Nurturing Resilience into Unbounded Freedom….
Resilience is one of the most desirable qualities to master, and we all have a certain level of resilience. It’s having the ability to bounce back from hardship, stress, disappoints, challenges, failure and setbacks. Resilience is the ability to withstand these situations, quickly recover from them, and be able to return to balance and harmony. Resilience guides and organises our intentions to positive conclusions, and brings bliss back into our life.
We do not experience this effortless flow when we get stuck. Stuckness includes any form of conditioning, habits, cycles of toxic behaviour, worn out patterns, negative beliefs, self-doubt and self sabotage. Any form of stuckness is inflexible and we might experience this when we have the same reaction repeatedly to certain situations. Partially those we anticipate will being us anxiety, frustration, and disappointment.
All most everyone has a wide area of stuck beliefs and responses, the more you are beholden to these residues from the past, the more robotic your response to life maybe. The opposite of stuckness is resilience. It is vital to keep the flow open and free, dynamic and without expectations, as much as possible. The more resilient your awareness is, the more fulfilment you will experience and without resistance. True resilience opens the door to thrive and live life fully.
As part of nature, we have that same resilient instinct within us. However, while nature tirelessly gets on with the job, we too often sit around complaining and feeling sorry for our misfortunes. Resilience means looking for opportunities and solutions, instead of focusing on problems.
When it comes to our physical health, prevention is obviously preferable to having to treat and cure. Physical resilience means taking care of yourself now. You could create an action plan, make a commitment to eat healthy food, get sufficient good quality sleep, exercise regularly, or recycle and avoid putting unnecessary toxins into the environment. Resilient health doesn’t mean the situation never existed. It means it no longer controls our life.
The mind is the home of our thoughts, emotions, desires, and expectations. Unlike the body, whose challenges are often clearly visible, the mind has a tendency to hide away its problems. Face your fears, do not live in denial. Mental resilience is the ability to use processes and behaviors to protect ourselves from the stresses of life and maintain a state of balance.
Your thoughts create your reality. What you put your attention on grows so, if your mind is filled with frustrations, doubts, fears, and anxieties, that’s the world you will create for yourself. Worrying is the most self-destructive thing your mind does. Worrying is like praying for what you don’t want. To be mentally resilient may involve a shift in how we habitually look at the world and the events of our life. Keep your life simple and humble so you can minimise creating challenges and discomforts. Avoid engaging in dysfunctional behavior or harming others, instead create supportive relationships.
Identify the things or people that help to keep you grounded, centered, and optimistic. Whether it’s walking in nature, eating certain foods, visiting a special place, or simply observing your breath, it’s important to have something to fall back on in those times of overwhelm. Here’s some tips and ideas on how to start your self love journey, to help increase resilience. Remember, resilience is about you taking care of yourself, so loving, understanding, compassion, and forgiveness often play important roles.
Spiritual resilience is about protecting ourselves from the distractions which keep us from remembering who we really are. Spiritual resilience comes from an inner strength, our communion with our Higher Self. Faith in the inner knowingness, that we can rise above any challenge. Unlike physical and mental resilience, we now move into a state of letting go, surrendering to the Grace of the Divine. “Thy will be done.” This is the ultimate level of resilience. We step out of the drama, becoming the witness of all. When we realize our Oneness with all creation, nothing can harm us, nothing can weaken who we truly are.
Being resilient doesn’t mean we should be overconfident, we need a clear understanding of our own potential and abilities. Also, too much resilience can make us overly tolerant of unpleasant situations or cause us to spend too much time on impossible goals. However, resilience gives us the ability to restore what has been broken, whether physically or emotionally, with the understanding that nothing can or should be exactly the same again.
Resilience requires flexibility, balance, and knowing when to adapt rather than pushing forward. We need to avoid being rigidly fixed on how we think something should be. Sometimes we need to sit back and patiently allow things to unfold. Everything has its season. Time moves forward and resilience opens our eyes to new possibilities and unbounded freedom.
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Much Love for now
Suzi B xxx
