Topic 4 Resilience

All individuals who show a greater degree of personal resilience face life changes more easily.  Resilient people respond to those change with a healthy and positive adjustment while remaining physically and mentally healthy. In doing so, they activate the ability to learn from these experiences, accept new information, adjust their thoughts and behaviours, and incorporate all of these new lessons into later life. This is also confirmed by Darwin’s idea of evolution that not the greatest and strongest survive, but those with the greatest ability to adapt.

Therefore we can say that resilience is the ability to adapt positively and restore personal balance during life’s trials and various negative experiences. It activates us to equip ourselves with our own internal and/or external sources of power and to tackle problems in the right way by self-regulating, adapting, learning, changing and/or going beyond existing patterns.