Building your personal resilience to reduce stress

A key to helping handle pressure is your level of personal resilience It does not make the pressures go away, it enables you to respond to them differently. Personal resilience is what enables you to bounce back from problems and challenges. This article gives you ideas for how you can achieve greater resilience.

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Summer is well underway

So far we (well, in the UK) have been having a warm and dry summer, there is much to enjoy.

Use the longer daylight hours to be outdoors more, it is good for you. (Remember the sun cream though!)

Find some things to do together, with family, partner or friends, especially outside in the fresh air.

Support some of your local events, fetes, fairs, shows, concerts etc.

Make a point of eating the seasonal foods – salads, fruit (strawberries are in!) and treat yourself now and again.

Choose to look for positives in your life and around you.

Sights and sounds of summer are there to enjoy. The birds around us, the flowers in bloom etc, etc.

Remember, you have a choice to look on the bright side – or the other!

Do you want to set some mid-year resolutions or small goals to achieve?

Find a reason to smile, to say hello to people and share good feelings - brighten their day.

Even if you start to feel down, stop and think, there are probably many, many people in a worse position than you. It does not mean your situation is great or easy, but it might not be quite as bad.

Consider doing something helpful or useful, whether for a charity or local group or possibly a neighbour.

This can be a good time of year to begin to make some changes – whether for home or, even better, for yourself.

Celebrate the good things in your life – family, friends, your health, or whatever resonates for you.

Building your personal resilience to reduce stress

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