Six Rs of Resilience

Mastering the skills of resilience helps us to navigate when the waters of life become choppy and we may begin to doubt our abilities to handle the challenges.

Six Rs of Resilience:
• Reflect: recognize feelings, thoughts and actions
• Reset: take a break, go for a walk or drive, take a shower
• Review: ask “is this helping or harming me?”
• Reframe: choose helpful thoughts and a growth mindset
• Redirect: focus on what you can change, choose helpful responses
• Reconnect
↳ with self: spend time on self-care and hobbies
↳ with others: spend time with family & friends, volunteer
⤍ GOAL: RESPOND choose to respond with helpful thoughts and actions

↳ REFLECT “What am I thinking, feeling, and doing?”

Awareness of
↳ internal sensations in body
↳ emotions
↳ thoughts
↳ focus
↳ actions

↳ RESET “How can I change my focus?”
• Take a break
• Act: move your body
• Go for a walk or drive
• Take a shower

↳ REVIEW “Is this helping or harming me?”
• Accept reality
• Adversity happens
• Life is uncertain
• Change is a part of life

↳ REFRAME “What are more helpful thoughts, feelings, and actions?”
• Rational thoughts
• Growth mindset
• Helpful actions ↴

↳ REDIRECT “I choose to…”

• Focus on what can be changed
• Plan purpose

↳ RECONNECT

↳ with self
• self-care (more about resilience)
• hobbies and creative arts
• learning and growth

↳ with others
• spend time with family & friends
• share
• volunteer

↳ RESPOND: choose to respond with helpful thoughts and actions
• Breathe
• Exercise
• Meditate
• Emotional intelligence… and more at the Building Blocks of Positive Shift

Download the Resilience and EQ pdf

Books and TED Talks (Amazon links to books provide a small commission to support the Daily PlanIt)

• “Emotional Agility” by Susan David, TED talk
• “Reslient Grieving” by Lucy Hone “Three Secrets of Resilient People.”
• “Superbetter” by Jane McGonigal, TED talk by Jane McGonigal
• Raphael Rose TED talk From stress to resilience
• “The Five Resets” by Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, Big Talk video, Stress quiz

More resources:

• Article “How to Stop Catastrophizing” at Vox
• Resilience Test at Psychology Today
• Forbes article
• Resilience Practices at Mindfulambition.net

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