Emotional Healing For Dummies

When you're in the process of emotional healing, having some key information with you can be invaluable. Print out and pin up these tips and pointers, and you’ll always have the essentials at hand. (Emotional healing is a universal topic; this insight and information is provided as a part of the Emotional Healing For Dummies UK edition.)

The Emotional Healing Toolkit

This map represents a summary of all the most important healing tips. Glance through it from time to time to remind yourself of the various actions you can take for your own healing.

Planning for a Difficult Personal or Professional Situation

When you face a difficult situation or meeting, planning both a successful outcome and your emotional state pays dividends. These four tips can help you achieve this:

Identify what emotion can help you manage the situation well.
Bring back a remembered sense of this feeling mentally and physically.
Visualise yourself maintaining this feeling through the situation.
Repeat an empowering word or phrase that keeps you on track.

Five-Step Emotional Healing Process

Become familiar with the situations that disturb you, take action to enable yourself to balance your emotional response to them and make this emotional healing process an integral part of your life.

Notice the situation that upsets you.
Observe your:

Physical signals from body-mind

Emotions

Thoughts

Behaviours
Stop, step back, take a breathing space to calm yourself and reflect on what’s happening. Ask what you need to do now.
Act to resolve the situation by applying physical strategies, emotional self-care, and thinking methods, and integrating these into new behaviours.
Embrace change with emotional needs as your guide.

Six Tips to Calm Your Body through Breath

Should you find yourself feeling stressed or emotionally disturbed you can quickly re-establish your inner sense of calm and control by following these six tips:

Bring your attention into your body-mind.
Notice tension and release it, softening your body.
Open your shoulders and notice how you’re breathing.
Expand your belly as you breathe in.
Count each breath: four for the in-breath and six for the out-breath.
Bring in calm and breathe out stress.

Focusing on Positives for Emotional Healing

Developing the habit of focusing on the positives in your life and reminding yourself several times a day of those aspects that are working and going well enables you to regain perspective.