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JIMINY SELF-HELP HANDBOOK 9

Resilience and Openness to Change

Sometimes changing is needed and some changes happen quickly. For example, by the moment this
module was drafted, the world was, and still is, living a new pandemic context – the COVID-19 – which
demands us all to adjust, adapt and change in a short-term notice some aspects of our lives, even the
simplest and related with daily routines.
As consequence of this short-term change, at personal, professional, and social level each one of us
had to adopt measures (as the use of facial masks) to protect ourselves and others from something we
do not see. The scientific world is trying to discover more facts every day, hour, and minutes to help
us to cope with this new today's life reality. But one thing we have already learnt, the unknown brings
uncertainty, fear, discouragement, and the sensation of losing our freedom and life control.

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The world keeps moving and so have we, and the only constant in owns life is change. Change can take
so many forms: the subtle, almost imperceptible change, or the one happening at every single
moment; the dramatic one that will turn something upside down in a split second; and the change
that, while very impactful, is more gradual. Some change we can control, others we cannot; some we
can initiate; others we cannot; some feel permanent, others seem reversible and malleable. And,
certainly, living in a constant change, day after day, brings a certain level of uncertain.