Sometimes, it may be difficult to keep balance because you may be overwhelmed with problems, stress, etc. However, it is important to avoid finding excuse. Instead focus on building emotional resilience. Therefore, it is about changing and adapting naturally, being flexible, and moving further despite difficulties.
Flow like water in the river, passing stones, but do not break like ice under pressure. In cases where ice breaks, constant dropping wears away a stone.
1. Develop Your Formula of Resilience
There are many definitions of resilience. However, the simplest is that it allows moving further with a positive mindset and coping with any issues by means of inner resources. Southwick et al. (2014) have proposed a comprehensive definition of this concept. It focuses on its different aspects, including adaptability, flexibility, stable and healthy state of mind, resources necessary for it, and a conscious attitude to life experience.
For building emotional resilience, it is important to develop all these aspects above. However, you should create your own formula to mix the following components:
- adaptability,
- flexibility,
- consciousness,
- inner resources and strengths.
Here, the reason is simple: everything depends on the situation, experience, and each person uniqueness.
Why You Need Resilience
As a result, if you want to be a good leader or simply succeed in some activity, this trait is decisive. It is what leads to persistence. Importantly, resilience is what helps persons not to stop in the face of obstacles. This ability to move despite problems is a factor that leads to success.
2. Daily 5-Minute Practice or Technique for Building Emotional Resilience
An effective daily practice to develop resilience in the face of challenges is to let destructive thoughts, preventing from finding solutions, go away from your head. For example, these can be anxiety, fears, hopelessness, etc. Therefore, imagine that all these are birds and count to ten to let them fly from your head out of the window.
Reference
Southwick, S. M., Bonanno, G. A., Masten, A. S., Panter-Brick, C., & Yehuda, R. (2014). Resilience definitions, theory, and challenges: Interdisciplinary perspectives. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v5.25338