STORC
The "O" in the STORC cycle
What is an Organic pattern?
A practice that involves focusing your thoughts on a specific object thought or activity to achieve calmness
What is meditation?
A low level of anger
What is irritation
A balance between your emotional mind and your rational mind?
What is wise mind?
happy hormones that carry messages to the nerve cells
What is dopamine, serotonin, endorphins
Positive statements about yourself to change negative automatic thoughts
What are positive affirmations?
5 things that you can taste, touch, smell, see or hear?
What are grounding techniques?
Stuffing your anger until it boils over
What is pressure cooking
When something negative happens and we see it as always negative happening to us
What is overgeneralization?
Inability to experience pleasure
What is anhedonia?
people, places or things, activities or dates that may cause urges or triggers?
What are situations?
The practice of identifying negative thoughts and changing your thoughts to more helpful ones?
Cognitive Reframing (or re-structuring)
A diagram that displays the thoughts, feelings, emotions and experiences that lies beneath Anger
What is the Anger Iceberg?
When we see ourself and the cause of the even that we are responsible for
What is personalization?
The symptoms that the body goes through following the withdrawal of drugs from their body that mays last for weeks or months
What is PAWS
your feelings or emotions that make up your mood
What is your AFFECT?
A mindfulness technique that helps to manage unwanted emotions by observing and riding out urges instead of acting on them
What is urge surfing
The most extreme form of anger
What is rage (enraged)
Taking poison and waiting for someone else to die
What are resentment?
Bringing specific desires or ideas or goal into reality through focused thoughts
What is manifestation?
The way in which one speaks to himself, the inner voice
What is self talk?
Thinking if the outcome if you make a certain choice
Play the tape forward'
How a person learns to view themselves, the world and other people at an early age
What are core beliefs/values
negative or irrational thought patterns that can make people feel bad about themselves
What are cognitive distortions?
The brains ability to change and adapt throughout life
What is neuroplasicity