While we are beginning to see some of the COVID-19 restrictions lifted, chances are you will continue to practice some form of safer-at-home for several weeks to come. Staying at home limits the spread of the coronavirus, but it is also a perfect opportunity for creative growth for individuals as well as with families and for our greater community.

The Brain Health Initiative suggests engaging in creative work that helps you experience positive emotions that can carry over into the following day as well. Creative activities can also add meaning and purpose to your life.

An activity suggested by Brain Health Initiative is creating your living message. If you could share one message, one piece of wisdom, with others, what would it be? All great works of art have a theme or message. Your life, like a piece of art, has a message as well. Discovering and sharing your message can be a brain health challenge and boost while filling your life with purpose, increasing your energy and enthusiasm, and generating passion for being alive.

Brain Health Initiative's faculty, Dr. Shelley Carson, a lecturer in the department of psychology at Harvard University says, “Think about it, there is no other being that possesses your exact combination of memories, knowledge, and skills. Your perspective is truly unique! How you interpret the body of experience and knowledge that you’ve acquired – your one-of-a-kind wisdom—is vitally important.”

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