What it involves developing resilience?
Developing resilience involves enhancing our interpersonal skills to better cope with stressful situations. The purpose of working on resilience is to reinforce aspects of our behavior and personality that have an impact on the successful resolution of adverse events.
Seek Social Support
The support of friends and family greatly influences the resolution of stressful situations. Often, feeling that someone understands and listens to us stimulates us to seek effective solutions.
Working on our self-knowledge
Self-knowledge implies knowing our virtues and abilities, but also our defects. Self-knowledge helps us to use these abilities and face adversities better, while we grow on a personal level. We must also bear in mind that determining our virtues and defects will help us to increase our self-esteem and self-efficiency, aspects that are essential for resilience.
Developing Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is another fundamental skill for the solution of conflicts and stressful events, especially when a difficulty arises related to a social or family relationship. Being emotionally intelligent implies being able to identify, explore, express, take responsibility and understand our emotions and those around us. One of the most important skills related to emotional intelligence is empathy. Being empathetic means being able to understand the opinion of others without judgment, understanding their emotions and concerns.
Change the view and appreciation of stressful situations.
Sometimes we perceive certain situations as something we cannot overcome, extremely painful and terrible. Perceiving any situation in such a negative way leads, most of the time, to a lack of motivation in the search for solutions and strategies to help us solve any conflict.
However, it is possible to change the way we perceive things. It is advisable to perceive problems as something necessary and as an opportunity to grow and improve us. This helps to actively seek more effective solutions to any problem.
Searching for solutions
The active search for solutions involves looking for different solution options to a problem and reflecting on what consequences each of them may bring.
Remember: "Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems".
Gever Tulley
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