Mindfulness & Flow
This practice involves bringing your attention to the present moment without judgment.
What is Mindfulness?
This popular daily practice involves listing three good things that happened today and why they occurred.
What is the Three Good Things exercise?
This is the name of the popular psychological framework and test that identifies 24 universal human virtues.
What is the VIA Survey (Values in Action)?
Coined by Carol Dweck, this is the belief that your basic qualities and intelligence can be developed through dedication and hard work.
What is a Growth Mindset?
How old am I
27
Coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, this term describes being completely immersed and focused in an activity where time seems to fly by.
What is Flow?
This type of letter is written (and ideally read aloud) to someone who has made a massive positive difference in your life but whom you never properly thanked.
What is a Gratitude Visit (or Gratitude Letter)?
The top 5 strengths identified by the assessment mentioned above are referred to by this specific "authentic" term.
What are Signature Strengths?
Angela Duckworth defined this four-letter word as the combination of long-term passion and perseverance for a singular, meaningful goal.
What is Grit?
What city did I grow up in?
Colorado Springs
This quick breathing technique uses a 4-second inhale, 4-second hold, 4-second exhale, and 4-second hold to reset the nervous system.
What is Box Breathing (or Square Breathing)?
This evolutionary brain bias causes us to notice, react to, and remember negative experiences much more intensely than positive ones.
What is the Negativity Bias?
This virtue category includes strengths like bravery, perseverance, honesty, and zest.
What is Courage?
This is the psychological term for our internal self-talk and the explanations we give ourselves for why events happen.
What is Explanatory Style (or Attributional Style)?
Do I have any pets?
Yes! I have one cat
This cognitive distortion happens when we focus entirely on the negative details of a situation while ignoring all the positive ones.
What is Mental Filtering (or Selective Abstraction)?
This cognitive practice involves deliberately stretching out and lingering on a positive experience to maximize its emotional impact.
What is Savoring?
This occurs when you use a strength too much, such as when honesty turns into bluntness or caution turns into anxiety.
What is Overusing a strength (Strength Excess)?
When faced with a crisis, this resilient mindset involves asking yourself, "What is within my control right now?" instead of focusing on what isn't.
What is Agency (or internal locus of control / cognitive reframing)?
Who is my favorite group member?
Trick question - it's ALL of you :)
This is the psychological term for our tendency to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative life changes.
What is the Hedonic Treadmill (or Hedonic Adaptation)?
Research shows that practicing gratitude regularly can lower levels of this primary stress hormone in the human body.
What is Cortisol?
This specific strength involves a willingness to look at things from all sides and not jump to conclusions.
What is Open-Mindedness (or Judgment/Critical Thinking)?
This two-word concept describes the positive psychological changes that can occur in an individual following a major life crisis or trauma.
What is Post-Traumatic Growth?
What is my favorite color?
Pink