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Miss P

Life changing book

Reviewed in Australia on 10 June 2021

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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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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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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.

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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Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2017

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good service excellant product would recomend.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2016

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Useful tool for therapy.

Lahari

Very average. There are a lot better books. Thank you, next!

Reviewed in India on 22 June 2021

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The author basically tells a 5-6 things in 100 different ways which makes it boring. And all the ideas mentioned here are things you've read before or heard before.
It's not worth buying the book.

I've struggled with depression and anxiety and PTSD for ages and this doesn't come close to helping or solving a lot of issues. So don't have too many expectations out of this.

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Great book !!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2016

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Excellent book! It's miles above any other book of the same nature.

Shirley Agg

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2016

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good product but delivery was far too long

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