Resilience

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Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or family problems.

RESILIENT PEOPLE.

• Seek out new and challenging experiences because they know that only through pushing themselves to their limits, that they will expand their horizons.  
• They understand their failures  and don’t feel shame when they don’t succeed.
  

CHARACTERISTIC OF RESILIENCE.

• Initiative. (Search for new projects)
• Independence (Detach from unfortunate circumstances)
• Inward vision (Perceives if something is wrong and why)
• Relations (Positive links with others)
• Sense of Humor and Creativity 
• Morality (Judgment about right/wrong and act with integrity) 
  

RESILIENCE SKILLS.
Our emotions and behaviors are triggged but how we interpret those events, often they have a lot of influence on how we react.


AVOID THINKING TRAPS.

1. Jumping into conclusions: Never make conclusions without having all the data.
2. Tunnel vision: When a person emphasizes the positive or the negative aspects.
3. Magnifying and minimizing: When we magnify the negatives and minimize the positives.
4. Personalizing: Attribute problems to one´s own doing.  
5. Externalizing: Blaming others when something goes wrong.
6. Overgeneralizing: When you generalize that something always happens.
7. Mind reading: We believe we know what those around us are thinking and we act accordingly.

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