Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
by Steven C. Hayes with Spencer Smith
The founder of ACT's self-help workbook: why trying to control thoughts and feelings backfires, defusion from thoughts, acceptance, self as context, values clarification and committed action. It is denser than Harris's Happiness Trap, with more exercises and more theory, and it is the source.
Read it if…
you want the full ACT program from its originator and will do the exercises.
Skip it if…
you want an easier introduction; see The Happiness Trap.
Three things you will actually use
- Control is the problem, not the solution.
- Thoughts are not commands; defuse.
- Values give direction; pain comes along.
Do this first
Write a difficult thought on a card and carry it in your pocket for a day, without arguing with it.
Our verdict
The source; dense and rich.
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