What is the Emotion?
Grounding Techniques
Questions about Emotions
Emotional Regulation & Distress Tolerance
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This natural emotion can range from mild irritation to intense fury.

What is anger?

100

Simple coping strategies/exercises designed to help people reconnect with the present moment by focusing on your body, surroundings, or senses when anxiety or intense emotions take over

What are grounding techniques

100

This visual tool often uses colors or zones to help people identify their emotions.

What is a feelings chart (or mood chart)?

100

This technique encourages accepting reality as it is, even when it’s painful.

What is radical acceptance?

100

This planet is known as the “Red Planet” due to its iron oxide surface.

What is Mars?

200

This emotion is typically associated with feeling threatened or unsafe.

What is fear?

200

This breathing exercise involves inhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 4, exhaling for 4, and holding again.

What is box breathing?

200

This category of emotions includes happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and surprise.

What are basic (or primary) emotions?

200

This technique includes holding ice, splashing cold water, or intense exercise to quickly reduce distress.

What is the TIPP skill (temperature, intense exercise, paced breathing, paired muscle relaxation)?

200

This actor portrayed Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Who is Robert Downey Jr.?

300

This emotion is often felt when something unexpected or shocking happens.

What is surprise?

300

This popular grounding method asks you to name 5 things you see, 4 you feel, 3 you hear, 2 you smell, and 1 you taste.

What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique?

300

This skill involves recognizing and naming what you’re feeling in the moment.

What is emotional awareness?

300

This concept involves recognizing that emotions rise, peak, and fall like a wave.

What is riding the wave (or urge surfing)?

300

This music video by Psy became the first YouTube video to reach one billion views.

What is “Gangnam Style”?

400

This basic emotion is often described as feeling upset due to loss or disappointment.

What is sadness?

400

Tensing and then slowly releasing different muscle groups. Reduces physical tension and helps signal to the body that it is safe to relax

What is progressive muscle relaxation?

400

This type of cue comes from your body, like a racing heart or tense muscles, helping you identify emotions.

What are physical (or bodily) signals?

400

This technique involves doing the opposite of what your emotional urge is telling you to do.

What is opposite action?

400

This sport uses terms like “love,” “deuce,” and “ace.”

What is tennis?

500

This emotion can arise when you feel embarrassed or believe you’ve done something wrong.

What is shame?

500

This grounding skill encourages focusing on the present moment instead of past or future worries.

what is mindfulness

500

This concept refers to the ability to recognize, understand, and manage emotions.

What is emotional intelligence?

500

This concept refers to reducing emotional vulnerability by taking care of physical health, like sleep and nutrition.

What is PLEASE skills (or self-care for emotional stability)?

500

This Italian polymath painted the Vitruvian Man and the Mona Lisa.  

Who is Leonardo da Vinci?