Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a tool that allows someone a "what" from the moment of the impulse to think through and choose an appropriate skill PRIOR to a behavioral response?
Window of Time
What is interpersonal effectiveness?
Keeping good relationships with others, asking for something effectively, keeping your own self-respect.
What can you validate?
Feelings and thoughts in others and ourselves
What is the number one purpose of emotions?
Emotions communicate to ourselves information that something is happening.
What does ACCEPTS stand for and why do we use it?
Activities, contributing, comparisons, emotions, pushing away, thoughts, sensation. This skill is used for crisis survival.
What are the three biological or genetic components that contribute to personal/emotional instability?
High sensitivity, High Reactivity, and Slow Return to Baseline.
By keeping your self-respect, how do you end up acting?
Acting in a way that makes you feel moral, capable, and effective.
Name one way we can validate others
Radical genuineness, validation in terms of present context or normative functioning, validation in terms of past learning or biological dysfunction, articulating the un-verbalized emotions, thoughts, or behaviors patterns, accurate reflection, staying awake.
What are other labels for the emotion of fear?
Anxiety, worry, panic, dread, edginess, uneasiness, apprehension.
What are the five senses?
Vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch
By not effectively validating feelings, a person's environment fails to teach the individual to do what?
Identify feelings, trust feelings, and effectively regulate emotions.
What are three goals of interpersonal effectiveness?
Asking for what you want effectively, keeping a good relationship, keeping your self-respect.
Why would you want to be more willing?
Willingness can help you find the middle path. Willingness can reduce the intensity of a conflict.
What do emotions interact with?
Thoughts and behaviors
Pain is inevitable while __________ is optional
Suffering
If someone is "stuck" in the reasonable mind, what are the most dismissive of?
Emotion
What interpersonal effectiveness skill can be applied to challenging worry thoughts?
Cheerleading statements
Acceptance and change = ?
Middle Path
By removing or avoiding a threat, what emotions are you responding to?
Anxiety and/or fear
What reflex is triggered when cold is applied to the face?
Dive Reflex
If we "participate" in the "what skill", what does someone become "one" with?
Their experience.
What interpersonal effectiveness skill can be used to ask effectively for what you want?
DEARMAN
Acceptance does not equal what?
Agreement
What action urge may come from feelings of jealousy?
Accusing and/or spying
What are the two parts of autonomic nervous system and what are their functions?
The sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic is where fight or flight is housed. The parasympathetic is what calms and soothes us after a heightened state of arousal.