
112 brilliant stress management
and give us more choices both behaviourally and emotionally.
When psychologists are talking of resilience, they mean pretty
much what common usage would lead us to expect: that we can
withstand and recover from harmful forces.
This chapter will highlight ve mental approaches to building
your resilience:
1 Focus. In any situation, we focus on one or a few aspects,
because our brains are not capable of giving complete attention
to everything. Our choice of which aspects can dictate how we
interpret and therefore respond to the situation.
2 Optimism. Perhaps the fundamental attitude that resilient
people have is ...