Resilience

A last-minute change in plans, a canceled meeting, a postponed phone call, a friend that doesn’t show up or shows up without notice, a class gets canceled, a deadline is changed, you show up for a meeting to find that it started an hour ago, the weather is uncooperative, your normal route home is closed, your spouse is late for dinner . . .

What effect does an abrupt change in plans have on you? How well do you recover from an unexpected moment? Are you irritated, baffled, disappointed, confused, lost, stuck, at odds with the “now what?” All these feelings are totally fine and often unavoidable. It’s what you do and how you be beyond these feelings that leads you into a spacious sense of freedom or plunks you into a funk.

You get to choose! You can spend time hating that things didn’t turn out the way you planned, disappointed that you were let down and in resistance to the present moment because it’s not what you were expecting. OR! You can practice being resilient – the ability to recover readily.

I love this practice because it directs me to shake it off, bounce back with ease, spring into the next thing, stretch my tolerance for unpredictability and get friendly with how random life can be.

The next time circumstances start shifting around, the terrain of your day is uneven, life starts being erratic – try approaching it with feisty flexibility. Use resilience to navigate beyond your rigidity, get over yourself, get present in the moment and not only make peace with the “now what?” but relish the newness and possibility of what is directly in front of you.

To Your Body, Carol

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Owner at Rhythm of LIfe Studio

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