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Leave Your Mind Behind

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This book is divided into 3 sections:

Part I: What do you think?
Part II: What do your thoughts do to your life?
Part III: Stop Believing Everything you think.

The first section explains the 7 different types of thoughts that cross our minds. Then author goes on to explain how to identify and watch these thoughts, understand how each thought can help or hurt you and then choose the "right" thought as you move forward. The more you know about your thoughts and your "chattering" mind, the less your mind will control your moods and your life. "Thin" book - quick read - lot's of practical advice. Worth your time...

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The fun (and humorous and playful and practical) exercises in this book make me think of the bumper sticker that reads, "Don't believe everything you think!" This book was especially helpful in reminding me that there's no need to get caught up in my thoughts or to think that they define who I am. "I'm fat, lazy and a bad friend," are just thoughts, not who I am. The authors offer great ways for facing these types of thoughts, such as singing the thought to the tune of "Happy birthday," or "Home on the Range" (Songs and Silly Voices). I liked how so many of the exercises helped me gain a little distance from certain thoughts by helping me recognize what types of thoughts they are (Bossy Thoughts, Pop Up Thoughts, Stale Bread, The Seducer). In a world where we take what we think so seriously, it's great to have this handy little book to help us laugh and even play with the thoughts that normally run us ragged. This is a book with a sense of humor and practical skills to help us accept and just watch thoughts without judging them or ourselves. Bravo!

I have been reading Eckhart Tolle and recently become very aware that I am not my thoughts but that they are just like popups and are what the mind does. This book really brings clarity to the type of thoughts that one has and at the same time gives humorous and very profound ways to work with the thoughts that come up.

I totally love this book!!!

If you "totally loved" this book, you would really totally love the books that these authors ripped off. This is a bad powerpoint presentation of some very good and more original books like "Get Out of Your Mind and into Your Life", "The Happiness Trap", and "The Mindulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety". The text is dressed up with too-cute chapter titles and lots of colored bullet points that left me feeling even more the victim of a swindle. I'd try to get my money back, but I threw out the book.

I'm a psychologist who has recently been exploring the usefulness of ACT with some of my clients. I found this book to be a great resource of self help style activities that can be adapted to use with clients both in session and as homework. The book offers no insights into the underlying theory of ACT so for that you will need to look elsewhere.

"Leave Your Mind Behind" is a great resource for anyone who needs encouragement and help with accepting life as it is and moving on to have a more peaceful thought process. The chapters are short and written like a daily devotional book. The images and concepts are clear and written in a lay person's language yet full of enough complexities that re-reading the chapters can give additional insights as one progresses though acceptance and focusing on thoughts that lead to a goal. Examples of ways to change one's thoughts about a situation to relieve personal suffering are given in different ways to appeal to different needs

This is a fun, little book that will help you free yourself from critical thoughts and judgments. Of course, we can't stop our thoughts, no matter how hard we try, but we can learn to unhook from our thoughts, observe them, and then choose which ones we're going to follow -- if any! "Leave Your Mind Behind" offers fun, practical exercises with titles such as, "What world are your thoughts making?", "The chocolate thought", and "Rainy day acceptance". It was both entertaining and enlightening.

*If you are plagued by recurrent thoughts, or if you just feel that you think too much, then this book is for you.
*It's based on ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a new therapy that enjoys a relatively high success rate, even in very serious cases like post traumatic stress disorder or brain injury.
*This book basically teaches you not to fight your thoughts, emotions and feelings (a fight you cannot win) and to let them come and go freely instead, while you get on with what really matters to you.
*Very useful stuff: it will spare you a lot of unnecessary misery.