How strong is your line of resilience?
Everything in your life either gives you energy or takes it away. Where your attention goes, your energy follows, and most of us rarely stop to notice where ours is going.
This three-minute assessment looks at six areas of your life (body, mind, heart, spirit, financial and community) and offers a picture of where your energy is flowing, where it may be leaking and what you can do to strengthen your line of resilience.
It’s a snapshot of where you are right now, not a fixed label. Your line of resilience can change, and often small shifts make a real difference.
Think of your resilience as a line made of six strands. When one or two strands are carrying most of the load, your line is a thread. It still holds, and it can be strengthened. When several strands are strong, it becomes a cord. When all six are woven together, it becomes a rope, and when one strand is under strain, the others share the weight.
The aim isn’t to be perfect. It’s to notice which strands need attention, and to thicken your line one strand at a time.
- A picture of your line of resilience: thread, cord or rope
- What your results are telling you, drawing your six strands together
- Simple experiments to thicken your line, chosen to suit you
- How imbalance tends to show up for you
- A free guide: 40 Things to Do to Find Equilibrium
Lawrence Mitchell is a life and leadership strategist with many years of experience across corporate and entrepreneurial worlds. He is the founder of Finding Equilibrium, helping people to live their best lives, and co-founder of Arcturus, helping leaders build organisations where people can do their best work. British-born Australian, he has lived in Sydney since 2016.
His work is informed by Gestalt, neuroscience, Ayurveda, astrology and Hawaiian Huna wisdom.
Your answers are private. At the end, you’ll be asked for your name and email to see your results.
This is a reflection on this moment in time. Answer for how things are now, over the past month, not how you’d like them to be. Go with your first response.
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What your results are telling you
How to thicken your line
Your free guide
As a thank you for taking the assessment, here is 40 Things to Do to Find Equilibrium: simple, everyday practices to build resilience and wellbeing, arranged by the same six strands. Start with the section for your greatest opportunity.
Download your free guideYour six strands
How imbalance tends to show up for you
A moment of reflection
Energy flows where attention goes. Having noticed all of this, what stands out for you right now?
Pick my brain
Wherever your line is today, it can change. If you’d like to explore what this means for you, book a 30-minute Pick my brain session with me. We’ll look at your line together, and at the one or two changes that would make the biggest difference.
Book a Pick my brain sessionAbout the evidence
This assessment is a prompt for reflection, not a diagnostic or validated psychological measure. Each strand is explored through four statements, so your results are a starting point for noticing, not a definitive picture.
The “What the research shows” notes summarise findings from published research in simplified form. The “From practice and tradition” notes draw on Gestalt, Ayurveda and Hawaiian Huna wisdom. These are offered as practical frameworks from long-standing traditions, not as scientific claims, and the evidence behind them varies.
Selected research:
- Irwin, M. R. (2015). Why sleep is important for health: a psychoneuroimmunology perspective. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 143–172.
- Arnsten, A. F. T. (2009). Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10, 410–422.
- Monsell, S. (2003). Task switching. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(3), 134–140.
- Lieberman, M. D. et al. (2007). Putting feelings into words: affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli. Psychological Science, 18(5), 421–428.
- Hill, P. L. & Turiano, N. A. (2014). Purpose in life as a predictor of mortality across adulthood. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1482–1486.
- Mullainathan, S. & Shafir, E. (2013). Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. Times Books.
- Emmons, R. A. & McCullough, M. E. (2003). Counting blessings versus burdens: an experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(2), 377–389.
- Holt-Lunstad, J., Smith, T. B. & Layton, J. B. (2010). Social relationships and mortality risk: a meta-analytic review. PLoS Medicine, 7(7), e1000316.
The Line of Resilience is informed by Lawrence Mitchell’s work in Gestalt, neuroscience, Ayurveda and Hawaiian Huna wisdom. It’s designed to raise awareness, not to diagnose. If you’re finding things hard, please reach out to a health professional or someone you trust.