Title: THE TRAP OF HAPPINESS '. How to stop fretting and start living.
Authors : Russ Harris (ed. by Italian Giovambattista Presti)
Edizioni Erickson, 2010
Imagine for a moment that almost everything you think about how to achieve happiness is actually inaccurate, misleading or false. And imagine that these are just your beliefs make you feel unhappy. And if in fact they were our own efforts to find happiness, to stop you from getting?
The introduction begins with these words.
not a book to be read easily at night before bed. It 's a book "to live" by experimenting on himself ... and hardly leave you indifferent.
It' s a book of "self-help", but can also be a lot more.
It is based on ' Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a psychotherapeutic approach that recently, with very solid scientific and bibliographic, is proving useful and effective in helping those who suffer the most diverse problems. It 'an approach based on mindfulness, and more. The main purpose of ACT is to help
live a full, meaningful, rich, not fleeing in front of the pain that inevitably meet, but facing it effectively.
In our Western world we are unwitting victims of myths built around the happiness, which hold the trap in our life. How much time in our lives "wasted" struggling against the pain, fear, anger or negative thoughts? How much we lose life avoiding situations that can make us suffer further, that concern us or put us in suspense?
paths through the book are the six processes that are at the base of the ACT, in language understandable to everyone, to make the reader aware of the mental mechanisms that make us prisoners. Living a full life means moving in small steps towards what we believe in our existence of incomparable value, walking towards what for us is precious and important.
What is important to you?
What do you want your life for you?
What kind of person you want to be?
What kind of relationship you want to build?
If you do not themselves struggling with your emotions or avoiding your fears, to do something to channel your time and your energy?
Looking for answers, you will not find in the book. What you will find is a proposal, a road that you travel alone or possibly with the help of a psychologist ACT.
Good reading
(in an upcoming post, go into the presentation of the ACT model)
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