Get Out of Your Mind and into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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Determinar una serie de valores a seguir. Son direcciones que nos revitalizan. Luego, tomar acciones, pequeños compromisos firmes con el fin de seguirlos y mantener los valores.

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Language creates suffering in part because it leads to experiential avoidance. Of all the psychological processes known to science, experiential avoidance—avoiding unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or events—is one of the worst. El libro cuenta con muchos ejercicios interesantes en pos de elegir el camino de la aceptación y el compromiso en vez del recorrido del control y la evitación.

The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Does the client experience life as merely imposed or rather as something he or she can author in a meaningful and ongoing way?” None of [these techniques] will work simply by reading about them, any more than reading about physical exercise will build your muscles.” (119) By shifting our focus to processes of change and leveraging the power of everyday nudges, we can create a more personalized, accessible, and effective therapeutic experience. If I do not care, I will not be hurt” is how human minds keep values at arm’s length. Unfortunately, this move hurts even more than caring; it’s not the biting, alive, occasional hurt of caring and sometimes losing, but the dull, deadening, constant hurt of not living your life in a way that is true to yourself. (177) Yes, as is the case with most creative geniuses (i.e. the Joker), I have mental problems. This book seems way ahead of its time. It teaches you to just stop caring about stuff you can't change. Imagine that...being happy even when you're not. If you're confused now, wait until you read the book. I think I need to hire a psychologist to explain it to me.

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Basically, our verbal skills—and, in particular, our ability to relate anything to anything else and think symbolically—make anything an entry point into pain.ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness processes and commitment and behavioral activation processes to produce psychological flexibility. It seeks to bring human language and cognition under better contextual control so as to overcome the repertoire-narrowing effects of an excessive reliance on a problem-solving mode of mind as well as to promote a more open, centered, and engaged approach to living.” Suffer means having a burden we are unwilling to carry, that we move away from carrying: “fer” comes from Latin for ‘carry,’ “suf/sub” comes from Latin for ‘from below to up and away’ (12) First of all, the language! Beginning from the first chapter where they are dealing with the reader as an awkward mental-illed person.. phrases like "We know you're suffering and thats why you're hear" .. "We are going to teach you.. bla bla bla... " a very degrading language! If we want to thrive, we have to account for the interests of other people and of our community. But how can we maintain a balance?