MENTAL DIET: How To Win Through Tough Times
The Power Of Resilience
Have you ever caught yourself fixing the blame rather than fixing the problem? Are you cut off from the joy of living because of the seemingly endless flow of the issues? Are you in desperate straits and can’t figure out what to do? Have you lost hope that you will ever be able to thrive? Are you experiencing problems and wish they could just vanish like a vapor?
Resilience is what we all require to progressively move forward and upward towards fulfilling our destinies despite the tough times or the detours on our life’s journey.
Resilience Defined:
Resilience is the staying power that makes you sail through every challenge, difficulty, and adversity triumphantly while growing through them to become indomitable or unstoppable.
Resilience is the capacity to withstand, bounce back, and recover from difficult situations or challenges while growing through them to become better, stronger and even bigger from the inside-out.
If it didn’t kill you then it can’t stop you; just like an eagle you can use the storm to soar.
The Palm Tree – An Embodiment of Resilience:
The Palm Tree is the most resilient of all trees, it can weather storms.
The 3 Distinct Qualities of Palm Tree and how it applies to human lives:
- The Palm Tree has a genetic makeup that allows it to be flexible.
The same applies to us. We have the inherent ability to be flexible. Flexibility is life without losing your sense of self-control.
To be flexible or adaptable or adaptable is adjusting your mind to accommodate people, events or situations that may not be comfortable or convenient and making the most of the situation without complaining, passing the blame, or grumbling through it.
It is the mental ability to go through and grow through unpalatable experiences or conditions of life in a spirit of harmony. You can face disappointments without being bitter and angry. It is the ability to seek for better or alternative ways when things do not seem to go our way without losing out to despair but with optimism and expectation of the best eventual outcome.
- It has been well documented that during storms with hurricanes, only the palm trees can withstand without breaking or being uprooted. The amazing thing is that when the ill winds are past; the trees just pop back up into their original position – it is only the palm tree that still stands strong amid the destruction surrounding it.
So, it applies, despite the intensity or severity of the storms of life – your world may be falling apart but your inestimable self-worth remains intact and stable.
Your life may be “bent” by circumstances but your value or self-worth cannot be broken. And with your inestimable self-worth still in you, you can withstand the pressure and bounce back when the storm passes.
Therefore, your self-worth cannot be diminished, devalued, or depreciated – it makes no difference what happens to you or around you.
- It is also believed the root system of the palm tree is not weakened but actually strengthened by these storms.
The tough times, adversity, and problems come to us for the training of our character and our strengths, and to discipline our skills – through it all we emerge stronger, better, and even bigger from the inside out bringing inspiration to others with our lives.
