We Have the Ability to Bounce Back

WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO BOUNCE BACK Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from change or misfortune. After suffering the dire effects of the nuclear bomb, the Japanese leaders, following the formula of resilience, re-planned their national targets. After just thirty years, Japan emerged as an economic superpower. Resilience is a law of nature. It means the ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune. It can be found everywhere—in the physical world, the plant world, the animal world and the human world. Resilience in physics means the ability to return to the original form after being bent, compressed or stretched. The same is true of the plant world and the animal world. Every creature inherently possesses the power of resilience. Man has the lion’s share in this gift of nature. Dr Bruce McEwen, Head of the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University, has researched this subject and has concluded: “The human brain is very resilient. Give it a chance, and it will make every effort to repair itself.” We are living in a world of challenge and competition. Due to this, every day, we experience something unpleasant. Every day, we suffer some damage, both intellectually and