Enhance your resilience
Hi all of you, old and new readers, I wonder how you are right this moment in time, and where you are. This blog is now catching on and people share the link between them and so it moves from country to country and continent to continent. We are connecting.
As you may know I write to you from Spain, where we are on strict house confinement, it may very well be different where you are and your perspective of it all is bound to be different form mine. Still I hope you can find some use of what I write to you today.
The intention of my blog during lock down it to pass on some of the tools I have been trained in, to as many people as possible who may find them useful to keep their state during these unprecedented times, whatever your personal situation.
Today I will give a few points on how to check you own resilience and how you can keep it up.
Today, as I write this, I´m referring to resilience as your ability to keep state during hard and challenging times and you can bounce back from a bad day.
Enhance your resilience:
- Stay in the now.
- Create a schedule
- Seek connections that are good for your state, it is okay to tell people if there are things you do not want to hear or talk about.
- Stop watching the things that feed your anxiety, I now no longer open any memes send to me on WhatsApp or Social media.
- Respect the state of others. Ask yourself if the information you have is good for the other person´s state.
- Be kind, kindness inspires more kindness.
- Meditate, it is a good tool to keep your mind from wandering, if you do not know how there are many guided meditations on the internet.
- Do as much exercise as you can within your house, dancing to your favorite music can be a good start.
- Be kind to your body also, there is a time after all this.
- Find a mantra that you can repeat to yourself and/or your loved ones, that will give you reassurance, the ones I use are:
- When all this is over the most important thing is how we treated each other.
- This is not forever.
- Everything will be okay again.
Which mantras can you add to the list yourself?
This is all for this week, let’s stay connected and remember it is free to be kind.
I send you all my very best intentions.
Ivalo Okking
This post was first published April 17 2020