Leading Libraries Series: Leading for Resilience
Emotional resilience
Building your own recovery practices
There are a wide range of physical activities that help our recovery, many of which involve different elements of movement. In the same way that we think and feel much better when we’ve had some good nutrition – the same is also true for movement.
Since our cells receive oxygen and eliminate waste through movement, we can also regard movement much like nutrition. But what if we don’t have the opportunity to do something like go for a run or attend a yoga class in the moments after
a shock?
Luckily there are some very short and easy-to-do movement practices that you can do at your desk to help your physical state – either to help with a recovery or as a body maintenance practice. A number of quick and simple practices are outlined
in the video for this module.
If you incorporate one of these two minute practices into each hour of work, you will feel refreshed rather than exhausted at the end of the day, reduce the long terms impacts of stress hormones on your body and think more clearly too – think
of them as short “movement nutrition” breaks. There are loads of short (video) resources on the web if you prefer to learn by watching someone else doing the practices!
You can also try one of these the next time you feel out of equilibrium:
Over the longer term, if you repeat them often enough, these recovery practices will increase your ability to ‘damp’ your emotional responses so that, over time, you build your ability to return to equilibrium quickly and even dampen the arousal
states themselves.
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