I have been researching the concept of resilience lately. It came into my awareness because I noticed that some people are very resilient and others are not, -so much.
This made me ask the question, why? Why can some people seem to bounce back from the slams of life and others seem to be like the delicate vines in fall, and when just a hint of frost touches the air shrivel and brown?
When I say I have been researching, I mean honest to goodness researching; using journals of scientific inquiry and finding studies from other people that have asked these same questions.
Here is what I have uncovered so far:
– Resilience is, so far, not considered an inherent trait. This means it is an action and a choice: people are not born resilient, they BECOME resilient.
– Resilience is positively related to the inherent traits of hope and optimism.
– If you raise a persons perception of hopefulness and positive outlooks, their resilience raises.
The question then becomes how do we raise hope and optimism?
I will look into that and report back.
Beth's Journey 