Re: The Happiness Trap Audiobook
Kirby Apodaca
In this landmark audiobook, 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, physical health, social processes, and performance.
Three words that can change your life. When you know that you are enough everyone around you will know that you are enough too. Your life will be so different and so much better when you can resonate your enoughness at a level that positively impacts your career, your relationships, and your happiness levels. This audiobook is designed to help you massively increase your own sense of self-worth so that you like yourself, feel good about yourself, and believe in yourself. Whilst becoming permanently free from self-sabotage and self-destructive thoughts and behaviors.
Having so many expectations is distorting your perspective, decreasing your happiness and disrupting your joy. You can live a life of true freedom, greater peace and less stress: Release as many expectations as possible. This, DeVon Franklin argues, is the secret to a better life now. In a culture obsessed with more, Live Free is a bold counterintuitive book that can start a cultural revolution.
Are you, like milllions of Americans, caught in the happiness trap? Russ Harris explains that the way most of us go about trying to find happiness ends up making us miserable, driving the epidemics of stress, anxiety, and depression. This empowering book presents the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) a revolutionary new psychotherapy based on cutting-edge research in behavioral psychology. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. The techniques presented in The Happiness Trap will help readers to:Reduce stress and worryHandle painful feelings and thoughts more effectivelyBreak self-defeating habitsOvercome insecurity and self-doubtCreate a rich, full, and meaningful life To learn more about the author, Russ Harris, go to www.thehappinesstrap.com.
Physician Harris challenges some basic assumptions about the all-American tradition of the pursuit of happiness, drawing heavily on the "acceptance and commitment therapy" (ACT) work of University of Nevada professor Steven Hayes, which argues that happiness is not a normal state of being; pain is inevitable and what matters is how it is dealt with. The ACT prescription is to be "mindful" of negative thoughts and emotions, reconnect with core values, act in accordance with values and with the "psychological flexibility" to adapt to any situation. ACT techniques include diffusion-decreasing the impact of self-defeating thoughts (without making them go away), turning off the "struggle switch," practicing "expansion" to make room for self-observation and connecting with the present moment. While these concepts might sound like typical self-help fare, Harris makes key distinctions: ACT is not a form of meditation or a path to enlightenment-to reap the benefits, action is imperative. More of an ACT primer than anything else, there's enough interesting content here to keep the reader, um, happy. (June)
HOW TO STOP STRUGGLING FOR PERFECT HAPPINESS AND LEAD A RICHER LIFE
Do you ever feel worried, miserable or unfulfilled - yet put on a happy face and pretend everything's fine? You are not alone. Stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem are all around. Research suggests that many of us get caught in a psychological trap, a vicious circle in which the more we strive for happiness, the more it eludes us.
Fortunately, there is a way to escape from the 'Happiness Trap' in this updated and expanded second edition which unlocks the secrets to a truly fulfilling life. This empowering book presents the insights and techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), covering more topics and providing more practical tools than ever before. Learn how to clarify your values, develop self-compassion and find true satisfaction with this bigger and better guide to:
Reducing stress and worry
Handling painful thoughts and feelings more effectively
Breaking self-defeating habits
Overcoming insecurity and self-doubt
Building better relationships
Improving performance and finding fulfilment at work
The Happiness Trap is for everyone. Whether you're lacking confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, or suffering from anxiety or depression, this book will show you how to build authentic happiness, from the inside out.
DR RUSS HARRIS is world-renowned trainer in ACT, a therapist and a coach, with a background in medicine as a general practitioner. He has run hundreds of workshops providing training for tens of thousands of health professionals and he is the author of several bestselling ACT-based textbooks and self-help books. The Happiness Trap is an international bestseller, with over a million copies sold worldwide and editions published in over thirty languages.
Do you ever feel stressed, worried, miserable or unfulfilled yet put on a happy face and pretend everything's fine? If so, you are not alone. Stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem are very common. In one way or another, it seems almost everyone is struggling.
We are all caught in a hidden psychological trap: the more we strive for happiness the more we suffer in the long term. Fortunately, we can all escape from the 'Happiness Trap' using ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a groundbreaking program based on mindfulness skills.
