Welcome the third week of the Retrain Your Brain Challenge!

Featured Challenge: Mindfulness Videos
Log into the REACH portal to watch one of five short relaxation videos with calming visuals and different guided lessons on mindfulness. Don’t forget to check out the other four activities available this week, too!

Your Occipital Lobes

The mindfulness videos this week engage your occipital lobes that:

• Manage your visual interpretation

Stress Tip: Take a few moments throughout the day to practice mindfulness.
Practicing mindfulness hones our attention for detail and encourages us to stay focused and efficient, which reduces the stress we encounter each day.

Before you even get out of bed:

• Take a few deep breaths to allow your body to transition from slumber to wakefulness and set the tone with a relaxed approach to your day.
• Determine a small goal or intention for the day.

In the afternoon:

• Pause for a moment or two to notice how you’re feeling and see if you can adjust things like your posture or grab a drink of water away from your workspace to give your eyes a rest.

Before you go to sleep:

• Take a second to stretch out any muscles that might be tight and try to let go of your day. After all, tomorrow is a fresh start.

Log in at www.RiversideHealthcare.org/REACH. Select the different sections of the brain to complete the daily activities. Earn one point per activity, for a maximum of five points each day.

Collect 70 points to complete the challenge before Oct. 31.

Welcome the second week of the Retrain Your Brain Challenge!

Featured Activity: Linking Linguistics
Log in to the REACH portal to see if you can determine the word that links these two together. Don’t forget to check out the other four activities available this week, too!

Your Temporal Lobes

The Linking Linguistics activity engages your temporal lobes that:

• Help you manage semantic knowledge, or knowledge about objects, facts and word meanings
• Develop language recognition skills since adolescence

Stress Tip: Communicate mindfully.
Take an extra moment to consider what it is you truly want to communicate and how you want to convey that message. When you’re talking with someone, listen to learn and understand what they are saying – try not to think about what you want to say when they have finished speaking.

Log in at www.RiversideHealthcare.org/REACH. Select the different sections of the brain to complete the daily activities. Earn one point per activity, for a maximum of five points each day.

Collect 70 points to complete the challenge before Oct. 31.

Welcome to week one of the Retrain Your Brain Challenge!

Featured Activity: Mental Rotation
Visit the REACH portal to see if you can mentally rotate the complex images presented to you in this week’s featured activity. Be sure to log in daily to test your mental rotation ability and to complete additional brain game challenges.

Your Parietal Lobes

The Mental Rotation activity engages your parietal lobes that:

• Give us the ability to solve mathematical problems
• Help us judge size, distance and shapes

Stress Tip: View a challenge from a different perspective.
The Mental Rotation activity employs the idea of changing our perspective, which is a technique that can also be used to navigate stressful situations better. Viewing a challenge from a different perspective doesn’t mean it has to be completely positive.

We can build our emotional resiliency by being supportive and caring toward ourselves. When we fail or struggle and we show ourselves a little support and understanding, this offers more emotional stability compared to solely looking at the positive side of a situation.

Log in at www.RiversideHealthcare.org/REACH. Select the different sections of the brain to complete the daily activities. Earn one point per activity, for a maximum of five points each day.

Collect 70 points to complete the challenge before Oct. 31.

Your brain is the driving force when it comes to mitigating stress. This four-week challenge highlights five regions of the brain with unique activities each day. These activities are designed to get you thinking differently about how to manage lurking stress and maintain healthy relationships in all areas of your life.

The challenge will begin Oct. 4 and will end Oct. 31, but you can report your activities up to seven days back. You will have until Nov. 7 to report your activities from the last week of the challenge.

Your goal is to complete 70 activities before the challenge ends. You can report up to five activities a day. Upon completion you will earn 25 Healthy Habit Points towards your Level 3 incentive!

You can record your activities on your desktop or mobile device. Visit www.RiversideHealthcare.org/REACH and click the Challenge tab to begin recording your activities on Oct. 4!

Employees can access the challenge by clicking on the REACH icon found on Rivernet or the Employee Self Service Portal from the Riverside network.