PSS-MODULE-2. Power Point Presentation..

Psychological Social System

1. GOOD MORNING!

2. What are the things that you think will help you whenever things get rough?

3. Are all your feelings during the duration of pandemic are valid? Explain.

4. What is/are your greatest achievement during the past months of the pandemic?

5. Recalling E xperiences

6. I want you to imagine that you are on the outdoor and playing , “ Catch the Ball” with your sibling or friend. After throwing and catching the ball for a while, think, “what am I catching”?

7. Imagine that what you are catching are feelings. Those were some of the feelings you caught during the lockdown/pandemic/disaster. They are feelings of fear, boredom, anxiety, etc. Stop playing for a moment. You accepted the ball. Hold it. Look at it. Accept the feeling. Say to yourself, “Yes, I was feeling afraid.” Or “Yes, I was feeling anxious.”

8. Catching your Feelings. It is always good to catch what you are feeling. It is a normal and valid feeling. It’s okay to not feel okay. But they are real and true only as the not-so-normal situation that triggers it.

9. It is ok to not feel okay, in a not-so-ok-situation like the pandemic or any disaster. Now, I want to invite you to do some diaphragmatic breathing. Breathe in (Inhalation of Air). A very slight pause before you exhale. Breathe out (exhalation of air). Breathe in (inhalation of Air). A very slight pause before you inhale. Breathe out (exhalation of air). Release all the feelings.

10.   Check your Feelings Were those feelings helpful to me? You will probably answer with both a yes and a no. That means that some of your feelings were helpful but others were not. For instance, if you keep feeling fearful, do you need to stay in fear for long? How helpful is fear to you?

11. How accurate or appropriate is the feeling of anxiety, now? How helpful is it to always be worrying about things? While thinking about this, Breathe in and Breathe out (5x).

12.   Change that Feeling In this part, I want you to think of something else to help you feel better. This means that you can replace that feeling. Some feelings are productive and useful while some may be unproductive and useless. It is because they are no longer appropriate to the situation.

13. You have the power to change your feelings by actually changing your thoughts about the feeling. This process is called REFRAMING.. Where is the feeling coming from? Or, you can ask, “Where is the ball coming from?” Why did it hit you?

14. How do you manage your feelings? You can manage it by changing the name of the ball into feelings of gratefulness, understanding, happiness, and contentment. Breathe in. Breathe out (5x)

15. What do you feel? What do you think was the point of Catching, Checking and Changing your feelings?

16. What was the reason why you had to reframe your thoughts?

17. Can you compare how you feel right now with how you felt before we started with the activity? Do you see some changes?

18. What are these new changes in the way you feel at the moment?

19. Use the columns below labeled with the words “Before” on one side and “After” on the other side. Under the word Before, write your feelings during the pandemic/disaster. Under the word After, write your feelings at this very moment, after going through the Catch, Check and Change Exercise.

20. How can you apply your newfound knowledge to your daily life?

21. Tell yourself: The next time when I experience intense feelings, I would take a deep breath 5X to calm down, and then check, change the feelings by reframing my thoughts.

22. CLOSURE As a way to close the session, repeat this line to yourself: “Emotions can be caught (like in a ball), checked (on helpfulness or usefulness and accuracy) and changed.”