How to build emotional resilience? Here we have some tips:

Building emotional resilience requires you to be intentional in both your thought patterns and actions.

Cultivate optimism.

Specifically, improving your emotional resilience requires you to be a more optimistic thinker. Empower yourself to change what you can, and accept what is out of your control. Learn to rethink how we reflect on mistakes. Instead of letting the negativity of the experience replay on an exhausting loop in your mind, think instead on how the story can help others who’ve perhaps experienced something similar.

Try mindfulness meditation.

Working on behaviors that help regulate our emotions can increase wiser thinking. Mindful meditation helps people learn to focus on the present moment, which makes it easier to "accept negative, positive, and neutral feelings." This helps build tolerance and resilience.

Work up a sweat.

In addition to meditation, exercise that increases your variable heart rate—like running or yoga- helps dealing with stress through regulating our heart rate. Doing regular meditation and aerobic exercise can reduce symptoms of depression.

Reflect in healthy doses.

While it’s always helpful to reflect on personal triumphs and moments of adversity through journaling, don’t keep re-reading your journal entry about a bad event.

Get inspired by others.

Finally, it’s also helpful to look to others. Whether you're working through an injury recovery, struggling with depression, mourning a lost loved one, or hitting speed bumps in your career, there's an inspiring and helpful story out there from someone else who's been through it and bounced back.

What else do you think can help us build resilience?