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The Prison of Despair During Life Challenges
1 min readMar 20, 2019
During daunting challenges, fear and impatience are the slayers of hope. Immunologically, hope is a powerful enhancer: According to biocognitive science, hope is one of the causes of health.
How to navigate adversity?
1. Increase your change allowance *
2. Persist without expectations
3. Value yourself unconditionally during profound doubt
*Change Allowance: A culturally learned concept of how long it should take for conditions to unfold: healing, falling in love, intimacy, aging, deservingness, illness, disclosure, trust.
Embodying the three components I propose, will gradually permit hope to surface again, because it never died. It was simply a prisoner of despair.
When hope returns, celebrate your resilience and courage.
