The more resilient you are, the better able you will be to roll with life’s punches without getting dragged down into distress and depression.
Resilience enables you to adapt to tough circumstances and work to fight back against them instead of being dragged under by them. So, let’s take a look at a few things you can do to build more mental resilience right now:
Build a support network
If you want to be mentally resilient, then you need to know you have lords of people you can count on to talk to when things get tough. This could be a good friend, good family members or even a therapist at The Insight Clinic as long as you trust them. Many people think that being resilient means bottling things up and keeping them to yourself, but this is not the case! People who are resilient face their problems and they are not afraid to seek help when they need it.
Live in the present
If you want to be more resilient, then stop turning over the past in your head all the time and stop trying to predict the future. The past is gone and if you dwell on it too much you will get depressed; the future is unknowable, so if you try to predict it, chances are you will get it wrong and then you will end up worrying yourself over nothing. Right now is the time that matters the most, so practice mindfulness and start living more in the present if you want to be able to bounce back from various setbacks.
Foster a positive mindset
People who are negative in their thinking have a much harder time of living through tough situations because they always put the worst possible spin on things that they can think of without really knowing what they are doing.
That is why it is a really good idea to work on building a more positive mindset. It won’t happen overnight, but if you docs more on the good things, writing in a gratitude journal every night for example, pretty soon, your disposition will become much sunnier and you will start to be more resilient as a natural consequence to that.
Learn from experience
Learning from past experiences is a good way to build resilience. When you look back on things you have gone through in the past and see how you were able to survive them and go on to thrive again, it can give you hope that things will not be so bad this time too and that is really valuable when you are going through a tough situation.
Practice self-care
Look after yourself, make time for yourself and do things you love and it will be easier to stay resilient.
As you can see, building mental resilience will take time and effort, but if you really want to be mentally stronger, you will get there in the end and it will do wonders for your wellbeing. So, what are you waiting for?
