Spot the Mind
You failed a test, so you throw your notebook across the room and yell, "I'm dropping this class!"
What is Emotion Mind?
The two core "minds" that overlap to create Wise Mind.
What are Emotion Mind and Reasonable Mind?
A physical symptom that indicates your body might be entering Emotion Mind.
What is a racing heartbeat, clenched jaw, hot face, or tight shoulders?
A situation where Reasonable Mind is extremely helpful and appropriate.
What is solving a math problem, following a recipe, or planning a bus route?
This acronym stands for Stop, Take a step back, Observe, and Proceed mindfully.
What is the STOP skill?
You create a strict, step-by-step study timetable for the entire week without accounting for how tired you feel after soccer practice.
What is Reasonable Mind?
Emotion Mind: "I want to eat a whole box of donuts right now." Reasonable Mind: "Donuts have no nutritional value; eat broccoli." Wise Mind says:
What is "I'll enjoy one donut now and save the rest for later"?
True or False: Emotion Mind is completely useless and bad for us.
What is False?
The danger of staying strictly in Reasonable Mind when a friend comes to you crying about a breakup.
What is coming across as cold, invalidating, or unsupportive?
Using cold water or ice on your face to quickly reduce high physical arousal utilizes this TIPP skill element.
What is Temperature?
You acknowledge you feel furious about a friend canceling plans, but you take a breath and decide to text them later once you cool down.
What is Wise Mind?
Emotion Mind: "My friend didn't text back; they hate me!" Reasonable Mind: "Their phone receives texts in under 1 second, so they are ignoring me." Wise Mind says:
What is "They might be busy or away from their phone right now"?
The term for an intense urge to act immediately when driven by strong feelings, without checking facts first.
What is an Action Urge?
Reasonable Mind tends to focus purely on _____ and completely ignores _____.
What are facts/logic and feelings/values?
The practice of focusing completely on the present moment without judging it as good or bad.
What is Mindfulness?
You feel anxious about giving a presentation, so you clearly list your facts and do a deep-breathing exercise before stepping up to speak.
What is Wise Mind?
Wise Mind is often felt in this physical location in the body (or is described as an "inner knowing").
What is the gut, heart, or center of the chest/stomach?
When you feel hurt by a friend and assume, "They did that on purpose to make me feel bad," without asking them what happened, you are treating your feelings as _____?
What is Facts?
Why using Reasonable Mind alone to handle personal burnout usually fails.
What is ignoring your body's emotional and physical exhaustion cues?
A quick grounding technique where you notice 5 things you see, 4 you feel, 3 you hear, 2 you smell, and 1 you taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique?
You ignore a friend crying because "their problem isn't logically relevant to your group project deadline."
What is Reasonable Mind?
The main difference between making a decision in Reasonable Mind vs. Wise Mind.
What is incorporating values/feelings alongside facts (instead of ignoring feelings entirely)?
Name two situations or triggers that make it much easier for someone to fall into Emotion Mind (e.g., lack of sleep, hunger, high stress).
What are physical/mental vulnerability factors (e.g., being tired, hungry, sick, stressed, or overwhelmed)?
How someone in pure Reasonable Mind might react when plans unexpectedly change due to an emergency.
What is getting frustrated or rigid because the facts no longer fit the plan?
The strategy of doing the exact opposite of what your Emotion Mind urge is telling you to do (e.g., gently approaching instead of running away in fear).
What is Opposite Action?