Mindfulness
The wisdom within each person; seeing the value of both reason and emotion; bringing left brain and right brain together; the middle path
What is WISE MIND?
Replacing immediate negative events with more positive ones
What is IMPROVE
Checking out whether your emotional reactions fit the facts of the situation
What is CHECK THE FACTS?
Noticing your body sensations; paying attention; controlling your attention; practicing wordless watching would all be examples of this skill
What is OBSERVING?
The skill that teaches us ways to distract ourselves from a situation
What is ACCEPTS
A skill that helps to reduce emotional vulnerability; taking care of your mind by taking care of your body
What is PLEASE
Putting words on the experience; labeling what you observe; unglue your interpretations and opinions
What is mindfully DESCRIBING?
Being kind to the self with soothing music, smells, pictures, and/or soft touch
What is SELF SOOTHE
Doing things that make you feel competent and effective to combat helplessness and hopelessness
What is MASTERY
DAILY DOUBLE: When your emotions are in control-when they influence and control your thinking and your behavior.
What is EMOTION MIND?
Fully entering into the present moment; becoming one with whatever you are doing; go with the flow
What is PARTICIPATING?
DAILY DOUBLE: Writing out the + and the - of a acting on a crisis urge or resisting it
What is Pros and Cons
Do things that you enjoy doing; making changes in your life so that positive events will happen more often in the future; building a life worth living
What is ENGAGING IN PLEASANT ACTIVITIES
Balancing opposites while entering the paradox of "yes" and "no," "true" and "not true," at the very same time
What is DIALECTICS?
Refraining from labeling experiences or individuals as good or bad.
What is Non-Judgmentally?
Letting go of fighting reality and understanding that there are some things that we can not change.
What is RADICAL ACCEPTANCE
When you are afraid-face your fears, when you are angry-smile
What is ACTING OPPOSITE TO CURRENT EMOTIONS
This state of mind is logical, task-Focused, and without regard for feelings or values.
What is Reasonable Mind?