By Rick Hanson — 2015
To deal life’s challenges, we need resources. Rick Hanson explains how to find the ones that lie inside yourself.
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A calm mind and even temper can help make peace with life’s difficulties.
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A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
In this article, we’ll look into how to find your inner strength so you can stay strong even when you face adversity.
One trait of highly successful people is having a positive outlook on life, always moving forward, always learning – especially when it’s hard. We’re not typically grateful for the “worst” things in our lives. If we want to have a growth mindset, we should be.
No matter how great your life may be, you will eventually deal with disappointments, setbacks, failures, and even loss and trauma.
In low seasons, while you sit in the waiting room of life, patience is a superpower. But by adopting these seven mindsets, you can run circles around life’s challenges.
As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.