Wellness

Transform

Having “Better Senior Moments” means fostering greater enjoyment, clarity, health, and joyfulness.

Thoughts

That can include transforming our thoughts and our lives by having a higher percentage of positive thoughts.

Powerfully

Powerful transformation is possible through Forgiveness, Gratefulness, and by fostering Joyfulness.

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become, what you feel, you attract,

and what you imagine, you create."

– Buddha

Enhance your Well-Being

Cultivate joy

Meditation

Prayer

Breathe

What is a Joyful Life?

Feeling happy, being healthy, having positive personal and family relationships, and feeling comfortable.

See Joyfulness practices on the Activities page.

28 Best Meditation Techniques for Beginners to Learn

28 Best Meditation Techniques for Beginners to Learn.
- Ten most common meditation techniques
- Best techniques for beginners
- More information

Meditation apps and videos

- YouTube has many free meditation videos
- Free Mindfulness Apps Worthy of Your Attention, Mindful.org
- Aura, Apple
- The 7 Best Meditation Apps of 2024, Very Well Mind

How prayer and meditation affects the brain

This is your brain on prayer and meditation. How does the ritual, regardless of personal faith or intention, affect our behavior? Deeply, experts say.

8 keys to a more powerful prayer life

8 keys to a more powerful prayer life, World Vision

Serenity prayer

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change,
Courage to change the
things I can, and the
wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the
pathway to peace.
--Reinhold Niebuhr

Breathing techniques

10 Breathing Exercises to Try When You’re Feeling Stressed, Healthline

Breathwork practices

How to calm your mind with breathing, according to science, The Washington Post

Breathing anxiety away (article)

Breathing anxiety away, A few minutes of sighing can relax you quickly and keep you feeling better all day long, Stanford Medicine Magazine

Best free breathing apps and videos

YouTube has many videos about breathing exercises

General Breathing Exercises:
- Breathe2Relax: Offers a variety of breathing exercises for stress management and relaxation.
- Breathwrk: Provides guided breathing sessions and personalized breathing plans.
- Oxygen Advantage: Features breathing techniques for improved health and performance.
- Breathe Easy: Simple breathing pacer with customizable inhale and exhale durations.

Specific Breathing Conditions:
- COPD Coach: Helps patients with COPD manage their breathing and improve their quality of life.
- Asthma Buddy: Provides breathing exercises and educational resources for asthma sufferers.
- Sleep Apnea Helper: Offers breathing techniques to reduce snoring and improve sleep quality.

Overactive Nervous System (article)

What Are the Symptoms of an Overactive Nervous System? MedicineNet

Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

– Hermann Hesse

Positive Mindset

Forgiveness

The Healing Power of Forgiveness (article)

The Healing Power of Forgiveness (article) explains how forgiveness is a gift that you give yourself to let go of the anger, resentment, and other negative feelings that keep a past hurt alive. While it is not easy, letting go improves your mental and physical health. It may help to develop practices for forgiving and becoming inspired by stories of forgiveness, such as at The International Forgiveness Institute and The Forgiveness Project.

Feeling Good Together (book)

Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work by David D. Burns, M.D. (book) recommended by the therapist that I worked with. I would not have done so well without him.

Cultivate Forgiveness Meditation (video)

Cultivate Forgiveness Meditation (video)

PubMed journal articles

PubMed journal articles about the health benefits of forgiveness

Gratitude

Power of Gratitude (video)

Power of Gratitude (video). Buckleup Motivation explores the importance of appreciating what you have, understanding your purpose, and pushing through life's obstacles. Drawing from some of Denzel Washington's best quotes and mindset principles, they emphasize that happiness and fulfillment come from within and are not solely dependent on external success.

How to Practice Gratitude (article)

In How to Practice Gratitude, you learn how to develop the mindset to recognize good events that occur throughout your day and 10 practices to foster thankfulness.

Good Days Start With Gratitude (journal)

Good Days Start With Gratitude (journal) is a 52 week guide to cultivate an attitude of gratitude! It is a self exploration journal designed to focus on being thankful for what we have, the big things in life, as well as the simple joys. Each well designed weekly spread contains an inspirational quote, space to write 3 things you are thankful for each day of the week, and a weekly checkpoint.

PubMed journal articles

PubMed journal articles about the health benefits of gratefulness

Affirmations

Rewire your brain

What we think, we become. A regular affirmations practice changes your inner self-talk, which rewires your brain to be predisposed to your aspirations, as described in The Science of Affiirmations

Challenge negative self-talk

Your thoughts will shift away from negative self-talk as you become more aware of what you have been saying to yourself and decide what to let go of.

Reduce stress and promote self-healing

Reduce stress and promote self-healing as described in Reducing threat responses to help-seeking information: Influences of self-affirmations and reassuring information

Create an inner sanctuary to better manage life's challenges

When you engage in regular affirmation practices you will inherently create an Inner Sanctuary, a place of tranquility, to better manage life's challenges.