A Liberated Mind by Steven C. Hayes PhD

Author:Steven C. Hayes, PhD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

Taking the Valued Living Questionnaire

Another person whose life was transformed by reconnecting with his true values is Kelly Wilson, who entered my lab as a graduate student in the late 1980s and has been an important contributor to the development of ACT methods. Kelly altered the direction of ACT’s development to include more emphasis on values. Before pursuing a psychology degree, he had experienced a harrowing struggle with addiction, including lying on a bed in a detox ward in four-point restraints wondering how he might kill himself. It was only a couple of years after that, as he fought his way from addiction to succeeding in school, when he realized that he wanted to devote his life to helping others overcome psychological challenges. He read some of my early work on ACT and sought me out to help continue to develop it. After getting his degree, he created the Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ).

The VLQ asks a series of questions about what your values are and how much you have been living in accordance with them, evaluating that measure in a set of life domains, on a scale of 1 to 10. Taking the VLQ is a good first step in doing ACT values work, and you should fill it out now.

It is best to plan not to let anyone see this so you can answer as honestly as possible, setting aside as best you can social pressures and the wagging mental fingers of should and have to. This is between you and you. So perhaps rather than filling in your answers in this book, download the VLQ, which you can do at my website (http://www.stevenchayes.com). If you find you are beating yourself up in the process of filling it in, step back and remind yourself that values are what you choose to work toward, not what the mind says you have to do or care about, or else.

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