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Resilience means being able to adapt to life's misfortunes and setbacks.

When you have resilience, you harness inner strengths and rebound more quickly from a setback or challenge... Resilience won't make your problems go away. But resilience can give you the ability to see past them... you can develop skills to become more resilient.

Resilience means adapting to adversity

Accept and anticipate change. Expecting changes to occur makes it easier to adapt to them, tolerate them and even welcome them. With practice, you can learn to be more flexible and not view change with as much anxiety.

Maintain perspective. Look at your situation in the larger context of your own life and of the world. Keep a long-term perspective and know that your situation can improve if you actively work at it.

Resilience helps you thrive

Resilience can help you endure loss, chronic stress, traumatic events and other challenges. It'll enable you to develop a reservoir of internal resources that you can draw on, and it may protect you against developing some mental illnesses or help you cope better with an existing mental illness. Resilience will help you survive challenges and even thrive in the midst of hardship.