Five Mindful Practices That Can Build Resilience

Having resilience is one of the best tools that you can arm yourself with in your life. Resilience can help you cope with adversity, overcome challenges and come back from life’s most difficult moments. Most people are not born with natural resilience, they build this attribute over time. There is nothing that can help you build resilience quite like life experience, but there are also other ways that you can help develop a more resilient nature.

With the right mindful practices in place, you can help build a natural sense of resilience. It will take some dedication and a concerted effort in order to build resilience through your own mindful practices, but here are five ways that you can build a sense of resilience in your everyday life.

1: Surround Yourself With Positive Relationships

One of the key components to resilience is having strong, positive relationships around you. The right relationships can help support you and give you the strength to bounce back when you are faced with adversity. If you don’t feel as though you have positive, supportive relationships in your life, make an effort to nurture both new and existing relationships. Try joining new groups, clubs or organizations in order to find more positive relationships that can help give you that support you need.

Put time and effort into your relationships. It will pay off in the end.

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2: Meditate Every Day

Part of practicing mindfulness is meditating and finding peace of mind each and every day. Take the time to disconnect from technology and focus on yourself, your own mind and your own needs, even if it is only for 10 minutes at a time. If you can truly master the art of mindfulness and of being in control of your own throughs, then you will have the natural capacity to manage difficult emotions.

Meditating every day gives your brain a much-needed break from all of the excess noise that is going on in the world around us. The more you meditate, the stronger your brain will be as it will have the time to relax and refresh so you can start managing your emotions in the best way possible.

3: Be Decisive 

One of the best mindful practices that can build resilience is learning to be decisive. If you practice the art of making decisions and taking action instead of hoping that things will get better in the future, then you are going to start seeing some positive changes in your life. Not everyone is good at being decisive and most people aren’t naturally decisive in nature. However, if you can learn to accept that your future is in your control and that you can make choices that will change your outcome, you can start being more resilient when hardship comes your way, as you will know you can pick yourself up and take action in order to facilitate change.

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4: Choose Optimism 

If you make the conscious decision to be more optimistic with the way you approach your life, then you are preparing yourself to be more resilient. One of the key features of a truly resilient individual is their ability to stay positive during the most challenging of times. If you practice optimism no matter what your day brings, when true challenges come your way you are going to be better prepared to have a more positive take on them.

Being optimistic is a choice. You will never be able to change the fact that challenges are going to come your way and stressful events are going to happen, but you can change the response that you have to these life events when they challenge you.

5: Challenge Yourself to Accept What Life Gives You

Adversity is going to happen. Life is going to throw you difficult situations. Some of these situations you can change and some you cannot. You must learn to accept what you cannot change and work on what you can. Focusing on developing this type of knowledge and insight will give you the resilience you need in order to truly make it through the most trying of times.

You may not naturally find yourself as a resilient individual, but there are things that you can do in order to build more resilience and to change the way that you handle difficulties when they come your way. Keep these mindful practices in mind and you will start to see a change in the way that you interact with the world.

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