Managing Emotions
WHAT skills
HOW skills
ACCEPTS
IMPROVE
100
Skill that is related to meditation. Definition is:
the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis
What is Mindfulness?
100
These skills assist you in increasing attentiveness to your emotional and cognitive processes and consist of Observe, Describe, Participate.
What are the WHAT skills
100
The three skills that make up the HOW skills
What are non-judgemental, one-minded and effective?
100
Starting with the letter A, this is something that allows you to be involved in something other than the emotional experience. 
What are activities?
100
Acronym for potential options to choose from to address the current situation
What is IMPROVE?
200
these are the three states of minds
What are emotional, wise and Rational?
200
the skill that asks you to be "in the moment" and take note of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. It also asks you to let thoughts and emotions happen without reacting.
What is Observe?
200
The skill where you withhold your judgment, and simply observe it, note it, and let the thought move away.
What is non-judgemental?
200
Starting with the letter C- it is when you focus on an activity that helps others ex. volunteers, cooking for family, random acts of kindness, etc.
What is Contribute?
200
to absolve yourself of responsibility for as little as a few minutes to no more than 24 hours.
What is vacation?
300
when in this state of mind thoughts are driven by present emotional state
What is emotional mind?
300
The skill that defines your experience by using words to explain your thoughts and feelings
What is Describe?
300
The skill that requires you to maintain focus on the experience you are presently having.
What is one-minded?
300
Starting with the letter C- it is when you recognize the differences in situations.
What are comparisons?
300
A request to gain increased understanding. In a different context, it means to address God or a god in word or thought.
What is Prayer?
400
State of mind that is characterized by using logic and reason
What is the Rational mind?
400
The skill that involves you entering wholly into an activity, being present when engaging in an activity.
What is Participate?
400
The last skill in HOW skills- it allows you to experience and respond to the moment without concern for right or wrong.
What is Effective?
400
Starting with the letter E- instinctive feeling/state of mind that comes from circumstances, moods, relationships
What are Emotions?
400
This can be achieved through types of meditation such as controlled breathing exercises or progressive muscle ______.
What is relaxation?
500
the state of mind where there is a balance between the emotional and reasonable states of mind
What is the wise mind?
500
The skill that requires you to use only facts to explain this face
What is the Describe skill?
500
the type of judgment that determines whether two things are the same or different or whether something fits a particular standard. It is the type of judgment that we want to keep.
What are judgments that discriminate?
500
Starting with the letter T- an idea produced by thinking or occurs suddenly in the mind?
What are thoughts?
500
Starting with letter E- positive self-affirmations, words of ______. "I can do this" "I'm awesome"
What is encouragement?