Healing emotionally and finding peace is a deeply personal journey that requires time, self-compassion, and commitment. You can build your own sustainable platform of calm and peace. You can grow it to last a lifetime providing you with joy and contentment.
Self-Awareness: The first step in healing emotionally is to become aware of your emotions, their triggers, and how they affect you. Try to be curious about understanding your feelings.
Try not to fear them. Even the uncomfortable ones. Reading this today means giving yourself a pat on the back because you are taking steps to shift patterns and beliefs that have not served you. Constantly avoiding situations and emotions only means that there is never an opportunity to process and grow.
Practice Mindfulness: Mindfulness techniques, such as meditation and deep breathing exercises, can help you stay present and manage overwhelming emotions. Mindfulness can also help you gain insight into your emotional responses. Be aware if closing your eyes during meditation feels uncomfortable. If someone tells you to meditate, a certain way with a certain method, practice doing it the way that suits you. Many folks do not feel safe closing their eyes or sitting in a strange room with strangers. You are not failing. Find your own way. It’s okay to experiment.
Mindfulness, may mean listening to a song you enjoy or feels comfortable and familiar. Or, taking a walk and exploring the plants, yards, or buildings you pass. Many find taking photos and enjoying the scenery brings them into a present moment where they can better process and reset any highly energetic feelings that may be causing a trigger in your body.
There is no rush. Usually your body calms itself after 20 minutes so take your time and allow nature to take its course with your nervous system.
If you are able to hold off on familiar patterns that do not serve such as looking at social media, consuming substances that falsely release dopamine and leave you reeling once their effects wear off.
Teach your brain that it can calm itself and nothing bad is going to happen, by waiting and taking time to calm down.
It’s impossible to believe we can hide from the obstacles and situations that life throws at us. We are better to acknowledge them and continue to keep building our capacity to deal with them.
Build your own sustainable platform of calm. This is the path to freedom and peace. Even if it doesn’t happen every day, you can take control and manage your life on your own terms.