What is Personal Resilience?

Personal resilience for us is the ability to cope with life’s challenges. Each of us deals with stress differently depending on our first 1000 days and what hurdles we faced in our lives.

For some, problems are seen as a terrible challenge while for others the same situation is simply challenging.  This is due to many factors including biological, familial, environmental, and personal. 

Our brain is hard-wired to seek out negative things as a way of protecting us from danger, it is linked to our fight or flight response and termed a negativity bias.  We can control and overcome this natural tendency through the combination of physiological and psychological actions thus we can change our thought patterns and our behaviour. 

Emotions play the most important part in our behaviour.  Negative emotions put us into a state of alertness and we breathe in, positive emotions calm us and we breathe out.  By understanding what underlies the outward emotion displayed, our secondary emotion, enables us to de-escalate and fully engage with people in varying emotional states. 

The result is a stronger employee who will be more effective and highly motivated.