There is no denying that there is something that keeps us going when events that we deem negative or bad occur and that is our sympathetic nervous system, our fight or flight mode.
Survival lies in the human body.
But resilience lies in the human spirit.
The body may survive the trauma and therefore you live.
But it is the resilience within the spirit that means you’re alive.
Unfortunately to build resilience you have to experience challenging, heart-breaking and stressful events.
· Rejection
· Failure
· Loss
· Relationships ending
· Injury
· Illness
Without resilience you:
Overanalyse unhelpful thoughts
I overanalysed and overthought everything that I was experiencing, trying to make logical sense of events that were occurring because I believed that I could then cope with them better. This made my mind a prison.
Stop feeling emotions
I did this well, especially the difficult emotions. I ignored them for so long because I was scared to feel them in case, I couldn’t cope with them. This made my body a prison.
Ignore your intuition
I had moments of intuitive knowing that I pushed down and ignored. I knew things that had no evidence or proof to back up what I knew but my intuition knew and was always trying to guide me, but I shut it down because I was scared to face the truth. This made my soul a prison.
Building resilience helps you become the observer of your thoughts and so stops you being consumed by them.
Building resilience helps you feel your emotions and move them through your body because you know that you can manage them.
Building resilience helps you trust and act on your intuition because you know that you can deal with the truth and where it leads you.
When you have resilience, you can fully live in your life and experience it all because you are not controlled by fear and you know that you can deal with anything that comes your way.
The highs and the lows, the joy and the pain, the love and the heartbreak, the happiness and the sadness.
One things that helps build resilience is the breath.
So many people breath incorrectly due to trauma, lifestyle, jobs, learnt habits, processed food and stress.
But when you breathe correctly you help tone your vagus nerve and work with your nervous system.
Breathwork has helped me immensely in building my resilience which in turn has helped me detach from thoughts, feel and process my emotions and more than anything trust and listen to my intuition.
If you want to know more about how the breath can help you build resilience or cope with anything that you may currently be experiencing then please do get in touch with me.
It is a tool you will have for life no matter where you are.
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