ACCEPTS
The A in Accepts. Includes Reading Books, Watching TV, Working out, Spending time with Friends.
What are Activities?
Emotion Mind, Reasonable Mind, and Wise Mind
What are the 3 states of Emotion?
60 to 90 seconds
What is the length of time an Emotion response lasts?
Running, Aerobics, Lifting weights.
What is Intense Exercise?
This state of mind is ruled by your feelings.
What is Emotion Mind?
A strategy in which you help someone else or volunteer.
What is Contributing?
What is nonjudgmental?
Can Increase or Decrease the Intensity of an Emotion.
What is your thoughts or "self-talk"?
Splashing Cold Water on your face or holding an ice cube.
What is changing Temperature to manage strong Emotions?
State of mind ruled by facts, reason, and logic.
What is Reasonable mind?
Listing all the good things that have happened to you.
What is Counting your Blessings?
Focusing on one moment at a time.
What is one-mindful?
Reviewing a situation for what really happened instead of our perception of what happened.
What is "Checking the Facts"?
Square breathing or slow deliberate breathing.
What is Paced Breathing?
What is Radical Acceptance?
Watching funny movies or listening to happy music.
What is seeking opposite Emotions?
Fully engaging in an activity.
What is participate?
Facing your fear, walking away instead of acting out, going out instead of staying in bed.
What is Opposite Action?
Tightening your muscles one section of the body at a time and then releasing to decrease energy.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
Factors that increase the likelihood I will be upset or angry by a situation.
What are Vulnerability Factors?
The goal of the ACCEPTS Strategy.
What is distraction from the urge to act on negative emotions?
The state of mind to access when you want to make an important decision.
What is Wise Mind?
Skills to control your emotions and maintain wise mind.
What is the goal of Emotion Regulation?
Skills to manage the body's typical "fight or flight" response.
What are Crisis Survival Skills?
The 4 options for solving a problem.
What is Solve the Problem, Feel better about the problem, tolerate the problem, or stay miserable?