How to make friends with your feelings
Increase your resilience
Resilience is the ability to get back up after adversity. Due to the unpredictability of life, there will always be joys and sorrows. Resilient people are able to greet change and difficulty as an opportunity for self-reflection, learning and growing.
How do we increase our resilience?
“I bounce back from set-backs and, if things don’t go according to plan, I make another plan.”
Resiliency is mostly cultivated from within by how we perceive and then react to stressors.
Most of life’s stressors are subjective and with mindfulness (seeing things as they are in this present moment), we have the ability to respond with wisdom vs. react in a harmful way. When we see our thoughts and feelings clearly and can offer compassion for the hardship we are experiencing, we increase our resilience.
A study highlighting the link between mindfulness and resilience in the “Journal of Personality and Individual Differences” found that “Mindful people … can better cope with difficult thoughts and emotions without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down (emotionally).”… READ MORE...