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# Being more resilient
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/being-more-resilient/
- Published: 2026-09-18T06:00:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T06:00:11.000Z
- Description: It's a nice idea, but is it even possible? 🤨
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Resilience, Acceptance, Attention, Consciousness, Identity, MECHANICS, Presence, Psychology, Quick insight, Stress, Thought realisation

That would be nice, wouldn't it? I mean, how many times have you caught yourself, fretting in the wake of yet *another* insult that life has strewn in your path, thinking:

> *Aaaargh, I feel like I need to be a bit more… resilient!* 🥹

It's a funny one, this word. People have all sorts of feelings about it, and reactions to it. (As I guess you would if, for instance, you have a boss that insists you need to *“be more resilient”* in the face of collapsing, under-resourced services. 🤨)

So before we go any further, let's look at the origins of the word. What does it actually mean? Let's take a trip to etymology corner:

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****Resilience**: from ***salire** **(Lat.):* ‘jump’ + ***re** *:* ‘back’

To experience resilience is to ‘jump back’. But from what, to what?

Here's where a grounding in the Innate health understanding is really going to help you out, because you already know several facts about how you experience the world – and all those life-insults that seem to *demand* resilience of us.

There's this one, for instance:

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****Key Message**: Your felt experience of life is only EVER happening NOW

You can't experience anything else. Which kind of puts paid to resilience and this ‘jumping back’ being something that's time-based, doesn't it? Hmmm, curious.

🧐

And what about this one?

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****Key Message**: We live in the feeling of a Thought-created perceptual reality

That's right – 100% of our experience comes from within. It's [a map, not the territory](https://www.gilespcroft.com/update-your-map-version/) itself. Hmmm, more to ponder.

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So, hang on… if the sum total of what we actually get to *experience* as humans—Now—[is Thought-perception](https://www.gilespcroft.com/your-reality-is-a-perception-of-the-mind/), then surely ‘resilience’ has got to be something to do with *that?*

Could we be ‘jumping back’ from one state of consciousness (i.e. attending to the content of our thinking), to another (attending to Now)?

Could that be what resilience is?

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****Key Message**: Resilience is our inbuilt capacity to fall out of our thinking and back into the Now.

Well, would you look at that?!

😲

And you know the great thing about ‘inbuilt capacities’? They don't require any building, or working on.

You just need someone to point you *towards* them.

Because they're part of who and what you are. 

💝

Giles

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