Limbic System
The body's response to any outside demands.
What is stress?
A relaxation technique where you use a long breathing pattern to relax the body.
What is Paced Breathing or Deep Breathing?
This is a term that represents how much we value ourselves based on opinions and beliefs about ourselves.
What is Self-Esteem?
Activities that take care of your body such as exercise, sleep, and hygiene.
What is Physical?
This is the middle ground of an emotional mind and reasonable mind.
What is Wise Mind?
What is cortisol?
A skill where you use all of your senses to ground the body and reduce stress.
What is Soothing with the 5 Senses?
This term represents worry that is more powerful than the threat of the actual circumstance. It can be specific or about general worries.
Activities that take care of your need for connection with others such as visiting relatives, spending time with friends, or joining a team.
What is Social?
The skill of non-judgmentally observing a situation without the immediate reaction to change it.
What is Acceptance?
The front part of the brain that is responsible for regulating thoughts and emotions as well as rational thinking.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Observing your thoughts, emotions, and body sensations without judgement.
What is mindfulness?
The stress response your body has to a perceived extreme mental or physical threat.
What is Fight-Flight-and Freeze?
Activities that take care of someone's need for peace, gratitude, or faith.
What is Spirtual?
Distress Tolerance Skill
TIPP
Temperature
Intense Exercise
Paced Breathing
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
The middle part of the brain that is responsible for learning and memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
A skill where you form mental pictures that create a sense of calm and peace.
What is Visualization?
This is a term that represents recognizing or affirming a person's thoughts, emotions, or opinions without judgement.
What is validation?
Activities that take care of your need to have a calm mind, positive thoughts, and a sharp mind
What is Mental?
Interpersonal Effectiveness Skill to maintain and improve self-respect:
FAST
Fair
Apologize
Stick to your thinking
Truthful
The middle part of our brain that is responsible for stress response and emotional reactions.
What is the Amygdala?
A skill to reduce stress and tension by tensing and relaxing once muscle group at a time.
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation?
This is a communication style where the needs and values of both people are respected. It is defined by confidence and willingness to compromise.
What is Assertive Communication?
Activities that take care of our natural responses to daily life such as receiving or giving love, doing something we enjoy, or doing something that makes us laugh.
What is Emotional?
Distress Tolerance Skill
ACCEPTS
Activities
Contributing
Comparisons
Emotions
Pushing Away
Thoughts
Sensations