Resilience: breaking your comfort zone
What is a comfort zone? A comfort zone can be a place, a situation, or a habit. Anything at all that you associate with ease and security. The human brain…
7 Stoic thinking habits for resilience
What are Stoic thinking habits? These habits of thought are based on rules for training the mind - and building resilience, as taught in Stoic philosophy. The seven habits described…
The real secret of resilience
Articles on brief therapy, personal change, resilience, consciousness, thought defusion, stress, depression and anxiety.
A masterclass in resilience
Teaching children resilience An article in The Times gives good advice on building resilience in children. The basic idea is that parents shouldn't jump in to remove stress from their offspring.…
9 habits of resilience: resilient people are spiritual people
What are spiritual people? This is one of the few habits which has been studied scientifically. Numerous surveys show that spiritual people live longer (on average), manage stress better, and…
9 Habits of resilient people: taking ownership
What does ownership mean? What this means is that resilient people take total responsibility for what happens to them. Another way of putting this is that resilient people do not…
9 habits of resilient people: learning from resilience in others
Resilient people seek out resilience in others In article No. 4 in this series I mentioned that resilient people actively reach out to others when they need help. The people…
9 habits of resilient people: self-renewal
What is self-renewal? By self-renewal I mean resilient people are never satisfied with the status quo; they are always looking for new horizons. Another way of putting this is that…
9 habits of resilient people: acceptance
What is acceptance? Psychological acceptance is a habit of mind in which unwelcome experiences are not resisted or rejected, but accepted for what they are. Such experiences include life events,…
9 habits of resilient people: emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence is linked to self expression Resilient people are emotionally intelligent. That is to say: resilient people understand what emotions are for, pay careful attention to their own emotions,…