Dr Steven Hayes on ACT, OCD and Living A Meaningful Life
The OCD Stories
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4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2016
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Show notes:
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) research depth (3:20)
ACT vs CBT in the research (4:40)
Steve's OCD, anxiety and research story (6:00)
Why and how Steve came up with ACT (12:50)
Relational frame theory (RFT) (15:45)
How Eastern philosophy links with ACT (20:50)
The importance of using our minds without our minds using us (23:20)
Psychology within the media, marketing and technology (26:00)
Getting ACT into schools (28:45)
Tinnitus story to understand ACT (39:00)
Why you shouldn't try to stop thoughts. Instead accept them (46:20)
Accept your emotions, not just your thoughts (47:20)
Can you beat OCD? (48:00)
Finding meaning in suffering (51:00)
ACT and Logotherapy (53:20)
How to accept your thoughts and defuse from them - including exercises (58:25)
Steve's thoughts on meditation (1:12:50)
Using ACT to get rid of physical compulsions (1:20:30)
How ACT is gentler than ERP, and mental health vs illness (1:26:40)
Why you are one of the lucky ones (1:44:20)
Find out more about Dr Steven Hayes:
Steve's site - http://www.stevenchayes.com
Get out of your mind and into your life
Resources mentioned:
Marianne Williamson quote -
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
The worry trap by Chad LeJeune
Man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl
Increasing Willingness to Experience Obsessions: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Michael P. Twohig, Steven C. Hayes, Akihiko Masuda
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 4 of the OCD stories |
| 0:03.3 | dot com podcast. Now I recently got the privilege of |
| 0:07.3 | interviewing Dr Stephen Hayes. Now Steve is the |
| 0:10.8 | founder of acceptance and commitment therapy or act for short, it's not ACT, and Act is something |
| 0:17.7 | that's helped me in my own recovery from OCD immensely, just the act of Accept. CD immensely. |
| 0:22.8 | Just the act of accepting my thoughts, learning to diffuse from my thoughts to no longer be |
| 0:28.8 | entangled with them has helped me immeasurably and continues to do so day and day out and as Steve kind |
| 0:37.0 | of emphasizes this isn't just for the idea this is just for everyone because everyone has |
| 0:40.8 | mental health as Mark Freeman always says, |
| 0:44.4 | Act really can help everyone, but from an OCD point of view he gives some great advice, |
| 0:48.2 | he breaks it down, he gives three great tips, free great exercises on how to implement it and start to diffuse from your thoughts. |
| 0:57.0 | You know, when you hear like academic researchers or scientists, you think they're going to be boring |
| 1:04.2 | Steve definitely wasn't he was very funny |
| 1:09.6 | very enlightened and above all his compassion just from Shon Frue. You could see that his own pain was driving his research and you could hear the tone of his voice how I'd go from joking to the tone of his |
| 1:26.3 | voice would change you could tell there's a lot of passion there and you reconnect it |
| 1:29.3 | and foul for people and that's what drives his research he's written over 35 books and nearly 600 |
| 1:35.2 | articles now yeah incredible guy I know you're going to get a lot from this |
| 1:41.3 | please subscribe and rate it on iTunes if you can. |
| 1:45.0 | Above all, please learn from it, please love it, please be inspired and I'll see you soon. |
| 1:52.8 | My guest today is Dr Stephen Hayes. |
| 1:55.0 | Steve is a professor at the Department of Psychology |
| 1:57.6 | at the University of Nevada. |
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