by Rodolfo N. Lentejas, Jr.

Created on: May 13, 2008   Last Updated: July 24, 2010

There are many ways of healing emotional wounds, as there are also countless ways of getting emotionally hurt. Healing through writing is just one of them.

Healing through writing is an effective way of healing emotional wounds, not only because we are given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revisit the past and fix it, but more importantly because we are given an opportunity to unload negative emotions from our hearts using our very own words.

Although this is a mental process, the most challenging part of this exercise is coming face-to-face with the person or the event that caused us pain, and this may create discomfort since we are not used to recalling painful events. As part of our coping mechanism, forgetting a painful past seems to be the easy way out. Yet, our courage to revisit the past is already a good introduction to healing and we must conquer the fear of avoidance if we are to succeed.

The act of identifying what needs to be healed is a good start, as we surely know our hurts and pains. This includes the act of recreating the past as if it is happening at the very moment. Once the connection is established, then the arduous process of writing the event should immediately take place because it is during this moment when emotions are at their peak. Unloading emotional wound from the past and putting it into writing is yet another healing process since the negative emotions associated with the painful event in the past is literally taken out from our hearts.

As what has been previously said, the process of unloading emotional baggage may actually cause emotional discomfort as old wounds are being reopened once again, but after the process of unloading and writing, a light feeling resurfaces, and this is because the pains and hurts are successfully uprooted from our hearts. Once the heart is cleared with heavy emotions, we are no longer victims of the past but whole new persons ready to move on with life and live it to the fullest. Life becomes a wonderful journey when we travel with a light baggage.

But even if everything has been fully unloaded through writing, there is always a thing that will remind us of the past the scar. The scar is a reminder that once in our life we had been hurt, and that makes us more human. The scar, however, is not a reminder of a painful past, but a reminder to never again allow us to be wounded. It is also a reminder that we need to be strong.

In life, it does not really matter how many times we fall; what matters most is how many times we rise after each fall.

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