Here we go again! Is positivity really bad for you?
In today’s post we will discuss a recent article, , “The Power of Negative Thinking”, published in the New York Times on August 4th. It would be reasonable to expect that anything that appears in the...
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Self-Help Programs Must Acknowledge the Elephant in the Room.
The often unmentioned elephant in the room for those of us who are promoting self-help is “How do we effectively help people to actually DO what we know will help them?” And to be frank, “How do we get...
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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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Does Secure Attachment to Others Lead to High Resilience?
There is interesting research showing that how securely we attach to our caregivers as young children plays an important role in our resilience as adults. Children who develop a secure attachment to...
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Listening to Sweet Talk versus Resilience Training.
Debbie and I often discuss our concerns about the quality of research on resilience. But we are even more troubled by guidance from sources that make no distinction between advice based on...
View ArticleHow 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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Mental Contrasting: An Important Technique for Reaching Your Goals.
In this post we hope to show you the value of a technique called “mental contrasting”. We want to explain that concept, to cite evidence that mental contrasting really helps people change their habits...
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Distractions Play a Central Role in Producing the Benefits of Meditation
When you meditate, your experiences fall into two categories : 1. The object on which you intend to focus, and 2. Distractions. Here we want to focus on distractions, particularly on where they come...
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Yoga or Resilience Training: Do We Have to Choose?
What are the main differences between yoga and resilience training? Would it be a good idea to do both, or are they a bad mix? Around a year ago Debbie asked for a Yoga class as her birthday present....
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