Heart the Season
Santa Skills
North of Feelings
Rodolphing
Santa's Little sweatshop
Peace-MASS, Christmas
Grinch of thoughts
100
Heart rate tends to be mechanical in rhythm like a metronome.
What is FALSE
100
What is Dialectical mean?
Two opposites can exist at the same time
100
When our brain (thinks) comes up with the worst-case scenario
Catastrophizing
100
Will Farrell's plays _____ in the movie, "Elf".
Buddy
100
This 4th-century bishop from Myra, known for his generosity, is considered the historical basis for Santa Claus.
Who is Saint Nicholas?
100
The morale was low this Christmas, and "he" was pushed out of NY and NJ into Pennsylvania during the _____ war.
Who is George Washington famous crossing the Delaware and the American Revolutionary War
100
This type of distorted thinking involves seeing things in only one way or other way categories, with no middle ground.
"I am starving and I love burgers but you dont have ketchup!? I don't even want it!"
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
200
HRV is an indication of how well your ______ nervous system is working.
What is Autonomic?
200
Watching or observing your thoughts, emotions and physical sensations without any judgment and a sense of curiosity
What is Mindfulness?
200
These Skills focus on regulating emotions from extreme to lower intensity
Emotional regulation skills
200
What is the name of the little girl in the Grinch
Who is Cindy Lou Who?
200
There are this many candles on a menorah.
What is 8?
200
This Christmas both side decided to call it a truce for Christmas and in fact they exchanged addresses to hang out after the war is over.
What is the first WW 1914 Christmas truce?
200
When someone jumps to conclusions without evidence, often assuming the worst, they’re engaging in this cognitive distortion.
What is catastrophizing?
300
As you get older, your HRV gets better
FALSE until 65 years old.
300
Take the middle path (DBT Skill)
What is the Wise Mind?
300
True or False: We can avoid suffering and painful experiences
False
300
This movie begins on Thanksgiving day and ends on Christmas day and features a costume, bubble gum, letters and a new house.
What is "Miracle on 34th Street"?
300
In 1823, this famous poem introduced the idea of Santa Claus riding in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer.
What is "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (or "The Night Before Christmas")?
300
In 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, Allied soldiers celebrated Christmas under siege in this snowy Belgian town.
What is Bastogne?
300
CBT teaches individuals to challenge these automatic, negative interpretations of situations that often happen without conscious thought.
What are automatic negative thoughts?
400
The lower your breathing rate is the better HRV
Incorrect
400
This skill involves slow down your breathing and using the breathing to hack into your brain while observing your physiology live.
HRV biofeedback
400
Name the basic feelings
FEAR, ANGER, SAD, DISGUST, HAPPY
400
Often soaked in spirits and traditional made with candied fruit and nuts, this is commonly served in celebration of Christmas.
What is Fruitcake
400
The name "Santa Claus" evolved from "Sinterklaas," a traditional figure celebrated in this European country.
The Netherlands
400
In 1916, during World War I, a Christmas message from King George V was sent to troops on this material, which could be used to roll cigarettes.
What is a silk handkerchief?
400
This distorted thought pattern involves blaming oneself for events outside their control.
What is personalization?
(internalzing is also accpeted)
500
This number is personalized to each individual for HRV training and ranges from 4-7 BPM.
Resonance Frequency
500
Learned practice or skill where people choose to accept a situation as it is, recognizing that it is out of their control but they can work on changing the next moment.
Radical Acceptance
500
What could be the opposite "black and white" or "all or nothing" thinking
Thought Court
Wise Mind
Middle path skills
500
This was the fairytale that inspired gingerbread houses.
What is Hansel and Gretel ?
500
The modern image of Santa Claus as a jolly, red-suited figure was popularized in the 1930s by _______ .
Coca-Cola Company
500
In December 1941, just weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill spent Christmas in this city, attending services with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What is Washington, D.C.?
500
When someone focuses only on the negatives of a situation and ignores the positives, they are engaging in this thought distortion.
What is mental filtering? (or Magnification)
600
HRV during a fight or flight tends to be chaotic and more variable. (T/F)
False
600
What does STOP stand for? (DBT)
S-Stop
T-Take a step-back
O-Observe what is around you
P-Proceed mindfully
600
It is a form/style of thinking where we are being SURE what the other person is thinking.
What is mind reading?
600
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer first appeared in a 1939 booklet created as a holiday promotion for this department store.
What is Montgomery Ward?
600
Which group of immigrants brought the culture of Santa Claus to NY?
The Dutch immigrants
600
This holiday song, famously performed by Bing Crosby during World War II, became a favorite among soldiers longing for home at Christmas.
White Christmas
600
This type of thinking involves assuming that feelings reflect facts, such as believing "I feel guilty, so I must have done something wrong."
What is emotional reasoning?
700
The information highway of the brain and its your 10th cranial nerve.
The Vagus Nerve
700
Exposure of face or body to this fundamental element in nature can effect the way feel rapidly but it has to low tempatures.
What is cold water?
700
Emotions normally last for ___ to ____ minutes.
What is 10 to 20 minutes?
700
The 1964 stop-motion TV special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" introduced this character, who wanted to be a dentist.
Who is Hermey the Elf?
700
This medieval English Christmas character, known as "________," was more associated with feasting and merrymaking than with gift-giving.
Who is Father Christmas?
700
During the American Civil War, this iconic Union general sent a telegram to President Lincoln on Christmas Day 1864, presenting the city of Savannah as a “Christmas gift” after his famous March to the Sea.
General William Tecumseh Sherman?
700
This type of cognitive distortion involves predicting negative outcomes without evidence, often referred to as _______.
Hint: NOT the worse case scenario
What is "fortune-telling"?