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Day 3 of 7
Time To Regulate: Professional Resiliency
Harnessing Our Energy Cycles
This is the most pivotal lesson in building resilience. While skillful self awareness is a prerequisite, self regulation is the linchpin to unlocking the fullness of your resilience. This is more than staying calm when the seas get rough. It's learning to utilize our natural reactions more effectively.
Primary takeaway: We are in constant cycles of activating and settling throughout every day. We need to learn how to utilize this natural balancing act to keep us within our range of resiliency. This primes the rebound of resiliency.
Resiliency Roadmap Day 3
Understanding Your Stress Response
Our body naturally alerts us daily; it's a good thing. However, sometimes these become problematic.
List three stress responses that you most connect to and wish to shift. Some options are:
- Increased heart rate
- Shaky hands
- Feeling districted
- Shallow breathing
- Rapid breathing
- Muscle tension
- Decrease hunger
- Increase urination
- Restlessness
During these moments, it's often helpful to return to the self awareness techniques from yesterday's lesson, paying attention to what opposites might be.
TIP: Using the Better 30-second Break method is a great way to begin to transition these stress responses.
Self regulation is our ability to transition stress responses we notice through self awareness. This is important to:
- Better manage change
- Reduce chronic stress
- Engage in health relationships
Taking a Better 30-second Break
We all need breaks. We also need to evaluate the breaks that we do take. After watching this video on how to take a better 30-second break, list 3 times throughout a normal day in which you can replace a break or transition to include the model set forth in this video.
The goal is to take less time away while increasing our awareness of:
- Our surroundings
- How we feel in our body
- What emotions we may be experiencing
To take a deer dive
Flow is often also called "Being in the Zone". This is the author that coined Flow and this was his follow up book which highlights this concept into work, leisure, and relationships.