Skills Training
What is the general goal of Skills Training?
To learn how to change your own behaviors, emotions, and thoughts that are linked to problems in living and are causing misery and distress.
What is Wise Mind?
The wisdom within each person, bringing the left brain and right brain together.
What do each of us have, that some of us struggle to use?
Inner Wisdom
Emotion Regulation Skills help us to:
enhance the control of our emotions, even though emotional control cannot be achieved.
What is Reasonable Mind?
When you are ruled by facts, logic, and reason.
List one suggested idea for practicing Wise Mind from this session?
Stone flake on the lake, Walking down the spiral stairs, Breathing "Wise" in, "Mind" out, Asking Wise Mind a question, Asking is this Wise Mind?, Attending to your breathe coming in and out, Expanding awareness, Dropping into the pauses between inhaling and exhaling.
Distress Tolerance Skills help us to:
tolerate and survive crisis situations
What is Emotion Mind?
When you are being ruled by your moods, feelings, and urges to do or say things.
Mindfulness Skills Help us to:
focus our attention to the present moment, noticing both what is going on within ourselves and outside ourselves.
True or False: "Bringing the left brain and the right brain together is practicing Reasonable Mind."
False
Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills help us to:
They help us to maintain and improve relationships with both personal relationship and strangers.
When someone is cool, task-focused and rational they are in what state of mind?
Reasonable Mind