Importance of emotional resilience

I have had an interesting few days exploring the criticality of emotional resilience especially given the current economic times. We read everyday how more and more people are losing their jobs or like a friend of mine having their salaries cut very severely so no one has to lose their job! Emotional resilience is fundamental to us as humans with choices and wanting control over our own destinies - we must be able to firstly recognise our emotions, then embrace and use our emotions constructively and then we must create thinking space so we can determine how best to use these emotions. This is where reflective thinking is just so important and you would all recall I use De Bono's 6 Thinking Hats to focus reflective thinking.

I am working on honing my emotional resilience so I do not allow my emotions to hijack me into actions I am not proud of later!!!!