DBT Skills: Wise Mind, Emotional Mind & Reasonable Mind

Wise mind is a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) mindfulness skill. In DBT there are three states of mind we can operate from, #wisemind , emotion or emotional mind, and reasonable mind. Learn the nature of each of these states of mind and how wise mind allows us to access our inner wisdom and intuition. If you'd like to support my channel, please see links below ⬇️⬇️

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Wise Mind exercises from DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets by Marsha M. Linehan

[mannybohorquez]

Love the way this intervention is broken down.

[LuvaRN-hb]

Working on learning these skills with my therapist. So glad I found your videos. I tend to operate from emotion mind working on operating out of wise mind. Thank you for your videos.😊

[elizabethobeirne]

I just finished a 3 week intensive DBT course. This video is a fantastic refresher and reinforcer to Wise Mind. I'm going to come back to it whenever I need to engage in Wise Mind and become that stone again. Thank you.

[rebeccathompson]

I was trying to make a decision and it quickly resolved. I have my decision.

[Jeremy-fdpw]

Calm, awareness, gut feeling, intimacy, intimacy

[bobhanover]

Thank You for the video, My therapist sent this to me. I did a DBT zoom group this year and I'm finding that you really need to continue studying this stuff and understanding the theory of it all.

[ericgarcia]

Good stuff! Very well explained. Peace and Love from with it.

[ramsayeveringham]

Thankyou. The way you share the material is super accessible. Lots of gratitude to your facilitative spirit:))

[LaurenLaguna]

Wow, amazing video! Wise mind can be such a hard concept for folks. So glad I found your channel. Your videos are going to be so helpful to share with clients. I just became a member of your channel today. Thank you so much!

[ambertaylor]

I going to disagree with "theres no trick or guaranteed way to 'invoke' wise mind all you can do is open up to it and listen". I believe hope is important and just "trying to hear wise mind" again and again is possibly the worst advice we could give for highly emotional people with racing thoughts all day. No one has the tenacity to master meditation by constant failure. That part of the video really hit me hard and i felt so much sadness and loss of hope after all that excellent content!

There are easy to follow techniques which work within about 20seconds that i train people with ADHD to use all the time.

I've been mediating for abou 25 years and specialise in teaching people with busy, anxious minds how to reach that state where you can hear "wise mind" with simple steps that bring hope and excitement because they work.

Heres one: if you have a busy mind, if you have ADHD or anxiety these are especially useful:
1. imagine your attention is like a bored puppy. It wants to play. It wants to find something fun to do, but because we keep trying to tell it to "be quiet" it gets bored and starts tearing up cushions.
2. so instead. lets play with our puppy mind and give it treats when it does well.
3. Okay puppy mind.. i want you to focus on my thumb on my right hand! great! well done!
4. Okay puppy mind, are you ready for a challenge? Now i want you to focus with ALLL your might on my index finger on my right hand! thats it.. what temperature is it? what does the air feel like on it? what does the fabric of my clothes feel like as it touches it?

by this point someone with ADHD even can realise their thoughts have stopped racing and they're starting to learn how to access that depth of meditation where we can hear from the wise mind... and thats about 10 seconds in.

There are dozens of easy to follow practises like these which can help people with busy minds learn how to drop into meditation immediately within about 4 weeks of daily practise. It's not hard and its important that when we teach mindfullness we don't abandon those people for whom mindfullness is "too hard" to teach simply because we choose not to learn how those sorts of people can reach those states.

People get disheartened when they hear all this great stuff in DBT and then dont get taught how the rubber hits the road and how they can actually practically embrace it.

[sarahwashere]

I ship wise mind and emotional mind 🗣🗣🔥‼️‼️

[antoinettefriloux]

I love love these videos. I feel I understand you hear videos and you teaching these concepts and the techniques where I really understand it better. Thank you I love this and it makes so much more sense.

[kyliemckorkell]

Amazing what the mind is capable of...

[susandavidson]

So helpful and clear. Your explanation is easy to memorize so I can apply these principals to real life conflict sitations.

[catherinesinclair]

Thank you. Really helpful. I feel peaceful now.

[dp-vk]

Loving your videos. Thank you so much for them.

[irmanetheunstoppable]

Thank you so much, sometimes I am about to pick up the phone and tell someone what I think about them which would only hurts myself ( I guess). Now, I will be able to differenciate is it my emotional, my rational, or my wise mine speaking to me...

[suealessi]

Excellent video. Educational and interesting.

[AlexRTash]

Absolutely loved this video. Very informative!

[mariasanders-audelo]

Thank you, one day I’ll like to do what you do to help my Hispanic community.
I love your videos and they help me so much, I have the 2nd edition workbook and I go to a DBT peer support group on Zoom.