Mindfulness
The three "What" skills
What are Observe, Describe and Participate?
A skill to increase the changes of getting what you want
What is DEAR MAN?
The skill for letting go of emotional suffering
What is Mindfulness of Current Emotions?
The T in TIPP skill
What is Tip the Temperature?
Skill used when you cannot keep painful events and emotions from coming your way.
What is Radical Acceptance?
The three States of Mind
What are Reasonable Mind, Emotion Mind and Wise Mind?
The A in ABC PLEASE
What is Accumulating Positive Emotions?
A situation that is highly stressful, short-term and creates intense pressure to resolve the problem now.
What is a crisis situation?
What is willfulness?
The three "How" skills
What are Nonjudgementally, One-Mindfully, and Effectively?
The V in GIVE
What is Validate?
What we use when our emotions do NOT fit the facts or when acting on our emotions is NOT effective
What is Opposite Action?
A skill to decide between two courses of action
What is Pros and Cons?
a consequence that increases frequency of a behavior.
What is a reinforcer?
A mindfulness practice designed to increase love and compassion first for ourselves and then for our loved ones, for friends, for those we are angry with, for difficult people, for enemies, and then for all being
What is Loving Kindness?
The skill for keeping respect for yourself
What is FAST?
The 3 reasons we have emotions
What is to motivate us to action, to communicate to others and to communicate to ourselves?
A distress tolerance skill that utilizes our five senses
What is Self-Soothing?
reinforcing small steps toward the behavior you want.
What is Shaping?
Finding the Synthesis between Opposites
What is Walking the Middle Path?
When two things that seem to be opposite are true at the same time
What is Dialectics?
When You Can’t Sleep, What to Do Instead of Ruminating
What is Sleep Hygiene Protocol?
The acronym for the distracting skill
What is ACCEPTS?
an aversive consequence that decreases a behavior
What is Punishment?