Emo Regulation
This is the emotional response to an actual event or trigger.
What is a Primary Emotion?
Your emotions are in control of you.
What is emotional mind?
This skill involves using creative activities to decrease your frustration or uncomfortable emotions, like drawing, writing, dancing, singing, etc.
What is Creative Outlet?
This means to really understand someone else's experience...but you still don't have to agree, just be open to understanding it.
What is validation?
This is the skill that allows us to distract ourselves during a crisis with activities, contributing to others, making comparisons, using positive emotions, pushing away negative thoughts and self-soothing.
What is Wise Mind ACCEPTS?
This is the skill that deals with taking care of physical illness, balanced eating, balanced sleep, avoiding mood altering drugs and exercise!
What is the PLEASE skill?
You are only using facts and ignore feelings.
What is Reasonable Mind?
When you do this, the corners of your lips turn up just slightly to send a positive signal to your brain during times of frustration, anger, distress.
What is a Half-Smile?
Making sure you spend time on others as well as yourself. Way to make sure your relationships stay healthy.
What is Attend to Relationships?
What is Build Positive Experiences?
This is when you don't give yourself time to "talk yourself out of it" and you "just do it"!
What is the Just Act skill?
When the facts and emotions are working together. You make the best choices and feel in control.
What is Wise Mind?
Sometimes you need to do this to avoid a crisis, don't worry...it will still be there and this gives you time to calm, and get into WISE MIND.
This is the skill used to keep relationships healthy. It involves using a gentle tone, acting interested, validating others and having an easy manner to work with others.
What is the GIVE skill?
These are the limits you set for yourself and others. They help you keep in WISE MIND and help keep relationships healthy by assuring needs are met for everyone.
What are boundaries?
This is when you do the exact different action from what you feel like doing in order to change your emotions!
What is the Opposite to Emotion Action?
Observe, describe and participate.
What are the three ways to be mindful?
There are things we cannot change and we make our crisis or frustration worse by trying to change these things. Doing this allows us to focus on change and more important things, as well as decreases our uncomfortable emotions.
This skill is used to express yourself and get your needs met. It involves discussing the facts, expressing your feelings and negotiating with others.
What is DEAR MAN?
This is when you keep all uncomfortable emotions inside and act as if they are really occurring.
What is stuffing of emotions?
This is when you focus on one activity in order to get better, become a master or attempt a new goal.
What is the Build Mastery skill?
What is non-judgmental stance?
Sometimes it is helpful to look at the positive and negative outcomes during a crisis in order to make a good choice for ourselves and remain in WISE MIND.
What is Pros and Cons?
This is the skill that keeps your self-respect, even when you mess up. It involves sticking to the facts, no apologizing for your needs, sticking to your values and being truthful.
What is the FAST skill?
This is when you don't let your emotions come and go naturally. You keep on one uncomfortable emotion WAY longer than you should.
What is sticking of emotions?