Resilience

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the Definition of resilience is: 1. the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress. 2. an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.

The word resilience derives from the present participle of the Latin verb resilire, meaning "to jump back" or "to recoil." "act of rebounding". In physics, resilience is the ability of an elastic material (such as rubber or animal tissue) to absorb energy (such as from a blow) and release that energy as it springs back to its original shape.

A person can’t just come back exactly to where/how it was before the crisis, because we have an amazing capacity to learn and grow from our experiences! It’s a SURVIVAL mechanism that helps you to navigate through difficult situations and recover from even the most hostile circumstances.

How do you respond to crisis? It depends on: your life experience, your personality traits, your values... Resilience can be developed.

You can learn to develop resilience!

You can always use our Personal Coaching Program to help you know yourself better, and for that, your Behavioural Profile Analysis can be a great tool to help you understand your personality traits and how you can work on improvements, and help you grow in every situation – that will certainly help on your ability to overcome crisis and be more resilient.

A resilient person is usually known by:

1. Having an objective view of the situation without subjective views, denial or emotions – being realistic. They can cope with situations they cannot control.

2. They trust they will overcome, being creative imagining possibilities where others don’t see it. Recover and go forward, looking to the future – They have a vision, and if they don’t, they find one.

3. Life for them is meaningful, and they find meaning in adversity - They learn from the adversity. With that, they have internal peace - They have self-confidence.

So, I will leave you with some questions to think about, because the answer is inside yourself!

• Is there anything I can do to change the situation?

• Is there anything I can change on me, in myself, that will help me go through this?

• What can I learn from the adversity?

• How can I grow with this situation?

• Do I know where I want to go?

• What’s your vision for your own life?

I will leave you with that for now! Contact me and tell me how being resilient will help you in this time!

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