How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable PDF
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"""••Make,. Yliurself Happy - RemarkaUy and f Less \t^ Disturbalile "n 0 '^>v= \ V 'v^ A ( / . N\// Albert Ph.D. Ellis. Digitized by the Internet Arcliive in 2011 littp://www.arcliive.org/details/howtomakeyourselOOelli How Make Happy to Yourself and Remarkably Less Disturbable ""•Mate Ybupself Happy and Remarkalily Less Disturbable Albert Ph.D. Ellis, ^ impact PubUshers^, Inc. Atascadero, California 93423 Copyright© 1999 by Albert Ellis FourthPrinting, January 2003 Allrights reservedunderinternationalandPan-AmericanCopyrightConventions. Nopart ofthis bookmay bereproduced, stored inaretrievalsystem, ortransmit- ted in anyform,orby any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recordingorotherwise, withoutexpress writtenpermissionoftheauthoror publisher, exceptforbriefquotationsincriticalreviews. Impact Publishers and colophon are registered trademarks of Impact Publishers, Inc. ATTENTION ORGANIZATIONS AND CORPORATIONS: This book is available at quantity discounts on bulk purchases for educa- tional, business, or sales promotional use. For further information, please contact Impact Publishers. P.O. Box 6016, Atascadero, California 93423-6016 (Phone: 1-800-246-7228). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ellis, Albert. How to make yourselfhappy and remarkably less disturbable / Albert Ellis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 1-886230-18-8 (pbk. alk. paper) : 1. Anger. 2. Rational-emotive psychotherapy. I. Title. BF575.A5E444 1999 158.1-dc21 99-12793 CIP Publisher's Note Thispublicationisdesignedtoprovideaccurateandauthoritativeinformationin regard to thesubjectmattercovered. Itis soldwiththeunderstanding thatthe publisherisnotengagedinrenderingpsychological, medical, orotherprofes- sionalservices. Ifexpertassistanceorcounselingisneeded, theservicesofa competentprofessionalshouldbesought. Cover design by Foster & Foster, Inc., Fairfield, Iowa Printed in the United St^ates ofAmerica on acid-free paper Published byImpact PubUshersf^ POSTOFFICEBOX6016 ATASCADERO.CAUFORNIA93423-6016 www.impactpublishers.com Contents 1 On Making Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable 1 2 Discovering, Disputing, and Demolishing Your Disturbing Demands 13 3 The ABCs of Remarkably Changing Yourself 21 4 You Can Change You Think You Can If Five Self-Starting BeUefs 29 5 On the Road to Less Disturbable 39 6 Accepting Yourself and Others 47 7 It's Awful! It's Terrible! It's Horrible! I Can't Stand It! 57 8 What's the Worst that Could Happen? 67 9 Thinking Ways to Make Yourself Less Disturbable 85 10 More Thinking Ways Problem Solving, Insight, Spirituality, & Self-Esteem 111 11 Feeling Ways to Make Yourself Less Disturbable 131 12 Action Ways to Make Yourself Less Disturbable 155 13 Onward to Self-Actualization and Increased Happiness 167 14 Some Conclusions on Making Yourself Happy and Less Disturbable 175 15 Rational Chicken Soup for Your Head and Your Heart 191 References 197 About the Author 203 Index 205 Acknowledgments I would like to thank several ofmy associates who read—and com- mented upon this book when it was still in manuscript notably, Shawn Blau, Ted Crawford, Raymond DiGiuseppe, Dominic DiMattia, Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, Steven Nielsen, Philip Tate, Emmett Velten, and Paul Woods. I greatly appreciate their helpful suggestions. I would also like to thank Tim Runion, who saw the manuscript through several word processing revisions and Ginamarie Zampano, the administrative director ofthe Albert Ellis Institute, who facilitated the gathering of some ofthe material and the working out ofmany administrative functions in regard to getting it ready and who did so in her usual most competent manner. Finally, let me express my gratitude to Bob Alberti, the remarkably energetic editor ofImpact Publishers, who not only did the usual kind of careful editing ofthis book but also made some unusually creative suggestions for additions to it.
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