The Brain
This part of the brain is the "thinking part" of the brain. When we are calm and peaceful this part of the brain works through higher-level thinking such as solving a math problem, empathizing with a character in a book, and making decisions.
What is prefrontal cortex?
What are grounding techniques?
This emotion can be defined as a pleasant emotional state that is characterized by feelings of contentment, joy, gratification, satisfaction, and well-being.
What is happiness?
Blocking external events from awareness. Refusing to accept what is real.
What is denial?
When you are experiencing a strong emotion like anxiety, this "feeling part" of your brain reacts fast! This part of your brain may cause you to have a "fight, flight, or freeze" reaction before thinking things through.
What is the Amygdala?
This is the very first thing you should do if you are experiencing a strong emotion; Before you say or do anything.
Stop! Pause take a break, then respond.
This emotion is often defined as a transient emotional state characterized by feelings of disappointment, grief, hopelessness, disinterest, and dampened mood.
What is sadness?
Taking your feelings out on someone other than the person who hurt you.
What is displacement?
This part of your brain helps you form and store memories - Everything from the ABCs to the names of your loved ones.
What is the Hippocampus?
This healthy coping strategy naturally releases feel good chemicals in the brain and speeds up the brain healing process.
What is exercise?
This emotion can play an important role in survival.
What is fear?
Justifying a mistake or problematic feeling with seemingly logical reasons or explanations.
What is rationalization?
Your brain needs this in order to process and store all the collected information throughout the day.
What is sleep?
This is a tried and true strategy that helps physically calm down your amygdala.
What is deep breathing?
This can be a particularly powerful emotion characterized by feelings of hostility, agitation, frustration, and antagonism towards others.
What is anger?
Reverting to the behavior or emotions of an earlier developmental stage.
What is regression?
When you learn something new, you make new connections between the message-carrying cells of your brain. As you practice the new skill, these cells grow branch-like structures that help pick up the message more quickly and clearly each time, and the skill gets easier over time! These message carrying cells are called this.
What are neurons?
When using the "ABC" model this is the thing you have control over and focus on changing.
What are thoughts or beliefs?
This emotion is usually quite brief and is characterized by a physiological startle response following something unexpected.
This type of emotion can be positive, negative, or neutral.
What is surprise?
Blocking difficult thoughts from entering into consciousness.
What is repression?