RESILIENCE IS THE NEW HAPPY.
RESILIENCE IS THE NEW HAPPY.
Being happy, being in a good mood and generally feeling pleasant is a positive effect that impacts emotions and behaviour. Emotions such as pride, love, contentment, interest and joy all contribute to demonstrating signs of happiness. It is common to assume that only children as little happy humans with not a care in the world – they don’t have to pay bills yet, they have no commitments, lunch made for them – what a life hey? Take play for example, we perceive play as a vital component of children’s lives, but it is seen as a luxury for adults.
However, we should not generalise. Not all children are happy. Life is tough regardless of your age. Think about it from a child’s perspective, a bad day is still a bad day. It still feels just as bad as an adult’s bad day. Are their worries any less real or stressful because they don’t know your ‘bigger’ problems?
Resilience is like a super-competency, it is a skill we need to thrive. This infatuation with good times only clouds our view of success. The real challenge is learning to deal with difficulty. which once achieved, improves your chances of feeling good again. So, to be happy, you first learn how to be strong, to pick up yourself up after a fall and you will find a way to persist instead of getting disheartened when things go awry, which often they will. It is apparent that overcoming challenges can not only make you feel happier, but it can also broaden a persons’ cognition whilst building empathy and resilience individually or within a team.
Building a resilient environment can have astonishing effects when experienced as a team resulting in the ability to re-bound from negative experiences and come up with more flexible solutions, which contributes to better team performance. It builds new social relationships, grit, teamwork skills and productivity allowing ourselves to flourish. This in turn may enhance creativity and an open-minded approach to information or experiences, able to become more empathic and gain a better emotional acceptance of what another person may be feeling.
So, resilience means happiness and happiness means resilience, right?
Yes. Want more advantages?
Stronger relationships.
Stronger relationships may have been a survival mechanism in such that they were seen to expand on personal resources both physical and psychological. The need to have close human connections, is one of the three fundamental needs for enhanced well-being. This may explain one reason for why we value social relationships so much, they are also thought to play a key role in our success. Social factors are important to acknowledge, as many people around the world work together in communities, demonstrating the pure significance of the benefits described.
Isn’t that what we want for our children? To thrive in a peaceful community, be happy and bounce back from setbacks?
Everyone does.
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