OSHER 782 - Resilient Responses to Life's Challenges

Whether you call it "subjective well-being" or just plain "happiness," research confirms the connection between positive psychological attributes and health. Regardless of where you are on the continuum, enhance your life by learning interventions that cultivate positive emotions/mental states such as forgiveness, altruism, compassion, kindness, and gratitude, and reduce stress, anger, and anxiety. Establish healthy habits. Increase confidence about body image. Help achieve sustainable change. Understand the objective benefits of finding happiness: longevity, productivity, behavior, and good health. This course will provide tools to find happiness in hard times, grow from adversity and traumatic experiences, reduce anger and self-defeating behavior, and take proactive steps toward positive health.