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How You Thinks Affects How You Feel Presented by: Caren Baruch-Feldman

How You Thinks Affects How You Feel Presented by: Caren Baruch-Feldman. LMK, Harrison . Experiment 1. What Do You See? Look around the room and try to find all the examples of RED you can see. What have you spotted?. Experiment 2.

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How You Thinks Affects How You Feel Presented by: Caren Baruch-Feldman

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  1. How You Thinks Affects How You Feel Presented by: Caren Baruch-Feldman LMK, Harrison

  2. Experiment 1 What Do You See? Look around the room and try to find all the examples of RED you can see. What have you spotted?

  3. Experiment 2 Picture yourself in the following situation: You are standing in line at the bank. There are about 50 people around. A robber enters and fires his weapon. You get shot in the arm, but no one else is hurt. Would you consider yourself lucky or unlucky?

  4. Experiment 3: What Do You See?

  5. WORRY

  6. When Some Concern is Appropriate

  7. The Yerkes-Dodson Law of Arousal • Performance increases with stress, but only to a certain point: when levels of stress become too high, performance will decrease.

  8. How Can You Turn Your Worry Into an Appropriate Level of Concern To Feel Better? • Understanding Stress 2) Changing One’s Thoughts (3) Changing One’s Behavior

  9. Understanding Stress and Worry • Nervous Systems • Genetic Predisposition • Worry as a Bad Habit • Choose a Different Path

  10. Changing One’s Thoughts How One THINKS About A Situation Affects How One Feels.

  11. Expecting the Worst ……Worrying

  12. Mom, I’m Worried! Test Anxiety Expecting the Worst I am going to fail! It is going to be terrible! I will need to repeat the grade. If I fail I am a bad person!

  13. Questions You Can Ask Yourself • Where is the evidence that what I am expecting will happen? • Is it helpful how I am thinking?

  14. Mom- I’m Confident! Confident Test Taker Realistic and Positive Thoughts There is no evidence that I will fail. Even if I fail, I am exaggerating how bad the results will be. Worrying is really the worst thing I can do. Since when I worry, I am not paying attention fully to the test.

  15. To Review: Changing Ones Thoughts • Identify Negative Thoughts. • Look for Expecting the Worst. • Question and Challenge Thoughts. • Where is the Evidence? • Is it Helpful? • Come Up With More Realistic and • Optimistic Thoughts to Feel Better. • 1)There is no evidence… • 2) Worrying won’t help……

  16. CHANGING BEHAVIOR: Where Do I Feel Physical Feelings of Stress in My Body? Heart Pounding Blushing Heart Racing Chills Diarrhea Feeling Faint Dizziness Shortness of Breath Butterflies Shakinesss Headache Tightness in the chest

  17. Changing Behavior: Physical Sensations • Be A Detective • Use your Symptoms as Clues to Knowing When You Are Feeling Worried. Rather than think of fear as a signal to RETREAT, consider it a CUE to go forward.

  18. Changing Behavior: Relaxation • Spell Your Name with Belly Breaths • Guided Imagery • Change Your Breath

  19. Changing Behavior: Don’t Avoid • Facing One’s Fear or Stress • Success Breeds Success

  20. What Else You Can Do • Exercise • Eating and Sleep Right • Identify Your Strengths and Talents/FLOW • Grateful Activity • Journal the Positive • Random Acts of Kindness • Make It a Habit

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