Brain Healthy Tips
Set Goals to Drive Purpose
Goal-setting strengthens the brain’s frontal networks, driving feelings of purpose and achievement.
Ways to Get Started:
- List your big goals. Be realistic. And then break them down into smaller steps and intermediate goals.
- Ask for help. Seek guidance from trustworthy resources and people who can relate to your experience.
- Focus on what you have learned. Grow from mistakes, and don't let them discourage you. Reframe failure as learning, a chance to glean insights that can move you forward.
- Stay future-focused. Celebrate small achievements and forgive your shortcomings. No matter what has happened before, make the choice to keep moving forward from where you are right now.
Eat to Enrich Brainpower
The basis for a brain-healthy daily diet, whole foods like leafy greens, berries, nuts, and fatty fish support a healthy heart – and a healthy brain.
Ways to Get Started:
- Maintain a food log to help track what you eat.
- Enrich your daily diet by filling nutritional gaps.
- Replace saturated fats with plant-based proteins and healthy fats.
- Consult a nutritional specialist before implementing broad dietary changes.
Reconnect With Your Surroundings
When you cannot be in nature, cultivating an environment that elicits positive sensations can help reduce stress and elevate brain function.
Ways to Get Started:
- Bring brain-healthy sensory experiences into other spaces.
- Enrich your surroundings with color, like calming shades of blue and green.
- Explore different types of light and how effects change throughout the day.
- Maintain a comfortable noise level for the time and purpose, playing music to relax or energize and find ways to reduce intrusive sounds, like using noise-blocking headphones.
Enjoy these brain-healthy tips for everyday life, backed by science that demonstrates the brain's lifelong ability to work better and get stronger. Find out more at centerofbrainhealth.org.
