Resilience

Resilience is a rock that survives millions of years of atmospheric changes, weather fluctuations, living beings walking on it, falling on it, digging through it. Resilience is a rock that changes from its original rigid form to a smooth surface due to rain, river and wind scraping it’s edges a grain of sand at a time. Resilience is starting out as a rock, enduring unpredictable changes, adapting in shape, perhaps even in location, but remaining true to its terrestrial form.

With a resilient body we can rely on our core strength to overcome changes in our life. We know how to use our core strength to compensate for weaker parts of our body. Knowing that our weaknesses are supported and compensated by our stronger points brings about inner peace. Resilience means that we can rely on our core strength and inner peace to cope with changes and chaos that challenge our body on a daily basis.

With a resilient mind we can rely on our values to keep us from compromising ourselves to ever-changing fads. Knowing and living by our core values means we can recognise inconsistencies between actions sold to us as virtuous, but that in fact contradict our tenets and beliefs. Resilience means that we are not tempted to sacrifice our principles and faith for short-term gratifications.

With a resilient social structure, we can endure evolution of ourselves as a society, without compromising the shared values and beliefs that brought us together in the first place. It means we will remain loyal to our family and peers despite outside pressure to compromise those who have been loyal to us all of our lives. Resilience means that we will invest in our long-term societal commitments, and not forgo these for short-term social gains that have the potential of collapsing the social structure we have come to rely on.

Resilience means your body is stronger, your mind is stronger and your peers are stronger just by you being as strong as you can be. Be resilient; be strong enough to overcome changes, to stand strong in the face of temptations. Be a smooth rock, adapting to life, but remaining true to your strength, your values and your friends. Resilience means that, rather than crushing your identity, every challenge in life creates an opportunity to refine your truth. Embrace the opportunities to learn about who you are and use that as your strength in the face of the next adversity.

You are a rock; you are a resilient smooth rock. You can endure anything that life throws at you; this is provable fact: you are still here, after all, fighting through the current challenge and preparing for the next one. You are resilient!