Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity

The question of being crippled by adversity; the answer lies in the ability to be resilient; meeting the eight themes of resilience, which include core values and purpose, finding meaning in adversity, equanimity, self-care and healthy coping skills.

Chances are the adversity in one's life causes them to walk the hero's journey; discovering what that journey entails, from the initial call to adventure to the rebirth; stepping into a new truth in a world that no longer seems ordinary.

Learning how humans nurture a spirit of resilience for thousands of years; studying these practices, scientists now confirm and promote some of these techniques as ways to process adverse experiences and return to harmony.

Humans experience periods of acute stress; the sympathetic nervous system; how the parasympathetic nervous system relaxes the body after the cause of stress has passed; the fight-flight-freeze response; the consequences of stress.

The skills that are needed to recover from physical stress, illness, or injury; physical strength and fitness is a part of the body's resilience; how to build physical resilience; why it is important.

Exploring some coping mechanisms for regulating mechanisms; emotions are simply individual responses to situations; how to accept, pay attention to and learn from all of them; it is the single most vital aspect of resilience.