Resilience according to Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (DRAE) has the following meanings:
Adaptation capacity of a living being in front of a disturbing agent or a state or adverse situation.
Capacity of a material, mechanism or system to recover its initial state when the disturbance to which it had been subjected has ceased.
In Psychology, Resilience is the ability of a person to overcome traumatic circumstances without losing their essence. It is that ability to face and overcome adverse events, achieving learning that translates into personal growth. Resilience empowers, diagrams and draws our personal growth, our emotional intelligence and our spiritual stability.
Today I am going to talk about the
ReSilieNcE
in the context of human beings
While the idea of this article is not to make a documentary review of the subject. It is pertinent to clarify what Grotber (1995), [quoted by (1998)], and Cyrulnik [1], wrote in relation to resilience.
Grotberg affirms that resilience "is the human capacity to face the adversities of life, overcome them or even be positively transformed by them, it is part of an evolutionary process that must be promoted from childhood".
In this sense, Grotberg emphasizes that the environmental component is preponderant because it is the biological and environmental factors that will condition the development of resilience.
Cyrulnik defines resilience as "the art of sailing in torrents, the art of metamorphosing pain to make sense of it, it is the ability to be happy even when you have wounds to the soul".
For me the Resilience of a human being is his capacity to face adverse situations and also as an added value to allow this experience to have a learning in his life. What other people have called a positive transformation. From my perception, if it is an apprenticeship, it is an experience that allows the transformation of the human being.
This capacity is a systemic condition, why? Because this ability to face any adverse or traumatic situation is linked to inherent characteristics of each human being, that is, it is linked to their knowledge, their beliefs, their principles, their values, their culture and, in fact, their academic training that they give origin to your Ethos (distinctive character).
Of DRAE
Ethos
(distinctive character)
Set of features and modes of behavior that make up the character or identity of a person.
This condition is systemic, therefore it is also complex and dynamic in time and space. Hence, the possibility that a human being is Resilient or has a Resilient behavior, in the face of an adverse event, involves a number of factors that must be taken into account simultaneously in a dynamic manner. It is for this reason that I am in total agreement with Grotberg that resilience should be promoted since the individual is a child. In this regard, it is important to specify that there are multifactorial agents such as environmental conditions conjugated in a systemic and complex way with the biological, ethnological and anthropological factors that affect this ability of the human being to be resilient in certain situations. From there, it is essential to emphasize that the result of these factors in the human being is their resilient capacity. This ability is intrinsically related to the inner strength of each human being and the strength of their psyche.
❅ sense of humor/creativity
❅ introspection
❅ interdependence
❅ ethics
❅ initiative
❅ ability to relate
In my opinion, being a resilient person is totally and absolutely related to your ability to love yourself and in turn this ability is influenced by the strength of your psyche and your inner peace.
[1] Cyrulnik, B. (2006). La Maravilla del dolor: el sentido de la resiliencia. Barcelona. ISBN: 950-641-491-2. 211 pp.