This empowering book is for everyone-from CEOs to sales staff, young professionals to housewives. Whether you're lacking in confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job or preparing for the performance of your life, this book will teach you scientifically proven techniques to:
reduce stress and worry
rise above fear, doubt and insecurity
handle painful thoughts and feelings effectively
break self-defeating habits
improve performance and find fulfilment
build satisfying relationships and, above all
create a rich and meaningful life
'Dr Harris shines a powerful beacon forward into the night. Enjoy the journey. You are in excellent hands' Steven Hayes, bestselling author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
Do you feel the bizarre, seeping and contradictory pressure, in our mental health-obsessed culture, to fit a simple model of happy or sad? I know that, despite my best defences, I do. Sometimes I see the Happy Writers online: the ones constantly going from signing to signing and award ceremony to award ceremony, grinning from ear to ear, yet somehow also finding the time and inspiration to write all those books containing all those unique and varied human emotions. Have you, too, seen the Happy Writers? Have you been duped into believing they exist outside of your phone? I\u2019m sure we all have, at times. Maybe I\u2019ve even been something a bit like one on occasions. \u201CIt\u2019s so great that you\u2019re in such a good place and so happy,\u201D a stranger once commented underneath a photo of me on a walk on another moor, in which I happened to be smiling, at the end of what had been probably the most comprehensively shite week I\u2019d had that year. When I was thinking about writing this piece I mentally pre-penned some replies on Instagram - the only social media I still use, partly because I got tired of mentally pre-penning replies to things I post on social media - from people who view pieces of first person writing as simple reports on whether the author is currently fitting the happy or sad model, whether they are in \u201Ca good place\u201D or \u201Ca bad place\u201D at that time, rather than, say, pieces of prose that attempt to use personal experience as a filter to discuss potentially relatable topics. It\u2019s as if, in these godless times, in our roles as unpaid minions for big tech, in the two dimensional gaze we have created for ourselves, we have also managed to found a new religion: the desperate need to find or represent, or at least to gaze at and fetishise, an oversimplified boxed form of happiness that those of us with any intelligence and life experience know doesn\u2019t exist. Maybe I\u2019m wrong. Maybe I\u2019m incorrect in my assumption that most people are like me in the sense that they will always be a fluctuating, complex mixture of countless tiny fragments of happy and sad, for their whole life. Maybe it\u2019s out there. Maybe the self-doubt evaporates completely when you find it. If so, I\u2019m not sure I want it, especially as a writer. Because, when I get it, what comes next?
There\u2019s an excellent piece by Anthony Lane in the latest issue of the New Yorker about the new kind of self-help book that instructs people to treat their own happiness as a business of which they are CEO, and their \u201Cwalks, prayer time and gym sessions as if they were meetings with the president\u201D (\u201CWhich President?\u201D asks Lane, pertinently.) Towards the conclusion, Lane poses the vital, not often enough asked question of whether cheerfulness is, or ever has been, a measurable quality, particularly by the supposed owner of that cheerfulness. Right now, I feel - to briefly summarise - sad about a snail I accidentally trod on in 2017, happy that one of my cats has learned a crap new meow, sad because moving house yet again has made me feel like a suitcase full of money fell through a hole in my car\u2019s floor while I wasn\u2019t looking, happy because I bought a pretty cushion the other week for less than most pretty cushions of equivalent size generally cost these days, sad because of all the friends I have lost touch with due to being a driven nomadic workaholic with a job that at the present time still doesn\u2019t technically function unless you\u2019re a driven nomadic workaholic, happy because - much as she does every day - my girlfriend just arrived in the room and told me a fascinating fact from Wikipedia then used some creative wordplay that made me laugh, sad because I keep thinking about plastic waste in the sea, happy because there is a bath in the house that is less comically tiny than the bath at our last house. I don\u2019t know what the aggregate of that amounts to and I\u2019m not convinced it would be to my own benefit to find out. I do know that when I walk in the countryside, it - plus the other bigger issues that I am simultaneously happy and sad about - all seems more manageable. I also know that when I do, I am almost guaranteed to see dead animals. I\u2019ve been enjoying getting settled in my new house and that\u2019s prompted me to walk a bit less than I usually do. When I lived in houses I didn\u2019t feel settled in, a byproduct of that feeling was that I was always buzzing off all over the place for walks and the research and experience and brainwork that came out of that was of huge benefit to my writing and mental health. To quote a great and wise song from 1972 by the Detroit band The Politicians: everything good is bad, everything bad is good.
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