Feelings 101
This feeling often shows up when something important is missing from our life.
What is sadness?
A simple breathing technique: inhale for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 4.
What is box breathing?
This hormone is released during stress (also known as the “fight or flight” hormone).
What is cortisol?
This sweet food never spoils, with edible samples found in ancient Egyptian tombs.
What is honey?
This part of the brain is most active when we engage in creative thinking and problem solving.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This emotion can protect you and alert you to danger.
What is fear?
Writing down your feelings and thoughts can be called this.
What is journaling?
This chemical, often called the “feel-good” hormone, boosts happiness.
What is serotonin?
These predators existed about 50 million years before trees appeared on Earth.
What are sharks?
This famous artist is known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
Name 3 “hidden” ways anger can show up.
What are sarcasm, irritability, and shutting down?
Physical activity that can boost mood and reduce anxiety.
What is exercise?
True or false: The brain and gut are connected in mental health.
What is true?
This war lasted just 38 minutes, the shortest in recorded history.
What is the Anglo-Zanzibar War?
Listening to this genre of music, often called “Mozart Effect,” may temporarily boost spatial reasoning skills.
What is classical music?
This emotion often lies underneath anger.
What is hurt or fear?
This five-step method helps bring you back to the present using your senses.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique?
These two physical habits are most linked to improved mood.
What are sleep and exercise?
This university began teaching hundreds of years before the Aztec Empire rose.
What is Oxford University?
This process involves combining existing ideas in new ways to create something original.
What is divergent thinking?
This tool helps identify and name emotions visually.
What is a feelings wheel?
A creative way to express emotions without words.
What is art therapy?
This part of the brain helps with decision-making, impulse control, and reasoning and it's one of the last areas to fully develop.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This animal’s fingerprints are so similar to humans’, they can confuse crime scene investigators.
What is a koala?
This innovative thinker said, “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
Who is Albert Einstein?