How to Get Over a Break Up?

Falling in love with someone is one of the most exciting feelings. It makes you feel as if the wind romantically blow through your hair or you have wings and you are flying in the sky. But when your relationship ends, you feel like you are dropping from a cliff in mid air and it is very difficult to face that painful feeling. Ending a relationship or love may be your decision or your partner’s decision. May be you are dealing with painful emotions and you want to get out of those feelings as soon as possible. Keep in your mind getting over a breakup takes patience and time. If things do not seem to get better with time then remember you can turn to family, friends or even a mental health professional for support. This article will help you to get over a break up.

Best Ways to Get Over a Break Up:

There are many ways that will help you to get over a break up such as.

1.) Keep Distance

After the breakup, keep distance completely from each other, even if you and your ex-partner decided to stay friends. In this way, you will not see each other, not move around his/her family members, no emails, no phone calls, no facebook and no text messages. You don’t need to stop talking forever but you have to cut all communication so that you can get over a break up. You can also block him or her on facebook or any other social media.

2.) Maintain and Organize Your Space

A break up is new beginning so cleaning and organizing your personal space will help you to feel refresh and prepared for the new things to come. A dirty or mess can be depressing and overwhelming and aids your stress level. So clean your room and make it interesting by getting some posters.

3.) Remove Painful Memory Giving Things

There are lots of things that can remind you of your ex like a particular smell, a place, a song or any other thing which he or she gave to you. Having such things around can make it hard to recover you from a breakup. There is nothing wrong to keep such things but for the time being, keep them away until you recover from your relationship.

4.) Move Out and Do Things

After ending a relationship, give time to yourself. Make some plans, hang out with your friends and enjoy. It will help you to recover and feel better. Getting out and doing things with friends or family is also important because you need to maintain your social network after a breakup. Go for shopping, go to your favorite movie or coffee shop.

5.) Beware of Rebound Relationships

Many people quickly enters into a new relationship after a breakup. Such type of relationship is known as rebound relationship. It is very common but it is not a good idea. After breakup when you enter in a relationship, you may hide your negative emotions with the excitement of new relationship. In such case, your new relationship doesn’t work out and you may have to suffer with the pain of two breakups at once. So, remain single until you have fully move out from your emotions.

6.) Change Your Routine and Take Care of Yourself

After breaking up, you have to change your daily routine and take good care of yourself. Changing your routine is the best way to get over a break up.

• Eat a healthy food like fresh fruits and vegetables, lean protein and whole grains. Avoid excess fat, junk-food, and excess sugar.
• Get proper sleep, at least 7 to 8 hours per night.
• Doing exercise is also important. Do the exercise for half an hour 5 times a week. Go for half an hour walk and swimming.
• Relax for around 15 minutes in a day. Meditation, yoga or deep breathing exercises will help you to relax.

7.) Reflect on Your Relationship

Remind all the reasons due to which you and your ex broke up. Think about the reasons why the relationship or love ended this can help you to understand that you need to move on. This will also help you to avoid making the same mistakes in your future relationship. Focus on all the things that you don’t like about your ex because it will help you to get over the breakup faster. For example, may be your ex forgot your birthday, or made plans without you or often burped loudly after dinner.

8.) Consider the Reasons Why You Are Better Without Your Ex

Remind yourself of everything that disturbed you about your ex. You can take advantage from thinking about the positives to your breakup. Make a list of all the reasons like may be your ex discouraged you to eat healthy and now you are free to eat healthy. Or maybe your ex didn’t want to do some things that you wanted to do, so now you are free to do all those things.

9.) Healthy Ways to Soothe Your Emotional Pain

After breaking up, you definitely try avoid eating food but this will not give a long term solution, so avoid such things to dull your pain. Try to find ways that will help you to deal with your emotions and will lead to recovery and growth.

• Keep yourself occupied by taking up a new hobby. Engaging in a hobby will help you to distract from your pain for a while and you will feel better. It will also help to build your confidence and a new skill. So go and take a class, join any club or teach yourself to do something.

10.) Surround Yourself with Positive and Supportive People

Surround yourself with people who love you and will help you to feel good about yourself. Surrounding yourself with positive, supportive, compassionate friends and family will help you to see yourself as worthy and well human being.

• Don’t afraid to ask your family and friends for support.
• When you feel anger, take deep breaths and relax. This will help you to deal with your anger.
• If the pain becomes severe then talk to your therapist to recover from a breakup.