Resilience should be some­thing every­one puts on their resume. This life aspect is not nego­tiable and I believe that the ben­e­fits of being resilient tran­scend every part of your existence.

Whether you are over­com­ing a phys­i­cal obsta­cle, an emo­tional bar­rier, or a spir­i­tual hur­dle, the one thing all 3 of these prob­lems need is resilience.

We’ve posted this arti­cle by Dr. Are­toula Ful­lam before but it’s some­thing that needs to be addressed again. Espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the cur­rent eco­nomic downturn.

The Road To Resilience

By Dr. Are­toula Fullam

How do peo­ple deal with dif­fi­cult events that bring changes to their lives? And, how do peo­ple deal with this change eas­ily while oth­ers find it extremely dif­fi­cult to deal with? For exam­ple, many peo­ple find it dif­fi­cult to accept the death of a loved one, loss of a job, seri­ous ill­ness, a trau­matic expe­ri­ence, and many other chal­leng­ing life expe­ri­ences. Many peo­ple find these events so threat­en­ing and they react to them with charged emo­tions, clat­tered men­tal activ­ity and a sense of “unknow­ing and uncertainty.”

Yet, the abil­ity to adapt to chal­leng­ing con­di­tions, even stress­ful sit­u­a­tions is built into their sys­tem! The abil­ity to adapt is innate, and it has been wit­nessed through­out the years. And yet, peo­ple, find it dif­fi­cult to use the gained wis­dom to free them selves from the intense emo­tion­al­ity and stay bound like Prometheus hav­ing the eagle to eat their liver every day, only to find it being regen­er­ated dur­ing the night!

What Is Resilience?

What enables this regen­er­a­tion that is being ignored? What allows health and life to come back and being ignored? What enables the few to take off in the morn­ing with a healthy liver and start liv­ing again? It is resilience, an abil­ity to pro­ceed despite all odds that requires dis­ci­pline of the mind and body and look­ing life through a new lens.

Resilience is the abil­ity to be flex­i­ble men­tally and phys­i­cally and to adapt well to change even when the change is an adverse event, a trau­matic expe­ri­ence, a tragedy and even stres­sors. Stres­sors can have many sources, for exam­ple, health prob­lems, edu­ca­tion, rela­tion­ships, work envi­ron­ment, fam­ily, finan­cial chal­lenges, envi­ron­men­tal, etc.

Research has shown that resilience is not extra­or­di­nary. It is a feel­ing of secu­rity that comes from within. It is not a feel­ing of secu­rity depend­ing on exter­nal sources or events. After all, the treats are com­ing from all these events that are exter­nal to self. Being resilient means that a per­son makes a choice to take steps despite the emo­tional pain and sad­ness. It does not mean that peo­ple are unemo­tional, or do not expe­ri­ence dis­tress or suf­fer­ing. Con­trary, it involves thoughts and actions that are easy to be learned and devel­oped by anyone.

How To Become Resilient?

Peo­ple who grad­u­ate from the Silva Method Sem­i­nars are known to be resilient. This is not a trait that peo­ple either have or do not have. This is an abil­ity that every­body can develop through mind dis­ci­pline. Peo­ple learn to think out­side of the box and see pos­si­bil­i­ties that are not acces­si­ble when one thinks in the same dimen­sion when one acts.

They learn to do their think­ing at the alpha brain wave fre­quency, which is appro­pri­ate for think­ing, and then take action at the beta brain wave fre­quency, which is ideal for act­ing. You see, most of the peo­ple who are not resilient, think and act in the same beta level, and find it very dif­fi­cult to adapt to the new cir­cum­stances. How­ever, when they develop self-mind dis­ci­pline and learn to do their think­ing in a dimen­sion that is free from the lim­i­ta­tions of time and space, in the alpha level of inner con­scious­ness, then new doors open for them and they are able to accept the unpleas­ant sit­u­a­tion and pro­ceed with the gained wis­dom to reach higher lev­els of growth and suc­cess. Peo­ple, eas­ily adapt­ing to the new sit­u­a­tion and using the change to build upon the new con­di­tions and go fur­ther expe­ri­ence resilience.

The Silva grad­u­ate real­izes at the end of the sem­i­nar that the only secu­rity is the one found within. No out­side agent whether it is gov­ern­ment, employer, money, insur­ance, or rela­tion­ship can offer secu­rity, unless it come from within and the knowl­edge that one is con­nected with the source of every­thing, or High Intel­li­gence and is able to get feed­back from this Source. All the exter­nal sources are sim­ply pro­vid­ing a tem­po­rary stepping-stone. Reas­sur­ance and trust in one self offer empow­er­ment and resilience to adapt to the new sit­u­a­tion and resilience to use the new sit­u­a­tion to soar high again, higher than where one was before the challenge.

