Connect With Your Innate Resilience

Glen explains what resilience is and why it is something you already have rather than something you need to find. She shares six simple steps to reconnect with it: acceptance, mindset, control, activity, seeking help and helping others. It is for anyone moving through a setback, a loss or a hard season who wants a practical way to learn from it and keep going. This content is educational and is not a substitute for one to one professional care.

Transcript

We humans experience downturns throughout life. Learning to rise above the fray, So to speak, Makes a huge difference in the quality of life we experience going forward. So what is resilience? Quite simply, Resilience is the ability to recover from setbacks. I go a step further than that. For me, Resilience is a skill set that helps you not only recover from setbacks and challenges, Resilience enables you to learn from that negative experience and grow through it. Resilience for me is about thriving, Not just surviving. As for setbacks, They are a normal part of the human condition. Every one of us will experience challenges, Disappointments, And negative experiences like loss from death, Breakups, Dashed dreams, Job loss, Or financial struggles. Setbacks and challenges are a natural part of the human condition. Life happens. Resilience helps you cope with life happening, Those challenges, Those setbacks, Helps you learn from them and helps you become stronger on the other side so you can thrive. Through the challenge. And guess what? You already have resilience within. Resilience is innate, We're born with it. Just think of the normal everyday stressors or challenges you face. Getting stuck in traffic, Being late to work, Your favorite toy being lost or broken. Or device or what have you. We tend to naturally move through those smaller upsets. We recover, We problem solve, We get over it, We move on. It's a similar process with the bigger challenges in life, The losses. It's just a matter of being more focused on the process, Being more consciously intentional on moving through the challenge, Learning from it, And growing through it. Now, I've outlined some simple steps, Action steps that you can take to reconnect you with your innate ability to be resilient. I call it the AM CASH method. A for acceptance. Recovery and healing can only start once we accept what is. Not that we are resigned to being that way forever. It's just seeing what is for what is. Seeing this as this, Or that as that. Not this as that, Or that as this. It's about being realistic about what you're dealing with. Once you accept the way things are, Then your mind will shift. Your mindset will open up to the learning experience. And rather seeing it as some personal defect or just being unlucky or something being wrong with you, Your mind starts to see the learning opportunity. And that opens you up to the growth process. Control, Focusing on what you can control, No matter how small it seems, What you eat, When you sleep, What you feed your mind with, What you watch, What you read. Those things we take for granted, Yet they are huge in what we can control. We tend to focus on things we can't control when we have these life upsets, The what ifs, The why nots. Focusing on those things are not helpful because again, They take you out of your power center. Focusing on what you can control at any given moment is empowering. And once you have that restored sense of control, You start to feel more confident and more competent. More capable of meeting these life's challenges. Now, Being active is one of the fastest ways to shift a negative emotional state. Seeking help when necessary, If you need additional support and guidance to help you strengthen and develop your coping skills, So you can be more resilient, More effectively, Is not weakness. It is strength. Asking for help is a sign of strength, Because we all need support from time to time. Helping others. Can also put space between the source of our stress and us, So the mind can open up to different perspectives, See different things differently, Be more open to the learning and growth processes. Also helping others can give us a sense of satisfaction, And we can see that it's all relative, Yet that we could be in worse positions. So any small help that you can give to someone else that's small of use goods or money if you can afford it can help lighten your load. Can help lighten your load. So the AMCASH method, Acceptance, Mindset, Control, Activity, Seek help, Help others, Can strengthen your resilience skills, Can help you reconnect with your inmate resilience. So you can meet this challenge, Rise above it, And be stronger on the other side of it, And help you become the best human you can be. And just think if we're all moving in that direction to be the best human we can be, How much better humanity would be for everyone. You have this innate resilience skill, Please use the AM CASH method to help you reconnect to it. And for more, Because I want you to be healthy on every level. Every level as much as you can. I really hope this has been helpful for you. I appreciate your time and I appreciate you tuning in.