Improving resilience, Mental strength, thriving through challenges, navigating life’s chaos, managing stress
Each of us faces challenges, difficulties, pressure, changes that are either forced on us or made by choice. We all cope in our own way. The question is, how do we cope and react when things do not go according to how we have imagined it?
Why is it so difficult for us to navigate through difficulty and what makes some people more resilient than others?
Because we are not taught how to cope when the gap meets us: between how we would like life to look like and how our life really looks like. And when reality, life, events, changes, and challenges meet us, and usually taking us by surprise, we react out of stress, we develop anxiety, confusion, become paralyzed, get angry or allow our ego to control us.
Moreover, we live under the misconception that people with high mental immunity are invincible, difficult, tough, uncompromising, or possess superhuman qualities in times of crisis. The truth is mental resilience is not emotional detachment. Resilient people do not lean in their armchair smiling in times of crisis, they make mistakes like everyone else, experience deep crises, get sad and angry, but they show high mental strength and stand on their feet faster than others because they have tools, principles, beliefs, and realistic perceptions about life.
Developing and improving mental resilience is not nice-to-have, it’s must-have.