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A Step-by-Step

Guide to Resilience

By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)
“Each one of us is like a sailboat. When the
waves of life come, do you get rocked, or do for resilience.

– Rick Hanson, PhD
step guide towards resilience:
There are all kinds of books out there focusing
Every human being has three basic needs –

learning or experience. There are books about
rewiring your brain for happiness, about rewir- While our circumstances have changed enor-
mously over the last two hundred thousand
how rewiring works. Rick Hanson, a psychologist years, our brains have remained largely the
and New York Times bestselling author, recently same. The neural machinery that enabled our
wrote a new book that focusing on how to rewire -
your brain for resilience. His book Resilient: How
to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength
and Happiness proves a detailed and intensive our brains today.
approach to reshaping your brain, your thinking,
and your response to life’s setbacks. -
ognizing what’s true, resourcing ourselves, reg-
First, let me describe what Hanson means by re- -
- ing skillfully to others and the wider world.
sity, trauma or setbacks and to keep on going.
That is, it’s the capability to fail but choose to try He organizes these three needs and the four
again. Resilience is necessary in order to survive
and to move forward in life, it is also necessary beginning with compassion and ending with
to thrive and grow. If we are not resilient, we generosity. Hanson explains that the path con-
end up shrinking from risks and not advancing. cludes with generosity because “growing the
Resilience allows us to deal with stress, work good inside yourself gives you more and more

adapt to a changing world.

you either have or you don’t have, something
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ready born with it. Fortunately, Hanson wholly these individual strengths, you will feel less anx-
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like riding a bike or any other muscle memory, it
is possible to rewire your brain for resilience. In