The 3-Step Guide Towards Resilience

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This has been such a difficult year for so many of us. How can people find resilience? And how do people and how should people practice resilience?

The opposite of resilience is rigidity or resistance. So, you know, just in understanding that, resilience is about elasticity.

How can we roll with what's happening? We have to be able to roll with what's happening, because everything is changing so much and so quickly.

That's Number 1. Number 2, once we can recognize and understand, you know, what resilience is, we can notice when we're-- you know,

when we're really holding on, when we're piling stuff on. And that has to do often with us looking into the future and projecting that, "Oh, no."

You know, you can tell by how wide your eyes get, like, "Oh, no. This is going to be terrible." So we can use our eyes as a meter, maybe.

But in the same way, you know, we can notice, oh, I'm piling things on. I have no idea what's going to happen a year out.

Can I actually dial it back, know what I do know right now, and act accordingly now, knowing that I

may need to pivot, you know, in a day, in a week, you know, whatever? So that's Number 2. And then Number 3, our eyes can actually be wide in fear in the

"Oh, no," but they can also be wide when we're curious, like, "Oh." So we can shift that "Oh, no," like, "Oh, no, this is going

to be terrible," to, "Oh, wow. This is really different. I've never experienced this before.

Can I open to this and be curious?" And what that does is open the possibility for being creative and thinking of new possibilities

that we might have never thought about before in these unprecedented times.