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Description
Break free from anxiety-once and for all! From the authors of The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, this powerful yet portable guide offers fifty-two in-the-moment mindfulness strategies you can use anytime, anywhere to cultivate calm and radically transform your life. We live in an age of anxiety, and studies show that it's only getting worse. Anxiety forces itself into our awareness and can deplete our energy, resources, and resolve. It screams "pay attention to me-or else." We may confront it the moment we wake up in the morning, and it can even keep us from getting to sleep at night. In short, it can run our lives. But it doesn't have to be this way. Building on the success of The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, this quick reference guide offers fifty-two simple tools and strategies-one for each week of the year-based in proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you break free from worry, fear, and panic. In addition to "in-the-moment" tools for staying calm, you'll learn about the underlying causes of your anxiety, why avoidance just doesn't work, how to move past your negative inner voice, and how focusing on your values can help you move past anxiety and live a rich, meaningful life. If-like many people-you're fed up with anxiety getting in the way of living your life, the powerful little exercises in this guide will show you how to break the cycle of anxiety for good. From the authors of the groundbreaking and best-selling The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, this essential guide offers fifty-two quick and powerful mindfulness-based strategies to help readers break free from fear, worry, and panic, and cultivate genuine, lasting happiness.… (more)
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Tell us what you thought about the book / title. How did the book make you feel? What did you learn?
I really enjoyed this book and found it both easy to read and understand. It was very educational as well as inspirational. The central message is
What were some of your favourite parts in the book/title? What did you find the most useful? Why?
It offers so many diverse ways of dealing with anxiety. One strategy that I found particularly interesting was the concept that anxiety is not just something to be managed and although you can learn to manage it, it doesn't have to control you and you can get on with living your life. It is important to accept it rather than be continually fighting it. Through this mindfulness the relationship changes between the anxious person and how they control their thoughts rather than the thoughts themselves. I feel that this is a very important concept.
I also really valued how it focuses on being kind to yourself and the positive traits of people with anxiety such as strength. Often people with anxiety are seen as weak individuals who can't cope.
The book is very interactive in that the strategies include exercises such as meditation and breathing as well as keeping a gratitude journal to name a few but the reader can choose what works best for them.
What was your least favourite aspect of the book/title? What do you think could have been better?
It could be said that it is repetitive in some areas, however this also reinforces the absorption of the material as well as the ability to remember it.
What inspired you to choose this title?
As someone who has experienced anxiety first hand and struggled with it at times I was attracted to the title as it has both the words "Anxiety" and "Peace of Mind" in it. I found that intriguing and wanted to find out the link between the two within the context of the book.
How has your life (or the life of your loved one) been affected by reading this title?
For me it has highlighted that many different positive choices can be made to deal with anxiety which can be effective. There is no shame of embarrassment in seeking help and it shouldn't be covered up. There is strength in facing it and the potential for a much improved quality of life.
What are some of your favourite quotes from the book / title?
- Strategy 1-Live your Life-"Nobody chooses anxiety. But you can choose how you relate to it."
- Strategy 10-Do the Opposite-"Anxiety isn't actually the problem. Avoidance is."
- Strategy 14-Whole, Complete, Enough- "People struggling with anxiety are some of the strongest people we know. They're survivors."
- Strategy 25-The Expansive Self-"Anxiety is not you! You may have anxiety but it's not you."
- Strategy 35-Don't feed it-"Your'e the master and creator of your life. The anxiety tiger has no power unless you feed her and give her the power."