breathing techniques
This simple technique involves breathing in for 4 counts, holding for 4, and exhaling for 4.
What is Box Breathing?
This yellow, blocky video game character earned the nickname "Puck-Man" when first released in Japan in 1980.
Who is Pac-Man?
This popular technique uses your 5 senses to bring you back to the present moment during high stress.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique?
In 1969, he became the first human to step onto the surface of the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
It is the only element on the periodic table whose chemical symbol is a single letter "O."
What is Oxygen?
True or False: Mindful breathing requires you to force your breath to slow down immediately.
What is false? (It starts by simply noticing the breath as it is.)
In this hit TV series, characters play a tabletop game called Dungeons & Dragons in the basement of the Wheeler family home.
What is Stranger Things?
In the 5-4-3-2-1 technique, this sense corresponds to finding 4 things around you.
What is touch/feeling?
This country was the first to grant women the right to vote in national elections, doing so in 1893.
What is New Zealand?
The chemical process plants use to convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into oxygen and glucose.
What is Photosynthesis?
This physical anchor, often felt in the belly, chest, or nostrils—helps bring your attention back when your mind wanders during practice.
What is the breath anchor / focus point?
She became the youngest person to win all four major entertainment awards (EGOT) status in 2020.
Who is Jennifer Hudson?
Sound meditation asks you to listen to noises around you without doing this to them.
What is judging or labeling them (as "good" or "bad")?
In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered this substance, the world's first effective antibiotic.
What is Penicillin?
This marine creature is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth.
What is the Blue Whale?
This grounding exercise uses the breath alongside counting backward from 10 to clear mental noise.
What is a breath-counting meditation?
This 1994 film won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Tom Hanks.
What is Forrest Gump?
The mindfulness concept of watching thoughts pass by like clouds in the sky, without getting attached to them.
What is non-attachment / non-judgmental awareness?
She was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, accomplishing the feat in 1932.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Located beneath the Pacific Ocean, this ocean trench contains the deepest known point on Earth.
What is the Mariana Trench?
"Self-compassion is a permanent trait, you either have it or you don't."
It is a trainable skill that builds over time through repeated neural habit changes.
In the video game The Legend of Zelda, this small recurring companion frequently yells "Listen!" to guide the hero.
Who is Navi?
This three-word phrase reminds us that experiencing difficult emotions is a shared human experience, not a personal flaw.
What is common humanity?
Launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union, this was the world's first artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik 1?
This term describes the phenomenon where two particles remain connected so that actions performed on one affect the other, even at vast distances.
What is Quantum Entanglement?