Parts of the Brain
What is the cerebrum?
What are the three states of mind?
What are wise mind, reasonable mind and emotional mind?
A technique of tensing and relaxing different muscle groups in your body.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
The communication that what you are feeling, thinking or doing makes sense and is understandable. It communicates that a person's feelings and thoughts matter/
What is validation?
This part of your brain is impacted when you get anxious?
What is your amygdala?
What is the hippocampus?
What state of mind was Piper in when the waves crashed over him?
What you do when you are having big feelings and want them to go away.
What is use a coping skill?
The communication that what you are feeling, thinking or doing do not make sense or is understandable. It communicates that a person's feelings and thoughts do not matter.
What is invalidation
These two parts of your brain cannot communicate when your amygdala is activated.
What are your upstairs brain and your downstairs brain or your cerebrum/prefrontal cortex and your amygdala?
Located behind your forehead, this part of the brain helps you plan, organize and make decisions.
What is the prefrontal cortext or frontal lobe?
What state of mind was Piper in when he started hunting for clams under the water?
What is wise mind?
This coping skills helps when you are confused or can't think clearly.
Taking deep breaths or taking a walk.
Putting down, dismissing or criticizing a person's thoughts, feelings, or ideas.
What is judgement/being judgmental?
The reaction of your brain when your amygdala is activated by anxiety.
What is your fight, flight or freeze reaction?
This is the small section at the back of the brain that controls movement.
What is the cerebellum?
This state of mind is helpful to be in when taking a math check in.
What are Reasonable Mind?
Name one way to practice mindfulness.
What is breathing, using the emwave, focusing on the present, ripping a paper into the shape of an animal? Answers vary.
Letting a person know that you want to understand their perspective, thoughts or feelings.
What is a nonjudgemental approach?
True or False: Anxiety can be helpful.
A tightly packed group of cells located in the deep center of the brain where emotions are.
What is the amygdala?
The state of mind of the people in the broken escalator video.
What is emotional mind?
A technique to slow your breathing and increase a sense of calm.
What is deep breathing?
What is one trigger than can cause anxiety?
What is an assessment/test, the unknown, change, stress, an argument with a friend, some kind of performance or presentation?
True or False:It is normal to worry when things are hectic and complicated.
True: All people worry sometimes, especially when things get challenging.