Emotions Elevator
There are this many floors on the emotions elevator
What are 10 floors?
Heart beats fast, breathe fast, muscles feel tight are all examples of this
What are Red Flags/Red Flag Warnings?
Talking to your brain in a way that calms you down.
What is Yackety-Yack Self-Talk Back?
This is what you KNOW to be true and has proof to back it up.
What is a Fact?
It's easiest to Stop and Think on these floors of the Emotions Elevator
What are the bottom/lower floors?
When our body feels red flag warnings, it is sent to this part or center of our brain.
What is the Relay Center?
Sometimes things happen so fast you need to _____ ________ and ________ to stay in control of your feelings.
What is Stop Talking and Leave?
This is what we THINK is true and cannot be proven.
What is an opinion?
True or False: We can only experience anger on the 10th floor of the Emotions Elevator.
What is false?
If you don't use thinking skills you are using this part of your brain.
What is your Lizard Brain?
This self talk keeps you high on the Emotions Elevator.
What is Negative Self-Talk?
These can create Gossip.
What are Opinions?
Controlling your emotions and staying low on the Emotions Elevator helps you to _________ and ___________.
What is Stop and Think?
A good rule to remember is to always be ___________ on the Emotions Elevator than the other person.
What is lower?
This is a way to exit the emotions elevator to take your mind off of the problem until you are able to lower your emotions - Ride your bike! Play ball! Read a book!
What is Do Something Else/or Distraction Skills?
This is why we ask questions.
What is to gather information/facts?
This part of our brain is a rocket to the 10th floor of the Emotions Elevator.
What is the Lizard Brain?
What are problems?
We practiced ways to do this in class to help calm our bodies down
What is Relax and Take Deep Breaths/Belly Breathing/Muscle Relaxation?
In class we played the game of telephone and this is what we learned.
Answer to be determined by Mrs. Gibbons