Mind Your Mind
The foundation of DBT is _________?
What is mindfulness?
Everyone
Who is doing the best they can?
Observe, Describe, Participate
What are the WHAT skills?
Walking The Middle Path
What path is about finding the balance between opposite pulls?
Fully accepting reality exactly as it is.
What is radical acceptance?
Awareness in the present moment.
What is mindfulness?
High Emotional Sensitivity + Invalidating Environment lead to _________?
What is emotion dysregulation?
Awareness of thoughts
What is Mindfulness of Current Thoughts?
Instead of thinking you know why somebody said or did what the did, try this using this ___________ to better. understand another's experience or point of view.
What is curiosity?
Refusing to do what is it needed to meet your goals.
What is willfullness?
Life as it is. All that is real.
What is reality?
Who wants to improve?
What is all people?
Nonjudgementaly, Effectively, One Mindfully
What are the HOW skills?
Sending thoughts of warmth and compassion.
What is lovingkindness meditation?
What is Resentment, Jealousy, Envy, Being Right, Blaming Others, Anger, Righteous Indignation
↓ Suffering ↑ Happiness ↑ Control Of Your Mind
What are the goals of mindfulness?
It works better than judging and blaming others for your behavior!
What is figuring out and changing the causes of your behavior?
People who negate, minimize or ignore your emotions.
What is an invalidating environment?
A way of understanding and reasoning that recognizes and integrates opposing viewpoints, contradictions, and change.
What is dialectical thinking?
Half Smile and Willing Hands
What are acceptance skills that engage your body?
A mental event. A word, idea or image that comes into your mind. It's involuntary!
What is a thought?
We didn't create all our problems but we must _____?
What is solving our own problems?
Doing just what is needed to get your goals met.
What is effectively?
A blending of emotion mind and rational mind.
What is wise mind?
Turning The Mind
What is noticing and acknowledging when you are fighting reality and choosing to turn toward acceptance?