Resilience helps with our personal and professional journey. It is beneficial to have strategies in place. My goal in this blog is to provide some that will assist you. Focusing on self-awareness is a tool that will assist you. When developing this we build both in our physical and emotional life.
In your life can you think of things that would be beneficial for you to improve this in your life? If you have a counselor, ask them to recommend exercises that would benefit you emotionally to help with your mental health issues. By helping others, you can help build their resilience. Many professionals have mentioned in articles they’ve written, how it not only helps with emotional needs but, with longevity.
Rober Butler with the National Institute of Health put his findings on health and longevity in a book called, “Why Survive? Being old in America.” Sounds interesting to read. You may find yourself looking forward to things you lost interest in. It helps with life’s Maintenace such as lifestyle and working. The following is from a study led by Sherry Hamby of the Paths Appalachian Research Center in Monteagle Tennessee:
They measured the value of action signature strengths from things like creativity persistence, integrity, fairness among other things. Acts of kindness boosted a person’s happiness and resilience. Volunteering programs in an area of your interest helps. I recently had two acts of kindness given to me within a few days apart. One when going through the drive thru at a fast-food place, the person ahead of me paid for my meal. Didn’t know the person. Another person gave me something to pay for a meal in the future date.
Do something that will provide positive emotions for yourself or someone else. Write down positive things that have happened to you during the day. Even minor ones like, I got to work without running out of gas in my car. My neighbor finally said hello, after moving in my home three months ago. The study also mentioned what they call a flow exercise. Where you engage in something that you feel a sense of accomplishment.
