Motivation & Mindfulness
This is what we do before starting group to share where you are at with yourself and each other.
What is a relational check-in?
This is what represents your emotional experience of that day in one snapshot.
This includes thoughts, physical sensations, and behaviors/urges.
What is the a 3-component model?
This exists deep within our brains, and they influence how we think about multiple situations.
What is core beliefs?
This refers to any strategies we might use to avoid feeling strong emotions or to prevent our emotions from becoming more intense.
What is emotional avoidance?
This is what DARN-C stands for.
This emotion helps us do our best and anticipate possible challenges that would arise.
What is anxiety?
This is what helps understand how emotional experiences unfold over time.
What is the ARC?
This is when you automatically predict that the worst possible scenario is going to happen, without considering other possible outcomes.
What is catastrophizing?
This concept is when people are asked to not think about something, they actually become overly focused on it and cannot help but think about it.
What is the Paradoxical Effect of Suppression?
This is what we do when we think of a situation in your life that is difficult, that is causing you stress, calling the situation to mind, and seeing if you can atually feel the stress and emotional discomfort in your body.
What is a self-compassion break?
This is when reactions are functional, adaptive, helpful AND and directly related to the cues in the situation/memory.
What is primary emotions?
This information influences how we respond to future situations.
What is Consequences?
The function of this tool is to bring about insight and facilitate new learning, which may not be a ‘feel-good’ experience.
What is the downward arrow?
The three types of emotional avoidance.
What is subtle behavioral avoidance, cognitive avoidance, and safety signals?
This exercise was designed to help people directly address ambivalence for change by exploring the pros and cons (benefits and risks) of both stating the same and changing.
What is a decisional-balance worksheet?
This is being aware of how our body feels in certain emotions can be extremely helpful in telling us when there’s a threat or connection or safety is compromised.
What is physical sensations?
This pertains to anything that happened minutes, hours, or days prior to the emotional response.
What is earlier antecedents?
The goals of this concept is to increase flexibility in your thoughts.
What are cognitive appraisals?
These are avoidant behaviors, while relieving us from the experience of intense or uncomfortable emotions in the short term, can actually limit our lives in important ways, or even be harmful.
What are Emotion-Driven Behaviors?
These are the four concepts to remember when thinking about mindfulness.
Paying attention (1) on purpose, (2) with purpose, (3) in the present moment, and (4) without judgement.
This is when emotions are often not based upon the present moment context; they are often based upon what has happened before, or what we think might happen in the future.
What is secondary emotions?
You are expected to utilize the ARC this many times a day.
What is TWO?
This can reduce our flexibility when we encounter certain situations, and this can maintain and reinforce the negative thoughts and emotional response cycle.
What are thinking traps?
These are what we might try instead of that (ED) behavior.
What is opposite action?