At some point everyone will be faced with stressors seemingly beyond their coping ability. Resilience gives us capacity to go through the trauma, and unwanted challenge and rebound back; for some even better than before. Even if you have the attributes of strong will and determination in abundance, your ability to rebound can reduced facing unaccustomed stress and challenge.
A person’s resilience is accessed by being self-aware, staying in the moment, reaching out and connecting with others, identifying with your purpose and gentle self-care. Encourage these pillars of resilience into your life in times of strength and also in need:
Creating Self-Awareness: Understanding your choices, your desire and abilities confront challenges before they amply will ensure you have a ready armour and first line of defense.
Self-Care: Nurturing yourself at times of heightened and unwarranted stress. Being kind to yourself and not over judging your decision-making or behavior but observing yourself and the world around you will provide greater objective perspective. Understanding where best to your invest your energy to maximize return.
Understanding your sense of purpose keeps focus, helps with feelings of drive but more importantly ‘hope’. “He who has a Why to live for can endure almost any How” Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning.
Mindfulness: Staying in the present, will keep you composed and prevent you catastrophizing or assuming all possible negative outcomes.
Connecting with others: Choosing positive support from those who you identify as key stakeholders in your life will reduce the feelings of isolation and also can draw upon a wider depth of understanding/skills needed to combat your challenge.
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