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Monday, June 13, 2011

RESILIENCE

RESILIENCE
The more resilient you are, the better you are able to deal with depression. Generally, resilient people have several of the same seven qualities which tend to cluster in personality types.  One can develop resiliency.
Definition:  The capacity to rebound from hardship.
The stuff from which survivors are made.
Mastering – not suffering- painful memories
Emphasizing the positive – remembering the good – looking for victories instead of victimization
Capacity to withstand hardship – to bounce back
Maturity
The capacity to rise above adversity by developing skills that expand and ripen into lasting strengths or aspects that help you heal
Seven Skills and Strengths Associated with Resiliency
Insight:  Ability to ask tough questions and give honest answers to yourself
                Understanding, knowing, sensing
Independence:  Drawing boundaries in relationships – keeping emotional and physical distance while satisfying demands of your conscience – non co-dependency
                Separating, disengaging, straying
Relationships:  Intimate and fulfilling ties to people that balance maturely the give and take in a relationship with a minimum of co-dependency
                Attaching, recruiting, connections
Initiative:  Taking charge of and mastering problems, exerting appropriate control, stretching and testing in a demanding task
                Exploring, working, generating
Creativity:  Imposing order, beautify and purpose on the chaos of troubling experiences and painful feelings
                Composing, shaping, playing
Humor:  Find the comic in the tragic, changing perspectives as changing mountains into molehills
                laughing, shaping, playing
Morality:  An informed conscience, a belief in good and evil and how it relates to man
                Serving, valuing, judging

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