A conversation on resilience

J: Question: What makes a person resilient?


eYe: lots of practice playing. enough experience with getting knocked around to get up after a hit. and a willingness to keep playing (making up new rules or changing playmates if desirable).

also an ability to balance effort recovery cycles and express a dynamic range of qualities...

J: your answer parallels my thoughts on this:
What makes a person resilient? 2 things: a strong sense of self and a willingness to feel.

Willingness is key. When we open to feeling, we open to the mystery (which is an essence in play). To try new things, to explore, there is always a risk of falling down. And ALSO the potential of a genius discovery.

Isn't that how life evolves?

eYe: exactly - also as something more concrete in the moment when we are in need of some resiliency:
Jiggling!
free flow, light, quick wiggles through all the many joints in the body - from between the vertebrae, to the limb joints to all the little ones in our wrists and feet and the joints of the ribs
giggling and laughing also help - even if you don't feel like it.

All this stimulates the production of synovial fluid which has the double purpose of lubrication and shock absorption (- and nourishing the joints) exactly the qualities we need to be supported in resiliency.

Connection to support and the earth through gravity are also key... send your weight into the earth and feel it respond with an endless flow of support up into your skeleton!