States of Mind
In this state of mind your emotions influence your behavior.
What is emotion mind?
When you engage completely in an activity without self consciousness.
What is fully participate?
You see but you don't evaluate as good or bad. You are focused on just the facts.
What is Don't Judge?
The full name of DBT.
What is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy?
Name any of the other topics we cover in skills group.
What is Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Walking the Middle Path?
In this state of mind you are thinking with logic.
What is reasonable mind?
The first step in virtually every DBT skill.
What is observe?
When you are eating, eat.
What is Staying Focused?
When two opposite perspectives are true at the same time.
What are dialectics?
When you are slow to calm yourself down from high emotions.
What is Slow to Return to Baseline?
The combination between Rational Mind and Emotional Mind
What is wise mind?
Wordless watching.
What is observe?
When you focus on what works.
What is Do What Works?
This skill reduces suffering, increases happiness and helps to increase your ability to control your mind.
What is mindfulness?
It's how we get better at Mindfulness.
What is Practice?
When you are able to consider both your short term goals/urges and also your long term goals.
What is wise mind?
Using only your five senses to label what you have observed.
What is describe?
When you let go of Negative Emotions.
What is Doing What Works?
What are you not when you have eaten a full bag of potato chips and you cannot remember the flavor?
What is mindful?
The idea that in our genetics, when you feel high emotions, and you react quickly without thinking. You are_____ ______
What is highly reactive?
You hope to achieve this state by practicing the What and How Skills of mindfulness.
What is wise mind?
You are in the middle of the dance floor when your favourite song comes on. Your full attention is only on your experience of dancing.
What is fully participate?
When I put aside my phone to listen to my son tell me about his day.
What is Stay Focused?
The skill you use when you experience your emotions as they are. You do not push them away, make them worse or ignore them.
What is mindfulness to current emotion?
The theory of emotions within DBT that says emotion regulation is hard due to biological and social factors.
What is Biosocial Theory?