One of the main reasons for the perpetuation of suffering is to keep the things that one feels. Going through life's difficulties is painful enough to go through alone. Sometimes we can face certain circumstances with our own adaptation strategies, but other times they exceed our capacity to face them, and that is when we must get out of ourselves and express ourselves.
It is well known that keeping what one feels makes worse anguish, anxiety and sadness. Many people express themselves through a journal, writing what they feel, in order to remove everything that is weighing them down. Others do it through artistic expressions, in painting or in literary writing. Other people prefer to talk; They first look for a close relative or partner, with whom they can vent. Others look for a counselor or priest.
But many others prefer to express themselves to a professional psychotherapist, because not only listens to them, but also processes what they say and helps them with a guide, an understanding or a strategy to get ahead. Expressing yourself in this way has many advantages, but I am going to mention three, which I consider the most important:
- Expressing yourself allows you to let off steam, when you do it you feel that you have lifted a huge weight from your shoulders. We have all felt that when we keep quiet about something, we have something like a load on our back or a tightness in our chest. By taking all that out in a therapy, you come out lighter, with a clearer mind, with more peace. Another advantage of venting in therapy is professional secrecy; a newspaper can find it for you, another person can divulge what you tell them; but a therapist, by professional secrecy, will not tell anyone.
- When you express yourself, you get used to not keeping things to yourself, you take away from your mind the enormous weight of accumulating all these feelings, frustrations, desires, joys, hates, I fear.Many times you carry things that you do not need, and you need to expel them from yourself. In a therapy, also, unlike many external confidants, you will not be judged, you are listened to impartially, you can express anything that comes to mind (as therapists we are used to listening to everything you imagine), and you will not receive a trial or a conviction.
- When you get used to expressing what you feel and think in a therapeutic context, you not only come out with a lighter mind, but also with a clearer understanding about yourself, about your intentions, your conflicts and you find in yourself more strategies. adequate to get ahead. You learn things about yourself that you have never considered before.
As you can see, expressing yourself in therapy has numerous advantages, it helps you to get what you have, but not in a vacuum, but in order to process, understand and modify it so that it serves your dreams and life purpose.
If you want to express yourself freely and work on your emotional health in a personalized way through face-to-face therapeutic consultations or via Skype, click here.
Guillermo Mendoza Velez
Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist
www.SaludMentalyEmocional.com
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