Name the skill:
When you are eating, eat. When you are walking, walk.
One-Mindfully
200
Distress Tolerance is...
Learning to cope with painful events.
200
The three mindfulness skills are:
1) Wise Mind
2) "What" Skills
3) "How Skills
200
Why do we use "what" skills?
To fully participate in what we are doing.
200
How skills are:
* HOW we practice mindfulness
200
When we being mindful of our senses in an experience we focus on:
* What we see
* What we hear
* What we feel/touch
* What we smell
* What we taste
300
Thinking dialectically is...
* balancing both sides
* no one person is wrong or right
* the middle path
* compromise
* all perspectives are valid and considered
* flexible thinking
300
Wise Mind is the balance of what two other states of mind?
* Emotion Mind
* Reasonable Mind
300
Name the skill...
* Step back and be aware of the experience
* Notice without judging or labeling
* Taking in information and noticing new things
* Being aware of teflon mind vs. velcro mind
OBSERVE
300
Non-Judgmentally is:
* Things are not good or bad
* looking at JUST the FACTS
* Letting go of what is "fair" or "unfair", "right" or "wrong", what we "should" do/think, or shouldn't
* Not judging because judgments make emotions WORSE
300
Someone eats mindfully by:
* Experiencing the food
* ONLY eating
* Slowing down
* Noticing the many textures, smells, appearance, tastes, and sounds of the food
* Driven by emotions
* passionate
* can be intense
* can cause us problems if not balanced
* Feelings
400
DESCRIBE is:
* Using words to represent what you observe
* Sensing and evaluating what you are experiencing
* Noticing and knowing what you are thinking is JUST a thought, and not necessarily a fact
How can describe help us?
* Gets you out of the haze
* Gets you grounded
* Forces us to take a pause from our immediate reactions and feelings
400
Name the skill:
* Doing one thing at a time with full attention
* Letting go of distracting thoughts, feelings, or actions
* Concentrating your mind
* Doing one thing at a time
One-Mindfully
400
Name a type of mindfulness practice we have practiced together in class
Counted breaths, focusing on object, wise mind meditation
* Being in the zone
* Completely being one with an experience
* Fully and completely being a part of what we are doing
500
Being EFFECTIVE is...
* Doing what works in the situation
* Not always what you want to do
* Doing what will make things better, emotions aside
* Acting skillfully
* Keeping the eye on the prize
500
What area of DBT skills are you looking forward to the most?