Activities
Identify emotions: This chart is to help develop an understanding of how we feel and identify feelings. When discussing or labeling feelings we tend to look at them as negative or positive. Reframing them to “comfortable or uncomfortable” takes away the negative. We can’t control our feelings. We can control how we respond to them. Owning Your Feelings Worksheet
Follow up question: What is a feeling you experienced in the last 24 hours that confirmed your needs were met?
Watch Your Self Talk: write down a list of your self-talk and look at how to reframe the negative to positive.
Part of developing a healthy self-esteem requires analyzing how you talk to yourself.
We all talk to ourselves in some way, whether out loud or just in our heads, and the language we use can be a significant insight into how we view ourselves. Negative self-talk (i.e. calling yourself ugly or unlikeable) creates a feedback loop where your self-esteem drops, which leads to more negative self-talk, and so on.
The most effective way to break the cycle is to counter that negative self-talk through being kind and positive towards yourself.
Anytime something negative pops into your mind, counteract those thoughts by writing down something positive (i.e. a list of your positive attributes) until positive self-talk becomes a habit.
Courage activity : (RAK lesson)
Additional mindfulness activities can be found in the mindfulness section of this site.