Title: A Liberated Mind Pdf How to Pivot Toward What Matters
"In all my years studying personal growth, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is one of the most useful tools I've ever come across, and in this book, Dr. Hayes describes it with more depth and clarity than ever before." (Mark Manson, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck)
Life is not a problem to be solved. ACT shows how we can live full and meaningful lives by embracing our vulnerability and turning toward what hurts.
In this landmark audiobook, the originator and pioneering researcher into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) lays out the psychological flexibility skills that make it one of the most powerful approaches research has yet to offer. These skills have been shown to help even where other approaches have failed. Science shows that they are useful in virtually every area - mental health (anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, PTSD); physical health (chronic pain, dealing with diabetes, facing cancer); social processes (relationship issues, prejudice, stigma, domestic violence); and performance (sports, business, diet, exercise).
How does psychological flexibility help? We struggle because the problem-solving mind tells us to run from what causes us fear and hurt. But we hurt where we care. If we run from a sense of vulnerability, we must also run from what we care about. By learning how to liberate ourselves, we can live with meaning and purpose, along with our pain when there is pain.
Although that is a simple idea, it resists our instincts and programming. The flexibility skills counter those ingrained tendencies. They include noticing our thoughts with curiosity, opening to our emotions, attending to what is in the present, learning the art of perspective taking, discovering our deepest values, and building habits based around what we deeply want.
Beginning with the epiphany Steven Hayes had during a panic attack, this audiobook is a powerful narrative of scientific discovery filled with moving stories as well as advice for how we can put flexibility skills to work immediately. Hayes shows how allowing ourselves to feel fully and think freely moves us toward commitment to what truly matters to us. Finally, we can live lives that reflect the qualities we choose.
A life-enhancing book by one of the great Psychologist's of the 21st century My wife and I ordered "A Liberated Mind" (ALM) after I shared with her my experience of being in an Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Immersion online course with Dr. Hayes. In ALM, Dr. Hayes provides access and tools towards creating a life that has meaning, values, and that one wishes to live. He does not pathologize living, nor does he try to sell a "new and improved" school of thought complete with coaching, journals, and a shopping cart to market himself. A deep thinker, Dr. Hayes discusses issues that are of particular relevance in the fractured society that we are living in - such as spirituality, loneliness, yearning, and belonging to name a few. In ALM, you have the opportunity to learn how to listen to both your own and other people's hearts and to experience other people with acceptance as a practice rather than as a concept. Learning ACT does not necessarily replace previously learned theories and spiritual beliefs, rather it is a tool that can be used in isolation as well as to amplify other meaningful work that can be done with clients and oneself. Spirituality is presented as another avenue that a person has to have a life with meaning and purpose.Dr. Hayes discusses just how hard it is for a person to live with a never ending stream of thoughts - many of which are unkind, dishonest, and destructive. Dr. Hayes also presents strong evidence for why what people try to do to rid oneself of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and beliefs ultimately does not work and often creates new problems (addictions, disconnection, and falling into potentially harmful patterns of behavior). The concepts of pivoting towards what matters is explained and the reader is given a map and exercises to gain experiences for how to have a more meaningful and a flexible life. I work with children and teenagers and my colleagues and I have found Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) a very useful tool in assisting children with a wide range of challenges. Many children, such as those with Autism, struggle with having flexible thinking. This book provides strategies, exercises, and examples of how to become less rigid and how to help children and teenagers become less rigid in their thinking.Steve Hayes guides without cajoling, teaches without lecturing, and leads without bullying. Dr. Steven Hayes has written and co-authored several other books with ALM being his most accessible title for both therapists and non-therapists. This book will appeal to many people who enjoyed the topics in Dr. Jordan Peterson's book, but without the politics and controversy. This book will also be of use for therapist who wish for their client's to have a resource between, after, and perhaps even before therapy. Dr. Hayes has combined mindfulness, habit formation, and cognitive therapy in a beautiful book. Highly Recommended.Great book, immensely insightful, excellent therapy. Path to liberationBuddhism without BuddhaIs still Zen.Masterpiece work from a great mind in psychology I am blown away by this book. Dr. Steven Hayes is well-known in psychology for being the founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. In this book, he weaves together a tale of psychological science with his personal story, along with exercises and important ideas to use in your everyday life to make it better and more meaningful.Hayes applies his approach to everything from depression and anxiety, to healthy behaviors, improving work and sports performance, and making positive changes in the world. It's written in an accessible way, and I think everyone who reads it (including mental health professionals, people wanting some self-help from a true expert, and people who are just interested in psychology) will find something useful in this book. I highly recommend it!
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