We all know at least one of these people, in our circle of friends or where we work: in their professional lives, they are decisive, self confident, self disciplined, even tempered, energetic, productive, balanced and positive. In their private lives they are supportive, encouraging, patient and fair. These are the successful people that we admire and emulate. We are motivated by their successes; we want what they have and to be like them. Most if not all of these people have one skill in common, they have the ability to be resilient. During a crisis, they are able to let go and move on. This is an extremely important skill, not only in leadership roles but in everyday situations, especially now during these difficult times of crisis.
Before we discuss how one becomes resilient, first we need to understand what this English word means. Basically, it is the skill of recovering quickly after an emergency, crisis or what we might consider as a stressful situation. Imagine, a sponge, after you squeeze it, it returns to its original shape. The word skill is used because everyone can learn to be resilient. With this skill we are not only changing our breathing pattern but we are also changing our thinking patterns.
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Author's Bio
John Styffe is an internationally trained biofeedback specialist and coach who has been practicing in the Zurich area for 11 years.
John, in cooperation with executive coach, Thomas Mahler, created a practical and logical program called HeartSmart®. This program guides people through a simple process that not only teaches people how to be resilient in times of crisis but it helps them to develop an awareness of what is required to respond effectively, efficiently and with flexibility to change.
8 comments to RESILIENCE IS NEEDED IN A CRISIS
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Unknown Hi Walt,
LOL!!! Your comment is spot on!!! If thoughts could kill...
Thanks for coming by. Have a great weekend, my friend.
Warmest wishes,
Paula
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Unknown Hi Focus
Thanks for stopping by and for taking the time to share your comment.
Do come again and keep in touch.
Best wishes to you.
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Anonymous You?re welcome.
I would be curious if Walt could elucidate on his comment.
John
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Unknown Hi Focus
Actually, to me, Walt's comment is open to lots of interpretation...and I will email him to pass on your request. Take care and have a good weekend. Thanks for stopping by again.
Cheers
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Walt I was just expressing our inner conflicts, always at war with our primitive nature. No wonder we have high blood pressure. Sometimes we need to let go.
"Many people listen, perhaps allured but still unconvinced, to the presentation of high ideals of spiritual quality and life, and the reason is the caveman. Young people in particular often visualize their moral problem in some such way as this: on the one side is the ideal life with its purity, its self-forgetfulness, its fine awareness of things invisible, and on the other side are the primitive instincts -- pugnacity, egotism, sensuality, the caveman within, and between these two there is an irreconcilable hostility. Thus morally split and bifurcated, with the ancient savage frowning on the potential saint, folk try to live, supposing that such is man’s inevitable estate."
"Some, to be sure, endeavor to simplify their disunited lives by throwing their whole weight upon one side of the division against the other, but seldom with entire success. They try to be whole-hearted cavemen, to give loose rein to their primitive instincts, but even if they do not encounter the laws of man they face that higher half of themselves, their Dr. Jekyll who regards their Mr. Hyde with ashamed contempt. Or if they side with their higher half, they often see nothing better to do with their primitive instincts than to restrain them, thrust them down into their hold and shut the hatch on them. Such folk always have a smoldering mutiny on board. Even on days of quiet sailing they can hear the grumbling of their barbarian instincts in the hold, and sometimes those long repressed mutineers break loose and seize the quarterdeck and there is trouble to pay before they are got back again."
"Most folk are in one of these two classes: barbarians with penitent and wistful interludes, or good men with unconquered mutinies."
"Yet both are failing to meet one of the elemental tests of character: harnessing the caveman. For our primitive instincts are neither to be surrendered to nor to be stamped on and cast out. They are about the most valuable part of our native equipment. They are our original motive force, and our business with them is not to crush them but to expand their uses, to organize them around new purposes and direct them to new aims. In the jungle, for example, the hunting instinct inevitably developed. Hunger evoked it. Men had to hunt if they would live and, because nature associates satisfaction with her necessary operations, men enjoyed the hunting to which need prompted them. Now, however, when jungle days are long outgrown and hunting in its old form is no longer necessary, the hunting instinct does not stop, but is lifted up, enlarged, centered around new purposes; it becomes driving power in some of the noblest achievements of the race. When Magellan circumnavigated the earth, he was hunting for the truth about the globe. When Galileo swept the heavens with his telescope, he was hunting for a larger vision of the universe. When Pasteur, in spite of his paralysis, sought for the secret of disease, he was hunting a remedy for human ills. When St. Augustine prayed, "I will seek Thee, that my soul may live," he was hunting for spiritual resources without which life is not worth living. To what fine meanings and noble aims can this primitive hunting instinct be expanded!"
"The difference between the best lives and the worst does not lie in the possession of strong primitive instincts by the low and the lack of them by the high. The difference lies in the purposes around which those primitive instincts are organized and the ends to which they are directed. A dog’s loyalty to his master is so fair a thing that unforgetable stories are told about its depth and constancy. Yet a dog’s loyalty to his master began with a wolf’s loyalty to his pack. That was its starting point. For primitive instincts can be transformed, and that fact presents to human character one of its elemental problems and one of its finest hopes."
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Unknown Well, even Paul the Apostle said - That which we do not, that do we do...The complexities of inner conflict can certainly plague us to kingdom come if unacknowledged and if we live in denial or persist in suppressing our emotions. However, sometimes high blood pressure may not be due to such conflicts as it could be caused by genetic factors or like in my case, pre-menopausal...haha
Thanks Walt.
Have a good weekend!
Walt The spirit says, peace peace, let it be.
But the mind says, give me that measuring stick, I'll show you what to do with it. ,,, Wham! Bang! Boom! And so it goes...