Deepening the Health Behavior Applications of Resilience and Resiliency Glenn E. Richardson Allison R. Stuart Shaelene Ashby Department of Health Promotion.

Deepening the Health Behavior Applications of Resilience and ResiliencyGlenn E. RichardsonAllison R. StuartShaelene Ashby

Department of Health Promotion and Education

Four Waves of Resiliency InquiryMetatheory of Resilience and Resiliency (Richardson, G.E. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2002)The Seven Q-Nexus Experiences: Thriving Through Adversity and Challenge (Q-Nexus LLC, 2011)

•1st Wave: Resilient Qualities (what we want)•2nd Wave: Resiliency (the process to get what

we want)•3rd Wave: Resilience (drive to get what we

want)•4th Wave: Resonation and Quickening (the

infusion of resilient qualities).

First Wave: Qualities and Virtues Qualities and Virtues

People Really Want.People Really Want. Wisdom Discernment Guidance Love

Connections Belonging Feelings of Worth Feel Important

Valued Peace Integrity Inspiration Character

Morals Vitality Energy Strength

Energy Enlightenment

Enlightenment Meaning Purpose Understanding

Hope Honesty Healing Comfort Miracles Pleasure

Fun Adventure Enjoyment Fulfillment Spirituality

Happy Courage Confidence Power Freedom

Resiliency: The ProcessResiliency: The Process

Life Events/BlindsidedPoor Character ChoicesProgressive Choices: Leaps of Faith

•“ResilienceResilience is a force within everyone that drives is a force within everyone that drives him/her to seek self-actualization, altruism, wisdom, him/her to seek self-actualization, altruism, wisdom, and harmony with a source of spiritual strength.”and harmony with a source of spiritual strength.”

•““ResilienceResilience is the yearning and motivation to is the yearning and motivation to acquire resilient qualitiesacquire resilient qualities”

Resilient Drives

•Quintessential (spiritual) resilience▫Childlike resilience▫Noble resilience▫Character resilience▫Ecological resilience▫Universal resilience

•Essential resilience•Intellectual resilience

Childlike ResilienceChildlike ResilienceTo be adventuresomeTo have funTo play To be creativeTo be openTo be energeticTo be teachableTo be lovedTo be yourself/genuineTo be curiousTo take risksTo learnTo laugh/find lots of things funnyTo be spontaneous

Too Little Just Right Too MuchToo Little Just Right Too Much

Noble ResilienceNoble Resilience

ImportantValuedWorthRespectedFreedomAutonomy and

independenceCompetentControlIntrinsic

power/strengthPurposeMeaningLeave a Legacy

Noble Drives are Fulfilled Through Noble Drives are Fulfilled Through Personal Progression and Helping Personal Progression and Helping OthersOthers

•AltruismAltruism•ServiceService•CompassionCompassion•ListeningListening•Believing in someoneBelieving in someone

It is in serving others that we find our own nobility and worthIt is in serving others that we find our own nobility and worth..

• Is there someone in your life that gave you love and service?

• What did they do? What resilient qualities did they give you?

• How do you feel about the person today? If they asked you for help, how quickly would you respond?

• You are part of their kingdom.

• Is there someone in your life that gave you love and service?

• What did they do? What resilient qualities did they give you?

• How do you feel about the person today? If they asked you for help, how quickly would you respond?

• You are part of their kingdom.

How Do Your Create A How Do Your Create A Kingdom or Queendom? Kingdom or Queendom?

How Do Your Create A How Do Your Create A Kingdom or Queendom? Kingdom or Queendom?

Character Resilience: Character Resilience: Living within the peace, freedom, and power that comes from living with character.

Resonation to Character Qualities Resonation to Character Qualities and Virtues: and Virtues:

•Honesty•Integrity•Honor•Fairness•Loyalty•Fidelity•Kindness

Ecological Resilience: Yearning and Ecological Resilience: Yearning and Drive to Receive Infusions of Drive to Receive Infusions of Resilient Qualities from One’s Resilient Qualities from One’s Ecosystem.Ecosystem.

