Setting Boundaries
Essential to being a healthy person who enjoys healthy relationships.
What are healthy boundaries?
Our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes can positively or negatively affect our biological functioning.
WHAT IS MIND-BODY CONNECTION?
Taking a look at your own thoughts, feelings, behavior, and motivations, and asking why.
What is the practice of self-exploration?
Classical music, upbeat music and smooth jazz
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2. Immediately replace the negative thought with a positive thought.
What is how to Reduce Negative Talk?
The places where one person ends and another begins. It’s where our values, beliefs, and emotions meet
What are boundaries?
Patient support groups, Cognitive-behavioral therapy, Meditation, Prayer, Yoga, Creative arts therapies (art, music, or dance), Tai chi, Hypnosis, Guided imagery
What is Mind-body therapies?
Myself - The human being
What is the main focus of self-exploration?
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Negative self-talk encourages us to feel shame or guilt which are often considered stepping stones towards relapse, re-program the way we perceive ourselves, and, in turn, the way we communicate with others.
Why is Positive Self-Talk Important During Addiction Recovery?
Improve your self-esteem and sense of self, improve your relationships, preserves your energy
What are the benefits of setting boundaries?
Improves strength, balance, and flexibility. Slow movements and deep breathing increase blood flow and warm up muscles while holding a pose can build strength.
What is Yoga
Distraction, exhaustion, past trauma
What are the three main challenges to self-exploration?
Slowest measurable brainwave band and are most prevalent during deep, dreamless stages of sleep.
What are Delta brainwaves?
Decreased anxiety, Development of healthy coping strategies, especially during challenging times, Decreased feelings of depression, An improved self-image, increased self-confidence
What are the Benefits of Positive Self-Talk?
Your culture and religion, your lived experiences, your family dynamics, how extroverted or introverted you are
What are boundaries influenced by?
To stop negative cycles such as these by breaking down things that make you feel bad, anxious, or scared.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Pen your memoir, compose a letter for a time capsule, write your own obituary, create a family tree, start a dream journal, reflect on your best and worst days
What are ways to expand your self-knowledge?
Those who listened to jazz music experienced a 21% decrease
What is pain?
1. Great things will happen in my life today. 2. I choose happiness. 3. I am becoming a better person every day. 4. I am at peace with my life. 5. I have the ability to achieve my goals. 6. I love myself.
What are affirmations?
Know your rights, Find your core values, establish your limits, and communicate your limits, maintain your limits.
What are the 5 best boundary setting exercises?
It generates energy through thinking, feeling, and choosing. Its hardware allows us to experience these mental states.
Why are the mind and brain different?
It's easier to state your beliefs and hold your ground with conviction when you've done the work to understand where they come from and why they are important to you. Personal reflection provides more compassion towards yourself.
What is confidence?
Famous jazz musician once said that music can “change the thinking of people.”
Who is John Coltrane?
1. Keep repeating the positive self-talk to yourself. 2. Record them down and place them prominently in your home. 3. Use short cue words to remind yourself of positive thoughts.
What are ways to Increase Positive Self Talk?