Resilience
... is the mental toughness to face and overcome adversity. It keeps you up and running long after others have given up.
Resilience emerges through your life experience and through the beliefs you adopt about yourself and your place in the world.
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- "I master my emotions lest they master me." They step back from a situation before taking action.
- "I walk the talk and never just talk the walk." When they make a commitment, they fulfill it.
- "I can and do prepare myself for the future." They see themselves as being in constant training to face the next set of challenges.
- "I learn more from failure than from success." They don't fear failure.
- "I value my courage higher than my security." They accept that nothing in today's world is secure: not jobs, not information, not the future.
- "I take criticism constructively not personally." Criticism toughens them because they don't take it personally.
- "I keep my goals in mind but I focus on my process." They can adapt to and overcome obstacles.
- "I value strong, supportive relationships."
- "I reward myself for every win."
- "I always have more to give." Their energy and attention are not limited resources.
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Strong emotions are more likely to dictate your behavior.
Become familiar with what triggers your stress. Practice “active internal coping mechanisms” such as reframing, humor, optimism, and meaningful social interactions.
It's the skill that enables us to recover quickly from difficulties. It means adapting well in the face of trauma, tragedy or significant stress.
We build our resilience by learning to cope with challenges.
- Resilience is the ability to handle and recover from stressful situations and crises. It is not simply coping up with adversity, but to experience growth and flowering, finding meaning and purpose, experiencing self-awareness and tasting life in all its flavours.
- The ongoing pandemic has now made the knowledge of ‘resilience’ required reading. Adversity can strike anytime to anyone, and most of us have experienced anxiety, worry, disappointment, shame, grief, frustration, or sadness.