What it Takes to Become an Emotionally Resilient Person?

Emotional resilience refers to one's ability to adapt to stressful, situations or crisis, i.e. it’s referred to the ability to face adversity without lasting difficulties. While less resilient people have a harder time with stress and life changes.

In other words, resilient people do not let adversity define them. They find resilience by moving toward to a goal beyond themselves, transcending pain and grief by perceiving bad times as a temporary state of affairs.

So how is it possible to strengthen your inner self and your belief?  Psychologist Shivani SadhooMisri shares today the features of an emotionally resilient person: -

1. An emotional resilient person cultivates self-awareness: Self-awareness is simply the practice of checking in with your Self to see how you’re feeling emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. This could happen once a day, several times a day, after a difficult interaction with another person… whenever. Cultivating a healthy self-awareness is crucial to combat all emotional and psychological ups and downs in life.

2. Emotional resilient people resist distractions. In today’s age we are surrounded by distractions from television soaps or violent programs, mobile games, negative interest online sites etc. Healthy emotional status needs distancing from these unnecessary stresses and traumas that cause mindlessness.

3. Emotional resilient explore the possibilities. Emotional resilient people always address an emotionally challenging situation with depth and understanding prior reacting to them. They try to see which part of the challenging situation is real and which is over imagined by their fear and anxieties.

4. The best way to start practicing emotional resilient is to write down feelings and thoughts when you’re in mildest of stress, anxiety and fear. Then do post analysis of the experience when you get back to the normal psychological state. This way you will gradually understand your reactive mind and you will gain mastery on the way you react over a period of time.