Lesson 4. Developing Emotional Resilience ✔
Summarizing Lesson 4. Developing Emotional Resilience focusing on developing equanimity, to help us find emotional balance.
Summarizing Lesson 4. Developing Emotional Resilience focusing on developing equanimity, to help us find emotional balance.
Putting these skills into practice throughout our week
In Lesson 4, we have explored the concept of responding to our internal experiences, whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, with equal interest and non-reactivity.
Our practices – the Equanimity Practice, Moment of Challenge, and Mindful Pause – support bringing a genuine willingness to experience each internal sensation as it is, without any agenda to change it at that moment. Although it can seem counterintuitive, when we allow our internal experience to be as it is, bringing interest to it, we can both gain appreciation for the pleasant moments and reduce the intensity and duration of difficult emotions and thoughts.
By cultivating equanimity in our daily lives, we can increase our capacity to respond to difficult moments or situations in more skillful or appropriate ways. This will help us to feel a greater sense of well-being, resilience and control over our lives.
Before moving on from Lesson 4, we encourage you to do the equanimity practice, the moment of challenge practice, and mindful pause at least three times in the next week.
Our worksheet below can help you to reflect on your experience (or you can use a journal, notebook, or notes on your phone, etc).
Try to set aside 5-10 minutes each evening to reflect on your mindfulness practice for the day. Use the following prompts to guide your reflection:
At the end of each day or the week, try to reflect on the following questions in relation to cultivating equanimity.
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