by Linda Hoopes | Feb 18, 2014 | Personal Resilience, Prosilience
1. Practice calming yourself down. Your brain reacts quickly when you perceive danger or threat. It moves into “fight or flight” mode, which makes it difficult to respond thoughtfully to the challenges you face. You can tell your brain everything is ok by...
by Linda Hoopes | Oct 8, 2013 | Personal Resilience, Prosilience
The goal of resilience warmup exercises is to help you feel relaxed and calm so you can think and react more effectively when facing challenges. All of the other resilience muscles work more easily and effectively when you are warmed up. If you practice one or more of...
by Linda Hoopes | Oct 3, 2013 | Personal Resilience, Prosilience, Resources
Your experimenting muscle is strong when you can courageously try new things when facing adversity. This muscle is useful because it helps you take actions that might feel scary but will help you achieve better outcomes. Some simple daily exercises you can use to...
by Linda Hoopes | Oct 3, 2013 | Personal Resilience, Prosilience
Your structure muscle is strong when you can stick to an approach or plan when facing adversity. This muscle is useful because it helps you plan and get things done, even when it’s tough to do so. Some simple daily exercises you can use to strengthen this muscle...
by Linda Hoopes | Oct 3, 2013 | Personal Resilience, Prosilience
Your connection muscle is strong when you find it easy to reach out to others for help when facing adversity. This muscle is useful because others can provide many different kinds of assistance including practical support, emotional support, knowledge, and skills....
by Linda Hoopes | Oct 3, 2013 | Personal Resilience, Prosilience
Your creativity muscle is strong when you can come up with a lot of new ideas about how to address challenges. This muscle is useful because it helps you find effective solutions to problems, break out of old patterns of thinking, and keep an open mind. Some simple...
