Emotional resilience is experiencing positive emotions and recovering relatively quickly from negative emotions. Sood prescribes five principles to develop emotional resilience - gratitude, compassion, acceptance, meaning, and forgiveness. Gratitude is recognizing and being thankful for all your blessings, little or large. Sood states that "I try my best to focus on what went right within what went wrong.There are so many things that I am grateful for. And when I focus on them I feel full and when I am full I am ready to give and I am also better able to withstand adversity." Compassion is noticing and feeling others' suffering and doing something to alleviate it. That something could be tangible action, kind words or just a good wish or silent prayer. Being happy in others' success is also compassion. Compassion to self is as important as compassion for others. We don't recognize that we are humans and as capable of committing mistakes and being imperfect. Look at yourself with the eyes of the person who loves you the most. Love yourself, like your pet does. Acceptance is about flowing with adversity, creatively working with what is, being open to possibilities. For small things, focus on will it matter in five years; for bigger things, try to find meaning in it, some positive meaning. Acceptance isn't apathy, it is empowered engagement, acceptance is wisely letting go of the uncontrollable to save energy for the controllable. Meaning focuses on who you are, why you are here and what this world means. At the core, no matter what you do, you're an agent of service and love. You touch a part of the world, however small, and leave it a little better than you found it. The world itself is a giant school of learning. Forgiveness respects each person's humanness, recognizing we all are fallible and vulnerable to ignorant thoughts and actions. Forgiveness is your gift to yourself and others—a gift that provides peace and freedom to all.