Your 5-Step Resilience Exercise for Accepting Change

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1. Breathe it out.

When catastrophe strikes (whether it’s life-altering big or even as small as spilling tea all over your desk), before you react, take a moment to connect to your breath.
Try a 4-7-8 breath: Breathe in through your nose for 4 seconds, hold for 7, then release through pursed lips for 8 seconds.
There are many, many complex and potentially disappointing things in the world, but just for a few seconds, all you have to do is focus on breathing in and out.

2. Arrive in the now.

If you want to accept your reality, a useful tool is wholeheartedly existing in your current reality. For a large part of the day, I find myself mentally drifting off into foreign lands. When I center myself in the present, it is far easier for me to accept my immediate world.

When I center myself in the present, it is far easier for me to accept my immediate world.


Fully arrive in the now by taking a moment to survey your surroundings. Notice the colors, sounds, textures, and sights around you, and challenge yourself to fully arrive.

3. Create space for your feelings.

Try to watch your feelings, your state, and your thoughts from the perspective of an observer. Without judging your reactions to the situation, allow yourself to simply be there with those feelings like you would notice a different shade of color painted on a wall.
Maybe the color is a little uncomfortable on the eyes, but take a minute to look at it without running to buy a new palette just yet.

4. Acknowledge.

For me, this is the most crucial step. Acknowledge the situation and the way you feel about the situation with as much self-compassion as possible.
Honor your feelings, even your unsubstantiated thoughts. Allowing them to be there does not mean you are going to act on them or that they are right. It simply means you see them.

5. Release.

Finally, giving yourself permission to accept things is the cherry on top. In order to accept something, you are deciding to let the present be, even if it does not meet your ideals or expectations.



SOURCE:success.com

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