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Spark Fun Activities to Build Brain Resilience

BrainHealth Week is your chance to strengthen your brain from anywhere. Explore fun, simple activities—from our daily Text Challenge to quick brain-boosting exercises—that fit easily into your day. Use these tools at home, at work, or on the go, and join thousands taking small steps toward stronger brain health.
Cognitive resilience shapes how you adapt to stress and other challenges – by taking proactive steps, you can strengthen cognitive flexibility, emotional regulation and long-term brain health.

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Brain‑Boosting Fun

Try personal, engaging activities to enhance brain health and build cognitive resilience.

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Join the Resilience Challenge:

Text STRESS to 888-844-8991

Not all stress is bad. In fact, the right amount can help your brain grow stronger.
Created with Dr. Ian Robertson — neuroscientist with Center for BrainHealth whose book The Stress Test explores how stress shapes the brain and how we can build mental resilience — this 7‑day text challenge delivers daily tips, tools, and videos for leveraging stress to enhance clarity and build lasting resilience.
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Let BrainHealth Bingo Begin!

Ready to start boosting your brain health today? Grab a square and go!
Brain health can be fun – try our sharable bingo card to encourage brain-healthy experiences. Make it a lighthearted habit competition with your family or group.
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Are you living your best‑brain lifestyle?

Answer 8 quick questions to learn how helpful or harmful your own habits are.
Find out if daily habits are helping you reach your brain potential, and gain expert tips for adopting new habits shown to optimize brain performance.
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Find Time for Brain Breaks

Simple daily brain breaks help enhance focus, boost creativity and innovation and manage stress.
A brain break is a purposeful pause from effortful thinking. Think of it like putting your brain in “Airplane mode” —disconnecting from constant mental activity to refresh and recharge. Research shows that taking brief breaks helps to calm the brain by reducing the stress hormone cortisol. Breaks also help to prim our brains for what comes next because resting enables the Default Mode Network (innovation network) to come online and process what it's just experienced.
Lean more about what a brain break is and how to take one using our brain break benefit guide, 7 Science-Backed, Guilt-Free Reasons to Take a Brain Break.
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Create a Personal Bundle of Brain‑Healthy Tools

When we take charge of how we use and care for our brains, we are helping ourselves thrive.
So simple, we call them Know Brainers – these daily tips for strengthening brain health are backed by science. Exercising your brain is easy to do! We have been studying the science and developing simple tools and techniques for more than 25 years.
You can also enjoy some of our most popular Know Brainers in our free flipbook or downloadable PDF