Mindfulness
Ruled by thoughts and feelings
What is Emotional Mind?
One of the six senses.
What is Vision, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch, or Movement?
Refusing to tolerate a situation or giving up.
What is Willfulness?
Two things that seem like (or are) opposites can both be true
What is Dialectics?
You believe you know what other people are thinking even without asking
What is Mind-Reading?
Ruled by logic and facts
What is Reasonable Mind?
Slow down your breath so that you’re breathing in for about 4 seconds and out for 5–8 seconds.
What is paced breathing?
Allowing the world to be what it is and participating in it fully.
What is Willingness?
Acceptance AND Change
What is Walking the Middle Path?
Overgeneralization is taken a step further by the use of extreme language to describe things. “I spilled my milk. I am SUCH A LOSER!”
What is Labelling?
Includes both emotion and reason. Helps us think more clearly in the presence of strong emotions.
What is WISE Mind?
One letter in Wise Mind "ACCEPTS".
What is Activities
Contributing
Comparisons
Emotions
Pushing Away
Thoughts
Sensations?
Fill in the blank: ______ does not mean approval!
What is Acceptance?
Communicates to another person that his or her feelings, thoughts, and actions are understandable to you in a particular situation.
What is Validation?
You “should” on yourself or someone else by having a fixed idea of how you or others should behave
Put words on the experience: Label what you observe with words.
What is Describe?
Tense and relax each muscle group, head to toe, one muscle group at a time
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation?
Accepting reality with your face.
Communicates (intentionally or not, through words or actions) that another person’s feelings, thoughts, and actions make no sense
What is Invalidation?
You predict the future negatively without considering other, more likely outcomes
What is CATASTROPHIZING?
Acknowledge the harmful and the helpful, but don’t judge it. For example, replace “He’s a jerk” with “He walked away while we were talking.”
What is Don't Judge?
One of the letters in "IMPROVE" the moment.
What is Imagery, Meaning, Prayer, Relaxation, One thing in the Moment, Vacation, or Encouragement?
Fill in the blank: Acceptance of reality as it is sometimes requires an act of _____
What is Choice?
Increases the frequency of a behavior by providing a “rewarding” consequence.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
If you’re not perfect, you’re a total loser. If you don’t get everything you want, it feels like you got nothing.
What is All-Or-Nothing Thinking?