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Posted: January 22, 2021
The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) is the brake system of the autonomic nervous system. The PNS is the system that is responsible for the actions of “rest and digest.” It conserves energy by slowing the heart rate, lowering blood pressure, regulating sexual arousal, and relaxes…
Posted: January 3, 2021
When we get into very high stress situations our natural tendency is to fall back onto our most established coping strategies. These are typically ones developed in youth, and if you come from an abusive, neglectful, toxic or chaotic home life, then these coping strategies…
Posted: September 28, 2020
In this final post on resiliency we are looking at the aspect of spiritual fitness. For the purposes of this post, we are defining spirituality in it’s broadest sense, as connecting to something greater than yourself. This does not necessarily mean religion, although for some…
Posted: September 18, 2020
Behavioral Fitness as resilience is the capacity to plan and make full use of the resources we have discussed developing in previous. Behavioral fitness is about developing a plan or routine for your day to day life so that you have time to do the…
Posted: September 7, 2020
Part 3 on Cognitive Fitness as resilience, which is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk and adversity. To be healthy is to be flexible and adapt to demands of each situation. Learning to look for the silver lining in a situation…
Posted: September 4, 2020
Part 2 on Cognitive Fitness as resilience, which is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk and adversity. To be healthy is to be flexible and adapt to demands of each situation. Learn to develop realistic optimism. This is the capacity to…