Universal Resilience Seeking a strength and power beyond consciousness• Healing• Guidance• Peace• Identity• Courage• Enlightenment• Energy• Love• Understanding• Miracles• Wisdom• Truth

Universal ResilienceThe Sources and Justification• Jungian Psychology (Collective Unconscious)•Eastern Healing (Qi or Chi)•Theoretical Physics (String Theory or M

theory)• Indigenous Philosophies (nature)•Western Philosophies (Socrates)•Molecules of Emotion (Pert)•Theology•Rogerian Counseling (the answers are within)•Positive Psychology

Energy and Motivation Synonyms• Chi or Qi• Quark-Quanta• Human essence• Soul• Heart• Strings• Unified force• Life force• Vitality• Love

• Human spirit• Subtle energy• Path with heart• Core• Prana (Ayurveda)• Vital energy • Kun long (Dali Lama)• Truth• Light• Mother nature

Jungian psychologyEnergy (Q’s) Beyond Normal

Capacity (Collective Unconscious)

Energy Beyond Normal Capacity(Nature)

•Qi or Chi•Molecular Biology•Indigenous Beliefs

Socrates’ and the Greek Daimon

• Hearing a voice or strong feeling▫ Night or illness—solitude▫ Submissiveness

• Men of spiritual genius have heard this voice so plainly as to make them believe that an intelligent being was about them, directing them with inspired counsel.

• Socrates possessed a personal Daimon. "The favor of the gods has given me a marvelous gift, which has never left me since my childhood. It is a voice which, when it makes itself heard, deters me from what I am about to do and never urges me on.”

Capacity Beyond Normal Capacity Beyond Normal Consciousness (Deity)Consciousness (Deity)

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Einstein’s Dream Einstein’s Dream of The Unified Theoryof The Unified Theory

GravityGravity

Electro- Electro- MagnetismMagnetism

Strong Nuclear Strong Nuclear ForceForce Weak Nuclear ForceWeak Nuclear Force

The

The

Unified

Unified

Force

Force

M-Theory (String Theory) is Labeled M-Theory (String Theory) is Labeled “The Theory of Everything”“The Theory of Everything”

• Common energy unit in everything• Has limitless energy• The more you put in a container– the capacity

increases• Carries information and influence from the beginning

of time• It has healing capacities at 380 nanometers• Drive to connect and form patterns (salamander

eggs)

Deepening the Health Behavior Applications •Resiliency Mapping•Understanding who you are creates a

dream•Venturing postulates

▫Resonation▫Progression▫Readiness for quickening

•Resonation and Quickening•Identify formation•Self mastery

Back toComfort Zone

Back toComfort Zone

ReintegrateReintegrateWith LossWith Loss

Resonation and Quickening

Comfort ZoneComfort Zone

Life Events/Life Events/Leap of FaithLeap of Faith

ResilientResilientReintegration

Resiliency MappingResiliency Mapping

Identity Formation

Disruption

The The Q Q –Nexus–Nexus® ® Workbook: Workbook: Roles and DimensionsRoles and Dimensions

Financial Health

Physical Health Relationships

Spiritual HealthIntellectual Health

Ecological Health

Perspective of the Reactive VoyagePerspective of the Reactive Voyage

•Wisdom upon wisdom•Stagnation•Emptiness upon emptiness

Who Are You?

•Quintessential (spiritual) resilience▫Childlike resilience▫Noble resilience▫Character resilience▫Ecological resilience▫Universal resilience

•Essential resilience•Intellectual resilience

What is Your Dream? •Quintessential (spiritual)

resilience▫Childlike resilience▫Noble resilience▫Character resilience▫Ecological resilience▫Universal resilience

•Essential resilience•Intellectual resilience

Dream Statements or Images

•I want to feel enough inner peace (fulfillment of quintessential drives) and strength (essential) to be in a position to help other people live their dream (nobility and purpose).

