Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life

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1. taopaiApr 2024
   Rumination is also great.

   Just focus on the problem. Let imagination flow, but just focus on the problem, on the obstacle. Don't get lost on solutions, just inundate your mind with the problem, on the bad aspects, don't try to make you feel good with wishful solutions.

   Then let it rest. Or keep ruminating. It's 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 make a choice. A choice is arbitrary, there a lot of crossroads in life which don't have a objective solution.

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2. wussboyDec 2022
   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".
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3. nowandlaterOct 2022
   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 (or and some friends), some good feeling pain, and nature.

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4. insicknessMay 2022
   The best solution to getting past the anxiety/fear-avoidance cycle is to take small, manageable actions while accepting the feelings that go along with those actions.

   Start with the smallest steps possible. Maybe that means opening the assignment and saving it to your computer. Then put it down and walk away. Come back in a little while and take another small step, such as reading over the assignment or making an outline of what you need to do to get it done. Often once you've done something you will often start to feel a lot different than if you've done nothing.

   Keep track of how you're feeling. It's okay to feel more anxiety at first because you're doing something instead of nothing. Those feelings tend to subside over time as you take action, but the point is not to reduce your anxiety, the point is that you are making a commitment to do something in your life, to live your life, rather than 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."

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5. geocrasherMar 2022
   First and foremost: The Bible. Not the watered down "everybody goes to heaven" theology that most people subscribe to, but rather an evidence based approach that uses the Bible to interpret itself as it was 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- for dealing with my own feelings instead of ignoring ("Burying") them and letting them slowly destroy me from the inside out.

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6. wussboyDec 2021
   Check out “Get Out of your Mind and Into Your Life”. Helped me immeasurably.
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