Being Resilient
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Resilience is a learn-able skill; it can be cultivated even if you are not a naturally resilient person. This concise book outlines how you can develop your own resilience and find greater enjoyment and fulfilment in life, becoming a more self-actualized person.
We could all benefit from having strategies to help us deal with the challenging, sometimes catastrophic events that come our way in life. Losing your job or business, relationship break-up, bereavement, illness or disability, and being the victim of crime are all situations where having resilience should come to the fore. How would you react to events of this seriousness? Would it knock the wind out of you such that you would find it difficult to carry on? Or do you have the resilience to get up again and keep moving forwards?
Being Resilient shows you how to handle stress in a positive way and helps you be the kind of person who bounces back and carries on, stronger than before. It describes what resilience is and how you can cultivate it so that you can meet those difficult challenges and go on to become a stronger, happier person. Being Resilient is an essential ability in your repertoire of life skills. With it, you can meet the challenges of life, grow as a person and approach your full potential as a human being. Without resilience, you become bogged in the problems that you encounter along the road and find it difficult to get yourself out and continue your journey.
Resilience is a form of learned optimism, a process by which you learn to accept that in life, problems will come your way, many of which you have little or no control over. But here is the crucial point, you also realize that you do have control over how you think about and react to those problems. As Shakespeare observed there is nothing either good or bad that thinking makes it so. Your world is not fixed; it is created by you, by your perceptions of what happens around you and how you choose to think about them and react. This is an empowering thought that puts you squarely in the driver's seat of your life; you are in charge.
David Tuffley
David Tuffley (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & Socio-Technical Studies at Griffith University in Australia.David writes on a broad range of interests; from Comparative Religion, Anthropology, Psychology, Ancient and Modern History, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Architectural History, Environments and Ecosystems.
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Being Resilient - David Tuffley
Being Resilient
David Tuffley
Altiora Publications
© Copyright 2014 David Tuffley
"It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me." ― Stephen Fry
Published in 2014 by Altiora Publications at Smashwords
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David Tuffley PhD is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics and Socio-Technical Studies at Griffith University in Australia. David is passionate about helping people to grow into their full potential.
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WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK
Life has a habit of throwing challenges our way that can knock us down. If we have not got sufficient resilience, it may be very difficult to pick yourself up and keep moving forwards.
We can all do with some help in becoming the kind of person who can pick themselves up and keep moving forwards, stronger than we were before. Such a person can become self-actualized, have reached their full potential as a human being. Read on.
WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK
We could all benefit from having strategies to help us deal with the challenging events that come our way in life. Losing your job or business, relationship break-up, bereavement, illness or disability, and being the victim of crime are all situations where having resilience should come to the fore.
How would you react to events of this seriousness? Would it knock the wind out of you such that you would find it difficult to carry on? Or do you have the resilience to get up again and keep moving forwards?
Being Resilient helps you be the kind of person who bounces back and carries on, stronger than before. It describes what resilience is and how you can cultivate it in your own life so that you can meet those difficult challenges and go on to become a stronger, happier person.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Why I Wrote This Book
Why You Should Read This Book
Introduction
Chapter 1: Building Resilience
Chapter 2: Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Chapter 3: Exposure Therapy
Chapter 4: Self-Actualization
Chapter 5: Lifestyle
Chapter 6: Meditation
Conclusion
About the Author
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INTRODUCTION
Resilience, or the ability to handle stress in a positive way, it is an essential ability in