#WednesdayWisdom
6 Essential Practices For Healing Past Traumas
1. Expression — get it out in the open. Part of the reason why past traumas manifest as poor mental & physical health is keeping them locked inside. Speaking about what’s happened or expressing ourselves creatively helps us to remove these blocks we’ve placed on ourselves internally and this allows repressed emotions to move through us freely.
2. Meditation — sitting with difficult memories. Practicing meditation teaches us to let go of thoughts that pass through our minds, this process can help us to detach from negative thought patterns when they arise. It is important we acknowledge that this is a process and it takes time to be able to catch oneself on the train of negative thinking before deciding to disembark.
3. Exercise — allowing emotions to be worked out. Moving into the body allows us to release pent-up energy, much of this energy comes from our emotions because emotions are energy in motion. Often times past traumas can cause us to repress the emotions we felt at the time and exercising is one way we can “exorcise” these emotions out of us.
4. Nutrition — feeding ourselves positivity. The subconscious mind draws on what we feed ourselves to create thoughts — nourishing the mind with positive mental reinforcement will allow us to create thoughts based on positivity. This can be achieved by spending time with positive people and listening to/reading self-improvement content.
5. Acceptance — releasing resentment. Acceptance is difficult, particularly when others are at fault for inflicting these traumas onto us, but we must be willing to accept that these experiences have happened for us and not to us. Everything we’ve faced so far is preparing us for what is coming and what is coming is better than what has gone.
6. Nature — cleansing ourselves of negative energy. Immersing ourselves in nature is a vital part of the healing process as it allows us the opportunity for introspection. Checking in with ourselves without being bombarded by the various stimuli of manmade environments gives us a much clearer idea of how we’re progressing on our journey toward mental health.
