About Resilience

May 13, 2024 Cognitive Insights No Comments

Resilience is not about becoming hard but keeping one’s strength and gentleness in the face of hardship.

Please read first ‘Weak, Hard, Strong, Gentle.’

A natural endeavor

Natural organisms strive for resilience. The most successful not only survive but also thrive, passing on their resilience to future generations through the process of natural evolution.

Resilience is not a task but a natural happening. Going with this flow is, therefore, what can make one healthy and happy. It aligns with the AURELIS view that growth and inner strength should come from within, naturally and supported by our deeper selves.

For instance, the immune system

The immune system becomes more robust by being challenged. Thus, occasional illness is more indicative of health than disease. Without these challenges, we would become truly unwell.

So can the person as a whole. We need challenges to stay healthy. How one copes with them is, therefore, highly interesting.

A good prevention of burnout

Always providing – or even appearing to provide – immediate solutions for life’s challenges, big or small, does not foster optimal resilience. One may recognize in this our present-day focus on quick and easy (and sometimes dirty) solutions to any problem.

That becomes less OK if it makes people weak.

Compassionate self-awareness

By embracing our vulnerabilities and strengths with equal acceptance, we can foster a resilience that is gentle yet powerful. Compassionate self-awareness helps us recognize our emotional and mental patterns in an approach to non-coercive change.

This practice lets individuals navigate difficulties with grace, recognizing each experience as part of a broader journey of personal growth and self-discovery, engaging the subconceptual mind, which plays a crucial role in our non-conscious adaptation and evolution.

Challenges as opportunities for mental growth

This perspective shift can transform the approach to hardships, making the journey toward resilience not just about survival but about thriving through understanding and depth. It can change experiences from passive endurance to active exploration and learning.

Every challenge becomes a moment of potential transformation, pushing the boundaries of what we think we are capable of and leading to substantial personal evolution.

Resilience toward excellence

The aim of workers’ resilience should not just be to enable them to work harder (and again get in the need for more resilience). Of course, that is as unethical as it looks.

Yet striving for excellence is different because this is the result of deep internal motivation. There is no manipulation in this; it is only what comes from inside out and in deep respect.

This way, building resilience is, at the same time, the path toward becoming a better person.

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