Physical Resilience is activated by movement, anytime we are in active movement, going for a walk, raising your arms you are increasing the health of your heart, lungs, and brain.
Mental Resilience is anything that requires focus, Jane's example is was the willpower or mental discipline it took to count backwards from 100 by 7's or to snap your fingers 50 times.
Emotional Resilience was defined as evoking curiosity or love her example was looking outside or looking a baby animals, essentially anything that provoked an emotional response.
Social Resilience is depicted as being social with your peers or strangers, to connect socially or engage physically.
As I watched and listened to this Ted Talk I was intrigued by the thought that all of these simple concepts to better ones life overall, leaving this Earth with no regrets. What could I do to perhaps implement some of theses things into my life? The thought began to dawn on me that I already practice all 4 types everytime I practice my BikYasa yoga or any yoga ( BikYasa is super rad so if you haven't heard of it there is a link at the bottom of the page)! Physical Resilience is apart of my vinyasa, my movement and my flow flushes my system physically. Mental Resilience I practiced in my standing postures, especially in my half-moon pose. Let me tell you I still mentally remind myself it's only 60 seconds and to not give up, and my spine thanks me everytime. Emotional Resilience- when I stare at myself all class in the mirror I have a range of emotions that vary from day to day. Sometimes I feel flexible and fit, I feel gratitude or sometimes I have to remind myself that I deserve to be in the room, that even though I feel gross or inflexible. Social Resilience happens to be my favorite and I find this in so many ways. I have made countless friends, contacts, and inspirations by coming to classes that have lots of people in them. When I first started yoga I hated the thought of coming to a full class for fear that someone would see me or judge me or worse they would invade my bubble! In my teacher training in 2010 I was in a workshop class with Tamal Dodge who now runs Yoga Salt in California. The room had 63 people... 3 people passed the room capacity, all the mats crammed together, some overlapping, as Tamal tried to make his way around the room he stepped carefully on everyones mat, because there was literally no way around them. At first we all seemed a little nervous at the amount of people in the room, and to be so close to strangers! After the first 20 minutes though the fear started to melt as we moved as one breath, one movement, one silent connection; we were all one. This amazing thread we had all created by this social connection, our mental and physical struggle and the love that came from that class probably earned me more than a few extra minutes that day.
What is BikYasa
Jane's Ted Talk
