Learning From Adversity

Many events can occur throughout our lives that are sad, cause us suffering, or test our optimism and desire to live. The secret lies in knowing how to face adversity  and how we let these events affect us and how we deal with them. We cannot allow them to paralyze us or make us lose the joy of life.

We have all seen that there are people who, when experiencing a negative situation, sink into grief and others who are sad, but show their strength and their will to live despite the harshness of the situation. From the latter, the resilient people, we can learn how to prevent negative situations from overflowing and paralyzing us.

The power of resilient people

Resilience is the ability to face difficult situations, overcome them and come out stronger on the other side. It’s a skill that not everyone has naturally, but it can be learned and developed.

A resilient person is not born, but made. Usually they are people who have had to go through situations of adversity, who have suffered and yet are still getting stronger every day. They teach us a lesson in courage and overcoming.

Resilient people are well aware of their strengths and weaknesses. This self-knowledge allows them to develop realistic plans to achieve their dreams and make them come true. They are creative people who have learned to get up when they fall, to see the bright side of every situation without becoming demoralized and without losing hope.

6 tips to overcome adversity

The death of a loved one, a divorce, the loss of a job, the illness of a friend… These are situations that we will probably all have to go through in our lives, but we can choose how we feel about these situations in order to deal with them. confront in the best possible way. Here we suggest 6 tips to overcome adversity and make every day more positive for you:

Accept difficult situations

We will go through many complicated circumstances in our life and one of the most important things is to know how to deal with these situations and know what causes them. Accepting adversity doesn’t mean you can’t feel sad or frustrated. You need to let go of your emotions, but don’t let them flood your day.

To do this you may cry, but after that it is advisable for you to focus on other tasks that focus your attention on something else so that your thoughts do not come back to a recurring idea. Go outside, go for a walk, go read…

Move your body and mind

Mental health depends as much on how you train your brain as it does on how you train your body. So study, read, learn non-stop, don’t stop being curious and put your brain to work. And also move your body, walk, run, bike. Whatever, whatever you like, but keep moving.

Do what you are most passionate about

There must be something you’ve wanted to do all your life. Studying something you are very attracted to, dancing, singing, writing… It’s time to do it and feel that it is you who choose, that it is you who take the reins of your life to enjoy.

Enjoy the pleasure of travel

Traveling is a learning process. It’s not about visiting a place. It is about allowing yourself to be inundated by the sensations, the smells and the colors of the place you have visited,  by the smiles of the people, the landscapes and learning to see the world through different eyes. So if you can travel, travel. Go out to know and feel the world.

talk to someone

If something really worries you, try talking to someone, a friend, a relative, or your partner. Share what scares you, what hurts you. Often someone else can give you a more objective view of the situation and help you see everything in a more global way without letting your feelings affect you too much. If necessary, you can seek help from a psychologist, with whom you can talk about all your concerns.

Learn from the bad things in life

Adversity can teach us to appreciate many things that we previously did not appreciate or value. It gives us a life lesson that we must learn and never forget.

If it is too difficult for you to learn or you fail to see a lesson in a particular situation that you are going through, try talking to someone else; maybe he can help you see things objectively. Look through his eyes and learn from that different perspective.