The Power of Resilience

What are the best strategies for reducing stress and leading a more resilient, meaningful life? Renowned speaker and author Robert Brooks will share insights and anecdotes that highlight the importance of emphasizing personal control, maintaining connections to minimize feelings of loneliness, practicing therapeutic lifestyle changes, engaging in contributory activities and expressing gratitude towards others in order to enrich the lives of others and provide health benefits for ourselves.

[wheres_bears]

Resilience really is the key to mental health. You aren’t supposed to feel happy all the time. We need to learn to handle things

[InspiringSuccess]

Resilience, love this quote, ; "I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ― Maya Angelou

[simpleplan]

1:27 "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It's to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate..." This struck me!!!

[thetruthwillsetyoufree]

I’m grateful for your speech and all the people who have been inspiring me here on YouTube thank you again

[Kate-gzzg]

I've watched this like 10 times already. I love this.

[mindfulnessasia]

We can see that being resilient is also sometimes called mentally stable. A person is not easily thrown off their balance. We know that many bad things can happen in this world that can cause someone to become mentally unstable for some time.

Mentally unstable means “An inability to cope with problems or daily activities. Feeling of disconnection or withdrawal from normal activities.”

A resilient person will not be too elated when things go their way, and they will not be too down when things are not going their way. Rather, they know this is part of being in this world of change. Just because the externals are changing does not mean that our internal world has to change as well.

If a person has some resilience, they will continue with their healthy life habits no matter what and get through the difficulties. And they will seek shelter in the Supreme Lord above all. When God is the foundation of our existence, then a person is on solid ground. Then they are more stable and resilient.

The first tip is to consider deeply why am I experiencing what is happening to me now? Is it all random? Why do different living beings experience such different things, very different qualities of life? “As you sow, so you reap. So, we are all reaping now. We need to start sowing better if we want to reap better outcomes.

We often complain about the things we don’t like. If we look at it closely, we spend most of our time criticizing things and people who we cannot change. We are often not aware of the great amount of control that we do have. What is this type of control? Control over our mind, our emotions, our desires. How we respond to events and people is within our control.
Most people want to feel strong, be respected and feel safe. Some people think that in order to be resilient and confident one needs to be strong externally. Try to impress others, be arrogant, tough etc. This is why some people go to the gym, get big muscles etc. So that no one will dare to attack them or mess with them. But when someone wants to have real resilience, they also must have internal strength.
Internal strength will give a person the ability to make it through the challenges of this human journey without being knocked out, without feeling hopeless. A person with internal strength will not lose purpose or direction in this human journey.

Resilience is a person’s ability to cope with the ups and downs of life. This includes how a person deals with the challenges they might face throughout this human journey. It could include the death of a loved one, a difficult disease, a heartbreak, in essence losing something or someone who is very dear. And this will happen to every single person sooner or later while we are in this temporary material world.

Resilience is important for everyone’s mental health but also for their physical, emotional and spiritual health. It’s a life skill that once it is developed will serve us very well until the end of this current human journey. It is thought that the more resilient a person is, the less they experience stress as they are equipped to deal with life’s pressures.

Building resilience helps a person to overcome obstacles more easily and reduces fears and insecurities as they will have the necessary tools and knowledge how to navigate the challenges that can appear during this human journey.

The ultimate foundation of resilience is a spiritual perspective which is founded on the knowledge that I am an eternal spiritual being residing within a temporary material body.

Identifying with the body as being the self will cause unnecessary fears and insecurities. But discovering my true identity and nature will lead to harmony and lasting joy.

Our existence in this temporary material dimension is challenging and unpredictable. Trying to avoid misfortune and difficulty with wishful thinking is not a winning strategy. Instead of trying to erase misfortune and unwanted change, learning how to deal with it is of great importance. We all need a realistic view of life. A human journey during this time on planet earth is tough but that doesn’t have to mean it’s depressing.

Set reasonable and worthwhile goals and move toward them one step at a time. As long as you know you have the right goal do not give up no matter what happens. Establishing goals will help a person focus on a specific task and can help build the resilience to move forward in the face of challenges.

Accepting change is crucial for a person to become more satisfied and peaceful. See that change is unavoidable in this temporary world. New goals can replace goals that have become unattainable. It is important to examine what is going well, and to have a plan of action for what is not going well.

[scdmac]

Wow!!! That was an Amazing Lecture, Thanks! God bless You💗

[valuetravel]

I can't agree more about benefits of exercise vs medication

[thetruthwillsetyoufree]

Not Sorry to say but I still love love them unconditionally but they know no better

[Slime]

5 components of Resilience.

1. Remember how much personal control you have.
2. At 20:32. Maintain positive connections with others. Loneliness is like smoking 15 cigarettes a days. We all need people in our lives from we can recieve strength from.
3. At 26:05.Daniel Goleman said "if you want to have positive relationships with others, then you need to look at empathy."

[JF]

What an... obvious and uninsightful lecture