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Daily Question, August 23

How might I cultivate resilience?

  • David

    Every day I try to improve my resilience through meditation. Observing that I don’t have control over all my thoughts helps me to keep moving forward and fight for what I like even when my thoughts want the opposite. Finding this site was wonderful. I think it will help me too. A peaceful day for all.

  • Don Jones

    Where I live, severe storms and climate events have become a regular occurrence. Standing things up again after floods, fire storms and cyclones is now part of the ordinary way of life. Nature has an incredible ability to be resilient.

  • Hermann-Josef

    Living after my own values gives strength. Living according to what is called Dharma (treat others and the world as you want to be treated) gives contentment. Knowing that in the end the good is always stronger than the bad gives hope.

  • Mica

    By worrying less? 😐

    • Rabbit

      If I could just figure out how. There are some good tips in the Hope class for today.

      • Mica

        Warm wishes to you, Rabbit 🙂 I found this in my gratefulness doc:
        The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. BARACK OBAMA

        • Edyth

          Thanks for sharing this quote. It is a timely reminder/encouragement for me today!

          • Mica

            You’re welcome, Edyth – I searched my gratefulness doc for hope quotes for the hope days on gratefulness.org, and this was the most recent. I copied it from the homepage of gratefulness.org some time 🙂

        • Rabbit

          Thank you Mica. Plus doing good keeps you away from the bad news. Enjoyed helping a sweet little lady on oxygen the the grocery store today.

          • Mica

            Congrats on helping the little lady with oxygen! 🙂

          • Mica

            ‘Funny you should mention ‘news’, Rabbit – my new adopted cat lived his previous 8 yrs in a home with the TV on, and my TV had always been off. I’m running it more now – usually on mute. Occasionally I unmute to hear some bit of news but usually not 🙂

        • Rabbit

          I have not read his books. Thank you for the reminder. Was it the Audacity of Hope? Did you see the movie The South Side with You? I watched it twice. It did read Becoming and liked it very much.

          • Mica

            Fun! I had forgotten that book, and I didn’t see the movie. I read his and Michele Obama’s recent autobiographies / memoirs. This was on the gratefulness homepage one day and I saved it. I’m searching my gratefulness doc [not ‘dog’!] for hope quotes to post on the hope days 🙂

  • Marnie Jackson

    I can cultivate resilience by practicing with the small stuff. Letting myself feel whatever I am feeling, accepting what comes that I cannot control and having faith it will all work out. Also, looking at the lessons I am learning by going through the challenge.

  • GR8FULL

    Unconsciously I presume. And always move towards my values. Every challenging moment I endure helps form a callus.

  • Javier Visionquest

    By inoculating ourselves with eustress against distress. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst

  • Laura

    I like that “cultivate” was used in the question because resilience develops with small steps. Although those steps might seem huge at the time we face them. Just taking a shower can feel like climbing a mountain in the face of deep grief or serious illness.
    Tending to myself and life’s demands – as I am able – in the midst of setbacks helps grow and stretch my resilience.

  • Avril

    I’m actually in a resilience training right now. No such thing as coincidence. I am most resilient when I maintain a disciplined (yet not inflexible) schedule of practices which bring me into myself. Starting my day on gratefulness.org is a gift that fills my cup with gratefulness, self-love, and joy. When I drink those in I can more easily adjust to ups and downs. My partner, pets and plants help, too!

  • Rabbit

    Find beauty and blessing in spite of toil and trouble, practice peace, and hold onto hope.

  • Pilgrim

    Every day is a new offering, an opportunity. to begin again. Whether yesterday was not a good day for me, or even if it was, I start fresh and pay attention.

    • Diane

      Good morning Pilgrim…such a blessing to be here with you on another Prayer Tuesday. 🙏
      I have admired and been inspired by your resilience for years now. Thank you for that gift.
      Om Shanti friend ♥

      • Pilgrim

        Good morning, Diane. I am grateful to meet you here on this Prayer Tuesday, my friend. Thank you for your kind words which brighten this day. I am a bit discombobulated … trying to schedule medical appointments. Finding new doctors, along with my way around. I wonder how long it will take to actually feel at home here!
        Blessings and deep peace, my friend.

        • Rabbit

          We have lost four doctors this year too. The primary doctors do not make us comfortable yet. It looks like so many doctors will be retiring soon.

  • EJP

    I will cultivate resilience with love and faith.

  • Kevin

    Perhaps pray, or surround oneself with people who themselves are known to be resilient. Otherwise, I have no idea.

    The more hardships one lives through seems to fortify ones resilience, but it hardly makes sense to go out looking for difficulties to endure.

  • Michele

    I might cultivate resilience by focusing inward, maintaining daily gratitude practices, meditation, and faith.

  • sunnypatti

    Ask for strength and trust the process.

  • Antoinette

    Letting go- letting go of the thoughts, feelings, worries, and all the other things that the human mind world creates. Letting go and accepting creates more resilience. Do the best you can right now and live today !

  • Christine

    Believe in the power that is in me. Trust in the power that is within me. Know that this power is love, and that love will never leave me.

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