RESILIENCE amidst Trials

Resilient Tree

Filipinos are likened to a bamboo tree. A bambo tree is tall and thin but flexible enough that even if it bows to the wind blows, it remains standing. I grew up in the province, I could attest that bamboo trees are really resilient to withstand strong wind blows that other trees can’t.

Like bamboo tree, resiliency enable us to always rise despite the many blows of trials we have to endure. And we come out from the trials stronger, always triumphant in the end.

Resilience Defined

Resilience in psychology is the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. It is also used to indicate a characteristic of resistance to future negative events. In this sense “resilience” corresponds to cumulative “protective factors” and is used in opposition to cumulative “risk factors”. The phrase “risk and resilience”‘ in this area of study is quite common. Commonly used terms, which are essentially synonymous within psychology, are “resilience”, “psychological resilience”, “emotional resilience”, “hardiness”, and “resourcefulness”.

Resilience is defined as a dynamic process that individuals exhibit positive behavioral adaptation when they encounter significant adversity or trauma. Resilience is a two-dimensional construct concerning the exposure of adversity and the positive adjustment outcomes of that adversity. Adversity refers to any risks associated with negative life conditions that are statistically related to adjustment difficulties, such as poverty, children of schizophrenic mothers, or experiences of the 9/11 attacks. Positive adaptation, on the other hand, is considered in a demonstration of manifested behaviour on social competence or success at meeting any particular tasks at a specific life stage, such as the absence of psychiatric distress after the September 11th terrorism attacks on the United States.

Description of Resilience

Resilience can be described by viewing:   1. good outcomes regardless of high-risk status,   2. constant competence under stress, and   3. recovery from trauma.

Resilient people are expected to adapt successfully even though they experience risk factors that are against good development. Risk factors are related to poor or negative outcomes. For example, poverty, low socioeconomic status, and mothers with schizophrenia are coupled with lower academic achievement and more emotional or behavioral problems. Risk factors may be cumulative, carrying additive and exponential risks when they co-occur.When these risk factors happen, according to a study conducted on children,resilient children are capable of resulting in no behavioral problems and developing well. Additionally, they are more active and socially responsive. These positive outcomes are attributed to some protective factors, such as good parenting or positive school experiences.

Resilient spirit

Farmers, like many Filipinos and most of the people in Asian continent, understood the meaning of resilience. Farmers who face a brewing storm, reinforcing their humble hut with bamboo posts reflects a readiness to endure the wrath of nature, confident and secure of a better tomorrow.

In the midst of world economic crisis, there are countries, like Philippines and India, identified to be resilient  because of strong and flexible economic fundamentals. Well,  it maybe true as of this writing, but if people embrace the spirit of resiliency, we will see our individual country not totally devastated with the wind blows of recession.

We must embody the spirit of resiliency as we pursue our dreams by seizing every opportunities which in the end, propel us to financial freedom.

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