Self-Awareness Helps You Heal a Broken Heart

Self-awareness can help you deal with a broken heart because, when you understand yourself deep inside, you’re able to celebrate the good things about you and heal the parts that require extra care. When you’re in touch with your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, you’re better able to deal with any relationship situation.

Perhaps you’ve had your heart broken by a parent, friend, relative, co-worker, or significant other. You can gain a lot of strength from how you deal with these hurts. It’s perfectly natural to be hurt, and how you deal it will lead you down the path toward having a healthy or failing heart.

The way you treat your heart can affect many areas in your life. Imagine if you could never recover from and insult or a break-up, you’d spend the rest of your life being miserable. Your heart follows your actions, you can choose to stay stuck in pain and misery or be kind to your heart and do things to move in a more positive direction. You have the ability to become more self-aware and change your behavior consciously, a skill that comes in handy when tending to your heart.

The next time your heart hurts ask yourself some questions that will help you move in a positive direction, like:

• What is hurting me?
• What can I do to improve how I feel and take care of myself?
• What can I do to interrupt the pattern that keeps me stuck with a hurting heart?

When you discover why you are hurting, you then are able to do something differently. Our hearts often hurt because we have not yet learned how to mend them and nurse them back to health. Some people carry this hurt their entire lives. Much as an unhealthy heart can keep you from running a marathon, it can also keep you from enjoying a great relationship.

When you learn how to care for your heart, you can then enjoy it in all its healthy glory. What will you do to develop self-awareness and heal your heart?

Cheers,

Guy