Resilience: A Choice For Every Day Living

By Jacqueline Mansell

Resilience: A Choice for Everyday is published in a quick to read compact handbook. Drawing on psychological subject matter this is not an academic study but is designed to be accessible for every day, as a stand-alone resource or a spring board for further development. The handbook is divided into short sections and interspersed with s

• Language: English
• Publisher: FCM Publishing
• Release date: Mar 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9780993454677

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Resilience:

A Choice for Everyday Living

To the Point

Transformational Handbooks

for Business and Personal Development

Copyright © Jacqueline Mansell 2017

ISBN  978-0-9934546-6-0

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

First printed 2017

Published by FCM PUBLISHING

www.fcmpublishing.co.uk

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced (other than purposes of review) without written consent of the publisher and or author

Dedicated to

Lydia

Table of Contents

Introduction Resilience: A Choice for Everyday Living

About To the Point

What do we mean when we talk about everyday resilience?

Examples of circumstances that can lead to resilience being undermined

The effects upon us when resilience is reduced

Lowered resilience may lead to stress

Stress Responses

Self-Awareness Check Stress Responses

Building your Resilience Mental Control & Mental Outlook Cognitive Processes How we think Thought Processing

Self-Awareness Check Thought Processing

Building your Resilience Mental Control & Mental Outlook Cognitive Processes How we think Creating Frameworks

Self-Awareness Check Creating Frameworks

Building your Resilience Mental Control & Mental Outlook Cognitive Processes How we think Reasoning

Self-Awareness Check Reasoning

Building your Resilience Mental Control & Mental Outlook Cognitive Processes How we think Decision Making Planning & Locus of Control

Self-Awareness Check Decision Making Planning Locus of Control

Building your Resilience Mental Control & Mental Outlook Cognitive Processes How we think Change

Self-Awareness Check Change

Building your Resilience Understanding interactions with other people The Foundations of Behaviour

Building your Resilience Understanding interactions with other people The id, the ego, the super ego

Building your Resilience Understanding interactions with other people Transactional Analysis Parent, Adult, Child Ego states

Building your Resilience Understanding interactions with other people Effective approach and behaviour

Self-Awareness Check Interactions with other people

Building your Resilience Additional ways to enhance your resilience

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About the Author

Introduction

Resilience: A Choice for Everyday Living

For all of us there are occasions when life can sometimes be a real struggle. Day to day living can present numerous challenges requiring the maintenance of high levels of energy and performance.  In addition, everyday life can demand inner steel and the courage to keep going through difficult times, as all of us will have periods when we are faced with the challenges that are part of the human condition such as disappointment, change, grief, illness etc.

Everyday resilience is about maintaining a sense of wellbeing and staying mentally strong, while effectively meeting the different demands presented to us and performing to our very best.

It may be that you spend the day biting your tongue whilst dealing with difficult customers or you work, or spend time with people who are unappreciative. It could be that you’re having to carry on when riven with grief or in circumstances where you are putting on a brave face in order to reassure those around you.

Whatever the circumstances this handbook has been written to support individuals before reaching the point of personal distress, to help drive the negatives out of the way and provide support in maintaining purpose, motivation, values and focus.  Resilience for Everyday provides a pathway from identification through to understanding and self-awareness and finally to recognising future action and beginning the start of a new journey.

The aim of Resilience. Resilience: A Choice for Everyday Living is to:

Increase your knowledge and so create self-awareness

Eliminate the effects of ‘being present in body but not in mind and spirit’

Mitigate stress symptoms

Prevent the psychological and financial costs of reduced personal resilience for individuals, those around us, businesses, organisations and communities

Reinforce or build up your everyday power and resilience

Strengthen your confidence, enjoyment and participation in life.

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