WELL BEING ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN!
Aging results in when we can look back with
satisfaction or regret, and forward with hope or
dread.
 Educations seems to be the one thing people
regret not accomplishing or not being more
serious about.
 Can you truly say that you’re making the
choices that someday you will remember with
satisfaction?
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WELL BEING ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN!
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While you’re growing up, you go through experiences
that strengthen a sense of identity, confidence, and
self esteem.
But as life goes on you go through challenges such
as: income shrinks, work is taken away, the body
deteriorates, recall fades, energy wanes, family
members and friends die or move away, and death is
the end of the journey.
Some say the over-65 years are the worst to endure.
A study by Ronald Inglehart, conducted during the
1980’s with 170,000 representative samples from
16 nations, shows that older people feel more
happiness and satisfaction than younger people.
WELL-BEING ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN CONT..
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We, as people, become more optimistic and
respond more to positive activities as we age.
Older adults’ amygdala, a neural processing center
for emotions, shows low responses to negative
activities and puts more attentiveness to positive
responses.
This shows how the positivity of later life increases
due to the fact that growing older is an outcome of
living, meaning mid life.
WELL-BEING ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN CONT..
As we age, our mood becomes more “mellow”.
 People’s feelings for excitement becomes less
as for depression, it also becomes less.
 Teenagers change their moods from happy to
calm or gloomy to calm in less than an hour.
 Adults’ moods are less extreme but more
enduring.
 As the Chinese would say, life becomes less of
an emotional rollercoaster , more like paddling
a boat through Narnia.
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