Understanding and Describing Emotion
This is one of the things that emotions do for you (reasons we have emotions).
What is motivate us, communicate to others, or communicate to ourselves? (ER 4)
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
A Stamp
The skill that includes building more pleasant experiences into your life now.
What is accumulate positives - short term? (ER 15)
Three things you can do to increase the likelihood of restful sleep.
Consistent schedule, Avoid caffeine, nicotine, exercise late in the day, Keep room dark and cool (other options ER 20B)
The intersect of "reasonable mind" and "emotional mind" is......
Wise mind
These factors can make it hard to regulate your emotions?
Biology, lack of skill, reinforcement of emotional behavior, moodiness, emotional overload, and emotional myths.
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom
Making changes in your life that are in line with your values, which leads to more positive things happening in the future.
What is accumulate positives - long term? (ER 17)
What does the mindfulness "observe" skill look like?
Noticing your emotion/thoughts mentally and physically without judgment or attachment, respecting that the emotion/thought exists.
Observe, describe, and participate are what type of mindfulness skills?
"What" skills
FALSE "emotional reactions are different for each person"
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Mt. Everest, it just wasn’t discovered yet.
Name one of the key factors in building mastery.
What is
-building a sense of accomplishment
-gradually increasing difficulty
-planning for success, or looking for a challenge? (ER 19)
TRUE or FALSE: One step in surfing the wave of emotion is to practice respecting and loving your emotion.
effectively, one-mindfully, and non-judgmentally are what type of mindfulness skills?
"How" Skills
What are two myths about emotions?
There are good and bad emotions; Emotions have to be acted on: Emotions are facts; Other people can cause my emotions; I can cause other people's emotions
What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
A river
Identifying a problem, choosing a strategy to use, and practicing it in your imagination, and relaxing.
What is cope ahead? (ER 19)
When surfing the wave of emotion, what does it mean to remember that you are not your emotion
You do not have to act on your emotion.
Remember a time when you have felt differently.
What does it mean to think dialectically?
What are walking the middle path, finding the synthesis between opposites, more than one things can be true at the same time, using AND instead of OR, letting go of extremes? (or similar)
There are four things that influence emotions: Which of the following cannot be changed directly?
-Thoughts
-Behaviors
-Environment
-Body Sensations
What is body sensations
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves. What am I?
A Bank
The 3 out of 5 steps to the PLEASE skill that includes taking care of your body to reduce vulnerability to negative emotions.
treat PhysicaL illness, balanced Eating, Avoid mood-Altering substances, balanced Sleep, get Exercise
What is the purpose of the "surfing the wave" skill?
Learning to sit with our emotions; be comfortable with uncomfortable emotions; remembering that emotions come and go, ebb and flow.
Name a "thinking mistake" and give an example of it.
all-or-nothing/black-and-white thinking, catastrophizing, mind-reading, overgeneralization, mental filter, disqualifying the positive, emotional reasoning, should statements, labeling, personalization.