Are thinking patterns undermining your resilience?
I recently attended an interesting workshop on Resilience presented by Dr Andrew Shatte from the University of Arizona. The workshop was based on a single powerful fact – that it is your thinking patterns that determines your level of resilience.
Why?
Because how we think plays an important role to how we deal with adversity. Your behaviours and emotions are triggered by your cognitions, or thoughts. If you have irrational and negative thoughts, you are more likely to experience negative emotions, which in turn affects your behaviour.