Sometimes there are people whose emotional life takes place, as it were, in a confined space. It is difficult for a person to share emotions, as well as accept them from other people. This trait can make a person feel lonely. Are there any ways to overcome this problem?
Emotional life arises even in intrauterine development, when the fetus receives sensations that are still barely distinguishable for him. And some of the features of the emotional response can be laid already in this period.
Further, the emotional sphere develops in the course of the direct experience of events in the child's life. And situations are possible when there is an emotional separation of the child from other people. The reasons for this can be injuries, conflicts, a dysfunctional family situation, serious illnesses, and much more.
If one day the natural process of emotional response is severely disturbed, then the emotional sphere collapses and the person seems to be locked in himself.
Of course, he does not become completely insensitive from this, but it becomes very difficult to share emotions and accept them.
Several ways can be suggested to change this situation.
Psychotherapy
One of the most effective ways is psychological work with a specialist. If you manage to find and work through the situation that caused the emotional blockage, then you can gradually stop holding back emotional manifestations.
This happens sometimes very dramatically, because emotionality becomes flawed after a situation when a person could not survive a strong, most often negative emotion. And now we will have to return to this event and with new resources and a new perception of an already adult person, mentally go through this story once again, clearing up those emotions that were deeply suppressed.
Creative activities aimed at expressing emotions
Other methods to liberate frozen emotionality are all creative pursuits. It can be dancing, painting, theater or public speaking. In all these activities, emotional expression takes place and sooner or later those emotions that were held back until that time will be affected. Especially effective in this case are those forms of creative expression that are associated with psychological work, such as art therapy, dance-movement therapy, film therapy, etc.
Social activity
An emotionally closed person experiences difficulties in interacting with society. You can change the situation from the other end. If you start to build this interaction actively, that is, to establish and maintain new social ties, for example, to promote any projects useful for society, to participate in the volunteer movement, then another, more harmonious emotional component, connecting communication with others, will begin to build along the chain. people. An example is teaching or organizational activities.
Here it is only important to find the niche in which it would be interesting to carry out this activity. Time will do the rest.
