There are many ways you can build your positive emotions and to take care of yourself.
This Brain Fitness Checklist provides some suggestions to get you started and have been chosen because they have shown the biggest impact on improving a particular lifestyle factor. Identify one or two tips from the list to get started. Then slowly try new ones, as you work toward building brain healthy lifestyle habits.
Here are few ways to support your Emotional Well-being…
Start here:
Do an exercise to surface the things that bring you joy.
Do one thing that makes you happy every day.
Keep a journal of 3 “good things” (that which you are grateful for) that happen each day, and why.
Do one thing that makes someone else happy and that you can get lost in the moment while doing it.
Challenge yourself more:
For a week, choose to focus on good news/the positive in things you experience.
Choose not to expose yourself to experiences that are negative.
Do an exercise to identify what is important to you right now, that may tie to your goals in life.
Choose an umbrella term and use it to inspire your actions (service, love, compassion, pursuing creativity, promoting culture and tradition).
Spend time in places of natural beauty.
Try meditation with this short guided activity. Then try practicing with this 10 minute meditation.
Learn more about emotional well-being and brain health; take the 1 hour course and get access to your personal emotional well-being toolkit. (Log into your Brain Health Vital Signs dashboard to access this course.)
Tips for getting started
Brain health challenges in the “start here” section are designed to be implemented by anyone, and will be a great starting point, especially if you scored in the Could Improve or Need to Improve categories in a specific lifestyle factor. Other challenges might be a little harder to do. In fact, you might feel resistance about adopting them at first because you may know they will be difficult to maintain for a long time.
Once you have tried 2 or 3 successfully from the “start here” section, challenge yourself with the additional challenges below. Learn more about emotional well-being and brain health; take the 1 hour course and get access to your personal toolkit.
