New ACT self-help workbook

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Paperback)
by John P. Forsyth (Author), Georg H. Eifert (Author)
 
I'm on page 16 and so far so good. My life seems to be in turmoil again, but reading ACT books always helps me. This is the workbook we should all be doing right now.

Amazon.com said:
Product Description
Anxiety happens. It's not a choice. And attempts to "manage" your thoughts or "get rid" of worry, fear, and panic can leave you feeling frustrated and powerless. But you can take back your life from anxiety without controlling anxious thoughts and feelings. You can stop avoiding anxiety and start showing up to your life. This book will get you started, using a revolutionary new approach called acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT.

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety has one purpose: to help you live better, more fully, more richly. Your life is calling on you to make that choice, and the skills in this workbook can help you make it happen. Find out how your mind can trap you, keeping you stuck and struggling in anxiety and fear. Learn to nurture your capacity for acceptance, mindfulness, kindness, and compassion. Use these qualities to shift your focus away from anxiety and onto what you really want your life to be about. As you do, your life will get bigger as your anxious suffering gets smaller. No matter what kind of anxiety problem you're struggling with, this workbook can guide you toward a more vibrant and purposeful life.

"...Highly recommended for all those struggling with worry, anxiety, and fear." - David H. Barlow, Ph.D., professor of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University and author of Anxiety and Its Disorders.

"...a "must-read" for anyone encountering anxiety as a barrier to a leading a fuller life." - Zindel Segal, Ph.D., Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherpy at the University of Toronto and author of The Mindful Way Through Depression.

This workbook comes with a CD that includes a full-length audio guided meditation and electronic copies of the worksheets that appear inside the book.
 

aldebe

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Thank you, i have ordered but haven't received yet

I don't have high hopes on this, but anyway, i have ordered
 
I'm starting to become interested in this mindfulness thing. What's this I read about becoming aware of your arms and legs? How does that work exactly? Does that help with not being too self-conscious like for instance when you have to sign your name while someone is watching and your hand shakes because people are watching?
 
CorbinDallas said:
What's this I read about becoming aware of your arms and legs?

It's not being aware of your arms and legs, it's being able to control them, as opposed to controlling your thoughts. ACT says we can't really control our thoughts, feelings, memories, etc. So instead we're supposed to focus on controlling our arms and legs. In other words, it's not what we think or feel that matters, it's what we do.

Mindfulness to me is focusing on what's going on around you instead of focusing on what's going on within you. It's also being non-judgmental to yourself and others.
 
Thanks for the explanation Sabbath. I'm going to get this book because being too self-conscious around other people is a big part of my SAD and this sounds like it really addresses that.
 
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