Health Triangle
Physical, Mental/Emotional, and Social
What are the three sides to the health triangle?
True or False:
Empathy means feeling sorry or pity for someone else.
FALSE: Sympathy involves feeling sorry or pity for someone, whereas Empathy involves understanding and sharing another person’s feelings.
Name two Primary Emotions
Happy, Sad, Angry, Scared, Disgust, Suprise
This is the word for how you feel inside, like happy, sad, or angry.
What is an emotion?
Saying “please” and “thank you” are simple ways to show this positive behavior.
What is kindness?
Exercise
What is an example of the physical side of the health triangle?
Name two ways one could show empathy.
Helping Behaviors, Active Listening, Sharing, Compliments, Support, Validation
Hot/Sweaty, Tense muscles, fast heart beat, clenched fists/jaw
What are symptoms of Anger?
This emotion is often felt when something good happens, and it may make you smile or laugh.
What is happiness (or joy)?
Holding the door open or helping someone carry something heavy are examples of doing this for others.
What is helping others (or showing kindness)?
Learning how to handle stress and expressing how your feeling in a healthy way.
What is the Mental/Emotional side of the health triangle?
There is a new student in your class. How might they be feeling? And how could you show empathy?
Nervous/Anxious; Sit by them, befriend them, ask them to join you...
One positive way to express anger instead of yelling or hitting is to do this with your thoughts or feelings.
What is talking calmly about them or writing them down?
This emotion might cause someone to cry or feel down after losing something important.
What is sadness?
This type of kindness involves using your words to make someone feel good, like giving a compliment.
What is verbal kindness?
Making friends and interacting with others.
What is the Social side of the Health triangle?
True or False:
You should try to show empathy all the time, every day.
False:
By being emotionally available for others all the time, even through your own emotional and stressful periods, one can experience fatigue at a psychological, emotional, and physiological level.
Combining emotional awareness and kindness, this is when you notice how someone else is feeling and do something to help them feel better.
What is empathy?
This emotion can happen when you feel something is unfair and may cause your body to feel tense or hot.
What is anger?
Choosing to be kind to someone who has treated you unfairly shows this skill of managing your emotions and responding in a positive way.
What is self-control (or emotional control)?
Exercising, proper nutrition, friends, positive self-esteem and great study habits.
What is a balanced triangle?
John notices his brother seems annoyed that he hasn't gotten to use the computer all night. John is in the middle of a game so he tells his brother to find something else to do.
Is John showing empathy?
NO- John is not trying to consider his brother’s feelings or how he would feel if he were in his brother's shoes.
Instead of yelling when you feel upset, this type of statement helps you express your feelings by starting with “I feel…”
”What is an “I statement”?
This skill involves recognizing your own emotions and understanding why you feel that way.
What is self-awareness?
When you show kindness even when no one is watching or expecting it, you are demonstrating this personal trait.
What is character or positive values/beliefs?