A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters By Steven C. Hayes

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"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*ckLife 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.

At this time of writing, The Ebook A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters has garnered 10 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Ebook is Good TO READ!

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I'm a fan of this new book & can recommend it highly to anyone looking for techniques for moving toward a life of meaning rather than a life of feeling pushed around.However, I have the advantage of already being familiar with the approach that underlies the book - a type of self-help and talk therapy I've practiced for many years.If you are NOT familiar with this approach, but would like to learn a little more before committing your time and $$, this review is for you! It's long, but that way you'll get the full picture.The author, Steven Hayes, is a talk therapist & academic psychologist. He's best known as the founder of a talk therapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT. He and a small band of researchers began developing ACT decades ago. Early on it was little-known, but that changed in 2006, when TIME magazine ran an article on Hayes & ACT with the title of "Happiness Isn't Normal". That title wasn't strictly accurate - but it did capture a crucial quality of ACT that makes it unique.Up until quite recently, nearly all modern talk therapies were built around an assumption borrowed from medicine: Namely, that illness of any sort represents a breakdown of our default state of perfect health. Another way to say this is that talk therapies such as CBT traditionally treated anxiety, depression, marital problems, substance abuse, etc., as if they were the psychological equivalents of a broken leg.All well & good - except that CBT researchers began to discover that some methods that relied on the model didn't work very well - e.g. the idea that clients should dispute "irrational thoughts" and replace them with "rational thoughts," the way a mechanic might switch out a bad fuel injector in your car. Doubts crept in about the "mental health is normal, mental illness is abnormal" method. One response was the "positive psychology" movement - and another response was ACT.ACT flipped the old assumptions. Similar to Buddhism (but based on science, not religion) the ACT model contended that the typical "normal" for the human mind isn't health, but suffering. What causes the suffering? Where Buddhism talks vaguely of "conditioning", ACT offers a precise model of how our powerful ability to use abstract thought to change the outer world can get us in trouble when it comes to our inner world - the world of our thoughts & emotions. The model further explained why CBT ideas such as "thought fixing" were failing, & what might work better instead.Suffice to say that where in 2006, many in the field were skeptical of ACT, today psychology has swung around to the extent that many ACT concepts have been widely adopted by those doing new research within CBT. Terms include "acceptance", "self-compassion", "values", "mindfulness", "psychological flexibility", etc. It's a different ballgame thanks to ACT & other "third-wave" therapies, e.g. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.Back to this book. Put simply, "A Liberated Mind" is Hayes's attempt to take ACT techniques and popularize them for everyone - whether or not you have a diagnosed mental illness. You might be a parent juggling kids & work; or someone stressed by social media & doomful headlines; or struggling to cope with an illness; or wanting to make a move or change in your life but scared about how to start. This book is for all of that, and more.That 2006 TIME article I mentioned? One direct effect of the article was to boost sales for Hayes's then brand-new self-help book, "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life." The book became a best-seller and remains so even today. You can think of "A Liberated Mind" as being like "Get Out of Your Mind" - only for ALL readers.Two other neat things about this book:- Hayes walks us through both his professional and personal lives. The professional tour helps us understand how psychology evolved as a field and how it has intersected with the popular culture that surrounds us. And the personal tour gives us an inspiring inside look at how Hayes first hit upon the core moves of ACT in his struggle to cope with panic attacks as a young man. The author's willingness to share is what gives much of this book its power.- The bulk of the book is a manual of how to learn the core skills taught by ACT. The tips in these chapters are clearer than anything I've seen in an ACT self-help book. Plus there are plenty of anecdotes showing how real-life people have used the skills to move forward in their life.That's what ACT hopes to give to us. The model speaks compassionately of pain as inherent to the human experience - yet at the same time speaks to the potential we have for lives of purpose, meaning, joy, connection. In a word, liberation.

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