The First Principle of Resilience

Would you like to become more resilient? To be able to quickly bounce back from hardships? 

One of the first principles of resilience according to Dr. Michael Hall, co-founder of Neuro-Semantics, is that “resilience is based, not what happens to us, but how we interpret it…”.

Have you ever wondered how it is possible that some people can go through something seemingly ‘traumatic’ and bounce back and live a wonderful life, and someone else goes through something seemingly less difficult and never gets over it.

It is because we do not respond to the world directly, but through our interpretation of the world.  This is in fact one of the central presuppositions of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, “the map is not the territory”.

The events of the past that ‘knocked you down’ no longer exist.  The events of the past only exist insomuch as you represent them in your mind and re-member them inside of your body.

And which memories you use to guide you, and ‘how’ you remember them is your responsibility!  

This has a lot to do with responsibility, because, while we can not directly change what has happened to us, we can change our response to them.

And this also applies to the presently occurring events. While we can not directly change what is happening to us, we can change our responses to them!

The first principle of resilience is powerful because it pulls our power back inside of ourselves and gives us back the power to change our state and to change our responses – regardless of the scenario we find ourselves in.  

If someone else could have gone through/is going through the same experience and can thrive then the empowering news is that while the events of the world are out of our control, our responses to them can be. 

This principle is a powerful and necessary first step to bouncing back into life with vitality.

As always feel free to leave your questions, comments and contributions and I wish you an ever increasing ability to quickly bounce back!

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