Venturing

•Resonation•Progression• Readiness for Quickening

ResonationResonation

Progression

Intellectual

Physical

Physical, Intellectual, and Spiritual HealthPhysical, Intellectual, and Spiritual Health

PhysicalPhysical

Intellectual Intellectual

QuintessentialQuintessentialOr SpiritualOr Spiritual

Progre

ssion

Resonating SkillsResonating Skills•Art and music enrichment• Journal writing•Writing poetry/literature•Story telling•Reminiscences•Reading inspirational or classic literature•Praying/meditating•Self hypnosis

Exploration/Seeking and Exploration/Seeking and ResonatingResonating•Ecological enrichment (Aromas, elements,

colors...)•Ponder dreams•Fast•Time & Vision Quest•Exercise/Tai chi•Counsel /Mentors

Quickening Quickening (How It Feels)(How It Feels)

• Bursts of understandingBursts of understanding• Subtle awareness of guidanceSubtle awareness of guidance• Bursts of energyBursts of energy• Moments of enlightenment and Moments of enlightenment and

inspirationinspiration• Renewed hope and optimismRenewed hope and optimism• Synchronicity/coincidenceSynchronicity/coincidence• Feeling of rightness/Confirmations of Feeling of rightness/Confirmations of

truthtruth• Intuition/Gut feelingIntuition/Gut feeling• Peace melting confusion/difficult Peace melting confusion/difficult

circumstancescircumstances• Becoming aware of a new identityBecoming aware of a new identity• Sensing power beyond the selfSensing power beyond the self

Quickening Quickening (How It Feels)(How It Feels)

• Feeling the drive of Feeling the drive of purpose/motivationpurpose/motivation

• Increased capacity to performIncreased capacity to perform• Feelings of self forgivenessFeelings of self forgiveness• Impressions from dreamsImpressions from dreams• Hunches/Ideas/Gestalts (Ah Ha’s)Hunches/Ideas/Gestalts (Ah Ha’s)• Awareness of energy/warmthAwareness of energy/warmth• Burst of confidenceBurst of confidence• Feelings of peace/comfort/warm Feelings of peace/comfort/warm

blanket sensationblanket sensation• Spiritual prompts/Twinge of the heartSpiritual prompts/Twinge of the heart

Which Identity Do You Need to Become Which Identity Do You Need to Become to Fulfill the Insights from to Fulfill the Insights from QQuickening?uickening?

• warrior/peacemaker• giver/receiver• teacher/student• clown/serious• romantic/pragmatic• leader/follower• loyalist/rebel• introvert/extravert• creator/destroyer• practical/wild and

crazy

• believer/skeptic• optimist/pessimist• impatient/patient• masculine/feminine• humble/proud• powerful/vulnerable• conservative/liberal• wise/foolish• planner/spontaneous• flexible/immoveable

Forming Identities Activity: Forming Identities Activity:

• Step 1: Imagine a situation that requires a new identity.

• Step 2: With the situation in mind, imagine someone, a hero, who could be real or imaginary that is the identity.

• Step 3: Imagine that you are watching you do and become the hero.

• Step 4:Now go through the experience but imagine and see it through your own eyes.

Self MasterySelf Mastery• Self Mastery is a powerful state of feeling all of

the resilient drives with its sense of adventure and purpose to accomplish goals on the journey which has been blazed by a dream.▫ It take advantage of quickening moments of

enlightenment▫ It helps you formulate new identities▫ It allows you to persist

• Procrastination may compromise the quality of your self mastery capacity.

• Wisdom is the magnificent series of revolutions as your human spirit assumes control of your entire soul and you become submissive to the quiet, powerful, and true whisperings of Universal qualities. • Wisdom is evidenced by the manifestation of resilient qualities (of the first wave) that have been harvested during the resiliency process.

What is the Behavior Change Approach?

1- Know the Resiliency Journey

2-Understand Who You Are

3-Know Dreams and Supportive Goals

4- Venture

5- Resonation and Quickening

6-Identity Formation

7-Self Mastery