Emotions
Name the basic emotion that fits with how you're feeling right now.
Mad, Sad, Glad, Afraid
True or False - Catastrophizing is focusing on the worst possible outcome
True
Name the basic emotion underneath anxiety
2 ways to slow your breathing
Long exhales
Shallow breathe until your body stops you
True or False - Emotions are facts
False - Emotions are data points that communicate to ourselves and others and motivate us to act.
When you only pay attention to what confirms what you already believe.
The automatic response to fear.
Flight, Fight, Freeze
What is the 3 Good Things exercise? (Hint: There are 2 parts)
Think of 3 things that felt good to you during the day and why they happened.
What is the most important question to ask yourself when you feel anxious?
Is this (d-----) or (d---------)?
Is this danger or discomfort?
Furious, Annoyed, and Bugged are all words to describe this basic emotion.
Anger
Share about a time when you jumped to a conclusion.
What's name it to tame it?
- Identify emotion
- Shut off amygdala
- Use feeling as information
How can you deal with muscle tension?
Hold tension in your muscles for 1 minute.
Progressive muscle relaxation - tensing and relaxing each muscle group.
Change this into an I statement: You didn’t call me like you said you would!
I feel worried when I don’t hear from you.
What are the 4 major feeling groups?
Glad, Mad, Sad, Afraid
True or false - Overgeneralizing is a good thing
False - Overgeneralizing is taking a single instance of something happening and assuming it will continue to happen
Question to replace "what if..." thinking
Hint: So ____?
So what?
What's 5-4-3-2-1 grounding?
Noticing 5 things you see, 4 things you can touch/feel, 3 things you hear, 2 things you smell, and 1 thing you taste.
Name something that makes you angry
What are the 6 basic emotions?
sadness, happiness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust
Name this thinking error: Seeing things in extremes. Either all good or all bad.
Black and White Thinking / All or Nothing Thinking
The part of the brain that senses danger
Amygdala
Give an example of a mindfulness exercise
Noticing your senses, surroundings, an object
- Leaves on a stream, cloud in the sky
________ means to connect with something in myself that knows that feeling.
Empathy