Deep Resilience: A four-step journey to unshakable inner strength

EXERCISE 3: One-minute exercise: What is a thought? Take a moment to think about something you’re planning to do later on today or tomorrow. Focus on examining the thoughts as they arise. What is a thought anyway? With an attitude of curiosity, notice what form the thoughts take, how long they stay around, what they’re made of. Try to be curious, n

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unconsciously play out our mind’s conditioned patterns. The second problem is that when we lose touch with the present moment, we lose touch with the greatest source of inner strength we have as human beings: awareness and the qualities that come with it, like love, inner peace, equanimity, clarity, wisdom and courage.

Deep resilience is a practice, but it’s also a state of being. Use the four steps again and again so that it becomes like a strong inner muscle and eventually deep resilience will become your default mode, changing from being a passing state you occasionally tap into to being a lasting trait.

The human mind is a double-edged sword

we are often not aware of the bulk of the mental and emotional patterns that are leading us into troubled waters.

One of the challenges they face is that a lot of mainstream advice on resilience is unhelpful and some of it is even downright damaging.

Engaged in a struggle with emotions In difficult times, we are likely to experience painful emotions and stress. That is a perfectly natural result of going through something tragic, difficult, frightening or painful.

These days, this inherited negativity bias means we tend to focus way more on what’s wrong than what is going right in our lives.