Mind States
The dialectic between feeling and thinking.
What is Wise Mind?
Name what you OBSERVE when you are observing.
What are the five senses (of my internal experience and my environment)?
This skill has you pay attention to one thing in the present moment.
What is One-Mindfulness?
A label, opinion, or assumption.
What is a judgment?
Reviewing the Mindfulness skills between the other skill sets is important because...
Mindfulness is Core or central to other skills. Awareness and pattern recognition make all the other skills work the best.
When in Feeling Mind, this drives your behavior.
What are emotions or feelings?
Use this when you DESCRIBE.
What is NJS?
This skill has you focus on what works.
What is Effectiveness?
NJS focuses on this.
What are facts?
Explain a recent time you used One-Mindfully.
How did it help you?
Explain a recent time you used One-Mindfully.
How did it help you?
When in Thinking Mind, this drives your behavior.
What is logic or reason?
What is Observe, Describe, Participate?
List the 3 HOW skills.
What is One-Mindfulness, Effectiveness, and NJS?
What is safety?
Explain a recent time you used Effectiveness.
What was your goal/ end-game?
What options did you have?
What did you do?
How did it help you?
Explain a recent time you used Effectiveness.
What was your goal/ end-game?
What options did you have?
What did you do?
How did it help you?
Mindfulness is living in the _______.
What is the present moment?
I gain this by Observing and Describing my situation before Participating in it.
What is information?
To remove labels and stick to facts to improve relationship functioning and reduce distress.
What is NJS?
Intensified feelings. Ruptured friendships. Missed opportunities due to closed doors. Low self-worth. General inaccuracies/ misinformation.
What are problems with judgments?
Explain a recent time you used NJS.
How did it help you?
Explain a recent time you used NJS.
How did it help you?
Name the goal(s) of Mindfulness.
What is to increase awareness, recognize patterns, reduce anxiety/increase calm, and to feel more in control.
Using the WHAT skills gets to this Mind State and helps you stay there.
What is Wise Mind?
To use this skill you (first) choose your goal then (second) consider options to meet that goal.
Describe 1 method to noticing (and reducing) your judgements.
What is "Catch it. Check it. Change it.?"
What is T.H.I.N.K.?
What is 'would I say this to my grandmother?'
Name the 4 skill sets you learn in DBT.
What set of skills will you learn next?
What are:
Core Mindfulness.
Distress Tolerance!!
Emotion Regulation.
Interpersonal Effectiveness.