Theme Commentary
Resilience is the capacity to recover from adversity and to bounce back. The bounce-back may be a return to pre-stressor functionality, as with muscles returning to normal after a twist. Or it may be a new homeostasis stability, adapting to a new reality. Resilience is the ability to generate power, reorganize under stress, and find a new center. We’ll focus on mobility, flexibility, stability, and adaptive range of motion.
Mantras
With every inhale, I plant seeds of resilience.
I adapt without losing myself.
Quotes
Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”– Nelson Mandela
“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.”–Mary Holloway, author and advocate for women’s empowerment
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”–Margaret Thatcher
“All things are difficult before they are easy.” — Thomas Fuller, 17th century scholar
“There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.”
— Raymond E. Feist, author of Magician’s End
Savasana
“Guided Meditation for Resilience” from ABC Science YouTube Channel