Resilience

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Being resilient in a crisis happens best by taking good care of ourselves on a daily basis.  Think of it this way, when we are balanced we are our most resilient.  But does that mean if you are not balanced there is no hope?  No, it just makes it a bit harder.   

To achieve or maintain resilience it is important to have some daily rituals for yourself, something other than getting out of bed and brushing your teeth.  Setting aside 10-15 minutes in the morning for quiet or meditation time can be life changing.  During this time, or anytime, visualize yourself with deep grounding rods, or roots, running from the bottom of your feet down to the center of the earth.  This is called grounding.  Next, visualize another set of roots spreading out like a tree and running all the way around the earth.  This is called rooting.  Next, take some very conscious breaths.  It can be any style of breathing you choose the only point to remember is to draw in the air as deeply as you can into your belly.  Just this exercise alone, practiced on most days, will dramatically increase resilience.  Think of a real tree with its deep, spreading out roots, standing tall in a real storm when its root system is healthy.  The same applies to us humans.  

When I am under fire from the outside world, I make sure I am exercising good self-care.  When I don’t even for a day, I crash and it is hard to regain balance until after the crisis.  So I try to stay on top of it.  Work on getting a good nights sleep, eat well, I take good supplements to help support my body, make time for meditation, root & ground, exercise and breathe.  

During the storm, focus on what your lesson is so you can heal it and not have the same type of storm pop up in the future.  And remember, this too shall pass.  It always does.  

 

Cynthia Pickett, MSW, LCSW, LADC

 

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