How Silva Can Help Build And Main­tain Resilience

With the Silva Life Sys­tem men­tal tools, one is able to get infor­ma­tion from the Other Side through the devel­oped Effec­tive Sen­sory Pro­jec­tion of the Mind, a fac­ulty of Human Intel­li­gence and get infor­ma­tion for the next steps as to how to achieve the new goals. Trust­ing one’s intu­ition is true secu­rity and wisdom.

Through the prob­lem solv­ing tech­niques one is able to find cre­ative solu­tions to prob­lems by build­ing resilience and arrive where one is aim­ing eas­ily and with­out suf­fer­ing. One is using emo­tions as guid­ance, not as a spring­board to react.

Devel­op­ing resilience through suc­cess after suc­cess is a per­sonal jour­ney. The Silva Method Sem­i­nars whether is the Silva Life Sys­tem or the Ultra­Mind ESP, pro­vide the foun­da­tion to develop resilience and gain wis­dom from one’s life jour­ney. Not everybody’s jour­ney is the same; how­ever, the tech­niques are valid and reli­able researched sci­en­tif­i­cally for 25 years and tested in dif­fer­ent life sit­u­a­tions, uni­ver­sally, around the globe for 60 years.

How Your Per­spec­tive Affects Your Actions

By chang­ing our per­spec­tive about things we free our­selves from frus­tra­tion and stress and the outer change that we so strongly desire is eas­ier to achieve as there is so much more power and energy when the men­tal work is done at the alpha level of inner con­scious­ness than the beta level of action.

Every adver­sity is an oppor­tu­nity for self-discovery and propul­sion to move ahead. Being pas­sive and wait­ing for the prob­lems to go away is never hap­pen­ing. Learn­ing to cen­ter your­self, your thoughts and emo­tions, allows you to take wise actions towards the direc­tion of accom­plish­ing your goals. Learn­ing to detach from the stress­ful sit­u­a­tion and make a thor­ough study of the prob­lem on your men­tal screen allows you to see far beyond the prob­lem and the solution.

This allows you to build bet­ter rela­tion­ships, greater sense of strength, increased sense of self-worth, a more devel­oped spir­i­tu­al­ity and height­ened appre­ci­a­tion of life. You are able to find the inner core to nur­ture a pos­i­tive view of your­self that helps you to develop con­fi­dence in your abil­ity to solve prob­lems and trust­ing your intu­ition helps build resilience.

In the light of resilience and the devel­oped opti­mistic out­look you only expect good things to hap­pen in your life. The art and sci­ence of visu­al­iz­ing what you want instead of what your fear to hap­pen is strength­en­ing your resilience. As you develop con­fi­dence in your mind’s abil­ity to be your best ally in life you find your­self engag­ing in activ­i­ties you enjoy and find relaxing.

You find that you are a very spe­cial and unique per­son — the one you always were but failed to see with the phys­i­cal eyes – and that you love to keep your mind and body geared towards sit­u­a­tions that require resilience and suc­cess. You learn to pay atten­tion to your own needs and feel­ings and you dis­cover that you are the one respon­si­ble for what you attract in your life. This is empow­er­ing, because now you know what to attract, how to change what you do not want, and how to be successful.

Editor’s Note: Dr. Are­toula Ful­lam has more than 20 years of expe­ri­ence in the use of the Silva Method tech­niques and is teach­ing peo­ple to be resilient and empow­ered to live a life of their design, a life of hap­pi­ness, health and suc­cess. She is teach­ing peo­ple how to change their per­spec­tive, their atti­tude, and see life through a dif­fer­ent lens that allows them to see their great­ness and abil­i­ties to be cre­ative and successful.

Dr. Ful­lam is a psy­chol­o­gist, with exper­tise in health and per­son­al­ity; she is trained at Har­vard Med­ical School and New Jer­sey Med­ical School. She authored many arti­cles and con­ducted research in resilience. Most of the arti­cle above is com­ing from her research in resilience and inner secu­rity devel­oped through an inter­nal work­ing model of sen­si­tive, respect­ful and lov­ing environment.

She trained in the Silva Method from Dr. Jose Silva and had men­tors and teach­ers Dr. Harry F. McK­night, Nelda Sheets, the very first and leg­endary Silva Method Instruc­tors, and Burt Gold­man, the Amer­i­can Monk. She is fea­tured in TV on a live pro­gram about her research on the effec­tive­ness of the Silva Method in Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis. She was nom­i­nated and hon­ored as a Hero in Rock­land County New York/Northern New Jer­sey for her con­tin­ued help, sup­port and empow­er­ment of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties and spe­cial needs who receive schol­ar­ships to attend the Silva Method train­ing and make pos­i­tive changes in their lives. Dr. Ful­lam resides in New Jer­sey and is teach­ing all the Silva Method Sem­i­nars nation­ally and internationally.

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