Resilience and Change.

Maintaining Wellness is key to resilience and adapting to change.

Physical and Mental Resilience.

Think of resilience as balance between mind and body, Through cognition mind identifies situation devises plan to meet change’s challenge, Body carries out mind’s plan and ameliorates change, Healthy mind and body working in harmony.

Casual academic commuting to university lectures and tutorials, Years past overweight with diabetic diagnosis, Worried about walking.

Although well planned commutes train and walking, Always assumed good resilience, Became increasingly obvious body’s difficulty walking to and from stations.

Imposed diet and weight training regaining resilience, Age intervened, Slower reaction times especially when recovering from tripping, Surveyed walking routes eliminating potential risks.

Lesson for me, Maintaining resilience especially with age requires active management of both mind and body, Body through activity and exercise, Mind through active thinking like writing on medium.com.

Emotional Resilience.

Emotional Resilience.

Ability to consciously adapt psychological traits to understand context of experiences and regain or remain in healthy mental state during crises without negative consequences.

Found from experience small events can start my depressive cycle, Family supported efforts, Found I could with practice identify depression triggering events, Gardening became my way of “short circuiting” depression cycles.

Example of Emotional Resilience.

Have always loved growing snapdragons especially under lights, When seeing first buds love to imagine blooms pictures to take and stories to write.

First buds, Convinced myself they’d be white with maybe yellow highlights, Even wrote drafts and took preliminary picture, Bud to bloom overnight, Compare my pictures.

Times were I’d Be very upset, Now I rejoice in unexpected beauty, Resilience in action.

Blessed be.