07/13/2021
🔥 Do These 3 Things To Be More Resilient To Stress
Resilience is your capacity to deal with discomfort, challenges, and adversity.
It's the ability to get back up after being knocked down.
A client recently shared with me how she feels so much happier with life and is no longer concerned about the future. Stressful things still happen but they just don't bother her the way they used to.
This is resilience.
This shouldn't be a newsflash to anyone but stress isn't going anywhere. The world isn't getting any less crazy.
If you want to be more resilient and bounce back from whatever life throws your way...make these three things a part of your life:
1. Quality Sleep - obvious yes however most people have a lot of room for improvement. I often hear, "I sleep 8 hours but still wake up tired." That means you're not getting quality sleep.
Going to bed early and waking early is superior to staying up late and sleeping late. 8 hours doesn't always equal 8 hours when it comes to sleep. When you stay up late your body does less repair, regeneration, and detoxification and this will catch up with you over time and age you faster.
One of the biggest killers of sleep is blue light at night from screens (phone, computer, tablet, TV and LED/fluorescent lights. Install IRIS or f.lux software to reduce blue light on computers, use NightShift for iPhone & Twilight for Android, and get yourself some orange glasses to wear once the sun sets to block blue light.
Just blocking blue light at night and getting to bed earlier will significantly improve your sleep and get you sleeping like a baby and waking up with your cup full to take on the day.
2. Morning Routine - dedicate the 1st 30 minutes of your day to YOU. No screens, email, news, etc.
I change mine throughout the year and some of my favorites are light exercise, gratitude, breath work, meditation, watch the sunrise, and set my intention for the day. Start with a few things, especially gratitude, to get you focused on the great in your life and build from there. This is how you have an awesome start to your day & precondition resilience to stress and distractions.
3. Increases HSPs - HSPs are heat shock proteins that are created from short term stress on the body. They have anti-aging benefits, regulate immune response, are an antioxidant, & increase resilience.
Some of my favorite things to enhance HSPs are heat exposure (sauna), cold exposure (outdoor swim in winter, ice bath, cold shower), vigorous exercise / resistance training, and intermittent fasting.
Getting yourself to do uncomfortable things also builds mental toughness preparing you to become unbreakable and take on anything.
Now get to it!