very concrete; only relate what you observed directly.
 7. 	W
rite out a nonjudgmental description of an event that prompted an emotion.
 8. 	W
rite out a nonjudgmental blow-by-blow account of a particularly important episode in your 
day. Describe both what happened in your environment and what your thoughts, feelings, 
and actions were. Leave out any analysis of why something happened, or why you thought, felt, or acted as you did. Stick to the facts that you observed.
 9. 	I
magine a person you are angry with. Bring to mind what the person has done that has 
caused so much anger. Try to become that person, seeing life from that person’s point of view. Imagine that person’s feelings, thoughts, fears, hopes, and wishes. Imagine that person’s history and what has happened in his or her history. Imagine understanding that person.
10.
 	W
hen judgmental, practice half-  sm
iling and/or willing hands. (See Distress Tolerance 
Handout 14: Half-  S
miling and Willing Hands.)
11. 
Other: