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The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living | 
 enlarge | Author: Russ Harris
Creator: Steven Hayes
Publisher: Trumpeter
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 7835
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1590305841
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9781590305843
ASIN: 1590305841
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
Are you, like milllions of Americans, caught in the happines 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.
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The best self-help book I've ever read June 30, 2008
My jargon/headache-free gateway to the delights of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) was The Happiness Trap by Dr Russ Harris. Before reading The Happiness Trap, I knew of ACT as some framework to do with values and mindfulness but the language was all a bit foreign to me and I wasn't enticed to delve into it. I read The Happiness Trap in one sitting, disobeying all the suggestions to not rush, because I couldn't put it down. There are these irresistible little carrots dangling at the end of each chapter, snippets about what's coming next, making it compulsively readable. By the time I got to the end I had thoroughly defaced it, underlining all the good bits, all the bits that resonated with me and articulated the suspicions I had about traditional Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and an agenda of control. Reading it I laughed, I cried, I changed. I felt awakened and freed. And I was hungry to know more. It would be no exaggeration to say I could divide my life professionally and personally into Before The Happiness Trap and After The Happiness Trap. Moreover it prepared me for and eased me into the more technical writing about ACT and Relational Frame Theory (RFT) on which ACT is based. An extra special thing about The Happiness Trap is the use of a conversational and interactive writing style. It was as though I was engaging with a therapist through the pages of the book, a therapist who walked me with kindness and gentleness and empathy through the processes and techniques and having some fun along the way. The Happiness Trap is the recommended reading for clients at my psychology practice as I am confident that anyone who is literate can absorb its contents, `get' ACT first time around and be empowered to create their own ACT toolkit for living well.
Incredibly helpful for life...and an easy read June 28, 2008
Russ Harris distills complex concepts into easy language to help one thrive more in life. I found this book incredibly helpful for my life and very readable. I read it in one sitting. I have spent many years reading different books on psychology, philosophy and spirituality and this is one of the best. The more I truely live what he has written in this book, the happier and more engaged in life I am.
Simple steps to a more fulfilling life June 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a practitioner utilising the ACT model with her clients I have found this book to be exceptionally helpful, not only with addressing my own personal behaviours but also with strategies to employ with clients. Like others, I have several ACT texts but this is the one that I draw upon the most because of it's simplicity of explanations for the lay person. This is a book that anyone with general literacy levels can pick up and run with, and provided they follow the simple steps outlined in the book, can make changes quickly and effectively toward a more rich, fulfilling, and meaningful life. I recommend this book to all therapists and to anyone looking to step out of the "struggle" and into their lives.
A great resource for therapists June 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Happiness Trap is written in the `self help' style so anyone can pick it up, but with three texts on ACT under my belt, this is the one I refer to most when working with clients. I've read it twice and find it invaluable.
 The Therapy of Buddhism June 9, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The book is a fun, breeze description of a "new" self-help therapy technique called ACT.
In this version it is presented mostly as a therapy techinque for healthy people to live happier life's. What is really cool is that the technique is really Insight Meditation. Without using any Buddhist language the author describes how to experience our life in a state of awareness and acceptance; to be with our thoughts, feelings and emotions without judgment or struggle. For those of you who would like to explore the therapy benefits that Buddhism has to offer this would be a great book to read.
The author draws from concepts of modern psychology, neuron-psychology and evolutionary psychology all to basically underpin what the Buddha talked about 2,500 years ago.
If you enjoy Buddhist thought this book will help bring home the "therapeutic" benefits of Buddhism. If you could care less about Buddhism this book will still provide plenty practical advise to live with more awareness and ease. Either way you stand to gain something.
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