First Aid For Emotional Well-being  

In today’s world we all are mainly concerned about our physical well-being and we assure that we actually address it at top priority. For instance a back pain or a toothache will be addressed immediately. However, in this process our emotional well-being takes a backseat. Things that worries you or has probably disturbed does keep piling up within you. Physically you might manage to ignore it, but you know that deep inside it is bothering you and is building up, which might result in depression or an emotional break-down. So here are a few important points that will help you to give first-aid for your emotional well-being:

  • Pay attention to your emotional well-being: Identifying what is your stress about? Or lately what all has been your concerns? This is the first step. You need to identify the emotions you are going through and acknowledge the same. You can’t keep saying its’ okay, or maybe I am tired that is why I am feeling low, or I don’t know why I am bored or irritated, I will be fine. Acknowledge your feelings, accept if you feel lonely, hurt, offended, frustrated, pressurized, etc.
  • Redirect your gut feeling: You now need to analyze the cause of your emotions that has been bothering you time and again. When you think upon it, you must jot down what all is within your control, and you can manage to change it. On the other hand do jot down what all is beyond your control. Thus, you need to understand that your focus should shift only on things that are under your control and work towards it, rather keep paying attention to those things that are beyond your control. This will help you to take the right action with a positive approach.
  • Focus on your self-esteem: Believe in yourself. Remember ‘nobody can hurt you without your consent’. And this statement must be the mantra to sustain the balance of your emotions and help you to build your emotional well-being. If you are giving your consent, then you are inviting yourself to the depression zone which can only harm your emotional wellbeing. So, let any external stimuli not affect your emotional balance.
  • Break the spiral around you: Keep yourself up, and be your best friend. It is rightly said that ‘Even God cannot help you, if you don’t help yourself. Engage yourself in activities that you always wished to do, but were not able to manage due to your busy schedule. Think of taking up an online course or developing your knowledge and skills. These days e-learning platform is actually doing wonders. So, get going on Google and do your bit of research.
  • Do Self-healing: If something has given you a deep wound, then do not dwell into it. Just as we take immediate measures to assure that our physical wounds are healed as quickly as possible, similar approach should be towards our emotional wounds. For instance, if your best friend has said something that has disturbed you, then what do you think will make you feel better? Probably, if he/she sends you an apology message or gives a call to apologize, you will start feeling much better. However, we need not wait for it to happen, rather start believing so, and do a role-play. Visualize yourself as that friend and draft an apology note from him/her to you. And, then when you will read it aloud to yourself, I am sure you will start feeling much better, as you have just managed to heal your emotional wound yourself.
  • Find meaning in the losses: When you lose something which is really important in your life, your first thought must be to evaluate that what are the good things that will come into my life as a consequence of this loss. Then you need to ponder upon those things, and assure to make the most of the opportunity that life has given you. Look at ways to turn this obstacle into opportunity. So, basically your focus should divert on the positive aspects. And the key to this is ‘always focus on the half full, rather than focusing on half empty’.

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