Zones
Slow-moving zone you are in when you feel tired, sad, sick, or bored.
What is the Blue Zone?
A physical feeling in your eyes or body when you need sleep.
What is heavy (or tired/yawning)?
Two coping skills you can use to wake up your body when you feel sluggish.
What are stretching, taking a walk, or drinking water? (any activating strategies accepted).
This emotion happens when you are left out of a game or miss someone.
What is sad (or lonely)?
A common school trigger that might make a student feel bored.
What is school work or homework?
Stable zone where you feel calm, happy, focused, and ready to learn.
What is the Green Zone?
Your mouth does this when you are happy.
What is smile?
A positive self-talk phrase you can say to stay focused during a test.
What is "I can do this" (or "Just try my best")?
The emotion you feel when you are thankful for something nice a friend did.
What is grateful (or appreciated)?
This is what your breathing feels like when you are calm.
What is slow and steady (or normal)?
The zone you are in when your body starts to speed up, feeling excited, anxious, frustrated, or silly.
What is the Yellow Zone?
A physical warning sign in your stomach when you start to feel anxious or worried.
What are butterflies (or a tight stomach)?
A mindfulness coping skill where you trace the sides of a shape with your finger to slow down your breathing.
What is square breathing (or triangle breathing)?
An emotion where you feel slightly annoyed because things are not going your way, but you still have some control.
What is frustrated?
A common trigger that might make you feel frustrated and slide into the Yellow Zone during class.
What is having to redo work or being interrupted?
The extremely fast-moving zone where you experience intense emotions like anger, terror, or explosive elation, and feel out of control.
What is the Red Zone?
Your hands might do this automatically when you are angry.
What is clench into fists?
A tool that uses numbers 1 through 5 to help you measure how big your problem or emotion really is.
What is an emotional thermometer (or sizes of strategy scale)?
This emotion means you are so scared that your body completely freezes up or wants to run away.
What is terrified (or panicked)?
The number one thing you should do immediately when you hit the Red Zone to keep everyone safe.
What is take a break (or stop and take deep breaths)?
This is the scientific term for using a tool or strategy to change which color zone you are in.
What is self-regulation?
These are triggers that come from inside your own body, like being overly tired, sick, or hungry.
What are internal triggers?
This advanced grounding technique involves using your senses to name 5 things you see, 4 touch, 3 hear, 2 smell, and 1 taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
This word describes the feeling of having so many big emotions at once that your brain and body feel completely stuck or unable to think clearly.
What is overwhelmed?
This is the term for unexpected disruptions in your environment, like a sudden loud alarm, a schedule change, or someone invading your personal space.
What are external triggers?