The power of emotional resilience

It is important to point out that resilience is not a trait as such, but a dynamic process based on the emotional stability of the person.

It is built from the experience of emotional suffering and helps us to maintain or improve our mental stability in the face of life and stressful situations. It is generated spontaneously, but there are strategies that can help us to enhance it and that can be put into practice when we find ourselves in difficult situations.

We cannot deny what is generated within us. Personally, we must learn to recognize and manage these feelings or emotions. It is important to keep in mind that it is not the situations themselves that define the evaluations, but the personal evaluation that we make of each situation.

Sometimes we cannot modify the situations but we can learn to modify the way we interpret them, as resilient people do. To enhance resilience within ourselves, we have to learn to identify, accept and manage emotions.

What does a resilient person look like?

A resilient person is able to reinvent themselves and come out successful and even strengthened in the face of any difficulty, because:

• They are optimistic

• They use humor

• They are realistic

• They set themselves challenges

• They are empathetic people

• They do not play the victim

• They are hopeful

• They value the things and people around them

It is important to highlight, that it helps us to live better and be healthier, due to the fact that it creates a positive emotional state. However, it has other benefits such as:

• A healthy life physically and mentally: It is no secret that positive emotions improve our immune system, which makes us more protected from diseases or overcome it easily in case we are going through something similar. You get better physical health and tend to fall less into depression.

• You find solutions to many things: Being a resilient person makes you more confident in yourself and your resources, because positive emotions give you life and make you feel good about yourself.

• You get angry less: It refers to the fact that, getting angry makes you waste time, you don't look for solutions. However, getting angry is never the solution and resilient people look for solutions.

• You surround yourself with good friends: A resilient person exudes positivity, so they attract people. They ask for help when they need it most, without blocking themselves, which helps them to weave a good friendship network.

How can we be a resilient person?

All this is inside of us, we just have to accept it and let it flow outwards. But some of the recommendations that could help you would be the following:

• Accept that change is part of life.

• Ask for help when you need it most

• Nurture a positive view of yourself

• Maintain hope

• Avoid seeing crises as insurmountable problems.

• Focus on one's own goals

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