Who is Albert Ellis, the Psychologist
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Ten Ways to Be Happy
Albert Ellis, the psychologist, taught us how to overcome the many challenges we face as adults. He developed a method for helping our selves and those we love have more fun, happiness, and satisfaction in our lives. Here, you'll find ten ways to be happy, even in difficult, otherwise unpleasant situations.
If you're like me, you want to be able to enjoy the day, at work and at home. You're also likely to have responsibilities including some that frustrate you. You might have family members, friends, or co-workers who push your buttons and make you want to pull your out your hair.
Depending on your personality, you might get angry when this happens or depressed, or even feel guilty. If you've had this happen often enough, you might even be "gun shy," in other words worried or afraid that you'll feel the same way again in a similar situation.
So, it could be difficult to form friendships or enjoy your relationships with loved ones. For some people, these types of moods interfere with their ability to parent or keep a job.
You'll find ten ways to make life more enjoyable in the sections that follow. Each of these is based on the work of Albert Ellis and his research in the field of psychotherapy.
1. Stop Feeling Like Someone Else Controls How You Feel
How to Keep People From Pushin
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Dr. Ellis developed a method of therapy called Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). In order to stop letting people push your buttons and make you feel like you are out of control, you'll need know what to change in your relationship. You'll also need to know how to change it.
In How to Keep People from Pushing Your Buttons you'll learn what the triggers are that make you feel vulnerable. These are the things that put your "buttons" out there for people to push. When you read the book that you didn't even know hat you were doing that made you susceptible to other people, the words they used, and their behavior.
Dr. Ellis writes in an clear, easy to read, and understandable style that makes it easy for you to learn how to empower yourself and succeed at disconnecting the power from the buttons. Reading this book you'll learn how to take control in those situations which currently cause you problems.
2. Stop Letting Your Anger Get the Best of You
How to Control Your Anger Befo
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In some families, anger is an acceptable emotion. In others, anger is a forbidden feeling. Most of us know that anger can lead to destructive behavior. We've all heard stories about how people have let their anger become rage and lead to violence.
Dr. Ellis uses the same clear, easy to read and understandable style he uses in his other books, to describe how anger is a normal feeling that is often misunderstood. When you read this book, you'll learn about why some people react strongly to a situation while others are able to laugh at ignore them. You'll also learn what causes these differences in the way people react to the same event.
Using the methods of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Albert Ellis, the psychologist describes how you can learn how to prevent yourself from reacting out of habit, aggravating yourself and the situation. You can use this book to calm yourself before you lose control so you have a chance to get your needs met.
One of the best things about this book is the way you can learn how to change your response to the warning signs that you're in a situation that will lead to anger. You can also learn how pick new responses to the situation when it arrives. This is like a one two punch to the habit of letting your anger get the best of you.
Another helpful quality of the book is the way it shows you step by step what do to after you've been exposed to those situations that have been so infuriating in the past. In other words, by reading this book you'll learn what leads up to you getting angry, what causes you to be angry, how to change the way you express your anger, and what to do after you've been in challenging situations.
Psychologist Albert Ellis is very effective as an author and as a therapist. He's able to show his readers what they need to know so they can take control of their anger before it controls them.
3. Stop Feeling Miserable
How to Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable about Anything: Yes Anything!
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Have you ever met someone who argues with a loved one and tries to stop arguing with them only to discover that they argue even more? By reading this book and using what it has to teach you, you can learn how to stop patterns like these and stop feeling miserable.
In this book, Dr. Albert Ellis tells you what you need to know about yourself and your relationships with other people so that you have the self awareness necessary to empower yourself. In How to Stubbornly Refuse to be Miserable you will learn how to analyze the situations that make you feel miserable. You'll learn what you do that keeps you feeling miserable about those situations and you'll learn what you can do to stop feeling miserable.
Chapter by chapter, Dr. Albert Ellis describes what you can do to take steps to increase your comfort. In each chapter you'll learn something useful that therapists teach their clients. You'll learn the mistakes people make in their thinking that aggravate their situation. You'll learn what steps to take so you don't fall into those same traps and what to do if you accidentally do.
This book will help you figure out how you got into miserable situations and what you can do to get out of them. The methods described in this book work so well because you wi!ll really be able to use them. Talk about empowering~!
4. Why Am I Always Broke?
Why Am I Always Broke?
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5. How to Control your Anxiety
How to Control Your Anxiety Be
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6. Intimate Connections
Making Intimate Connections: Seven Guidelines for Great Relationships and Better Communication (Rebuilding Books)
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7. Overcoming Verbal Abuse
The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse: Getting Off the Emotional Roller Coaster and Regaining Control of Your Life
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8. Sex Without Guilt
Sex Without Guilt in the Twenty-First Century
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9. Feeling Better, Getting Better, Staying Better
Feeling Better, Getting Better, Staying Better : Profound Self-Help Therapy For Your Emotions
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10. How to Cope with a Fatal Illness
How to Cope With a Fatal Illness: The Rational Management of Death and Dying
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11. How to make Yourself Happy
How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable
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12. How to Raise an Emotionally Healthy Child
How to Raise an Emotionally Healthy, Happy Child
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Apr 23, 2010 @ 3:38 pm | delete
- Informative lens- wasn't Albert Ellis the originator of what became cognitive behavioral therapy?
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