Most of the time, we humans chug happily along with our lives, enjoying things considerably until something negative shows up. Then we are thrown into a stream of negative emotions. It seems we are fighting a current of negativity and strong emotions to get back to our happily humming life. It’s like being in a canoe that capsizes. Then, struggling to get back in the boat again where all is well. Let’s discuss the secret to bouncing back from negative events.
Resiliency Muscles
One thing that helps to avoid this intense struggle is to be diligent in building your resiliency muscles. Especially when you don’t actually need them. Not only does this build your feeling of certainty that life is good, but also that you are ready for whatever comes in life. Then when things do happen, because you have been exercising this resiliency muscle, you are better equipped for the emotional journey back into your happy canoe. You are less affected by negative emotions. You take care of yourself better through the rapids. The journey back into the boat is easier, and you are humming along the peaceful journey again faster and faster.
Emotional Resiliency
Emotional resiliency is being able to let negative emotions roll off of you as quickly and easily as possible once it shows up. More importantly, not letting it stick to you. So, how can you build in some resiliency exercises every day, even when you don’t need it so that when you do need it, you have resiliency?
Building your self-esteem, and your awareness of true self is one way to do this. Creating affirmations of truth that you state, read or think regularly, can build that inner knowing strongly. Therefore, it cannot be easily pushed aside by negative outside forces. Such statements as “the universe adore me,” “I am here to bring an important gift to this world,” or “they know not what they do,” these thoughts create a sort of slippery outer coat. Then, when negativity hits it, it more easily slips away to oblivion rather than sticking.
Another way to build emotional resiliency is to hold the knowledge or the certainty, that we are all one. Therefore, others truly love us and want us to be happy and to succeed. This means that any negativity they would send our way is because of their fear or insecurities.
It can also be their unawareness that what they say or do to us is actually also harming themselves. Reaffirming the truth that we are all one. Reading the findings of science and physics that reveal how this is true, or by exploring the spiritual aspects of our oneness … builds an inner strength that can override a lot of negativity.
Certainty
How do we begin to root that certainty within us? Walking around your days, doing errands, or eating your lunch at work, and casting your focus on others, one by one, and stating (quietly or in your mind) that “we are one” to each person.
If you allow negative emotion to take root in you, then you open yourself up to negative thought loops. The loops are self-deprecation, self-criticism, and self-demeaning. These can start to feel “true” or “normal” and then can be difficult to rise above to see and feel clear… truly … once again. Creating an aspect of emotional resiliency at times in life when you don’t need it ensures that when you do need it, those negative things never really get into your being in the first place.
In the end, your journey is your journey and you shape it by your action and by your inaction. You can proactively create resiliency and positivity in your life, or you can remain more susceptible to negativity.
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