Got Resiliency?
Everyone has resiliency! Resiliency is the ability to bounce back from difficulties; it is rebounding, springing back, and recovering quickly. Resiliency is common, ordinary, and normal.
Resiliency Tips
- Bouncing back is good adjustment and a great way to handle life.
- Good resiliency is like a rubber band.
- Everyone has the ability and capacity to adapt and bounce back.
- Resilient people can cope and move on successfully.
- Resiliency usually leads to good outcomes.
It is not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.—Coach Vince Lombardi
Secrets of Resilient People
- Have friends and family for support.
- Take responsibility.
- Use positive and empowering attitudes!
- Bounce back, moving ahead and forward.
Roads to Resiliency
There are lots of pathways to resiliency! People need many positive ways to cope with setbacks, disappointments, and difficulties. Using self-confidence helps to handle it. Rebound every day.
Positive Orientation
- Cope with hard times through laughter, humor, and fun!!
- Focus upon positives such as gratitude, blessings, delights, interests, and love.
- Make time to play, and have fun!
- Increase contacts and support from important people in your life.
Take responsibility.
- Accept and understand the part that you play in the situation.
- Create new alternatives.
- Take steps to recover and spring back.
- Lower your expectations.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way!—Babe Ruth
Positive Perspective
- View situations in ways that promote potential, hope, and optimism.
- Do not focus upon negative thoughts, confusion, and uncertainty.
- See and reframe negative events as positive experiences.
- View any setbacks and disappointments as temporary and short term.
- See change as positive and part of the process.
Self-Enhancement
Have a very positive view of yourself! This approach can be helpful and adaptive, and it promotes wellbeing.
Move ahead.
- The challenge is to focus on the future rather than dwelling on the past.
- Otherwise you may become preoccupied and stuck with the past and unable to move on.
- Learn from what you've gone through.
- Look ahead, and plan for the next steps.
Quote
Spread your wings and soar high!
Prepare for the winds, bad weather, and the unexpected.
Be ready to stop, rest, regroup.
And to fly again!
Dead End
- Avoid unpleasant memories, thoughts, and feelings.
- Repress negative feelings.
- Negatives tend to keep you stuck and make it difficult to rebound.
Building Resiliency Muscles
- Regularly work out and stretch "bouncing back and rebounding" muscles.
- Start, stop, and shift gears.
- Practice letting go and coping with surprises and the unexpected.
- Practice rebounding until it becomes easy, natural, and habitual.
More Resiliency Strategies
Take good care of yourself:
- Manage your levels of stress.
- Eat well, and get enough rest and exercise.
- Take breaks, and use relaxing muscles.
Resiliency is for everyone!
- Everyone can get up, spring back, and rebound.
- Resiliency is a skill that everyone can build and improve.
- There are lots of ways to cope with and bounce back from difficulties and setbacks.
Rebound every day!
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center. (n.d.). Got resiliency? [PPT]. Retrieved July 18, 2019, from https://www.med.navy.mil