the brain
The largest part of the brain.
What is the cortex?
The amount of time it takes for intense emotion or neural activity to peek then begin to subside.
What is 90 seconds?
How you feel when you get something you want.
What is feeling good?
This practice is used to notice and label sequences of thoughts as they naturally arise indoor awareness.
What is thought bubble?
When your fists tighten and your ears get hot.
What is feeling anger?
This part of the brain keeps developing until we are 30.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
The happiness chemical or neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
A simple term to describe how you feel when you don't get something you want.
What is bad?
In this practice sending wellness wishes to loved ones, friends, pets, your self, and even strangers cultivates compassion.
What is love and kindness?
Surges in passion, creativity, and imaginative thinking all characterize this period of development.
What is adolescence?
The part of the brain that is responsible for thoughtful decision making.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
The amygdala takes in sensory information and triggers these survival impulses.
What are fight, flight, and freeze?
How you feel when you don't get something you don't want.
What is relief?
Following the natural inhalation and exhalation of air through your nose, mouth, lungs and softened belly.
What is mindful breathing?
Paying attention to what is happening in the present moment with a particular intention and with out judgements.
What is mindfulness?
This transmits information from the body, heart, and gut, and is the first part of the brain to develop in utero.
What is the brain stem?
Negative emotional outbursts interfere with this.
What is pre-frontal cortex functioning?
How you feel when you get something you don't want.
What is distress?
Slowing down and experiencing your senses while ingesting food.
What is seeing freshly or eating meditation?
Sitting with your spine upright yet relaxed, with your eyes closed or softly gazing at a color or shape in front of you, with your feet flat on the ground.
What is a posture for mindfulness?
The system of the brain that regulates emotions, motivation, focus, memory, and relatedness.
What is the limbic system?
Doing something with a group that you would not do alone can be a result of this.
What is peer pressure?
Emotions that wash through you, are a response to what is happening in the moment, are appropriate in size, are a universal response, and leave you feeling calm when the are fully experienced to their completion.
What is a primary emotion?
Moving your awareness to focus on different parts of your anatomy, feeling sensations, and intending to relax.
What is a body scan?
Using your imagination to visualize a night sky and allowing your awareness to explore the feeling of infinite space.
What is an open awareness practice?