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Informationen zum Autor Steven C. Hayes, PhD , is Nevada Foundation Professor in the department of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has been president of numerous professional organizations, and is author of nearly fifty books and more than 700 articles and book chapters. Hayes is originator and codeveloper of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a powerful therapy method that is useful in a wide variety of areas. Klappentext Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life offers five-step plan for coping with painful emotions such as anxiety and depression. It teaches readers how to learn life-enhancing behavior strategies that work to further the goals you value most. Readers learn to engage with and overcome painful thoughts and feelings with step-by-step acceptance and mindfulness-based techniques. You find out how to let go of control, and develop compassion and flexibility. The realization that painful feelings cannot be controlled will open the reader to the possibility of fully emotional living. Once present, engaged, and aware, readers can begin to build new lives for themselves filled with significance and meaning. This book is not about overcoming pain or fighting emotions; it's about embracing life and feeling everything it has to offer. In this way, it offers a way out of suffering by choosing to life a life based on what matters most. Zusammenfassung Features step-by step mindfulness and acceptance exercises for effective relief from emotional pain. This book develops acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a revolutionary direction in psychotherapy, into step-by-step exercises that readers can use to get relief from emotional pain.
