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Build Emotional Health and Wellness

Explore Four Mental Well-Being Challenges

Learn about gaining fresh perspectives and insights on ways to cope with change while maintaining peace of mind.

The Power of Emotions: Focuses on understanding how the brain creates emotions.

Building Resilience: Provides strategies that may help when rebounding from setbacks.

Being Present: Explores the practices of meditation and mindfulness.

Pursuit of Happiness: Explains how cultivating a positive state of mind may lead to stronger relationships.

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The Power of Emotions
Being human means experiencing a full range of emotions. Managing your emotions, even in stormy times, may help you think more clearly and stay more centered. Explore the world of emotions now. Get started.

Building Resilience
Resilience means having the ability to rebound from hardship and approach each day with determination that you’ll do more than survive, you’ll thrive. Learn ways to build resilience. Get started.

Being Present
Explore how the practices of meditation and mindfulness may help with focus, lowering stress and finding balance in everyday life and even enhance your happiness. Get started.

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Pursuit of Happiness
Joy doesn’t happen by accident. Learn how cultivating a positive state of mind may lead to stronger relationships and enhanced creativity and productivity. Get started.

Create your own wellness journey with AARP Staying Sharp Mental Well-Being Challenges.

Get a sneak peek of what you’ll learn in The Power of Emotions challenge.

Myth 1: Some people are born optimists. In fact, research shows that while genes play some role in optimism and pessimism, they are not strongly inherited traits. You can learn to be more hopeful.
Myth 2: My history is my destiny. Sure, your past colors the way you see the present. You can acknowledge and accept that truth without letting it dictate how you handle your emotions today. You can change and grow throughout life.
Myth 3: Positive thinking means ignoring reality. Nope. Instead, it means approaching each situation with an open mind — and a willingness to question old assumptions and worst-case beliefs.
Myth 4: Feeling angry or sad means I've failed. Everyone faces adversity. Sadness, anger and other negative emotions can be appropriate responses. Managing your emotions means facing pain, not ignoring it.

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