🛡️ Brief Resilience Scale

Resilience refers to an individual's or organisation's ability to bounce back and overcome difficulties when faced with stress, adversity, disasters, or change. Resilience gives us the ability to stay positive amid unfavourable situations, and subsequently find a way out of it.

Congratulations on your high resilience! Acknowledging and understanding the factors contributing to your resilience is a valuable step in maintaining and further enhancing this quality. Reflecting on why you feel your resilience is high provides insights into your strengths and effective coping mechanisms.

How to increase resilience

Research has shown several methods to enhance resilience. Exercise, for instance, improves the body's ability to regulate stress, reducing emotional strain and enhancing positive emotions and happiness. Regular physical activity benefits not only physical health but also mental well-being.

Having a stable and reliable support circle is another effective way to boost resilience. Emotional support and problem-solving assistance from friends, family, or romantic partners make it easier to face adversity.

Learning and adopting a growth mindset is crucial. A growth mindset seeks progress, challenges, and the improvement of one's abilities, helping you adapt well to setbacks and view failures as opportunities for growth and learning. Recognising that you can grow and progress means you can face challenges without the fear of continuous failure.

Lastly, cultivating positive emotions can contribute to resilience. Positive emotions broaden our thinking and expose us to more possibilities, allowing us to build long-term resources. Actively reflecting on positive aspects in your life, documenting them, or sharing them with others can help you maintain a positive state and gradually build resources to enhance resilience.

You seem to perceive yourself to be highly resilient. Have you recognised any of these methods in your everyday life? Would you also think of other things that make you extra resilient? You are welcome to mark them down or discuss them with ForestMind.