Mental Resilience
Simply put, resilience is mitigating the stress of the stressors in daily life and return to the personal positive baseline of wellbeing.
This is one of the most popular word in the organisations today and everywhere else on the online webinars, this is equally highlighted. The reason is obvious! Humanity may have but you and I have never experienced this state of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) in our life.
Before the pandemic, not that we had all under control but the illusion of control fuelled by planning and making deadlines was good enough to keep us going and to make us feel safe. Now, it is out in the open! The illusion has given way to a new way of being where one deadly variant can make live dead! With this level of ambiguity and lack of clarity, the previous modus operandi may not give desirable results. And the current modus operandi is non existential as it needs a stable anchor to be shaped which is not available for most, at present.
So resilience is a factor of learned strength. And most of us, did not deal with famine and migration so the natural resilience is not high enough to deal with life-death situations! Now, the world is changing and we are responding with SPAM (Stress, Paralysis, Anxiety, Mistakes).
Let us get our act together… Bit by Bit… One step at a time, taking baby steps…
Here are some ways to build that resilience,
- Do some physical exercise– as per your body’s ability and capability. For some, slow tai chi movements work and for some, Tabata- choose your way to up the endorphins- the happy chemicals of our body.
- Do not multi task! Choose one thing at a time
- Form your tribe and reach out to that community
- Practice Meditation & Mindfulness
- Take short downtime breaks
- Learn something new every now and then
- Discover the rosy side of life
- Think life to be on your side
- Get into tough stimulation games and test out your tenacity
- Drop your identity and discover yourself all over again
- Empty out your emotions and work on your triggers
- Treat yourself with respect and importance (as important as a loved one)
- Make love to your partner, let the oxytocins release
- Have goals, stay in action
- Sleep with the sun, wake up with the sun
- Eat healthy, drink water
There are many more ways… I have listed just a few.. Play! Experiment! 🙂
… Build the muscle memory for the rainy day…