Relaxation Techniques
Healthy Coping Skills
True/False
Negative Coping Actions
Potpourri
100
Involves taking slow, deep breaths and focusing on the present moment.
What is deep breathing? or

What is mindfulness/insight meditation?

100
Physical activity that enhances fitness and overall health and wellness. 
What is exercise?
100
Feelings are temporary – no emotion lasts forever.
What is true.
100
The use of mind and/or mood altering chemicals that lead to an increased risk of problems, including tolerance and withdrawal.
What is Substance Abuse?
100
The capital of California.
What is Sacramento?
200
The correct way to breathe when practicing deep breathing.
What is in through nose and out through the mouth?
200

The process of meeting with a professional to resolve problematic behaviors, beliefs, feelings, relationship issues, and/or somatic responses (sensations in the body).

What is therapy? or

What is counseling?

200
Every person has the same feeling for the same situation.
What is false. People can have different feelings for the same situation.
200
The act of intentionally and repeatedly harming oneself in a way that is impulsive and not intended to be lethal.
What is self injury? or

What is self harm?

200
Known as the powerhouses of the cell.
What is mitochondria?
300
Involves paying attention to the breath, bodily sensations, music, a soothing voice, or on a word or sound known as a mantra.
What is meditation?
300
The process of physically recording your experiences, thoughts, feelings, opinions, and/or observations.
What is journaling?
300
“Instant Fixes” for stress exist.
What is false. There are healthy ways to cope with stress, but there is not a ‘magical cure’.
300
Behavior involving physical force intended to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy.
What is violence?
300
The bestselling album of all time.
What is Michael Jackson's Thriller?
400

A discipline involving breath control, simple meditation, and the use of specific bodily postures.

What is yoga?
400
A pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in for relaxation and fun.
What are hobbies?
400
No thought or feeling is wrong. However, the way we react to the thought or feeling can cause problems.
What is true.
400
The sense of being alone and separated from others, either socially or emotionally, that may lead to feelings of anxiety, loneliness, or depression.
What is isolation?
400
Fictional city where Batman resides.
What is Gotham City?
500

A mental state achieved by focusing one's attention on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.

What is mindfulness?

500

The ability to develop and express ourselves and our ideas in new imaginative ways. 

What is creativity (music, art, photography, etc.)?
500
Stress is something that happens to everyone and all stress is out of your control
What is false. Although some stressors are inevitable, there are healthy ways to manage stress.
500
A compulsion to continually engage in behaviors despite the negative impact on one’s healthy or daily life.
What is Addiction?
500
The longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon river?
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