Written reflection (250-300 words) on your journey through the brainsets – which are your strong ones? Which can you develop? What are your plans to develop them?

The exercise:
TRANSFORM Brainset Exercises
Feelings: Depicting your Feelings
• Purpose – to help you understand and describe your feelings
• Time: 10 minutes. You’ll need a blank paper, markers or crayons, and a timer
• Sit in a quiet place and try to step outside your current feeling state and observe it objectively.
• Now, set the timer for 5 minutes and depict your feelings on paper using markers. Don’t censor yourself; just get out the colors and go to town. Your work can be abstract, representational, or anything in between.
• When the timer sounds, look over your work. If you have more to add, set the timer for another 5 minutes.
• When your picture is complete, look over your work. Does it adequately depict what you’re feeling? Did you learn anything about yourself from examining the picture?
• Try to do this at least once a week. It will provide insight into your feelings and also develop your skills of self-expression.
Feelings: Music and Moods
• Purpose – to better understand your feelings and practice “mood flexibility”
• Time: 30 Minutes, plus the time to pick out music from your music library. You will need access to your music library.
• Summary of procedures: Pick 3 pieces of music that depict how you would like to be feeling.
• Then pick 1 piece that you don’t mind listening to but doesn’t evoke any mood.
• Then, choose a playlist of 3 songs that match your current mood.
• Set up a playlist that starts with the three “current mood” songs, followed by the “neutral” song, followed by the “desired mood” song.
• Play the music. During the last 3, try to match your mood with the mood of the songs.
• When the playlist is complete, check your current mood. Were you able to alter it?