The Dance of Personal Sustainability and Resilience

What is Personal Sustainability?

Derived from Latin sustinēre= to uphold, to sustain means to bear a burden, to hold up against, to endure. In our world of accelerated change, how we manage change, adversity, and endure our way through hardship and suffering of any kind can be measured by our level of personal sustainability.

What is Resilience?

In distinction resilience from Latin resili(ēns), prp. of resilīre =spring back, rebound, often to its original shape.

For example, I will sustain my intention and focus on seeing opportunity. I will sustain my courage. I will be resilient in the strong tides of change. Or, from a martial arts perspective, I will sustain my centre, and yet will be resilient to the punches and kicks that come my way, flexing and flowing with them.(Aikido) In visual imagery, a tall tree has sustainability in its roots and leaves, and resilience in its ability to flex with strong winds and wild temperatures.

*Building strong boundaries

*Living our values

*Operating in high integrity

*Managing our expectations and the expectations of others

*Maintaining our health and fitness

*Being sure we have our money handled

*Managing your energy bank account

*Cleaning up our relationships

*Being aware of our choices, actions, reactions, stories

*Creating a life playlist

*Letting go of rigid and fixed thinking or positions

*Adopting the highest altitude perspective we have access to

Scarcity - “Not Enough” leads to “more is better” leads to “you” or “me”

*Keeping mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually fit

*Having the willingness to be challenged

*Being able to navigate our dark night of the soul

Highly developed Sustainability and Resilience inherently indicate a highly developed person, someone who has high cognitive, emotional, moral and other intelligences. By their very nature, most Positive Deviants are high in their sustainability and resilience.

It gets back to personal development. Doing the work on self. It includes having a strong Integral Life Practice.

Sustained by Beauty

Voluntary Simplicity

The Divided Life - Its high price

Creative Integrity-how to navigate the new world of work

To Access the Emergency Tool Kit for Maintaining Sustainability, click here.

What Does Integrity Mean- Integrity as a daily practice using Integrity around money as an example

Healthy Anger - transmuting anger into a positive force

For a discussion on the Definition of Ecology-the Study of Consequence

To learn about the Principle of Exchange-how to create a Win Win Win in all relationships.

To read about Deception, Truth and Conscious Communication, click here.

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