Introduction
Today’s world is a place where each person is constantly facing new challenges. New problems arise in everyone’s life, and it is impossible to stop this process entirely. Resilience determines the person’s ability to withstand stresses, which is why developing this trait is crucial for everyone. The most effective ways to improve resilience include taking care of one’s physical and mental health and changing one’s mindset and attitude toward stress.
Physical and mental health
Taking care of physical and mental health can take various forms, but any manifestation of such self-care benefits one’s resilience. Self-care may include daily exercises, meditation, and regular medical checkups. Belcher et al. (2021) claim that “a high level of physical activity is significant since it has been shown that physical activity/exercise and fitness are beneficial to mental health and may help to promote resilience in youth affected by mental health problems” (p. 6). The state of physical and psychological health vastly affects one’s resilience, which makes it pivotal to take care of one’s health.
Mindset and attitude
Mindset defines a person’s reaction to a particular stress, and therefore, it is directly related to resilience. People should start seeing each crisis as a possibility to grow, as it will help build up self-confidence. Accepting constant changes is also critical, as there is nothing permanent in the world today. The other way to increase resilience to stress is through getting support from one’s family (Chen et al., 2021). Proper communication within a family can also help improve resilience bidirectionally. Changing one’s mindset is a complicated task, but it is a highly efficient way of boosting one’s resilience.
Conclusion
Daily stresses generate a specific set of thoughts and impact both mood and mental health. There is no way to avoid the effects of stressful experiences, but there is a need to understand how a person can cope with them. Proper health care and mindset modification are two principal methods of building up one’s resilience.
References
Belcher, B. R., Zink, J., Azad, A., Campbell, C. E., Chakravartti, S. P., & Herting, M. M. (2021). The roles of physical activity, exercise, and fitness in promoting resilience during adolescence: effects on mental well-being and brain development. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 6(2), 225-237.
Chen, J. J., Wang, Q. L., Li, H. P., Zhang, T., Zhang, S. S., & Zhou, M. K. (2021). Family resilience, perceived social support, and individual resilience in cancer couples: Analysis using the actor-partner interdependence mediation model. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 52, 101932.