Introduction
Mindfulness is awareness of the _________.
What is present-moment?
Name the object the lesson uses as an analogy when it refers pushing away/down our emotions.
What is a beach ball?
_____ creates our understanding of reality.
What is words?
So many people are plagued by ______ and depression.
What is anxiety?
Name one get to know you activity we have done as a group.
Jenga, the ball game.
ACT stands for what?
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
______ is the key to stopping suffering and to minimizing the destructive impact of unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
What is Acceptance?
_____ is an inescapable part of life.
What is pain?
Informal mindfulness is what?
What is the development of sinful states of being in normal life through conscious effort?
Name two of the card categories in therapy Jenga.
Emotions, Deep Thoughts, Get to Know You, Action/Trivia
___________ is a formal means of developing mindfulness.
What is meditation?
_____ a situation also stops us from seeing what is really happening.
What is judging?
When I taught this lesson last week I used what metaphor/analogy to explain our thoughts.
What is a bus?
_____ is contained in the future, while ______ is contain in the past.
What is fear and sadness?
Joe used an analogy when we were processing what was the analogy?
The pain box.
Overcoming substance addition is a life-long task that requires _____, _____, and _______.
What is effort, self-honesty, and vulnerability?
To find peace of mind, it is important that we stop rejecting life as it is and learn to accept life on its ___ _____.
What is own terms?
The goal of cognitive defusion is to what?
What is "hold our thoughts lightly" or recognize them as "just thoughts?"
The observing self is what?
What is the "viewpoint from which we can observe thoughts and feeling s and a space in which those thoughts and feeling can move?"
We read from the big book last week can you name one job the character had.
What is an accountant, selling hosiery, selling printers.
Name the five of the six core principals to ACT.
1) Acceptance 2) Cognitive De-fusion 3) Present-Moment Focus 4) Connecting with the Observing Self 5) Identifying Values 6) Committed Action
Judging is rejecting that which is for that which we ____ ____.
What is wish was?
Though pain is never far away, ______ is a choice.
Name one informal and formal mindfulness activity mentioned in the reading.
What is dishes or eating, meditations retreats or Zen centers?
Dialectal means what in Dialectal Behavioral Therapy. (Megan mentioned this in her lesson on DBT.)
What is 2 ideas can both be true at the same time?