Mind Your Mind
Mindfulness
What is the foundation of DBT?
Everyone
Who is doing the best they can?
Observe, Describe, Participate
What are the WHAT skills?
Finding balance between opposites.
What is walking the middle path?
Fully accepting reality exactly as it is.
What is radical acceptance?
Awareness in the present moment.
What is mindfulness?
High Emotional Sensitivity + Invalidating Environment
What leads to emotion dysregulation?
Awareness of thoughts
What is mindfulness of current thoughts?
Non judgement interest and inquiry.
What is curiosity?
Refusing to do what is it needed to meet your goals.
What is willfullness?
Life as it is. All that is real.
What is reality?
To improve
What do all people want?
Nonjudgementaly, Effectively, One Mindfully
What are the HOW skills?
Sending thoughts of warmth and compassion.
What is lovingkindness meditation?
Resentment, Jealousy, Envy, Being right, Blaming others, to name a few.
What gets in the way of accepting reality?
↓ Suffering ↑ Happiness ↑ Control of your mind Experience reality as it is
What are the goals of mindfulness?
Figuring out & changing the causes of your behavior.
People who negate, minimize or ignore your emotions.
What is an invalidating environment?
A way of understanding and reasoning that recognizes and integrates opposing viewpoints, contradictions, and change.
What is dialectical thinking?
Half Smile and Willing Hands
A mental event. A word, idea or image that comes into your mind.
What is a thought?
We didn't create all our problems but we must _____?
What is solving our own problems?
Doing just what is needed to get your goals met.
What is effectively?
A blending of emotion mind and rational mind.
What is wise mind?
Turning The Mind
What is noticing and acknowledging when you are fighting reality and choosing to turn toward acceptance?