Basics
The practice of paying attention to the present moment without judgement.
What is mindfulness?
A part of our body that helps us think, where we have memories, and makes us smart.
What is the brain?
After you breathe in, you usually do this.
What is breathe out?
This game is often played in mindfulness class to practice mindful listening, where you listen to the bell and count on your fingers.
What is the wa-wa game?
Since none of our emotions are bad, all emotions are our _______
What are friends?
We practiced 7 of these in mindfulness to build our abilities.
What are mindful skills?
This part of our brain, also called the prefrontal cortex, helps us think before we act, make good decisions, and control our emotions.
What is the upstairs brain?
This part of our mindful chant describes how to sit with your back straight and have good posture during a mindful sit.
What is "I've got my spine in a line?"
This is where your hands should be during a mindful sit.
What is your lap?
Emotions come and go just like ________.
What are visitors?
We create mindful _________ instead of reacting.
What are responses?
This part of our brain, also called the amygdala, is where we act before we think like our fight or flight response.
What is the downstairs brain?
This is where your feet should be during a mindful sit.
What is the floor?
This is how many anchor spots we have.
What are 3 anchor spots.
We fill this by being kind to others and kind to ourselves.
What is my bucket?
This is a PEACE agreement that helps remind us to keep our hands to ourselves.
What is body awareness?
This is something the amygdala set off when we think that we're in danger.
What is an alarm?
The practice of paying attention to our breath in the present moment.
What is mindful breathing?
During mindful breathing, we use one of these three parts of our bodies to focus on our breath.
What are anchor spots?
This is the name for how we send kindness and love to other and ourselves in mindfulness.
What is Heartfulness?
We flip our ___ when a big emotion comes to visit and we don't use our skills to calm down.
What is our lid?
The scientific name for our downstairs brain.
What is the amygdala?
This is our third anchor spot after our belly and chest.
What is your nose?
This is the name of a mindful skills in which we pay attention to one part of our bodies at a time.
What is mindful body awareness?
This is the practice of noticing our thoughts and naming whether they are in the past, present, or future.
What is mindful thinking?