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Heal Emotions 
with Light-Heartedness   

Achieve Long-Term Benefits 
         through Emotional Healing

What is Light-Heartedness? 

Light-Heartedness is a state of mind where you feel love, joy, peace and laughter as the norm in your everyday life. It doesn’t mean you don’t have challenges. Everyone has challenges in life! Living light-heartedly just means that, no matter what happens, you always know how to bring yourself back to feeling love, joy, peace and laughter.

What is Emotional Healing?  

Emotional Healing is a natural healing process for anxiety, depression, abuse issues or poor self esteem that anyone can learn. It involves learning to identify, express and release your feelings, so that you naturally come back to love and peace inside yourself. It usually begins with getting in touch with tears or anger that you’ve been holding back and often it ends with laughing and having fun.

Consistent Emotional Healing Naturally Leads to Light-Heartedness!

What I’ve learned though years of doing psychotherapy is that consistent emotional healing leads to natural light-heartedness. You may wonder, if that’s true, why we haven’t discovered emotional healing and put it into practice years ago.

There are many reasons. First of all, most of were programmed not to talk about our feelings or needs as a young child, so we have a tremendous fear of admitting we have feelings and talking about them openly. Admitting our feelings often makes us feel vulnerable and scared. If we were hurt, abandoned or abused as a child, we will do anything we can to avoid feeling vulnerable and scared again!

Secondly, psychology is still a new science. Freud, himself, only lived and worked a hundred years ago. It’s only in the last 20-30 years that psychology has begun to realize the importance of emotions. Since most psychologists and psychotherapists are educated, intellectual people who may not have experienced consistent emotional healing themselves, many of them still don’t understand the long-term benefits it brings.  

Emotional Healing is a Totally Natural Healing Process!

When you do emotional healing, you learn to live in the present moment. You learn to stay present in your body and keep an on-going awareness of your feelings. Most of you have stored up feelings for many years, sometimes even for a lifetime! When you first start to pay attention to your body and get in touch with your feelings, you will often have a back-log of tears and anger that come pouring out.

It’s perfectly normal to have a backlog of unresolved pain when you first learn how to express your feelings, but often people misunderstand and feel afraid that the feelings will last forever. Sometimes it’s so scary that they shut their feelings off again because it’s too overwhelming to stay in touch.

The good news is that when you actually learn how to identify, express and release your feelings, you’ll find that it’s a totally natural healing process. You may have to do it over and over again at the start, but once you learn the emotional healing skills, you’ll simply know what to do to bring yourself back to a feeling of love and peace.

The Pitfalls of Doing Emotional Healing Alone:

There are some pitfalls you could encounter with trying to do emotional healing by yourself. Two of the big pitfalls you may get stuck in are blame and guilt. As children, many of you learned to believe that if something hurts or something goes wrong, someone is at fault. Either you did something wrong and you feel bad and guilty for it, or someone else did something wrong and they should be blamed and punished.

In emotional healing you learn to express and release your feelings without blame and guilt. You come to understand that the people who hurt you were probably hurting too. You can be hurt or angry or sad and express it as long as you need to, but in the end, when you’ve released the feelings that need to be released, you forgive those people who hurt you in the past, learn from your mistakes, and work on making your life better.

Emotional healing is not about mucking around in the pain for 10 or 20 years! You simply get in touch with what’s really going on inside of you and learn to express and release your feelings about it. When you have released the feelings and learned the life lessons, you simply move forward to make your life better in the future.

Emotional Healing Offers Many Long-Term Benefits

I started writing about light-heartedness a few years ago, because I don’t think that people realize the many long-term benefits of Emotional Healing. We hear the benefits of meditation, or yoga or exercise, but no-one talks about the long-term benefits of Emotional Healing.

To me, it’s very important that we, as a culture, start to own our emotions and learn to express them in healthy ways. So many personal, cultural and world issues would change if we were able to do that! We’d have so much less crime, we’d have more interest in working together and helping each other and we’d definitely stop going to war and killing people!

Here are just a few of the long-term benefits of emotional healing….

Emotionally

·                     Transform depression into joy and anxiety into inner peace

·                     Decrease your self-doubt, frustration, worry and emotional pain

·                     Feel more happy, positive and uplifted

·                     Learn self awareness and self love

·                     Develop better self-esteem

·                     Manage your stress more effectively

·                     Make positive, healthy choices

·                     Exhibit healthy personal power

·                     Have clearer, stronger boundaries

Physically

·                     A stronger, healthier body

·                     Weight loss or weight gain for better health

·                     Release of addictions

·                     Creating a prettier, cleaner home environment

·                     Less procrastination; more organization

·                     Improved living situation

Spiritually

·                     More inner peace  

·                     More enjoyment of life

·                     Better outlook on the future

·                     Feeling more purpose in life

·                     More playfulness, laughter and fun!

Relationships

·                     Better communication  

·                     Revitalize your relationships

·                     Deepen your understanding of yourself and your loved ones

·                     Resolve conflicts and experience more harmony

·                     A healthier, happier family

Career

·                     A better job or career

·                     More creativity

·                     Ability to set and reach life goals

·                     An improved financial situation

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