A Liberated Mind How to Pivot Toward What Matters 1st Edition by Steven C Hayes ISBN 073521400X 9780735214002

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ISBN 10: 073521400X

ISBN 13: 9780735214002 

Author: Steven C. Hayes

“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, #1 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 book, 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 book 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.

Table of contents:

Acknowledgments
Author’s Note

Part 1
Chap 1 The Need to Pivot
Chap 2 The Dictator Within
Chap 3 Finding a Way Forward
Chap 4 Why Our Thoughts Are So Automatic and Convincing
Chap 5 The Problem with Problem Solving
Chap 6 Turning Toward the Dinosaur
Chap 7 Committing to a New Course
Chap 8 We All Have the Ability to Pivot

Part 2 Introduction: Starting Your Act Journey
Chap 9 The First Pivot Defusion – Putting the Mind on a Leash
Chap 10 The Second Pivot Self – The Art of Perspective-Taking
Chap 11 The Third Pivot Acceptance – Learning from Pain
Chap 12 The Fourth Pivot Presence – Living in the Now
Chap 13 The Fifth Pivot Values – Caring by Choice
Chap 14 The Sixth Pivot Action – Committing to Change

Part 3 Introduction: Using Your Act Toolkit to Evolve Your Life
Chap 15 Adopting Healthy Behaviors
Chap 16 Dieting and Exercise
Chap 17 Coping with Stress
Chap 18 Sleep
Chap 19 Mental Health
Chap 20 Depression
Chap 21 Anxiety
Chap 22 Substance Abuse
Chap 23 Eating Disorders
Chap 24 Psychosis
Chap 25 Nurturing Relationships
Chap 26 Helping Others Nurture Flexibility
Chap 27 Parenting
Chap 28 Relationships with Romantic Partners
Chap 29 Combating Abuse
Chap 30 Overcoming Prejudice
Chap 31 Bringing Flexibility to Performance
Chap 32 Tackling Procrastination
Chap 33 Learning and Creativity
Chap 34 Dealing with Constraints at Work
Chap 35 Sports Performance
Chap 36 Cultivating Spiritual Well-Being
Chap 37 Practicing Perspective-Taking
Chap 38 Cultivating Forgiveness
Chap 39 ACT and Religion
Chap 40 Coping with Illness and Disability
Chap 41 Chronic Pain
Chap 42 Diabetes
Chap 43 Cancer
Chap 44 Tinnitus
Chap 45 Terminal Illness
Chap 46 Social Transformation

Epilogue
Notes
Index

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