Positive Coping Skills
Positive coping skills are best practices that help you be more resilient. When times are tough, doing your best practices is more important than ever. Here are some of mine:
Drinking extra water
Teaching my classes
Any form of exercise
Hugging my loved ones
Prioritizing sleep
Making soup
Organizing a messy drawer
Doing online research to learn more about the problem
Making a list of things I can do about the problem, and actually doing them
Cultivating positive mental attitudes such as gratitude, compassion, joy and purposefulness.
Even when a problem is so big that I feel flattened, taking positive action - even just dragging my flattened self to the kitchen and pouring myself a glass of water - helps me cope. Teaching class is another one. Or any form of exercise. Taking physical action with, and for, my body is a go-to positive coping skill for me.
The word "positive" is important because there is also negative coping. Abusing alcohol or drugs, destroying things, or lashing out at people are certainly ways of "coping." Plenty of people do these things after adverse events. But that’s not positive coping. Nobody is helped, and many are hurt, by these behaviors.
Positive coping can look like many things.
What are YOUR positive coping skills?
Could you be doing more of them right now?
How about exercise? Could you be doing more of that?
Let me help.
My low-impact dance fitness classes are specifically designed to build resilience. They build physical fitness, obviously, but less obviously, they recharge you mentally, emotionally, even spiritually.
They also give you a community to be a part of. In my classes, we all dance together. There are people with me in the room, and others online. Every class has both in person and virtual participants at the same time.
Online participants get a bonus: they can take the class - or repeat it - within three days, using the recording that is automatically emailed to them.
I CHALLENGE YOU TO JOIN ME for my twice weekly mindful dance fitness classes. You will be physically rejuvenated, and you’ll cultivate positive mental attitudes too, such as
Gratitude
Compassion
Joy
Purpose
Buying a package can help you prioritize attendance and lower the cost per class. Packages are offered as an option at checkout.
Let's (literally) move together toward resilience!
