Resiliance reading

The Three Secrets of Resilience
Discover how to bounce back when you’re stressed by Joan Borysenko
Bouncing back from stress is called resilience.

And instead of enjoying life as the creative adventure that resilient people perceive it to be, you get sidelined and stuck.

Improvisation requires attentiveness and mindfulness, which is the ability to see your environment with unabashed curiosity.

“Resilience is a reflex, a way of facing and understanding the world, that is deeply etched into a person’s mind and soul.

Faith is highly correlated with resilience, providing a true north that orients us when we’re lost in a sea of change or desperation.

When the mind calms down it’s easier to relate to the world around us — seeing the beauty in a flower or appreciating the nuances of a smile.

Resilience is also a courageous affirmation of life in the face of more serious stresses like illness, divorce, job loss, financial setback, abuse, war, and terror.

Improvisation requires attentiveness and mindfulness, which is the ability to see your environment with unabashed curiosity.

The importance of finding a source of strength and guidance within and nurturing it through practices like meditation applies to everyone — the person of deep religious conviction, the agnostic, and the atheist alike.

After all, life is much more complex than flying laptops with short trajectories.

I supported my young son and student husband on a meager government stipend.

Concentration camp inmates who collected bits of string and wire wherever they found them were often the ones who survived.

Armed with a screwdriver, a few wrenches, a hammer, some wire, and the greatest invention of the civilized world … duct tape … I could have given Rube Goldberg a run for his money.

Secret #3: An uncanny ability to improvise
Resilient people are masters of innovation.

These deep connections— which are sacred — invite positive emotions like awe, joy, gratitude, and compassion that banish stress and cultivate inner strength.

Feeling an authentic connection to a larger intelligence, whether you relate to it as a loving, forgiving God or a universal energy of compassion encourages what’s best in us.

When something broke, I had to fix it as my husband wasn’t handy and there was no spare cash to call the Maytag Man.

Their fertile imaginations are expansive, and they attend to details that others might miss or consider irrelevant, using everything at their disposal to create the best outcome possible.

These deep connections— which are sacred — invite positive emotions like awe, joy, gratitude, and compassion that banish stress and cultivate inner strength.

It’s a graceful way of flowing through life, adapting to different circumstances with the ease of water assuming the shape of whatever container it’s poured into.