Acronyms
The skill that is most effective when one's negative emotion is 10/10.
What is the TIPP skill?
The skill that activates the vagal nerve and kicks in your parasympathetic nervous system.
What is Temperature in TIPP, or more specifically, ice diving?
This part of the accepts skill is done when your grandma says, "Clean your plate. There are starving children in other countries."
You might look at these when you are having an urge to make the situation worse to help you remember what your wise mind says.
What are pros and cons of your target behavior?
An example of this would be, "It shouldn't be this way."
The words that make up the acronym from the 100 point question.
What are: Temperature, Intense Exercise, Paced Breathing, Progressive Muscle Relaxation.
This is a skill you might use when you are really angry to "work it out."
What is Intense Exercise (TIPP Skill)?
This skill is often confused with religion, but it's really about connecting to something bigger than yourself.
What is Prayer in the IMPROVE skill?
The acronym for ways to approaching a problem?
What is SCREW? (Solve it, Change your relationship to the problem, Radically Accept, Entertain Misery, Worsen the Problem)
Emotions that come up when we do not radically accept reality.
What is bitterness, anger, resentment, unbearable sadness, guilt about your own behavior, shame, or rage?
A dance might help you remember this skill.
What is the STOP skill?
This is the skill where you use all SIX senses.
What is self soothe with vision, smell, touch, hearing, taste, and movement?
This skill in the ACCEPTS acronym is sometimes confused with Self Soothing, but the difference is that this skill uses INTENSE experiences versus soothing experiences.
What is the Sensations skill?
This skill is made in a quadrant.
What is pros and cons?
These skills prompt your brain to move towards willingness.
This acronym helps you identify ways to distract yourself when your emotion is high.
What is the ACCEPTS skill.
This skill involves tensing and relaxing the muscles in your body.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This skill that is sometimes considered cheesy was made famous in the SNL skit, "Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley."
What is the Encouragement skill?
Stalking someone after a break-up would be a "yucky" way to approach a problem. (using two letters of the acronym to solve a problem).
What is EW? Entertain Misery and Worsen the problem.
This is the skill one uses when they lose their radical acceptance.
This set of skills might help you make the "moment" better.
What is IMPROVE the moment?
In order to get 500 points, you must demonstrate the dance that Dr. Overstreet's clients made up many years ago.
What is the STOP dance?
A myth about this skill is that it is "just giving up."
What is radical acceptance?
The extra columns in the pros and cons skill that help you make a healthy decision.
What are Short Term/Long Term and Reasonable, Wise, Emotional?
When your inner self (and maybe your outer self) is throwing a tantrum, we would call it this.
What is willfulness?