[di meliora]

MentalHelp.Net has a very comprehensive series on emotional resilience here: http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/center...?id=298&cn=298 The videos are helpful too.

What is emotional resilience:

To be resilient means to be able to 'spring back' into shape after being deformed. To be emotionally resilient means to be able to spring back emotionally after suffering through difficult and stressful times in one's life. Stressed people experience a flood of powerful negative emotions which may include anger, anxiety, and depression. Some people remain trapped in these negative emotions long after the stressful events that have caused them have passed. Emotionally resilient people, on the other hand, are quickly able to bounce back to their normal emotional state.

This series likely will take some time to fully digest. Once digested, it will take more time to implement. The process helps us focus, which has value in all areas of life.

I hope you find the series helpful.

[Perna]

I do not believe it is the emotions which trap us but our thinking about our experiences and the emotions that went with those, past, experiences that allow us to trap ourselves.

Emotions are information, telling us about ourselves and the world around us. If we have a house, job, loved one taken from us we may feel anger, anxiety, and grief. It is recognizing those feelings, understanding and working with them and the information they give us about ourselves and our particular world that makes us resilient.

Much depression is caused by having a problem(s) and not dealing with it. As we all know, depression is not a feeling, an emotion, but is an illness.

I don't think any of us are surprised when we don't take physical care of ourselves and then find we have caught a cold. Cold germs are in our bodies all the time but we don't have a cold all the time because, if we are taking care of ourselves, the good "germs" outweigh the bad and we stay healthy. I think many people do not understand that eating healthily and getting enough physical exercise for one's body and having good sleep habits, in other words, taking physical care of one's self, can help keep depression at bay just as well as it does colds!

If one does the best one can in the moment, feels one's feelings and registers what they are offering us as information and act on that information in our best interest, I believe one can gain emotional resilience just as one can gain physical health by physically listening to one's body and responding in ways that benefit the body and the job it is designed to do.

[Sanada]

Originally Posted by Elan Vital

MentalHelp.Net has a very comprehensive series on emotional resilience here: http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/center...?id=298&cn=298 The videos are helpful too.

What is emotional resilience:

To be resilient means to be able to 'spring back' into shape after being deformed. To be emotionally resilient means to be able to spring back emotionally after suffering through difficult and stressful times in one's life. Stressed people experience a flood of powerful negative emotions which may include anger, anxiety, and depression. Some people remain trapped in these negative emotions long after the stressful events that have caused them have passed. Emotionally resilient people, on the other hand, are quickly able to bounce back to their normal emotional state.

This series likely will take some time to fully digest. Once digested, it will take more time to implement. The process helps us focus, which has value in all areas of life.

I hope you find the series helpful.

hello elan.

I have to agree with you about how emotional swings from positive to negative.

I have to say that at the moment I feel like 'Russia' in the 2nd world war - a country 'coiled back like a Spring', - ready to move forward, against the abusers.

I bounce, I rebound, I move, but how and where I move I guess is my choice. Having you guys helps in an isolated world I live in. I need guideence and direction, I find it here more than irl (irl = in real life).

I find help and solace in 'faith', my faith being grounded in what I know - science, physics, philosophy, psychology, math's, books, knowledge and ect ect ect ect.....

I change the negative into positive when I can, and visa - versa.

As for my emotions, I do not know really. I respond to the future (because the now does not really exsist). I trust my past to guide my future in my 'Emotions', that's a good thing seeing as I have PC to help guide me now..

TY Elan...food for thought I need.

[unaluna]

this is my t's 2nd favorite expression, next to "emotional muscle" (which always makes me giggle, overgrown juvenile delinquent that I am). thanks. p.s. I also really liked the what does recovery actually mean post.