Mindful Wellbeing Week 5: Embodying Resiliency

We will explore the word resiliency, and how it feels in your body, heart, and mind. This practice encourages you to consider a new way to look at being resilient. It asks you to inquire where you source your resiliency from, as well as offering guidance around thinking of resiliency in a more balanced perspective.

Transcript

Welcome to this practice today,

Inviting you to settle in to your body right now.

Using a few breaths.

Maybe opening up to hearing a few sounds.

Feeling grounded and light in whatever posture you're in.

And so I'm going to invite you to just feel in your body how this word lands.

When I say resiliency,

What comes up for you?

Can you feel anything in your body around the word resiliency?

Any thoughts associated with it?

Some attempt to define or explain it.

Maybe there's an emotion.

Maybe it brings up a certain feeling in your heart.

So often we look to this word resiliency as a pillar of strength that we can find in ourselves.

And that is one meaning.

There's so many other implications of resiliency in our culture,

In our lives,

In our world.

Feeling of reaching,

Of having to be strong,

Of rising against in spite of.

To be human in this particular time and space and place is the most challenging feat.

We don't have to power through it in every second.

What if resiliency means to be weak sometimes?

To call upon your network of friends and loved ones to hold you up.

To rest and recover instead of lean in and do.

Our bodies know how to heal.

Our bodies know how to rejuvenate and replenish if we just let them.

Where do you source your resiliency from?

Is it just from your mind?

Is it within your body and finding some strength and stability and working with the challenges?

Is it an extension out to your community of care?

It doesn't just have to rely on you,

On your thinking about how to do better,

How to be better.

Just welcoming whatever ways it wants to show up for you without being so hard on yourself to push through challenge.