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In this controversial but empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harris reveals how millions of people are misled by popular ideas about happiness, unwittingly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression.

There is a growing number of people who feel something is missing from their lives; that despite financial or family success they are not truly happy, and there must be ‘more to life’. Unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse!

This bestselling book explains how people become caught in ‘The Happiness Trap’, striving to conform to popular ideas about happiness and instead feeling worn-out and anxious. It provides an effective means to escape, through a revolutionary new approach which is shaking the very foundations of western psychology.

Within these pages you will learn scientifically proven techniques to:

reduce stress and worry
rise above fear, doubt and insecurity
effectively handle painful thoughts and feelings
break self-defeating habits
improve performance and find fulfilment in your work
build more satisfying relationships

This book is for everyone, from CEOs to sales staff; astronauts to housewives. Whether you’re lacking confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, or suffering from anxiety or depression, this book will unlock the secrets to living a fulfilled, meaningful life.

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Exisle Publishing
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1 March 2007
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15.1 x 2 x 23.4 cm
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0908988907
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A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment.

Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And, unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse!
In this controversial but empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harris reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in 'The Happiness Trap'! He then provides an effective means to escape, through a revolutionary new approach which is shaking the very foundations of western psychology.

This book is for everyone, from CEOs to sales staff, from astronauts to housewives. Whether you're lacking confidence, facing illness, coping with loss, working in a high-stress job, suffering from anxiety or depression, or preparing for the performance of your life - within these pages you will learn scientifically proven techniques to:

reduce stress and worry
rise above fear, doubt and insecurity
handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively
break self-defeating habits
improve performance and find fulfilment in your work
build more satisfying relationships and, above all,
create a rich, full and meaningful life.

'Dr Harris shines a powerful beacon forward into the night. enjoy the journey. You are in excellent hands.' Steven Hayes - bestselling author of Get Out of Your Mind And Into Your Life

About the Author

Dr Russ Harris is a medical practitioner with a passion for life, health and healing. A leading authority on stress management, Russ regularly travels all over Australia, and internationally, training coaches, psychologists, doctors, and other health professionals in the use of 'mindfulness'.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Exisle Publishing (1 March 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0908988907
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0908988907
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.1 x 2 x 23.4 cm

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Dr Russ Harris is world-renowned trainer in ACT, a therapist and a coach, with a background in medicine (as a general practitioner). He has run hundreds of workshops, providing training over fifty thousand health professionals around the world. He is the author of several bestselling ACT-based textbooks and self-help books. The Happiness Trap is an international bestseller, with over a million copies sold worldwide and editions published in over thirty languages.

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The Shepherds

Helpful and informative read

Reviewed in Australia on 6 June 2019

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Was delivered quickly and a great price. Cheaper than I could find elsewhere. Great book and highly recommend to anyone wishing to find ways to increase their overall happiness.

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I love this book, it will help you manage your thoughts and deal with struggles you may have. Also great just for a different perspective, recommended by my therapist.

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Richard

great book

Reviewed in Canada on 1 December 2020

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I have read many self help books. This one saved my life . This one improved my quality of living. I am forever grateful.
I hope anyone out there struggling, finds the right path, healing and support as well.
Maybe this book can help you too .
Excellent writing. Clear and concise.

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pammy g

An excellent book for worriers or people who are prone to bouts of depression.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2016

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What a boss book this is! So informative and puts a total new angle on how the mind perceives things and lowers your mood or causes anxiety. It's taught me a lot.

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Three Stars

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good service excellant product would recomend.

R Walt

Awesome book but impossible to practice without daily commitment

Reviewed in Canada on 23 February 2018

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Wow. This is a great book, and ACT is a very creative and well-articulated fusion of psychology and Buddhist wisdom. This is basically the highlights of Buddhism distilled into a modern, non-religious psychotherapy method. And it's explained so clearly and without needing to reference Buddhist terminology (kind of like being able to drive a car without knowing how the engine works). The beauty of ACT is how intuitively right it is: we can't escape suffering and we can't escape the fact that our brain produces thousands of thoughts every day (some useful, some completely useless and negative), so we might as well recognize them, make room for them and act on our values anyway. If there's any fault with the book, it's that it doesn't emphasize or honestly describe the commitment involved in building up awareness and mindfulness to the point that you can observe and defuse your daily sensations, thoughts. There's no shortcut or quick way to develop the level of mindfulness needed to effectively practice ACT on a daily basis. There are monks who dedicate their entire lives to building up their level of awareness and concentration, and to suggest that this can be attained without a committed practice is just false advertising. And unfortunately, this is one of the foundations of ACT, so if you've tried other self-help/improvement methods before and then fizzled out, the same will likely happen with this one unless you make some sort of mindfulness exercise a core practice in your life. This comes as a consequence of borrowing wisdom from another practice and distilling it out of context for another purpose. The wisdom does apply in psychotherapy, but the original practice is a long, challenging path.

That said, it's still a 5 star book for me.

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Useful tool for therapy.

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