In psychology, resilience is a concept that indicates the ability of an individual to deal positively with traumatic or stressful events and to positively reorganize their life in the face of difficulties. In other words, it allows you to adapt to adversity.
The term resilience recalls the Latin matrix of the term "resilire", from "re-rise", jump back, bounce, to express the individual's ability to cope with a stressful, acute or chronic situation, restoring the previous psycho-physical balance to stress and, in some cases, improving it.
Being resilient doesn't mean not feeling distressed or stressed; emotional pain, sadness and other negative emotions are frequent and common in those who experience adversity or traumatic situations, but a resilient person will have the ability to move forward, despite the crises, and allow the construction, indeed the reconstruction, of a life path.
How to start building mental resilience?
- keep healthy with a food, exercise and outside air;
- Contact your family and friends, even virtually;
- Be kind to yourself, you don't have to expect too much of yourself right nowe;
- Meditate.