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Wise Mind ACCEPTS
With:
Activities:
Engage in exercise or hobbies; do cleaning; go to events; call or visit a friend; play computer games; go walking; work; play sports; go out to a meal; have decaf coffee ot tea; go fishing; chop wood; do gardening; paly pinball...
Contributing:
Contribute to someone; do volunteer work; give something to someone else; make something nice for someone else; doa surpirsing, thoughtful thing.
Comparsions:
Compare yourself to people coping the same as you or less well than you. Compare yourself to those less fortunate than you. Watch soap operas; read aboput disatsers. other's suffering.
Emotions: (opposite)
Read emotional books or stories; old letters; go to emotional movies; listen to emotional music. Be sure the event creates different emotions. Ideas: scary movies, joke books, comdeies, funny records, religious music, marching songs (tubthumoing, I am Woman); going to a store and reading funny greeting cards.
Pushing Away:
Push the situation away by leaving it for a while. leave the situation mentally. Build an imaginary wall between yourself and the situation.
Or push the situation away by blocking it from your mind. Censor ruminating. Refuse to think about the painful aspects of the situation. Put the pain ona shelf. box it up and put it away for a while.
Thoughts: (other)
Count to ten; count colours in a painting ot tree; look out a window; do a puzzle; watch TV; read
Sensations: (other)
Hold ice in hand; squeeze a rubber ball very hard; stand under a very hot and hard shower; listen to very loud music; sex; put rubber band on wrist and snap it hard;
Wise Mind IMPROVES
IMPROVE the MOMENT
Replacing immediate negative events with more positive ones.
With:
Imagery:
Imagery can be used to distract soothe, bolster courage and confidence, make future rewards more slaient and change ones appraisal of the situtation.
Imagine a very relaxing scene. Imagine a secret room within yourself, seeing how it is decorated. Go into the room whenever you feel threatened. Close the door on anything that can hurt you. Imagine everything is going well. Imagine coping well. make up a fantasy world that is calming and beautiful let your mind go with it. Imagine hurtfull emotions draining out of you.
Meaning:
Changing one's appraisal of the situtaion. People need to find or create meaning in their lives to survive terrible suffering.
Find or create some purpose, meaning, or value in the pain. Remember, listen to or read about sipritual values. Focus on whatever positive aspects of a painfil situation you can find. Repeat them over and over in your mind. make lemonade out of lemons.
Prayer:
Accepting and letting go. The essence of prayer: a complete openness of yourself to the moment.
Open your heart to a supreme being, greater wisdom, God, your own wise mind. Ask for strength to bear the pain in this moment. Turn things over to your higher spirit.
Relaxation:
Changing bodily response to stress and crisis. Often people tense their bodies as to make the situation change. The body communicates with the mind; accepting with the body can help accepting with the mind.
Try muscle relaxing by tensing and relaxing each large muscle group, starting with your hands and arms, going from the top of your head and then working dwon; listen to a relaxation tape; exercise hard; take a hot bath; drink hot milk; massage your neck and scalp, your calves, your feet; Beathe deeply; half-smile; change facial expressions.
One thing in the moment:
Focusing on one thing in the moment can provide time to settle down. The only pain one must survive is in the moment. Forget past suffering oor future suffering. Be one with the moment.
Focus your entire attention on just what you are doing right now. Keep yourself in the very moment you are in; put your mind in the present.
Focus your entire attention on the physical sensations that accompany nonmental tasks (walking, washing dishes, cleaning, fixing). Be aware of how your body moves during each task. Be aware.
Vacation:
Cease to cope actively and either retreat into one's self or allow one's self to be taken care of for the moment.
Give yourself a brief vacation. get in bed ansd oull the covers up over your head fo 20 mins. Rent a motel room. Go to the beach or camping. Get a scholkey amagizne and some good treats and read the magazine while sooything taste. Sit in a blanket at the park. Take a 1 hour breather from hard work.
Encouragement:
This invloves changing appraisals of oneself Fome "I can't" to "I can". Cheerleading.
Cheerlead yourself. Repeat over and over "I can stand it" "It won't last forever" "I am doing the best I can".
Thinking of Pros and Cons
This invloves thinking about the positive and negative aspects of tolerating distress and the positive and begative aspects of not tolerating distress.
Make a list of the pros and cons of tolerating the distress. make another list of the pros and cons of NOT tolerating the distress.
Focus on long term goals. Remember times when the pain has ended.
Think of the positive consequences of tolerating the distress. Imagine in your mind how good it will feel if you achieve your goals, if you don't act impulsively.
Think of all the negative consequences of not tolerating your current distress. Remember what has happened in the past when you have acted impulsively to escape the moment.
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