Emotional and Mental Healing Guide

Healing emotions and mental healing are deeply intertwined.

Thoughts, feelings, beliefs and emotions are in a perpetual dance with each other. Thoughts and beliefs lead to emotions. Your feelings and emotions influence your thoughts.

Whether your aim is focused on emotional healing or on improving your mental state, you are likely to address and affect both aspects regardless of your 'way in'.

From a holistic viewpoint, when you are experiencing physical dis-ease, it is always beneficial to explore your emotional and mental wellness along with symptoms manifesting in the body. Sometimes, there is a direct link between an emotional trauma and a physical illness. This is because your mind, body, and spirit are entirely connected.

Experts used to believe that the mind was another name for your brain. Now they realize that your mind is also in your body. This may sound strange, but think about it. When you feel anxious or stressed, do you feel butterflies in your stomach and get sweaty hands? Have you ever observed babies? They have not yet learned to mask their feelings so every nuance of emotion shows in their faces and bodies.

This mind-body connection can work in your favor.

It is not uncommon for positive beliefs and healed emotions to create spontaneous healing in the body without medical intervention. Likewise, correcting imbalances in the body positively affects your mental wellness.

On the flip side, negative emotion and beliefs contribute to illness and poor outcomes. They sap energy needed for a healthy, happy life and can close you off from opportunities to heal and change your life for the better.

With this in mind, it is easy to see how mental healing is almost always needed along with physical healing. Sometimes it is all that is needed.

Table of Contents

Mental Healing

Inner Talk - How do you talk to yourself? Does you self talk help you or hurt you? Learn how you can you master your inner talk for emotional healing, mental healing, and better health.

Negative Self Talk and Stinking Thinking - Identify negative patterns and limiting beliefs that influence your feelings and actions and interfere with your emotional and mental well-being.

The Power of Negative Thinking - Negative thoughts aren't always bad. It has several positive aspects you can capitalize on when you learn to observe them and use them for your benefit.

Positive Self Talk - Learn how thoughts, emotions and actions are related and how to develop a positive mental attitude and more affirming self talk.

Healing Emotions

Feeling emotion is normal and healthy. When those emotions interfere with your quality of life, then it is a signal that something inside you needs to be healed. Thankfully, there are complementary, alternative methods that promote mental healing naturally and sometimes with remarkable ease.

Note: If you are in severe mental or emotional distress, please consult with your health care provider before applying these mental healing methods. You may have a condition requiring medical care or professional assistance and stirring up negative emotion could make you feel worse.

Types of Emotions and Feelings - Read about the eight primary emotions and the three types of feelings that we experience. The Wheel of Emotions provides a good model of how emotions flow into each other. This forms a good foundation before beginning emotional healing work.

Healing for Damaged Emotions - What emotions are, how they serve us and simple  steps to begin healing painful and limiting emotions.

Choosing an Emotional Release Technique - Explore several emotional release techniques that promote mental healing by helping you release negative thoughts, emotions and limiting beliefs. Listen as Ester Hicks describes the benefits of reaching toward a better feeling thought.

Energy Flow and Meridian Tapping Techniques - Learn about how energy flow techniques (previously called energy psychology) evolved and how they foster emotional and mental healing of a wide variety of issues.

EFT Tapping Learn about the most popular meridian tapping technique of all for healing emotions - the Emotional Freedom Technique. Watch a demo video of the EFT basic recipe and tap along if you like.

ZPoint for Peace - Learn about the ZPoint process and how it can help you relieve stress, difficult feelings and beliefs. Listen to two sample sessions and download your free ebook.

Healing for Specific Emotions

Note: The words 'depression' and 'anxiety' used here are not referring to medical conditions. They are referring to feelings we all experience from time to time. If you suffer from diagnosed depression or anxiety, or believe you may have these conditions, please ask your doctor if using these mental healing tips, techniques and remedies are safe for you at this time.

Anger Management Help - Learn helpful techniques to manage your anger, starting with self-awareness.

Anger Management Techniques - Read about techniques to manage momentary anger and emotional and mental healing techniques for long-standing anger issues.

Anger and Health - Explore how anger affects your health.

Why Am I Depressed? - Explore conventional and current ideas about what causes you to feel depressed.

Beating Depression How to overcome feelings of depression naturally. Watch Dr. Carolyn Dean's lecture describing the connection between depression and yeast and how she helps patients improve symptoms using a specific treatment plan.

Depression and Anger - Explore the connection between feeling depressed and anger.

Natural Relief for Anxiety - Learn tips and techniques to help you calm down when you feel anxious.

As you release negative emotion you will begin to experience a greater sense of mental wellness. Not only that, but you are likely to enjoy feeling more energetic. The energy you were spending to fuel steady fires of blame, guilt, criticism, hurt, fear and anger will instead become available for healing and living life on your own terms.

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