Here are the top 10 research supported ways to boost emotional resilience
- Be optimistic – focus positively on the problems you can solve.
- Face your fears – avoiding fears strengthens them, but facing them even for a few moments allows the brain to weaken the fear connection.
- Guide yourself with a moral compass – a sense of what is right and what is wrong will strengthen your resolve and offer you tools for tough times.
- Have a spiritual practice – this not only benefits you personally but benefits and uplifts your entire community
- Use the strength of social support – recognize that asking for help is not a weakness
- Surround yourself with positive role models or at least recognize negative role models and focus on doing the opposite of what they do
- Get regular exercise – this is especially important if you are a highly emotional person because if forces you to tolerate the same physical symptoms as anxiety without an emotional reaction.
- Be a lifelong learner – constant learning keeps the brain healthy and sharp and builds overall self-esteem.
- Strive for flexibility – This flexibility will pay off with multiple routes for solving problems and enable you to cope gracefully with challenging situations
- Find meaning in your life – because so much of our time is spent with our work, it is also important that you seek a calling as you find a profession
Re-source: Resilience
the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
Building resilience means increasing our ability to take life’s blows in stride and press forward.
Always remember that resilience is learned and gets stronger with practice. Each time it is tested through adversity.
“We must learn to bend and not break. When a problem comes, see it as an opportunity to learn and to test yourself to your deepest abilities. Don’t be trapped in a rigid set of rules and you will grow deeper stronger roots and become more resilient. Those that bend with the wind do not break. Keep an inner vision of the wind symbolizing difficult situations as you affirm, “I have no rigidity within me. I can bend to any wind and remain unbroken. I will use the strength of the wind make me even stronger and better preserved.” – Wayne Dyer
craving and resource from ““The Two Most Important Days” – How to find Your Purpose and Live a Happier and Healthier Life – by Sanjiv Chopra and Gina Vild
