How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable

by Zagat Survey

• ISBN13: 9781886230187
• ISBN10: 1886230188
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Impact Pub

Summary

Each of us has healthy, constructive and creative tendencies, but unfortunately, we also have their unhealthy, destructive counterparts. These self-defeating tendencies, moreover, are usually powerful and frequent. Ellis shows precisely what our natural constructive inclinations are and how to use them to overcome harmful leanings. See how to: defeat inherited and acquired tendencies to become severely anxious, depressed, enraged, self-hating, and/or self-pitying; change thoughts, feelings, and actions that lead to disturbances in order to make yourself considerably less upset and less self-defeating; persistently and strongly keep using REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) methods until they become automatic and habitual, thereby making yourself less disturbable even when adversities occur in life.

Author Biography

Albert Ellis, Ph.D., is a psychologist and founder of the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in New York City

Table of Contents

On Making Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable	1	(12)
Discovering, Disputing, and Demolishing Your Disturbing Demands	13	(8)
The ABCs of Remarkably Changing Yourself	21	(18)
You Can Change If You Think You Can
Five Self-Starting Beliefs	29	(10)
On the Road to Less Disturbable	39	(8)
Accepting Yourself and Others	47	(10)
It's Awful! It's Terrible! It's Horrible! I Can't Stand It!	57	(10)
What's the Worst that Could Happen?	67	(18)
Thinking Ways to Make Yourself Less Disturbable	85	(46)
More Thinking Ways
Problem Solving, Insight, Spirituality, & Self-Esteem	111	(20)
Feeling Ways to Make Yourself Less Disturbable	131	(24)
Action Ways to Make Yourself Less Disturbable	155	(12)
Onward to Self-Actualization and Increased Happiness	167	(8)
Some Conclusions on Making Yourself Happy and Less Disturbable	175	(16)
Rational Chicken Soup for Your Head and Your Heart	191	(6)
References	197	(6)
About the Author	203	(2)
Index	205