Are You Feel Lonely? Don’t Worry! Here are 8 Things Therapists Personally Do When They Feel Lonely. Try It Now!

It is a Pandemic time, many of us have been feeling disconnected from our respected loved ones, right! Loneliness is not for a specific person’s problem. It is common to everyone, but it is more prevalent over the last few years. It is true that whether we want to openly admit it or not, we all had to navigate the feelings of loneliness at one point or another. Anyhow! It is important to first acknowledge loneliness feeling and we have to address these problems in a healthy way. It is also equally important. Many of us may think, Therapists can handle this problem easily for themselves, right. No, it is not the case, even Therapists are susceptible to the gripping impact of loneliness, especially due to the last few years because of the pandemic. Here’s the list of things that we have gathered some techniques and methods, to get rid away from loneliness. Hoping that it will help you too!

Recognize your loneliness

A wellness coach and founder of ‘Take Action for Self-Care’, Nicole Villegas, said that “Loneliness is a signal to acknowledge the vulnerability and ask for help”. When you simply acknowledge loneliness, you have already attempted your first step toward making it better.

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Listen to yourself

When you are were a teenager, you might have kept a diary hidden under your mattress to confess your feelings, struggles, and fears without judgment or punishment. Once you reached adulthood, you may be stopped. Now it is called Journaling! Keeping a journal can be a great idea! It can help you to control your emotions and it improves your mental strength and also it will help to reconnect with yourself.

Stay Connected!

Take your own time to connect with others in a real and meaningful way. You can take the opportunity to meet new people when it came. Because, study says that, casual interactions with strangers improved people’s moods for the rest of the day.

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Take the help of the natural world!

Research shows that venturing outside and walking can give a slight mood boost, too, which will help you to get rid of those sad feelings associated with loneliness. Therefore, when you feel a sense of loneliness, you can take the help of the natural world and try to absorb everything around you, it will recall you that you are a part of it all!

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Think out of the box!

You should remind yourself that, there are millions of people on this mother Earth, having the same human experience as you are in this very moment. This quick thought exercise will help your mind to understand that everyone has the same experience.

Figure out the root caus

By checking with yourself to identify whether your feeling of loneliness is linked to your past, present, or future, you will be able to handle it better. If your feeling is based on the past, then you can focus on the present, or else it is based on the future, then use mindfulness as well as positive self-talk to help to turn your focus on your current situation.

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Try to learn new skills

By keeping your mind busy with new and interesting things, you are able to handle loneliness by getting the inner dialogue to quiet down, which led to a decrease in the feelings of loneliness.

Listen to how you speak to yourself

When you experience loneliness, your mind will automatically drift towards negative things about yourself and your life. At that time, you should remind yourself that these feelings were temporary and it’s nothing! You can feel better!