How To Be Emotionally Healthy? Check This Out!

Your emotional health matters just like all other aspects of your whole being. The way you give attention to threats signifies a lot on how you can be on the right track of health no matter how badly you feel at a certain stage in life. Thus, we dress and act to protect ourselves from any injuries, but still, we got it.

No one in this world can actually avoid emotional hurdles and struggles yet there are proper ways you can boost your emotional resilience so that you can still be emotionally healthy after hurt or pain.

1. Gain Control After Lose

Losing comes in many forms. If you feel a sense of defeat, surely you are suffering loss accompanied by the failed task. This will distort how you view things and may invoke feeling that your goal is unachievable when actually it is not. This is just because you had been demoralized and motivation left you. Without this drive you significantly outbalance, not knowing how to get out of a situation because you simply do not know your next step. You have to fight misconceptions that are clouding your way of perception in order for you to draft your next initiative that could improve your chance to succeed.

2. You Must Find Meaning Behind Harsh Situation

Until you can finally reason out to yourself why things probably happened when you certainly do not want it, you are not moving forward. Of course, each one of us has different ways to cope up with distressing occurrences in life. You could not say that you are emotionally healthy if you still find yourself being stuck with grieving and unable to accept reality.

This could be a long process, but once you find that something really must happen in order to give way for the rest that is coming, you are ready to accept. You got the purpose, you then realized that losing is not entirely a loss but also a 'gain'.  Sad to say, this is not something that you can force yourself into that is why some people find this so insurmountable challenge but once you be able to conquer it, you will learn to appreciate it.

3. Stop Brooding

It isn't good to always overthink. Perhaps we make you angry by just simply stating 'stop brooding', 'do not overthink' as if it is just as simple as that. Yes, we understand it could be so normal for some people to overthink situations, nevertheless, we still insist you should find ways to disrupt it.

There are activities that will make you forget the pain such as being busy with some hobby or activity. An emotionally healthy person had the capacity to divert their attention to rather more productive things than allow themselves to be drowned with their dark thoughts.

As soon as you see yourself getting into a cycle of overthinking, you should allow new things to come. Go window shopping. Have a small conversation with people even if it means forcing yourself into it and if you find yourself still thinking about it, it is just fine. What is important is that you will not give your fall attention to those questions you might not have answers or will never get answers.

4. Cultivates Self-Esteem

Being a self-critics is good to improve yourself and be your own best version but sometimes it is not good especially if you are on defeating stage. From the time you felt the loss, your self-esteem is already at a low point and it is your self-responsibility to shield further damage.

Having a self-compassion allows for healing. It looks deeper into yourself those things you can improve without hurting yourself. Yes, it is fine to have those empowering quotes paste on your mirror or ceiling. This way you were able to see/read it the first thing you check yourself in the mirror or when you wake up.

5. Regenerate Your Self-Worth

Rejection is painful. You will feel undeserving, pathetic, or unlovable but understand that you are hurt not because of who you are. It is because your brain is wired and it adapts how you feel. In order to address emotional pain is to focus on affirming qualities and values you adhere yourself into such as loyalty or compassion. If you focus on what is more important over what was gone, you are on your way to being an emotionally healthy person.

6. Fight Loneliness

It is possible that you can feel alone despite the crowd and this chronic illness brings the worst impact on how you interact with those around you. You can sabotage your blooming relationship with others with this self-defeating traits within you and what's harder is that you are the one who can heal yourself.

But good thing you are reading this article. You will give insights the right approach when you are combating loneliness. One, go with the company whom you enjoy. Don't allow those people who constantly make you feel rejected to be in your circle,--not yet while you are hurting. In here, you may need to reconnect with your old colleague who has the same interest as you in the past and start reaching out. If your current environment does not allow you to have a constructive relationship with others, you can still find other ways so that you feel connected again.

7. Cut Off Excessive Guilt Feeling

There are situations that apologies aren't voiced out, still does not mean that the other person or you is not feeling guilty or combating with guilt feeling. Let go. Exercise empathy for yourself and accept that excessive guilty won't let you go any further. In as much as those you mistakenly hurt in the past had already starting to forget, you may constantly be peeling off the dry wound thus, making them remember things again and again. As a result, you are not allowing both of you to heal.