STATES OF MIND
This state of mind is logical, fact-based, and focused on planning.
What is Reasonable Mind?
This skill involves noticing thoughts, feelings, and sensations without changing them.
What is Observe?
This skill means not judging experiences as good or bad.
What is Non-judgmentally?
This technique involves focusing on your inhale and exhale.
What is Attending to your breath?
Mindfulness helps create this between urge and action.
What is a pause?
This state of mind is driven by feelings, urges, and impulses.
What is Emotional Mind?
This skill involves putting words to your internal experience.
What is Describe?
This skill means focusing on one thing at a time.
What is One-mindfully?
This practice involves asking yourself, “What is the wise choice right now?”
What is Asking Wise Mind a question?
This is what urges are considered in mindfulness (temporary or permanent?).
What is temporary?
This state of mind combines logic and emotion into balance.
What is Wise Mind?
This skill means fully engaging in the present moment.
What is Participate?
This skill means doing what works rather than what is “right.”
What is Effectively?
This technique uses the words “Wise” (in) and “Mind” (out) while breathing.
What is Breathing Wise Mind?
This is what mindfulness helps you do instead of reacting.
What is respond?
This state of mind often leads to impulsive behaviors and relapse if unmanaged.
What is Emotional Mind?
This “what” skill helps create distance from emotions by labeling them.
What is Describe?
This “how” skill helps reduce emotional suffering caused by self-criticism.
What is Non-judgmentally?
This visualization involves going deeper into yourself using stairs.
What is Walking down spiral stairs?
This is what you gain when you use Wise Mind in recovery decisions.
What is balance? (or healthy choices)
This state of mind may ignore emotions and feel overly rigid or disconnected.
What is Reasonable Mind?
This skill requires you to let go of self-consciousness and fully enter the moment.
What is Participate?
This skill helps reduce overwhelm by narrowing your focus to one task or moment.
What is One-mindfully?
This technique focuses on the stillness between breaths.
What is The pause between inhale and exhale?
This is the cycle mindfulness helps interrupt: Trigger → ___ → Behavior
What is urge? (or reaction)