Resilience is a hot topic these days as people try to figure out how to bend with the winds of economic change without breaking. I’m reading articles that link resilience with positive self-image, courage and commitment, emotional maturity and integrity.
The challenge seems to be what to do to develop resilience when yours is getting low.
To start down the path of building your resilience and ability to deal with today’s frantic pace of change and stress, there are three practices you can start building immediately.
Sleep, Eat, and Be Active
The foundation for resilience is somatic strength, keeping your body healthy and contributing to your energy instead of draining it. For decades we have been hearing about basic stress management techniques: get enough sleep, exercise, eat well. Guess what? It’s all still true.
The latest research tells us that normal adults need 7 – 10 hours of sleep a night, as in every night. No macho points for surviving on 4 -5 hours. Sooner or later it will catch up with you as reduced immune strength, compromised ability to concentrate, anxiety. The list goes on...
Eating well means keeping caffeine to 1-2 cups/cans a day (you won’t need it if you have been getting enough sleep), cutting trans-fats and high fructose corn syrup (it’s in everything packaged), and eating fruit and fresh vegetables every day. And of course, if you still smoke, enroll in a smoking cessation group right now.
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Thanks for this Belinda.
The basics are still important- I sometimes joke I should give my mum 10% for the good advice re these things she gave me as a kid and I now talk about in stress and time management trainings!
All the best from Brighton,
Mark
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Posted by: Stress Training Mark | December 26, 2009 at 04:48 AM