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Good Video Explaining the Effective Positivity/Negativity Ratio

Below is a video that does a very good job of explaining the positivity/negativity ratio in concrete terms:

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Finding a Path to a More Resilient Life; the Devil is in the Details.

In our last post we pointed out that there are “quirks” of the human mind that limit us, but also, if they are well used, can help us to be more resilient. Earlier, we had pointed out that the human...

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Some Ways to Manage Your Mind and Therefore to Manage Your Body

I want to discuss life changing lessons I have learned from people who taught me how to train the mind in a way that produces improvements I and others want and maybe even desperately need. The first...

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Overthinking No More.

I don’t remember where I first ran into the concept of overthinking, but it appealed to me. Both Debbie and I understand the limitations of the parts of the brain that underlie thinking. We also are...

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A Map of the Path to Increased Resilience.

Underlying our posts is a three-factor model of resilience which was derived from research done as part of my role as a professor. Our posts tend to be on specific attitudes or actions that are...

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Resilience In and Out

Aaron Antonovsky taught us that stress is so present everywhere that it’s enough to make anyone sick. This means that the biggest payoff in dealing with stress comes from developing more effective ways...

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How Much Training Does It Take to Develop a Resilience Skill?

Our core purpose at OnResilience is to explain how and why you should train to be more resilient. We want to help people learn techniques that can help them get through difficult situations and come...

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More Resilience Training Can Produce Richer, More Powerful Results.

We have often pointed out, maybe even emphasized, how easy it is to learn techniques that are helpful in resisting and recovering from stress. The techniques are not only easy, but are typically...

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The Core Principles of Progressive Relaxation.

While preparing our previous post on using breath control to relax, we ran into some technical barriers to uploading one of our relaxation audios to the post. Rather than add delays to uploading the...

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The Path to Greater Resilience: From Attitudes to Skills and to Habits.

When we discussed the Sense of Coherence in our previous post, we said that it was a match for the first factor in our three factor model of resilience. In both popular culture (e.g. Rev. Normal...

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