In the presence of any bodily pain, we seek to remedy it through first aid or resorting to the doctor or hospital, if applicable. This occurs because we are aware of what is happening to us.
However, when emotional pain occurs, it is our unconscious that acts, and it does so through defense mechanisms that lead to avoid, transfer, victimize, disguise and, depending on the intensity, at times, to bury it deeply. The unconscious has the function of protecting life and is activated autonomously. Pain is identified by the unconscious as a threat to survival, be it physical or emotional. The difference is that emotional pain is evident first and physical pain occurs as a consequence. In such a way that when we get sick it is a response from our unconscious to solve a conflict. For example, when a knee hurts, it is the way to resolve a conflict where the person in general emotionally hurts some kind of submission. Although it should be clarified that each answer will depend on the information that each person has in their unconscious.
Emotional pain increases when the same pain is added or another is added, without there being any solution.
hence the unconscious continues to respond with a physical or mental illness. The insane emotion grows from the inside out until it becomes external, sometimes it is detected when it is too late. This information materializes in cancer, a heart attack or perhaps a behavioral alteration that can lead to psychosis.
The defense mechanisms of the unconscious can be observed in attitudes such as compulsions, obsessions or what we call vices. These are placebos to distract the emotional pain that the person develops to avoid feeling a pain from which they do not know its origin, being hidden in their unconscious mind. When we lose a loved one, either through death or separation and the person does not mourn or the pain is unbearable, he hides; since it is possible that it even produces the death of the individual (protects us). This analogy is equivalent to first aid applied in the event of severe pain or bodily injury. First, the person's life is saved, however, after the crisis is over, it is necessary to review the origin of the pain and repair or heal to cure the symptom. Well, in the same way, it is necessary to proceed with emotional pain, a process is necessary to let out the hidden emotion and that is the origin of the physical condition..
What is not recognized is duplicated and sometimes multiplied, causing serious and diverse consequences, within them we can find: anger or hysteria, addictions (to overlap), chaos, accidents, in short, a life full of difficulty, bodily illness, multiple behavioral disturbances, and even psychosis. They are the sequel to hiding the aforementioned emotional wounds.
Healing an emotional pain requires certain doses of: recognition, acceptance and forgiveness.
These are the ingredients that lead to acquiring such a state of consciousness that allows you to maintain an attitude of observation about yourself and your circumstances. To alleviate emotional pain, one can proceed in the same way as a physical injury. First, you go to first aid (defense mechanism of the unconscious), which will be enough if the wound is not deep, otherwise it is necessary to go to the doctor or hospital (that is, to the psychologist, emotional healer, or psychiatrist). Within the first aid we usually apply some antiseptic and clean the wound. In the emotional field, the antiseptic is recognition, in other words the assimilation of each emotion, identifying it with a name (feeling), such as:
Humiliation, rejection, helplessness, etc. When the physical wound begins to heal, it will sting around it, however, if it rubs against something, it will still hurt. In a similar way, it happens with the emotional wound while we are healing it, it will hurt when something or someone reminds us with a word, gesture or deed, which continues there, but the attitude of observation will allow the acceptance of the event and continue the process. The physical wound will be healthy when it heals. In the emotional aspect, in order for it to heal, it is necessary to forgive those "responsible" or "guilty" people; although without a doubt the main forgiveness is the one we grant ourselves, since we can also understand that others are only actors on the stage of our life and that we have invited them to participate. The scar will remain so that we remember not to trip over the same stone again.
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