Gratitude
An easy and effective way of retraining your brain to focus on the good by acknowledging the positives in your life.
What is Gratitude?
Thinking you know what will happen in the future, and that it will be bad.
What is Fortune Telling?
Spoon theory explains how people with disabilities and chronic health/mental health conditions deal with what?
What is Energy?
Seeing only the worst possible outcome of a situation.
What is catastrophizing?
What is a Fact?
Gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with this, due to the way it challenges negative thoughts and calms anxiety, leading to improved mood.
What is Happiness?
Believing you know what someone else is thinking or why they are doing something, without enough information to know, often assuming the worst.
What is Mind Reading?
What is ration?
The belief that thoughts, actions, or emotions influence unrelated situations.
What is a Fixed Mindset?
A way that gratitude works, assuming that the more thankful we feel, the more pro-socially we are likely to act towards others.
What is Increasing Empathy and Compassion?
Having a negative belief about yourself or someone else and thinking it applies to everything you/they do.
What is Negative Labeling?
Spoon theory was invented by Christine Miserandino, who had this chronic immune condition.
What is Lupus?
Interpreting the meaning of a situation with little or no evidence.
What is Jumping to Conclusions?
An effective way of retraining your brain to focus on the good.
What is gratitude?
A way that gratitude works, in which you bounce back from stressful events and work toward dealing with adversity by acting as a buffer against internalizing symptoms.
What is Increasing Resilience?
Blaming yourself for anything that goes wrong around you, even if you had nothing to do with it.
What is Self-Blaming?
In Spoon theory, we generally replace spoons daily by engaging in this activity.
The assumption that emotions reflect the way things really are.
What is a Growth Mindset?
Gratitude lights this up by flooding the brain with feel-good chemicals and sparking brain activity associated with mood regulation and metabolism.
What is the Brain's Reward System?
Believing that if you feel or believe something it must be true/factual.
People who use spoon theory to manage their energy call themselves this term.
Thinking in absolutes such as "always", "never", or "every".
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
Developing a Growth Mindset and practicing gratitude daily can help foster this, which is protective against hardships.
What is Resilience?