Lesson 1
A New Understanding Of Resilience
Day 1 is a welcome to the course and laying the groundwork for what's to come. We take a moment to set a context and reset our understanding of what resilience is and where it comes from. From the very beginning, we're talking about resilience as the nature of human beings; the nature of you.
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Lesson 2
How Change Happens, Without Effort Or Trying
We're often told that change is a process, and that it takes time. What if that's not true? What if change is a moment, and transformation can occur in an instant? That's the direction we're exploring in today's lesson.
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Lesson 3
Where Does Resilience Come From?
Resilience is often 'sold' to us as something to build, something lacking that we have to go and find and install. In today's lesson, we're looking in a different direction; starting from a different premise - that resilience is built into the design of us.
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Lesson 4
The Psychological Immune System
We take for granted that our bodies start the healing process as soon as an injury occurs, or will spring into action to eliminate unhelpful foreign bodies. It's always working to find balance. In this lesson, we explore the metaphor of the immune system in relation to the mind.
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Lesson 5
What You Can Count On
We sometimes think that life is happening to us - that we're at its mercy. In this lesson we're exploring the idea that in fact, it's happening through us; we're life in motion and we are built to navigate all the challenges of a life fully lived.
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Lesson 6
How Do I Build Resilience?
A common question when I'm teaching about resilience is "how do I build it?" That assumes it's something to build, something we're lacking. In this lesson, we'll look at why that question is a red herring and what's more helpful to understand in terms of resilience.
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Lesson 7
The Myth Of Managing Stress
In the world of mental health, we're often given tips and techniques to manage stress, in order to build our resilience. In today's lesson, we'll take an in-depth look at the misunderstanding that's keeping us stuck feeling stressed, and explore the relationship between stress and resilience from a fresh angle.
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Lesson 8
You're Not A Victim Of Circumstances
When it looks like a situation is causing us to feel a certain way, it's a sign we're not seeing life straight. In this lesson, we explore how this is our signal to take another look, and align ourselves with reality.
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Lesson 9
Why All Feelings Are Normal And OK
If you've ever tried to get rid of unwelcome feelings, today's lesson could help you become more at ease with those uncomfortable feelings and relieve you of the need to 'evict' any you'd rather not experience.
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Lesson 10
Relax, You Don't Have To Think Positive
There's no doubt that life is more fun when our thoughts turn towards the more so-called 'positive'. But what if labelling our thoughts and trying to manage them is part of what's keeping us in a cycle of negativity? In this lesson we raise our gaze to what's powering our experience.
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Lesson 11
What Really Causes Stress?
There's a lot of work in trying to manage or control all the factors and circumstances of our life that we think are stressing us. In this lesson, we're going upstream, to understand what's really going on and take all that managing off your to-do list.
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Lesson 12
You Don't Have To Fix Your Feelings Of Stress To Be OK
When we feel stressed, we tend to focus on that feeling, and on finding ways to fix it. What if that's not necessary, and in fact we're innocently keeping ourselves stuck by fighting the feelings that are trying to tell us we're out of alignment with what is?
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Lesson 13
You're Not Up Against What You Think You're Up Against; You're Up Against What You Think
We tend to generalise and project feelings onto situations and accept them as true. In that way, we perpetuate the myth that situations have inherent emotional properties. When we start to question our fixed ways of viewing situations, we open up new possibilities.
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Lesson 14
Why Bouncing Back Is A Trick Of The Mind
The idea of "bouncing back" is based on a faulty assumption - that an event or circumstance could ever render us less resilient than we were prior to it happening. In this lesson we take on that assumption and show how we can correctly reinterpret the signals our feelings are sending us.
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Lesson 15
Don't Worry About How You Feel
In recent times, we have been encouraged to spend an enormous amount of time considering and examining our feelings in detail. In this lesson, we're going to question the wisdom of that, and how understanding what they're telling you is much simpler than you may have thought.
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Lesson 16
Why Self-Confidence Is A Red Herring
In this lesson, we're going to explore why you don't need 'self-confidence' and what's more helpful than that temporary, hard-to-capture feeling. We'll look at what's really holding you back from doing the things you want to do.
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Lesson 17
Why Stress Isn't Just "Part Of The Job"
In today's lesson, we look at why burnout isn't a universal experience, and why some people thrive in jobs that are generally seen as stressful. We'll start to separate fact from fiction when it comes to our experience of stress, and appreciate the infinite menu of possibilities available to us.
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Lesson 18
Why Coping Mechanisms Aren't Required
Techniques and strategies for coping with stress can be found in all corners of the internet. In this lesson, we're going to take a different approach, and explore why they're not necessary, and why they aren't what creates change or relieves your feelings of stress.
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Lesson 19
What Overwhelm Is Really Telling You
We often take our feelings of overwhelm very seriously (because of course they feel serious). In this lesson, we're going to explore what happens when we don't take them so seriously, and question our assumptions about what they're really telling us.
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Lesson 20
When You Think You've Hit Rock Bottom, Stand Up
Today's lesson centres around a metaphor, and points us towards what we sometimes forget: that we have everything we need to navigate this life with grace and ease. The only thing that gets in the way is the mistaken idea that we don't have what it takes, or that we aren't enough.
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Lesson 21
The Implications Of Misunderstanding
When we misunderstand how life works, things feel hard. When we're in alignment with how it works, life feels less like a washing machine and more like a roller coaster - there are still ups and downs, twists and turns, but we're much more likely to enjoy the ride.
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Lesson 22
The Implications Of Understanding
Just as there are implications to misunderstanding how life works, understanding brings different results and a different feeling to your life. In this lesson we explore what can shift when we understand our thoughts as imagination, not instructions.
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Lesson 23
We're All The Same
We're conditioned to believe that some people are more resilient than others; that some are just better at life and others need to work harder to get through life and all its challenges. In this lesson, we'll bust that myth, and point in a more helpful direction: of wholeness, completeness, and unconditional resilience.
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Lesson 24
The Moment Of Change
Today's lesson circles back to insight as the catalyst for change, and explores a personal experience of transformation as an example of what's true for all of us. We shine a light on what's often invisible: the habits of thought that keep us stuck and that we don't see as thought, until we do.
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Lesson 25
What Nature Shows Us About Resilience
Today we're looking at the power of nature, and a fundamental shift in how we view ourselves. It's a zoom out for a wider perspective on why it's logical and obvious that we are resilient by nature, not because we work at it.
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Lesson 26
Why I'm Not Worried About You, And You Don't Need To Be Either
There's something very powerful about knowing that you're ok, and that the person in front of you is ok too. Today we explore that powerful space, where you can be the anchor someone needs when they're feeling untethered.
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Lesson 27
What Does This All Mean For You?
As we start to bring the course to a close, this lesson is a recap and a summary of what it means to understand your unconditional resilience. It's a reminder of what's true, and what you're really made of.
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Lesson 28
Finale
On this final day of our course, I'll ask a few reflective questions you can sit with throughout your day, to help you realise your own resilience, and what it means to know you've always been resilient and always will be.
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