Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
by Steven C. Hayes · first published 2005
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Introduces Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in a practical, workbook-style format. It helps readers understand depression and anxiety and shift focus toward living by personal values.
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…designed to do. Secondarily, this book saved my life in the sense that it helped me understand my depression, a clinical depression so deep that my psychologist had never seen such a thing previously: Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Stephen C. Hayes https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0054M063A/ Its scientific approach to understanding our own thought patterns gave me control- coping mechanisms-…
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life?” ↗…CBT information and exercises. I would also recommend "Managing Your Mind" (Butler and Hope). Another approach called "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" has showed some promise in research. The book "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life" (Hayes) was written by the person who developed ACT. Another good workbook on the subject is "The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety" (Forsyth and Eifert).
on “Anxiety, Depression, Technology, and Me” ↗…[http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Unstuck-ACT-Clinicians-Overcom...] Both by Jeffrey E. Young: Schema Therapy - A Practitioner's Guide, and Reinventing Your Life [http://www.amazon.com/Schema-Therapy-A-Practitioners-Guide/d...] Steven C. Hayes, - Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life [http://www.amazon.com/Get-Your-Mind-Into-Life/dp/1572244259] Charlotte Kasl - If the Buddha Got Stuck [http://www.amazon.com/If-Buddha-Got-Stuck-Spiritual/dp/01421...]
on “Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore” ↗…panic, boredom etc. There is a formal therapy that has been developed around this idea called ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). The founder of it, Stephen Hayes, wrote a practical book on it titled "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life" which is worth reading. Russ Harris is also a pretty active writer in this area and has several books on the subject. Procrastination-wise Timothy Pychyl's book "Solving the Procrastination Puzzle" is…
on “Ask HN: I don't think I can finish college” ↗Stopping the Noise in Your Head - Reid Wilson Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life - Steven Hayes
on “Ask HN: Any good book for dealing with young adult anxiety?” ↗It seems like it sometimes. Therapy is good. If you can't make it or want to try something self-paced -- I like "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life" by Steven Hayes. The one with the workbook. It's ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). CBT is good as well. If you have a mountain or hill nearby, go bike, walk, hike, run, climb up it. Just you…
on “Ask HN: Are we all burned out?” ↗…amazing how fast, and how frequent, you get some kind of epiphany or eureka moment. Then do numbers or study your answers with a rational mindset. Values are also and awesome and usually unknown compass. "Get out of your mind and into your life" from Steven Hayes has a great definition of what values are. It's a great book, I know about it from hackernews. This book also tells a interesting idea. Some times you don't have to decide, you have…
…to remain paralyzed in fear. Your goal is not to get rid of the anxiety but to live the kind of life you want to live. This is the model for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. A great book on this is "Get Out of Your Mind and into Your Life."
on “Ask HN: How to break anxiety/fear-avoidance cycle?” ↗…consider looking at something called "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" which provides strategies for accepting which is aimed at overcoming "experiential avoidance". There is a good self help workbook "Get out of your mind and into your life". 4) Internet blocker: I was unhappy with with Leechblock as its approach was a bit authoritarian. I wrote a firefox extention that made me type in "this browsing is for the purpose of completing my…
on “Ask Entrepreneurs: Productivity tips for a chronic procrastinator?” ↗I had a significant tic, and found profound relief through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). I strongly recommend "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life".
on “Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness” ↗Check out “Get Out of your Mind and Into Your Life”. Helped me immeasurably.
on “Ask HN: How can I stop worrying and start living?” ↗_Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life_ was the first book on the subject, written by Steve Hayes who started ACT. Since then many more books have been written. Another popular one is _The Happiness Trap_[0] by Russ Harris. GOOYMAIYL is a…
on “How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal)” ↗…Hayes, who's written a book: We get a lot of training in how to develop and use our minds, but we get very little training in how to step out of the mental chatter when that is needed.... Learning how to get out of your mind and into your life when you need to do that is an essential skill in the modern world.[1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Get-Your-Mind-Into-Life-ebook/dp/B005...
on “What I Learned from a Stroke at 26: Make Time to Untangle” ↗