3 easy and 1 hard ways to cope with emotional pain
The 3 easy things are really simple. Well, I hope it’s simple.
They are:
crying
breathing
drop down and do some planks
Crying can help release the emotional build up inside the body. It can be therapeutic to express your pain outwardly in a way that is not violent and destructive.
Breathing helps with calming down. I heard things like breathing in through your nose and exhaling with your mouth in a rhythm or so. I’ve tried but the pattern doesn’t always work or stick with me personally. The best I figured out, especially if the pain is too much, is to breathe in and out through my mouth to inject as much air as possible into my body.
Planks are one of the easiest ways to get your heart rate up quickly. It shifts the attention away from the emotional pain to physical pain. It is a great distraction. It also facilitates breathing (and focusing on breathing) and not crying too much where it exhausts the body. I don’t know the science behind the latter; I just know it did that for me.
The 1 hard way is organizing your feelings and thoughts.
This one is hard because it takes more time, more self-awareness, prioritization against the current of your emotion, and self-control.
Be honest with yourself in knowing what you are feeling and why. Dissect all the reasons logically. Learn what your emotion is trying to do. Look at your day in the spectrum of now, in an hour, in half a day, to the rest of your day. Stick to what you have to get done. Decide how you want to get through the day. Don’t ignore the emotions like they don’t matter, but sit them down on the sideline so that you can function until you are ready at the right time to fully untangle them.
I hope this helps.