Noelene Dawes Emotional Resilience Now.........
When the mind is so weary it winds its way to shut down, the flesh so weak that energy is fleeting and the heart so
heavy it loses hope, this heralds in a shadow that is a dark night of the soul.
Aside from the day-to-day business ups and downs, there are times where you or someone you deal with might be
undergoing maximum stress levels, yet it’s not always obvious. Once overcome however, it is an opportunity to
recognise the depth of your strength and your emotional resilience which helps propel you through future challenges
and /or to support others around you.
Sometimes people feel hopeless, helpless and worthless when to the outside world they have health, wealth and
people close around them. Life is not always what it seems on the outside and it is only from the inside that you can
overcome.
You can do that by tapping into the core of who you are, that still place of ultimate strength that no one or nothing
can sever. What do you face now and what are you carrying around that is gone or things that happened in the past?
Isn’t it just too much to carry? Image your improved capacity to create momentum in 2014 if you weren’t carrying that
extra weight?
When you bring past memories to mind you are experiencing them now! You re-present them to yourself, maybe as a
movie, a recording, or a feeling. You get to control the picture, its colour, the sound, the volume, the intensity and
location of the feeling. Just noticing is often enough to change your response. Or send them away when they come
fleeting, not with force but with kindness ... “Oh there you are again memory ... off you go for now, I will bring you
back if I need you!”
As well as living in the here and now, the way to emotional resilience is threefold: be clear about what is ultimately
important to you; be aware of the constraints and opportunities and alert for constant changes; and be flexible in your
pursuit of what’s important. As you think of someone you know who has been to the brink and back, look for these
signs and you will get a real sense of how these elements play out in the real world.
Personally I think of Stephen Hawking, British theoretical
physicist, cosmologist and author. Hawking has a motor neurone
disease. He is almost entirely paralysed and communicates
through a speech-generating device. He might appear to the
outsider to be trapped and yet he explores the wonders of the
universe, it is his compulsion and his passion.
He accepts he cannot move - he accepts he needs assistance, yet
he continues exploring the stars and perceives his opportunity to
study and search to be expansive and wondrous as he writes
books, produces films and narrates them.
Stephen Hawking thrives and produces prolific work despite
these obstacles. He has a clear idea of what is important, knows
only too well the constraints and the opportunities within his environment, yet flexes his mind at will. He lives in the
now with the wonders of the future in his brilliant mind, inspiration in his hope-filled heart and with a determined
instinct to prevail ... now that is emotional resilience and courage we can all learn from.
Noelene Dawes MAIM, MASA is a former National President of SWAP Australia
overseeing 550 financial members. An Emotional Resilience champion and believer in
humanity, Noelene is a Sydney based author, keynote speaker and executive coach. Her
bestselling book, “Your Emotional Edge” is available on her website and in e-book at
http://www.amazom.com. She writes and posts intuitive insights daily at
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