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Process Of Bouncing Back
Today, we are going to talk about resilience. You can’t talk about resilience though, friends, without talking about why the topic matters. Why resilience is important is something we all have a relationship to. Stress, darkness, delusion, call it what you will, this affects us all. So we all suffer both psychologically and physically. Each…
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Burdened By Thoughts
Doesn’t being resilient depend on what event one is trying to bounce back from? It does in part. That’s an excellent question. Your reactions are never out of context, naturally. But the hormonal reactions, they have discovered, put you into a state that’s perhaps rather much like being drunk. So though you are reacting, in…
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Need To Adapt
I think a person can reach a point where they no longer want to adapt. Want. That is key? Yes, desire. It’s actually the basis of a whole body of tantric traditions. Perhaps they have the ability to adapt, but not the will. Well, they lose the will because you can cross into the darkness…
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Ok As You Are
To get it back where we can all meet on personal resilience, the truth is that we should not seek any specific state, or to avoid any specific state. What the scientists have discovered that is working (after tormenting people with a lot of stuff that doesn’t work) is really quite simple. Discover how you…
Category: Resilience
Stress, darkness, delusion, call it what you will, this affects us all. We all suffer both psychologically and physically. Some people just can’t feel right again as quickly as other people do. The person who doesn’t bounce back as quickly as others isn’t foolish or possessed of any other character defect necessarily. They may not be able to help it as easily as other people.
The idea that “THOU SHALT NOT LOSE YOUR COOL!” actually makes lunatics of people. We are burdened not so much by events themselves as we are by our thoughts that tell us how we should or should not handle a situation. There is no one right way of seeing things to get to.
“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.” Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway