Emotional Healing

How can one enjoy life while being depressed? The negative emotions make us unmotivated, passive and antisocial. It's not an easy situation to be in and how many people do we normally have around us that really understand what it's like to be in our shoes? The ongoing emotional and mental pain can wear anyone down to the point where life becomes a struggle, but there are ways out of these painful conditions and even a slight improvement can have a most positive effect on your life situation. Freedom from anxiety and depression is a liberation in the true sense of the word. Now, let's give some attention to your emotions...

Negative Emotions

When we're happy we're open to our emotions but when we're unhappy we reject them. This is the human conditioning, or if you like, it's our nature. We do whatever we can to get rid of our unpleasant emotions - that includes - exercising, listening to loud music, eating, sleeping, having sex, drinking alcohol, doing drugs and even committing suicide. We're always shunning away from our painful emotions and more so than not, we're actually afraid of them. The first time you voluntarily give attention to your unpleasant emotions, can be a totally overwhelming experience. For the most part because of fear. The emotions are not of any immediate danger to us, however we tend to be afraid of them. Given time and practice you will grow used to giving attention to your painful emotions and develop an almost neutral relation with them - fear is replaced with a sense of security. Let's move on to emotional healing...

Gentle Emotional Healing

I recommend a very gentle approach to emotional healing so that you can familiarize yourself with your unpleasant emotions, one step at the time. This makes emotional healing a much smoother process. And let's approach the healing with love and care. This can not be over-emphasized. You have spent years avoiding your painful emotions and now it's high time to give them gentle, loving attention.

First, a few words about healing in general. Crying is one of the most relieving, natural and effective forms of healing. So, I recommend you to welcome the tears just like a farmer welcomes rain. Then, I'd like to suggest that you seek help from someone with experience of emotional healing and I strongly recommend that you choose to work with a person with whom you feel comfortable. This naturally speeds up your healing process since you're able to relax in her presence. It's equally important that you're at ease with the type of therapy you're in. Let's touch upon three types of emotional healing that I recommend wholeheartedly...

Talk Therapy

I'm for plain and simple talk therapy where you get a chance to express your feelings and thoughts. Feelings and thoughts are intimately connected and form a vital part of the healing. It's so relieving to talk about your situation to someone who really listens, it's almost like letting the air out of a balloon. There are many ways of approaching emotional healing, let's take a look at an alternative method...

Reiki Healing

I will never forget the first time I received healing. I was deeply depressed at the time and desperate to ease the emotional pressure, the unpleasant emotions were getting too much to bear. As the gifted healer put her palms to my chest, I felt waves of soothing love flow into me. I had never experienced anything like it. With the added dimension of healing energy, I find reiki even more gentle than talk therapy.

A reiki-healing session is usually a combination of talk therapy and hands-on healing. As a reiki healer, I recommend this form of emotional healing to anyone who's open to it. Google the word reiki for more information. Now, let's touch upon relaxation...

Relaxation

After having lived with unpleasant emotions for months or even years, deep relaxation becomes a wonderful relief since it effectively dissolves physical and mental tension. This also has a sound effect on sleep. For light forms of anxiety and depression, relaxation can bring about very positive changes. Relaxation is as easy to learn as it is effective.

You are welcome to download my guided meditation Learning To Relax. In this meditation I guide you to a state of deep relaxation. This 8-minute mp3 file can help you along the way. No previous experience needed. Practice makes perfect...

Best of luck!