HEALING
Definition:
The process of making or becoming sound or healthy again.
Accept your feelings. As we begin our journey to heal we must take time to embrace our feelings and emotions. Feelings and emotions can be that part of our soul that’s trying to get our attention to burst forth with anew. as individuals, families and as a nation .We need to honor the guidance our inner being is trying to teach us.
5 Tips to accept your feelings:
- Give yourself TIME to heal and to mourn any loses you’ve experienced. This means you will have more time to reflect on your feelings and become self-aware. When we are too busy we can sometimes act or react rashly. Taking time for yourself can help us clarify our emotions and determine why you feel the way you do. Take time for you. This means literally sit down to reflect, read, or do something rhythmic like swim, yoga, Pilates, (these art forms, are labled MindBody exercises, as they bring body and mind together.) draw, journel, listen to or play music etc.
- Dont try and force the healing process. Remember its a process, if rushed into applying bandaids over and over on the wound and not honoring that time of embracing the soul, overall healing will not be sustained. The process takes time, self love, love from others and patience. In fact the new life of freedom may be right there to welcome you sooner than you think.
- Be patient with the pace of recovery. Pace, that means we keep going forward in this process but it has a rhythm or a beat all its own, just like your heart beat. Keeping a pace could be like, make a list or set of small short goals you know needs to be done and can be achieved and do one a day.This daily step can provide us with self encouragement. Kind of like keeping the fires going ,sort of speak.
- Be prepared for difficult and volatile emotions. Its normal to experience traumatic stress following a disturbing event, whether its a traffic accident, plane crash, violent crime, terrorist attack, global pandemic, tonado and the list continues. You may feel intense shock, confusion, and fear, or feeling numb or overwhelmed by a host of conflicting emotions, sometimes all at once. I call this A tsunami. Its overwhelming.
Being prepared. This can be a big one. Emotions and feelings have a way of showing
up when you least expect it. Being prepared is knowing some of your “Go To”places or
thoughts. Some examples is deep breathing, to quiet yourself until you get back to
your self place.
5. Allow yourself to feel whatever you’re feeling without judgement or guilt. This can be unsettling. Fatique, depression, and just overall sense of apathy may visit. I hate these, because I love excitement, but these can actually turn out to be your best friends. They do act to slow us down, to feel, to cry and mourn and thus be freed. Make sure you make a list of easy, gentle self care aids. Careful of isolation, take short walks in sunlight if available, make sure you look around (birds, grass or snow, the sky (clouds or not), thee are just a few of details that can take your mind of of things that can be the gentle reminders that “LIFE is good” if you know what to loook for.
Come join us here at balancenstrength where movement heals from perhaps grief, anger ( physical activity really plays an excellent role here) and acceptance. Pilates can provise to runway to take off.
