Title: 5 Ways to Build Resilience Every Day - Mindful
Headings: 5 Ways to Build Resilience Every Day
5 Ways to Build Resilience Every Day
Discovering ways to adapt to what life throws at you makes you more able to cope.
Shamash Alidina

Content: 5 Ways to Build Resilience Every Day - Mindful
5 Ways to Build Resilience Every Day
Discovering ways to adapt to what life throws at you makes you more able to cope. By Shamash Alidina
August 2, 2016
Health
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Resilience is the process of effectively coping with adversity—it’s about bouncing back from difficulties. The great thing about resilience is that it’s not a personality trait; it involves a way of paying attention, thinking, and behaving that anyone can learn. World-renowned neuroscientist Richard Davidson has found evidence that mindfulness does increase resilience, and the more mindfulness meditation you practice, the more resilient your brain becomes. The emotional soup that follows a stressful event can whip up negative stories about yourself or others that goes on and on, beyond being useful. For example, if you have an argument with your partner before leaving for work, you can end up replaying that conversation all day, which continues to proliferate anxiety or low mood far more than is necessary. Mindfulness reduces this rumination and, if practiced regularly, changes your brain so that you’re more resilient to future stressful events. The emotional soup that follows a stressful event can whip up negative stories about yourself or others that goes on and on, beyond being useful. Mindfulness reduces this rumination and, if practiced regularly, changes your brain so that you’re more resilient to future stressful events.