​Building Resilience

In recent years a lot of emphasis on the psychological and wellness fields has focused on the concept of resilience and increasing resilience. Initial research focused on defining and measuring resilience.
 
Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.
 
A variety of factors impact how well people adapt to adversity.
 
These include:

• the ways in which individuals view and engage with the world
• the availability and quality of social resources
• specific coping strategies

 
Let’s be clear, being resilient doesn’t mean you won’t experience life stress difficulty. It just means when life gets difficult managing and moving on from hardship will be easier.
 
The good news is that resilience is not a personality trait that only some people possess. Resilience can be learned, cultivated and practiced.
 
Researchers have found four key areas in your life that you can concentrate on to cultivate your resilience.
 
These include:

• connection
• wellness
• healthy thinking
• meaning

 
Over the next four weeks we will be focusing on one of the four elements that are vital to cultivate in your life to increase resilience.

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