Russ Harris. (2008). The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT. Shambhala.

Russ Harris. 2008. The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT. Shambhala.

Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT. Shambhala, 2008.

Russ Harris. The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT. Shambhala, 2008.

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   • bioText: Dr. Russ Harris is a physician, therapist, and speaker specializing in stress management. He travels nationally and internationally to train individuals and health professionals in the techniques of ACT. Born and educated in England, he now lives in Australia. For more information, visit actmindfully.com.au.
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Build a more satisfying and meaningful life with this best-selling guide to freeing yourself from depression, anxiety, and insecurity through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Are you, like millions 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 worry
• Handle painful feelings and thoughts more effectively
• Break self-defeating habits
• Overcome insecurity and self-doubt
• Create a rich, full, and meaningful life
“ . . . a powerful beacon showing us another way forward.” —Steven Hayes, PhD, author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life

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   • source: Steven Hayes, PhD, author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
   • content: "Carefully and creatively presents techniques that anyone can use to undermine struggle, avoidance, and loss of the moment. Harris systematically explores how we get into the 'happiness trap' and then shines a powerful beacon showing us another way forward."
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   • source: Zindel Segal, PhD, author of The Mindful Way through Depression
   • content: "Eminently practical and readable. This book reveals that when calibrating one's life according to acceptance and valued action, happiness is a pleasant sideshow in the larger carnival of an engaged and purposeful existence."
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   • source: David Richo, PhD, author of The Five Things We Cannot Change
   • content: "An exciting alternative to the usual approach of so many self-help books. Harris explains how we can work with ourselves as we are, rather than aggressively trying to alter ourselves. I'm impressed by the simple and effective methods of ACT."
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     April 7, 2008
     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.

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Are you, like millions 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.
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• Reduce stress and worry
• Handle painful feelings and thoughts more...

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Foreword ix

Introduction
I Just Want to Be Happy! 1

PART ONE
How You Set the Happiness Trap
1. Fairy Tales 9
2. Vicious Cycles 19

PART TWO
Transforming Your Inner World
3. The Six Core Principles of ACT 33
4. The Great Storyteller 36
5. True Blues 46
6. Troubleshooting Defusion 56
7. Look Who's Talking 63
8. Scary Pictures 70
9. Demons on the Boat 76
10. How Do You Feel? 80
11. The Struggle Switch 86
12. How the Struggle Switch Developed 90
13. Staring Down Demons 97
14. Troubleshooting Expansion 106
15. Urge Surfing 115
16. Back to the Demons 120
17. The Time Machine 122
18. The Dirty Dog 130
19. A Confusing Word 135
20. If You're Breathing, You're Alive 139
21. Tell It Like It Is 146
22. The Big Story 149
23. You're Not Who You Think You Are 157

PART THREE
Creating a Life Worth Living
24. Follow Your Heart 167
25. The Big Question 173
26. Troubleshooting Values 180
27. The Thousand-Mile Journey 183
28. Finding Fulfillment 191
29. A Life of Plenty 199
30. Facing FEAR 203
31. Willingness 211
32. Onward and Upward 219
33. A Meaningful Life 227

Acknowledgments 233
Suggestions for Crisis Times 235
Further Readings and Resources 237
Index 238
About the Author 245

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