WHY IS BEING RESILIENT IMPORTANT?
Resilience is typically defined as "The capacity to recover from difficult life events, negative experiences and disturbances."
We can say that is an attitude and a system that works even when things don’t turn out the way we planned. Especially then.
Achieving resilience takes time, strength, and help from people around you, and you’ll likely experience setbacks along the way. But eventually, you reach the top and look back at how far you’ve come.
There isn’t a universal formula for becoming more resilient, but there are certain protective factors that will help you build it :
SELF AWARENESS
This is self-awareness in a particular sense: it's awareness of your body responses and processes, including feelings, desires and urges to act, plus awareness of your thoughts and thinking patterns, and then crucially how these two relate to each other. How your body responds to your thinking, and how the feelings in your body condition your thoughts.
If your thoughts and feelings are operating outside of awareness, then they control you. If you want to control them, the first thing is to open up a window of awareness that is a chance to pause and consider before choosing, deciding and acting.
ATTENTION
Your attention, or your focus, is like a muscle in many ways. It can be trained and developed
Being focused means being in the here and now. When you're not focused, your mind tends to be either worrying about the future or regretting the past, and that's where you generally find stress and unhappiness. Meditation is a key tool for training attention.
SELF CARE
It is important to practice self-care on a regular basis, it is what will help you become more resilient, reduce stress and be more rejuvenated. If you have higher energy levels, you will be more focused and happier.
Selfcare can be taking time out of your day, to do something you enjoy, it can be eating a healthier diet, or it could be just taking your dog out for a walk. Whatever it is, find your happy place and invest more time in doing that.
PURPOSE
It is important to have a purpose, it could be being better in your job, or improving your health and wellbeing. If we are sure of our short and long-term goals, the visibilities of life can stop us for a moment, but if we remember our purpose, after healing our wounds we return to focus on what we had already started with a clear objective and more wisdom.
XO, Natalia
