Emotional Resillience

How can you boost your emotional resilience it so you find it easy to deal with life’s twists & turns, highs & lows?

Backed up by research, tips from the US Special Forces & many others’ firsthand experience, Steven Southwick & Dennis Charney give us 10 top tips in their book ‘ Resilience; The Secret to Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges’. Yoga offers similar guidance.

• Foster optimism, but view the world with realistic outlook, so you feel confident you can do what you need to. Meditation helps us feel grounded & real & stops the voices in our heads holding us back.

• Face your fears, when we avoid scary thing we become more scared, When you face your fears they become less frightening. In yoga, inversions and quite scary at first but as we break them down and try them they become more and more assessible.

• Have your own moral compass, what are your values? In yogic philosophy the Yamas & Niyamas guide us with how to behave & what not to do.

• Practice spirituality, it often means regularity, a habit & it gives community.

• Get the support of your social group, be interested in others & they will be interested in you.

• Have a role model of emotional resillience to look up to, or at least the opposite, an example of how not to be!

• Maintain your physical fitness, healthy body, healthy mind, as you body adapts to new stresses so can the mind.

• Keep your brain strong, be a life long learner.

• Be flexible, shift from one coping method to another.

• Find meaning in what you do, having purpose or a calling can help in hard times means you know what you have to do. Yoga gives us the time and space to investigate this for ourselves