Preparing for Setbacks

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Hi, and welcome back to session nine in your guided journey to less stress. Great job coming back to keep working toward our goal to help you reduce stress in the moment and learn new coping strategies to help you manage your stress on your own. Let's get started. Today, we're talking about preparing for setbacks. Our program is not about anxiously preparing for the worst, but tough situations do pop up, and that's why we're here, to build a toolkit of coping strategies for both predictable and unpredictable situations. The ability to bounce back from setbacks is called resilience, and like any muscle, it can be strengthened with practice. Your resilience toolkit starts with knowing which triggers in your life could result in stress and having a handful of strategies at the ready. One of my favorites is called guided imagery, or visualization. It involves using your imagination to take you to a calm, peaceful place. Because of the way the mind and the body are connected, visualization can make you feel like you are experiencing something just by imagining it. A practice I consistently do to this day is visualizing a moment in my life when I was fully content, at peace, and happy. The visualization is usually a specific event or place from the past, and this helps to lift my spirits during those intense, stressful moments. Let's keep practicing so you can try it out for yourself....

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A former Buddhist monk, Andy has guided people in meditation and mindfulness for 20 years. In his mission to make these practices accessible to all, he co-created the Headspace app in 2010.
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Eve is a mindfulness teacher, overseeing Headspace’s meditation curriculum. She is passionate about sharing meditation to help others feel less stressed and experience more compassion in their lives.
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As a meditation teacher, Dora encourages others to live, breathe, and be with the fullness of their experiences. She loves meditation’s power to create community and bring clarity to people’s minds.
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Kessonga has been an acupuncturists, therapist, and meditation teacher, working to bring mindfulness to the diverse populations of the world.
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Rosie Acosta has studied yoga and mindfulness for more than 20 years and taught for over a decade. Rosie’s mission is to help others overcome adversity and experience radical love.
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