding life.

  • Learn why the very nature of human language can cause suffering
  • Escape the trap of avoidance
  • Foster willingness to accept painful experience
  • Practice mindfulness skills to achieve presence in the moment
  • Discover the things that really matter most
Commit to living a vital, meaningful life,