donate items shift your thoughts to something neutral hold ice in your hand find volunteer work play with a pet count to 10 put your pain on a shelf Do a work project or school assignment surprise someone remember how far you've come watch thoughts “evaporate” into a cloud and float into the distance squeeze a rubber ball work on puzzles
help friends help a friend listen to loud music Write in a journal sad? watch a happy movie play a game listen to a podcast listen to music that evokes emotion help a neighbor delay harmful urges for one hour compare it to something more painful take a cold shower send someone a nice message use mindfulness clean your room build an imaginary wall read a book rent a movie Think of a time when you were in more distress go to an event go for a walk stand in the rain cook a meal push it away by "leaving it" repeat reassuring affirmations Put your situation in perspective remember a time you were resilient write a letter to someone yell "no" donate items shift your thoughts to something neutral hold ice in your hand find volunteer work play with a pet count to 10 put your pain on a shelf Do a work project or school assignment surprise someone remember how far you've come watch thoughts “evaporate” into a cloud and float into the distance squeeze a rubber ball work on puzzles help friends help a friend listen to loud music Write in a journal sad? watch a happy movie play a game listen to a podcast listen to music that evokes emotion help a neighbor delay harmful urges for one hour compare it to something more painful take a cold shower send someone a nice message use mindfulness clean your room build an imaginary wall read a book rent a movie Think of a time when you were in more distress go to an event go for a walk stand in the rain cook a meal push it away by "leaving it" repeat reassuring affirmations Put your situation in perspective remember a time you were resilient write a letter to someone yell "no"
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
donate items
shift your thoughts to something neutral
hold ice in your hand
find volunteer work
play with a pet
count to 10
put your pain on a shelf
Do a work project or school assignment
surprise someone
remember how far you've come
watch thoughts “evaporate” into a cloud and float into the distance
squeeze a rubber ball
work on puzzles
help a friend
help friends
listen to loud music
Write in a journal
sad? watch a happy movie
play a game
listen to a podcast
listen to music that evokes emotion
help a neighbor
delay harmful urges for one hour
compare it to something more painful
take a cold shower
send someone a nice message
use mindfulness
clean your room
build an imaginary wall
read a book
rent a movie
Think of a time when you were in more distress
go to an event
go for a walk
stand in the rain
cook a meal
push it away by "leaving it"
repeat reassuring affirmations
Put your situation in perspective
remember a time you were resilient
write a letter to someone
yell "no"