Thursday, June 03, 2010   Article by: Dr. Suzanne LaCombe, June
8, 2006. Updated 3 April 2010.  Few people entering counseling
would say "I want to be more resilient." However many people
entering counseling might say, "I don't easily adapt to change."
Resilience gives us that capacity to respond easily to the
changes in our circumstances. It helps us to let things go and
move on. Without resilience we tend to become entrenched in old
patterns.  Most people think of resilience as a mental thing.
They are strong thinkers and believe that their ability to
bounce back from hardship is because they "will" themselves into
it. However, being driven or pushing oneself through life is
very different than "resilience". A truly resilient individual
can flexibly respond to one's changing circumstances--not in a
collapsed defeated way nor with a "I'll do it if it kills me"
attitude. Resilience, on the other hand, is a body based state
that largely depends on the health of your nervous system. A
healthy, resilient nervous