What you should know about resiliency
- Helps with overcoming adversity and adapting to change
- Allows us to go with the flow
- Mitigates stress, fear and self-doubt
- Becoming resilient takes time and requires practice
- Seek help if you aren’t making progress or don’t know where to start
What we know about the brain and how it works-these three are really mind boggling!
- Empathy for others is experienced as pain – the same neurons fire and cause suffering whether by direct or indirect experience
- Imaginary is real- the same nerve bundles fire whether you’re imagining or not
- Brain can’t discern between broken heart and broken leg-it’s all pain
Why we need resiliency
- Helps us rebound after loss
- Develops healthy coping mechanisms and tools to handle setbacks and stress
- Helps offset factors that increase your risk of mental health conditions
- Improves your ability to cope
- Improves inner strength and develops a stronger constitution
How to cultivate greater resiliency
- History supports modern findings that inner contentment is found by a regular gratitude practice
- Compassion for others also benefits the self by defeating fear and self-doubt
- Meaningful and altruistic activities help you feel safe and worthy
- Cultivating gratitude and compassion will serve you better than the pursuit of happiness
Additional helpful practices to cultivate resiliency
- Get connected-develop strong positive relationships, networks, and communities
- Set meaningful goals
- Recognize and learn successful skills and strategies from your experiences
- Understand that all things change
- Reach out for help when in crisis
- Develop supportive networks
- Take care of yourself
- Eat well
- Get healthy amounts of sleep, sunshine, and fresh air
- Practice relaxation, yoga, meditation, breathing practices, etc.
- Be proactive
Resources: Dr Amit Sood-Mayo Clinic
