clean your room listen to music that evokes emotion watch thoughts “evaporate” into a cloud and float into the distance use mindfulness repeat reassuring affirmations delay harmful urges for one hour count to 10 hold ice in your hand yell "no" build an imaginary wall compare it to something more painful squeeze a rubber ball play a game Think of a time when you were in more distress surprise someone Put your situation in perspective take a cold shower remember how far you've come stand in the rain rent a movie Do a work project or school assignment work on puzzles donate items cook a meal put your pain on a shelf listen to loud music go for a walk shift your thoughts to something neutral Write in a journal push it away by "leaving it" remember a time you were resilient find volunteer work read a book sad? watch a happy movie go to an event send someone a nice message help a neighbor
help friends help a friend write a letter to someone play with a pet listen to a podcast clean your room listen to music that evokes emotion watch thoughts “evaporate” into a cloud and float into the distance use mindfulness repeat reassuring affirmations delay harmful urges for one hour count to 10 hold ice in your hand yell "no" build an imaginary wall compare it to something more painful squeeze a rubber ball play a game Think of a time when you were in more distress surprise someone Put your situation in perspective take a cold shower remember how far you've come stand in the rain rent a movie Do a work project or school assignment work on puzzles donate items cook a meal put your pain on a shelf listen to loud music go for a walk shift your thoughts to something neutral Write in a journal push it away by "leaving it" remember a time you were resilient find volunteer work read a book sad? watch a happy movie go to an event send someone a nice message help a neighbor help friends help a friend write a letter to someone play with a pet listen to a podcast
(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.
clean your room
listen to music that evokes emotion
watch thoughts “evaporate” into a cloud and float into the distance
use mindfulness
repeat reassuring affirmations
delay harmful urges for one hour
count to 10
hold ice in your hand
yell "no"
build an imaginary wall
compare it to something more painful
squeeze a rubber ball
play a game
Think of a time when you were in more distress
surprise someone
Put your situation in perspective
take a cold shower
remember how far you've come
stand in the rain
rent a movie
Do a work project or school assignment
work on puzzles
donate items
cook a meal
put your pain on a shelf
listen to loud music
go for a walk
shift your thoughts to something neutral
Write in a journal
push it away by "leaving it"
remember a time you were resilient
find volunteer work
read a book
sad? watch a happy movie
go to an event
send someone a nice message
help a neighbor
help a friend
help friends
write a letter to someone
play with a pet
listen to a podcast