From Reaction to Response. Building a path to Emotional Resilience
- drsarojsalelkar
- 12 minutes ago
- 2 min read
This Sunday morning as I travelled with Google maps as my guide i found myself circling the destination again and again untill finally I called the Art of Living teacher who was organizing the follow up session i was to attend.
A full 30 minutes late, i noted as i hurried to the hall. After the session I was to attend a workshop where again my navigation skills failed and I ended up on a road that was a dead end. Again reached the venue 30 minutes late.
The old me would have reacted and labelled the day to be doomed. Afterall it started with a unpleasant occurance. The second episode would have further pulled me down actually settring me into a bad mood for the rest of the day.
But that day I only smiled and wondered at how my navigation skills were being tested. I did not let a couple of unfavorable occurances to dictate my inner peace.
The message here is that it is not the mere circumstances that make us bitter,angry or reactive but the response we give and carry within ourselves that does!
Although the day had 2 setbacks it had a lot of wins too. I had a close interaction with the fellow volunteers of Art of Living, and also had a very educative workshop later.
The only thing we need to stop a bad moment from becoming a bad day is a shift of our perspective!
snippets of my interaction with AOL volunteers. The calm and bliss on our faces is a proof of the wonderful Sudarshan Kriya and Meditation session we experienced.
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