How to prevent stress through your resilience

I don’t know about you but the word ‘stress’ makes me feel stressed at the moment (insert volcano head emoji here!).  Stress is a very personal feeling, we have our own unique reactions to it and it’s created by many external and internal factors, from the weather (external) to imposter syndrome, lack of preparation (internal), and everything in between.

However, for many of us a small amount of ‘healthy’ stress can be really useful, it can motivate us to get into action and push us to get tasks completed. It can also make us feel alive and excited. But finding the balance can be very challenging and our bodies, minds and emotions can all be very negatively impacted by stress.

But how can you use your resilience to prevent stress?.....

In the spirit of my ‘back to basics’ mentality I’ve discovered that regardless of the subject or topic, if you break it down in to more manageable chunks it’s just that……more manageable 😊

Like resilience, if you break it down into your physical resilience, your mental resilience, your emotional resilience and your spiritual resilience, you can focus on particular elements of it, rather than the whole, and sometimes overwhelming knot that needs some serious untangling.

The secret ingredient to ensure that I am not living my life from an energy of existing but actually I can dance in the sweet spot between the surviving and thriving energies, is my awareness of my resilience levels in any given moment, and very importantly, how to increase, refill, dial up (or down) each element to prevent (and of course at times react to) unhealthy stress levels.

When you are aware of what you need to keep your resilience levels at a steady level you can become proactive when it comes to managing stress, you can create and understand the strategies that you need when the signs of stress start to show up, and therefore prevention really is possible for you.

To find out more about ‘The Resilience Roadmap’ that I have created to support the creation of your personal resilience toolkit, pop me an email at claire@hrforhr.co.uk to arrange a cheeky video call to explore how this model is a game changer and could transform your life forever!

Much love

CR x