Mindfulness & Stress Review

What is Mindfulness?

• It means paying full attention to something

• Progress on meeting goals

• The Art of Studying

• To be able to read something out loud

What is not an example of Mindfulness?

• The ability to handle stress

• To be able to focus attention on the moment

• Rushing or Multi - Tasking

• The ability to improve emotional regulation

What is stress?

• The ability to work well with others

• The ability of others to recognize me

• The desire to work alone

• A feeling of physical or emotional tension

How can stress be a positive experience?

• It is the inability to concentrate or complete tasks

• Body aches

• Stress is a burst of energy that tells you what to do

• Trouble falling asleep

What is not an example of something that causes stress?

• Reading for pleasure

• Emotional problems

• The death of a loved one

• Loss of a job

What is eustress?

• The unhealthy respnse to the environment

• Positive stress

• The preparedness of a city

• An understanding of how to remove stress

What is distress and is it healthy?

• Distress is making things work and it is unhealthy

• Distress is negative stress and it is not healthy

• Distress is knowledge and it is healthy

• Distress is the ability to work well under pressure

What is not one of the three stages of stress that the body responds to?

• Resistance

• Exhaustion

• Euphoria

• Alarm

What is homeostasis?

• The change in the days of the week

• The variability of temperature

• Your body's normal, balanced state

• The understanding that nothing is normal

What is the "fight or flight" response when talkig about stress?

• The direct response to the weather

• To be aware of what is going on around you

• The body's immediate reaction to stress

• The reaction to the world around you