Balance or equilibrium is how we can stay steady and not be pulled or pushed in our response to things. It’s also how we can hold more than one thing and maintain a centred view. It’s the place where there isn’t too much of one thing.
On Resilience and Emotional Drain
What does it mean to be resilient? Resilience is commonly described as being able to withstand and bounce back from negative experiences. Resilience is not the capacity to not feel, like a teflon skinned human; unaffected. It’s not the capacity to carry on regardless in the face of adversity. It’s not endurance. It’s the capacity to experience; sometimes extreme emotional difficulties, and recover; with the emphasis on recover. To bow but not break. To stay calm even in the bow. To adapt and not hit out, or in. For me, resilience is that our value and attitude towards our self…
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