Emotional healing is less visible than recovery from a scrape on your elbow or a broken bone, but it is just as important. When you heal from your emotional injuries, it helps you move forward in positive, healthy ways. Processing feelings can allow you to express your emotions more clearly, improve your relationships, move on from negative experiences, and generally feel more free and happy. So how can you improve your emotional health? Let us share a few ways. 

Emotional Healing Leads to Holistic Health

Emotional healing is a critical part of your overall health. If you look at your body and its systems holistically, you’ll realize there are emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects to health as well as physical. Being emotionally healthy doesn’t mean you’re always happy. What it does mean is that you’re aware of your emotions — positive or negative — and able to deal with them. You might feel angry, stressed out, or sad, but you know how to manage your emotions and recognize when you might need a little help sorting them out.

If you’re healthy emotionally, you’ll likely have better control over your feelings, thoughts, and actions, which can help you in your career and relationships. Practicing emotional healing and taking care of your emotional health is a great way to ensure you can bounce back when things go wrong.

11 Ways to Take Care of Your Emotional Health

Taking care of your emotional health helps prevent emotional wounds, just like maintaining physical fitness prevents injuries. You can learn emotional healing techniques just like you learn any other skill — by practicing. Here are a few ideas that could help you improve your emotional healing abilities.

1. Be Aware of Your Emotions

Notice the things in your life that create negative feelings and emotions. When you notice something produces negative emotions consistently in your life, that’s a sign that you should likely make a change to your behavior. Similarly, notice the things and people that bring you joy, peace, and other positive emotions. Positive emotional reactions can be a signal to pursue more of that activity. 

2. Be Mindful

There is research indicating that being mindful may help you be less emotionally reactive and get more satisfaction out of your relationships. Mindfulness may be as simple as putting down your phone when you’re around family and friends, taking a break from social media, or focusing mentally on the task at hand instead of thinking about past or upcoming events and worries. Mindfulness is an essential part of emotional healing.

3. Communicate Your Feelings

Let people close to you know how you’re feeling. Healthy expressions of your feelings can benefit your emotional health, and also allows your friends and family to support you when you need it. Be mindful of how you do it, but letting your feelings out in appropriate ways — like an honest but tactful conversation — can go a long way toward emotional healing. You might also consider finding a professional to listen to you, especially if you feel like you need someone to help you move through past experiences and provide you with coping mechanisms. 

4. Manage Stress

Stress is detrimental to your emotional health, but there are many healthy ways to reduce your stress levels. People will find that different methods work best for them, but some activities that are proven to help cope with stress are relaxation methods such as deep breathing, meditation, and exercise. Try out a few of these strategies, and see how you feel! 

5. Make Time For Things You Enjoy

Another powerful way to support your emotional health is by doing things you love to do. These activities can be anything that brings you happiness and relieves stress. Some examples of these types of activities are painting, traveling, taking a bath, reading a book, and so much more. It’s about making time to take care of yourself.

6. Get Enough Sleep

In your own experience, you might have noticed that when you’re tired, you tend to be cranky. You might react more quickly and severely to others, or feel a little down when you’re not getting enough sleep. If you’ve ever noticed this, science can back you up. A 2018 study found that sleep deprivation may make people more prone to negative, repetitive thinking. You might also be more prone to stress and anxiousness when you’re sleepy.

7. Care For Your Physical Health

Your mind and body are deeply connected. If you haven’t been caring for your physical health, it’s very likely that it will impact your emotional health. Consistent exercise, healthy nutrition, and getting enough sleep can all help regulate your emotional health.  

8. Focus On The Positive

Work on shifting to an optimistic state of mind, by focusing on all the things you have to be grateful for. Notice the good things in your life and spend time cultivating those. Negative emotions and experiences are bound to occur. However, if you give them fewer thoughts and less energy than the positive things, you’ll start to notice your outlook shifting. 

9. Live a Balanced Life

Finding a balance between work and play is important for emotional healing. You probably love the feeling of contributing to your work and career, but you also need to play and let off steam. Don’t let your job or any other pursuit take over your life. Try to balance everything out with yin and yang.

10. Stay Socially Connected

Isolating yourself could make emotional healing more difficult. Everyone needs alone time, but when you’re consistently isolated, it could make you more prone to feeling depressed or stressed. Be sure you stay emotionally connected to people in meaningful ways (beyond scrolling through social media). Say hi to strangers, schedule lunch with a friend, shoot the breeze with coworkers, and of course — call your mom. 😉  Even at times when it’s not possible to be together in person, use technology and good old-fashioned phone calls to connect with people and have real conversations.

11. Energy Healing For Emotional Balance

Sometimes, past experiences can become lodged in the body as energy and can create imbalances that impact your emotional health. This can make it much more challenging to process and release emotions that are holding you back from living your happiest, healthiest life. Energy healing with methods, such as The Emotion Code® and The Body Code™, can allow you to painlessly and easily release the energies that are blocking you from your best life. 

The Emotion Code can help you with emotional healing by resolving negative energies from the past that could be trapped inside you. Trapped emotions are literal, physical energies that may become lodged in any part of the body, and they could lead to emotional and physical distress. In a few simple steps, you could regularly clear out those energies and work toward emotional healing.

Emotional healing is a vital part of an abundant, healthy, happy life. Try to take an active role in preserving and improving your emotional health so you can enjoy the best this life has to offer.

Want help releasing the energetic blockages that could be holding you back from optimum emotional health? Reach out to a certified Body Code or Emotion Code Practitioner today!