Building Resilience Through Meditation and Mindfulness
Explore the power of resilience through meditation in this course. Learn essential strategies like humor, positive thinking, seeking help, and taking decisive actions to bounce back from challenging situations. Enhance your mental strength, emotional well-being, and adaptive capabilities to navigate life's adversities with grace and courage.
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Meditation - Heartfulness Bhanu Bahl, PhD
Class schedule and location 8/15: Last class!! Lahey Room Guest speaker : George Zogbi, Lincoln Lab, MIT
Welcome to Meditation Course - Week 9 Class Duration: 50 min Topics: - Getting ready - Building Resilience - Relaxation & Meditation exercise - Thoughtful Observation & Wrap up
What is Resilience? Slumdog Millionaire (2008) movie https://youtu.be/ZiWFn20P8oE 4
What is Resilience? How do people deal with difficult events that change their lives? family and relationship problems serious health problems workplace and financial stressors Most react with flood of strong emotions and a sense of uncertainty Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress It means "bouncing back" from difficult experiences It involves behaviors, thoughts and actions that can be learned and developed 5
Building Resilience : Strategies 1. Humor:diffuses stress 2. Containing Thinking: compartmentalize thoughts 3. Distraction: TV, playing a sport, exercise, walk in the park 4. Seek Help: Make connections 5. Being Hopeful: Maintain a hopeful outlook 6. Positive View: Nurture a positive view of yourself 7. Acceptance: Accept that change is a part of living, an opportunity for self-discovery 8. Maintaining Perspective: Keep things in perspective 9. Flexible Thinking: Find alternate path towards your goals 10. Taking Actions: decisive and timely 6
Building Resilience- exercise Lets spot Resilience strategies in the following video Money Pit (1986) movie clip- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CJ9EDtZ2 p8&index=4&list=PL4852C560DB290D30 7
Language of Resilience Develop language of resilience with kids , examples : 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Come on, laugh it off , Strategy: Humor Don t let this spoil everything , Strategy: Containing thinking Let s take a break , Strategy: Distraction Who have you spoken to about this? , Strategy: Seeking help I know it looks bad now but you will get through this , Strategy: Offering hope What can you learn from this so it doesn t happen next time? , Strategy: Positive reframing Don t worry relax and see what happens! , Strategy: Acceptance This isn t the end of the world , Strategy: Maintaining perspective You could be right. But have you thought about , Strategy: Flexible thinking 10. What can we do about this? , Strategy: Taking action 6. 7. 8. 9. 8
Building Resilience & Meditation Raised self-awareness- self image not at mercy of situations Helps regulate emotions; Feel angry vs be angry Clarity of thought for taking decisions Improved focus to compartmentalize the problem Creativity allows looking for alternate paths Improved relationships for seeking help 9
Lets practice: Heartfulness Meditation Relaxation & Meditation: http://en-us.heartfulness.org/experience- heartfulness/?target=try-heartfulness-on-your-own#
