Get out of your mind & into your life The new acceptance & commitment therapy
Book - 2005
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- Published
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Oakland, Calif. :
New Harbinger Publications
c2005.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- x, 206 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).
- ISBN
- 9781572244252
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ACT: What It Is and How It Can Help You
- Suffering: Psychological Quicksand
- The Ubiquity of Human Suffering
- Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Values
- Commitment and Values-Based Living
- Chapter 1. Human Suffering
- Human Suffering Is Universal
- Exercise: Your Suffering Inventory
- The Problem with Pain
- Exercise: The Pain is Gone, Now What?
- The Problem with Pain: Revisited
- Living a Valued Life: An Alternative
- Chapter 2. Why Language Leads to Suffering
- The Nature of Human Language
- Exercise: Relate Anything to Anything Else
- Exercise: A Screw, a Toothbrush, and a Lighter
- Why Language Creates Suffering
- Exercise: A Yellow Jeep
- Exercise: Don't Think About Your Thought
- What You've Been Doing
- Exercise: The Coping Strategies Worksheet
- The Problem with Getting Rid of Things-Squared
- Experiential Avoidance
- The Mind-Train
- Chapter 3. The Pull of Avoidance
- Why We Do What Can't Work
- Accepting the Possibility That Experiential Avoidance Can't Work
- So, What Are You Supposed to Do?
- Exercise: The Blame Game
- Exercise: Judging Your Own Experience: Examining What Works
- Moving On
- Exercise: What Are You Feeling and Thinking Now?
- Chapter 4. Letting Go
- If You're Not Willing to Have It, You Will
- Acceptance and Willingness
- Exercise: Why Willingness?
- Willingness and Distress
- Exercise: Being Willingly Out of Breath
- The "Willingness to Change" Question
- Chapter 5. The Trouble with Thoughts
- Thought Production
- Exercise: What Are You Thinking Right Now?
- Why Thinking Has Such an Impact
- Exercise: Your Daily Pain Diary
- Looking at Your Thoughts Rather Than from Your Thoughts
- The Mind-Train
- Exercise: Watching the Mind-Train
- Chapter 6. Having a Thought Versus Buying a Thought
- Cognitive Defusion: Separating Your Thoughts from Their Referents
- Exercise: Say the Word "Milk" as Fast as You Can
- Exercise: Labeling Your Thoughts
- Exercise: Floating Leaves on a Moving Stream
- Exercise: Describing Thoughts and Feelings
- Exercise: Exploring the Difference Between Descriptions and Evaluations
- Creating Your Own Cognitive Defusion Techniques
- Chapter 7. If I'm Not My Thoughts, Then Who Am I?
- Considering Your Self-Conceptualizations
- The Three Senses of Self
- Exercise: Retelling Your Own Story
- Being the Observing Self
- Exercise: Experientially, I'm Not That
- Getting Started
- Exercise: Tracking Your Thoughts in Time
- Taking the Next Step
- Chapter 8. Mindfulness
- Daily Practice
- The Practice
- Exercise: Be Where You Are
- Exercise: Silent Walking
- Exercise: Cubbyholing
- Exercise: Eating Raisins
- Exercise: Drinking Tea
- Exercise: Eating Mindfully
- Exercise: Listening to Classical Music
- Exercise: Be Mindful of Your Feet While You Read This
- Exercise: Just Sitting
- Mindfulness in Context
- Chapter 9. What Willingness Is and Is Not
- What Needs to Be Accepted?
- Exercise: What Needs to Be Accepted
- The Goal of Willingness
- Chapter 10. Willingness: Learning How to Jump
- The Willingness Scale
- Taking a Jump
- Exercise: Willingness Scale Worksheet
- Using Your Skills and Learning Some New Ones
- Exercise: Physicalizing
- Exercise: Giving Your Target a Form
- Exercise: The Tin-Can Monster
- Exercise: Acceptance in Real-Time
- Chapter 11. What Are Values?
- Values as Chosen Life Directions
- What Values Are and Are Not
- Chapter 12. Choosing Your Values
- The Masters You Serve
- Exercise: Attending Your Own Funeral
- Taking It a Step Further: Ten Valued Domains
- Ranking and Testing Your Values
- Committed Action
- Chapter 13. Committing to Doing It
- Taking Bold Steps
- Exercise: Goals Worksheet
- Exercise: Making Goals Happen Through Action
- Exercise: Expected Barriers
- Many Maps for Different Journeys
- Building Patterns of Effective Action
- Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- Conclusion: The Choice to Live a Vital Life
- Appendix. The Values and Data Underlying ACT
- References