Psychological resilience is your ability to cope with adversity.

How to strengthen your resilience:

• Have goals. Short term goals such as your daily to-do list. Long term goals such as learning a new skill.
• Remain positive and use humour when possible.
• Act on problems you can solve. Try to chip away at it with “baby steps”.
• Stay in shape physically and psychologically by exercising, eating well.

Can you suggest some other tips?

De-clutter the physical space around you and it will help you de-clutter you mind.

The first goal should be to clear all floors and flat surfaces such as countertops and desks.

Start with one area at a time such as the surface of your desk. Only have the essentials on the desk which may be your computer and your phone. Get rid of things you don’t use and put the rest away in a drawer or a closet (these areas will be your secondary goal for de-cluttering).

Everything else should be out of sight, out of mind. This will start the process which will clear the clutter in your own mind.

Hyakujo wished to send a monk to open a new monastery. He told his pupils that whoever answered a question most ably would be appointed. Placing a water vase on the ground, he asked: “Who can say what this is without calling its name?” The chief monk said: “No one can call it a wooden shoe.” Isan, the cooking monk, tipped over the vase with his shoe and went out. Hyakujo smiled and said: “The chief monk loses.” And Isan became the master of the new monastery.

What does this mean to you?

I see that the cook used action instead of words.

Also, if the water was scarce then everyone would experience thirst and “know” what water is and “know” what the vase is.

Is a Tibetan word usually translated as “attachment” but described by Pema Chödrön as an ineffable situation where one is “hooked” by an emotional trigger or by an pervasive state such as an addiction. I find this concept of Buddhist psychology very insightful as a way of learning “to roll with the punches” of life.

Meditation can be helpful in learning to “free” oneself from Shenpa.

In this famous thought experiment a cat is placed a sealed box. A random event at the quantum level has a one out of two chance of triggering a lethal mechanism.

The outcome of this event is unknown until an observation is made. According to the principle of superposition of states, the cat exists in a state that is both dead and alive until an observer opens the box.

The construction of the RMS Titanic represented the culmination of the industrial revolution. It was the largest man-made moving object at the time. To this day it had the largest reciprocating engines ever built.

The industrial revolution also begot air pollution eventually resulting in global warming. Today this is causing the melting of the ice caps and producing glaciers.

So there is a cruel irony in the fate of the RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Was this a prophetic warning that the earth could suffer the same fate?

    If an infinite number of random universes exist (or will exist) will our present universe repeat itself an infinite number of times?

Superstring theory can be used to describe our 4d universe (three dimensions plus time) as existing on a brane inside a higher dimension space called the bulk. Our universe is just one of an infinite number of bubbles in the 11 dimensional bulk. The collision of 2 bubbles resulted in the big bang and the creation of the universe.

So there must be an exact duplicate of you in another universe and an infinite number of permutations of you.

Parallel Universes BBC

Multiverse Wikipedia

Star Trek Next Generation Episode

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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language.These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquility, when the bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams.

And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe.

Narrated by Orson Wells on Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the Alan Parsons Project.