From the Book - Regular Print
1 Why I Am Convinced That You Can Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You 1 --
2 What Anxiety Is and How It Often Controls You 13 --
3 Luckily, Most of Your Anxiety Is Self-Created and Can Be Uncreated 23 --
4 Irrational Beliefs That Make You Anxious 32 --
5 Disputing Your Anxiety-Creating Irrational Beliefs 46 --
6 Using Rational Coping Self-Statements 61 --
7 Using Positive Visualization and Modeling 66 --
8 Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Control Your Anxiety 69 --
9 Using Educational Methods to Control Your Anxiety 72 --
10 Using Relaxation and Cognitive Distraction Methods 75 --
11 Using Reframing Methods 77 --
12 Using Problem-Solving Methods to Control Your Anxiety 80 --
13 Using Unconditional Self-Acceptance (USA) 83 --
14 Using Unconditional Acceptance of Others to Control Your Anxiety 94 --
15 Using Rational Emotive Imagery 107 --
16 Using Shame-Attacking Exercises to Control Your Anxiety 112 --
17 Some Forceful and Dramatic Methods of Controlling Your Anxiety 122 --
18 Firmly Convincing Yourself of Your Rational and Self-Helping Beliefs 133 --
19 Using a Sense of Humor to Control Your Anxiety 139 --
20 Using Exposure and Behavioral Desensitization 149 --
21 Tolerating and Staying in Anxiety-Provoking Situations 159 --
22 Using Reinforcement Methods to Control Your Anxiety 164 --
23 Using Penalties to Control Your Anxiety 170 --
24 Using the Method of Fixed Role-playing to Control Your Anxiety 173 --
25 What About Biology and the Use of Medications? 177 --
26 A Remarkably Efficient Way to Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You 181 --
27 104 Rational Maxims to Control My Anxious Thinking 189 --
28 62 Rational Maxims to Control My Anxious Feelings and My Bodily Reactions to Anxiety 206 --
29 65 Rational Maxims to Help Me Act Against My Discomfort Anxiety and My Irrational Fears 217.
