Arianna Huffington and Tony Robbins are soliciting stories about overcoming crisis for an online event they are collaboratively hosting called Breakthrough: The Power of Crisis. They are asking for participants to post written or videotaped answers to the questions below.
- What was your life like right before the challenge or crisis hit?
- What was the crisis you faced? What happened — what did you feel and experience?
- What pulled you through this difficult, unjust, or impossible time? What was the trigger or catalyst for change? Was it a belief, a strategy, a faith, a person, a tool? What made the change possible?
- Once you turned the corner mentally or emotionally, what did you do to turn your life around?
- How is your life better today because you lived through the crisis? How have you transformed? How are you stronger emotionally, physically, spiritually? What gifts do you have to give because of this?
Whether or not we choose to participate in this event, these are worthwhile questions for reflection. Vividly remembering a time of strength, and the resulting transformation, can empower us get through a current or future time of great difficulty. I would recommend writing a reflection and then adding a self-hypnosis session to experience the memory of strength and transformation with as many of the senses as possible. The session might end with the affirmation, “I am strong, resilient, and resourceful.”
