How to Find Emotional Healing

You presumably reached this article because you are in need of psychological help. You might even be doubting its feasibility. If you are willing to let go of your preconceived notions of how or where your healing process should lead, then the answer is yes.

The truth is that whatever occurred to you and however you are healing, you will never be the same person again.  When you're trying to find your footing after a horrific event, that may be both terrifying and liberating.

What Is Emotional Healing?

To heal emotionally, one must face up to, allow, accept, integrate, and process difficult feelings and experiences. Empathy, control, compassion, acceptance, awareness, and synthesis could all play a role.

The desire to exert one's will over one's emotional healing process by reducing the pain and repressing one's feelings might be counterproductive.

If you give yourself permission to acknowledge, feel, move through, and process your emotions, healing will occur in its own time, which may be longer or shorter than you anticipate or plan for.

When Do You Need Emotional Healing?

At some time in their lives, everyone will need to talk to someone about their feelings and work through any baggage they're carrying.

Common sources of mental distress that may prompt a person to seek help are:

• Death of a family member
• Dissolution of Marriage
• Lost jobs
• Abuse, either verbal or physical or both.
• Illness

It is possible to feel intense, protracted, and unyielding anger, grief, or anxiety that does not seem to be related to any one event. You may be unable to carry out daily tasks as usual if you are experiencing these emotions. If the symptoms are becoming chronic, the process of emotional healing may change.

Questions to Ask Yourself Before Healing

We won't pretend that emotional healing is simple, but we will say that it has the potential to assist many individuals move past their difficulties and into a place of renewed hope and joy. Here are some things to consider as you start on the path to recovery.

When did you start feeling better? You might not understand, but you wish things were different:

• Can you describe the impact your inability to heal is having on your daily life?
• What do you hope to accomplish with your life once you've fully recovered?
• What would be the indication that you had recovered if you woke up tomorrow?
• Do you want to get better?
• Can you tolerate pain if it means becoming better?
• How can you best aid your own emotional recovery?
• Why haven't you healed yet?
• How can you ease the pain of your healing process?

Benefits of Emotional Healing

You might not enjoy being in pain, yet you could be reluctant to pursue emotional recovery for fear of what you'll uncover. This is a reasonable worry, but consider these health benefits related with healing's accompanying happy emotions.

• Improved heart and blood vessel health
• Possible increase in longevity 
• Reduced production of the stress hormone cortisol
• Reduce your pulse rate
• Having a lower susceptibility to upper respiratory infections like the cold and flu

How to Find Emotional Healing

Here are some places to start on the road to emotional recovery if that's what you're after.

Therapy 

While the benefits of emotional healing are undeniable, the process itself can be difficult. You could benefit from consulting with a mental health expert who specializes in assisting people with emotional healing.

They can aid in recovery at your own pace and offer perspective you would not have found otherwise. 

Mindfulness

It's easy to get stuck in the past or to create a dystopian vision of the future when we're trying to emotionally heal from something. Meditation and other forms of mindfulness training can help you focus on the here and now and realize that everything is great.

that writing in a notebook can help one get insight into their unconscious by allowing them to process their emotions and provide meaning to their experiences.

Move Your Body

If you're having a hard time processing your emotions, getting your body moving can assist. Do whatever it is that makes your body happy in terms of pace, shaking, or running.

Animals are not alone in using movement to cope with traumatic experiences. A wild impala that has just escaped a predator will, as therapist Peter A. Levine describes in his book "Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma," instinctively "shake off" the traumatic incident and return to full mobility.

Get Support

Allow yourself to receive help from others. Give those who care about you permission to see you, support you, and care for you.

How Do I Know If I Am Healing?

There is no final destination that will signify your complete recovery. In fact, emotional healing is often so subtle that the individual experiencing it may not be aware of how much progress they have made until others point it out to them.

However, if you are able to reflect on an event without feeling overwhelmed by emotion, if you are more resilient in the face of hardship, or if you simply feel more at peace, then you are well on your way to emotional healing.

It's possible that there are untapped depths of psychological recovery still waiting to be uncovered. Try to act in a way that recognizes and encourages your need for on-going emotional growth and recovery. Your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, as well as your overall happiness and sense of fulfillment in life, can all benefit from this process of ongoing emotional healing.