Trauma
Examples of situations that causes what?:
What are some causes of trauma?
Responsible for triggering fight or flight stress response.
What is the amygdala?
A homemade container used for sensory engagement. Some of the ingredients are water and glitter.
What is a calming bottle or mindfulness jar?
focusing on what's good in our lives and being thankful for the things we have.
What is gratitude?
Any type of change that causes physical, emotional or psychological strain.
What is stress?
Things that we can do in-the-moment, when we are feeling lousy, to help us turn down the volume of our emotions and avoid getting overwhelmed.
What are coping skills?
A part of the brain that dominates the frontal lobe for executive function, planning complex cognitive behavior, decision making, and moderating certain social behaviors
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The amount of seconds that are needed to count down to a more calm state
What is 10 seconds or more?
Wocuses on your eating experiences, body-related sensations, and thoughts and feelings about food, with heightened awareness and without judgment.
What is mindful eating or tasting?
Hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something
What is Optimism?
To cause a strong emotional reaction of fear, shock, anger, or worry in someone, especially because they are made to remember something bad that has happened in the past
What is a trigger?
An almond shaped structure which is part of the limbic system encodes emotional stress messages for long term storage in the brain
What is then amygdala?
A mind and body practice with various styles of combined physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation or relaxation.
What is yoga?
Attending to whatever sounds are coming to your ears in each moment.
What is mindful hearing?
The perception of threat activates the sympathetic nervous system and triggers an acute stress response that prepares the body to fight or flee.
What is flight or fight response?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
What is emotional trauma called?
a neurotransmitter produces a feeling of pleasure
What is dopamine?
To focus your attention on your breathing to its natural rhythm and flow and the way it feels on each inhale and exhale.
What is mindful breathing?
The practice of consciously noticing everything within your visual field
What is mindful seeing?
The total of all coherence scores awarded every 5 seconds during a session.
What is the Achievement score?
Make you more vulnerable to developing mental health problems
What are the effects of PTSD?
a brain structure that compares new learning to past learning and encodes information from working memory to long term storage
What is the hippocampus?
An activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness
What is exercise?
Tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen
What is pessimistic?
A hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, especially in conditions of stress, increasing rates of blood circulation, breathing, and carbohydrate metabolism and preparing muscles for exertion.
What is adrenaline?