Resilience isn\u2019t just the ability to persevere. As we\u2019ll see, it is also an outlook we can cultivate to stay focused on the important things in life rather than what is most urgent, and to keep ourselves from being carried away by negative emotions.<\/p>\n
Sooner or later, we all have to face difficult moments, and the way we do this can make a huge difference to our quality of life.<\/p>\n
Proper training for our mind, body, and emotional resilience is essential for confronting life\u2019s ups and downs.<\/p>\n
“Fall seven times, rise eight.”
\nJAPANESE PROVERB<\/p>\n
Resilience is our ability to deal with setbacks.<\/p>\n
The more resilient we are, the easier it will be to pick ourselves up and get back to what gives meaning to our lives.<\/p>\n
Resilient people know how to stay focused on their objectives, on what matters, without giving in to discouragement. Their flexibility is the source of their strength: They know how to adapt to change and to reversals of fortune.<\/p>\n
They concentrate on the things they can control and don\u2019t worry about those they can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Siddh\u0101rtha Gautama (Buddha) was born a prince of Kapilavastu, Nepal, and grew up in a palace, surrounded by riches. At sixteen he married and had a child.<\/p>\n
Not satisfied by his family\u2019s wealth, at twenty-nine he decided to try a different lifestyle and ran away from the palace to live as an ascetic. But it wasn\u2019t asceticism that he was looking for.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t offer the happiness and well-being he sought. Neither wealth nor extreme asceticism worked for him.<\/p>\n
He realized that a wise person should not ignore life\u2019s pleasures.<\/p>\n
A wise person can live with these pleasures but should always remain conscious of how easy it is to be enslaved by them.<\/p>\n
Zeno of Citium began his studies with the Cynics.<\/p>\n
The Cynics also led ascetic lives, leaving behind all earthly pleasures. They lived in the street, and the only thing they owned was the clothing on their backs.<\/p>\n
Seeing that Cynicism did not give him a sense of well-being,<\/p>\n
Zeno abandoned its teachings to found the school of Stoicism, which centers on the idea that there is nothing wrong with enjoying life\u2019s pleasures as long as they do not take control of your life as you enjoy them.<\/p>\n
You have to be prepared for those pleasures to disappear.<\/p>\n
The goal is not to eliminate all feelings and pleasures from our lives, as in Cynicism, but to eliminate negative emotions.<\/p>\n
Since their inception, one of the objectives of both Buddhism and Stoicism has been to control pleasure, emotions, and desires.<\/p>\n
Though the philosophies are very different, both aim to curb our ego and control our negative emotions.<\/p>\n
Both Stoicism and Buddhism are, at their roots, methods for practicing well-being.<\/p>\n
According to Stoicism, our pleasures and desires are not the problem. We can enjoy them as long as they don\u2019t take control of us.<\/p>\n
The Stoics viewed those who were able to control their emotions as virtuous.<\/p>\n
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Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life<\/strong><\/em> Resilience isn\u2019t just the ability to persevere. As we\u2019ll see, it is also an outlook we can cultivate to stay focused on the important things in life rather than what is most urgent, and to keep ourselves from being carried away by negative emotions. 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\nH\u00e9ctor Garc\u00eda & Francesc Miralles<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"