If you had to equate your life with a career, what would it be like? Would it be like the 100 meters in which you do not stop and almost do not breathe to reach the goal? Or rather, would it be like a race with obstacles that you have to overcome every so often? Some will say that life is like a marathon, with 42 kilometers to manage our energy and never stop until the end.
For me, life is like a rally, with lots of stops or stations, which can be overcome in the order that works best for everyone and that is enjoyed as a way, taking the goal out of your mind, but without being paralyzed at any time to try to continue always in movement.
As in a rally, life presents challenges for which we must prepare and strive to achieve them because in the background, in the race of life, what underlies each season is the learning we get from it.
If you have ever participated in a rally, you will remember that sometimes the season is especially difficult and requires our maximum effort and dedication, and sometimes we need more than one attempt to achieve the goal. The same happens in our day to day. That is when it is required to have tools such as resilience.
Resilience implies understanding that we have the potential to overcome the difficulties that the rally of life presents us with. But not only that, resilience goes further because it allows us to emerge strengthened from adverse circumstances and be reborn as new individuals, renewed and capable of achieving any similar challenge in the future.
Generally, rallies give clues that help us solve the challenges of each season. In life too, throughout the universe, we receive signals that guide us on how to act in the face of the most difficult tests. We must be disciplined and learn to listen to them.
When I say that we have everything to do it, it is because there is scientific evidence that confirms it.
The human brain is so wise that it has been scientifically proven that we have the ability to adapt to the needs of the environment. According to the book Resilience Neurobiological Mechanisms of Luciana D'Alessio: "The structural and functional plastic changes of the healthy brain allow adaptation to stress, enabling the recovery of affected functions, which implies resilience (adaptive plasticity)."
We have everything to come out triumphant of this extraordinary rally that is the adventure of living. Actually what we are is "life apprentices", the important thing is to be aware from what space we are doing, whether from survival or rather from the enjoyment and joy of learning and grow in each step. Everything depends on the lens with which we choose to observe what happens to us.
And this phrase comes to mind: the world is not what it is, but how we observe it.
Everything happens, trust your instinct, your heart knows what needs to be done. When you find yourself in a vicious circle, in a situation where you feel overwhelmed and with no way out, check which lenses you wear ...
Life is an adventure and we are all born with the potential of resilience to adapt and emerge stronger from difficulties. He appreciates every opportunity to grow, enjoy it!
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