11 spiritual signs of a broken heart (and what to do about it)

It’s the end of the world. Your heart might be broken for good this time…

A dear person has left you for someone new, a friend has betrayed you, a family member has disappointed you or perhaps you have experienced the death of someone close to you…

Love can be beautiful, but a broken heart can also destroy you internally. Tears, a feeling of emptiness and the belief that you’ll never recover are just part of the range of symptoms of a ruptured essence.

A broken heart is a lesson all souls must learn, but most karmic lessons take time. While they can’t be solved in one night, it’s important to deal with them during this lifetime and change our soul’s course for the better.

If you’re suffering from a broken heart right now, I’m sure you know exactly what I’m talking about. The good news, however, is that there are things you can do to make the pain fade away. The tips in this article will teach you how to heal your broken heart.

Cruising down a heart-shaped highway

When we love someone, we are overwhelmed with a feeling of warmth and bliss. This is sponsored by dopamine and the happiness hormone endorphin. When combined with other similar substances, they create an intoxicating “love mixture”.

Otherwise, when a passionate relationship between two people is abruptly broken, adrenaline takes over and hence the trauma is just as strong.

The brain, during times of irreparable loss, behaves as if the pain is real, as if the blow is physical. At the physiological level, identical parts of the brain react to a breakup with a loved one, and to serious injuries.

The body is flooded with stress hormones, among which epinephrine and cortisol dominate. The blood goes to the muscles which become tense and there is no action. The result will be a stiff neck followed by a headache and chest tightness.

But a broken heart is a difficult patient, it can suddenly become very capricious. It will jump and do somersaults, and you’ll later suffer from the consequences of dizziness.

This is because your heart must do something to get you angry, to make you feel passion, to make you take action. The heart needs to be alive. So, respect its whims because even if it feels worse, this only means that your heart is still able to feel and that the fight for healing is ongoing.

Don’t be ashamed of the impulsive madness of your injured heart.

You are not alone in this – broken hearts do it all the time.

11 spiritual signs of a broken heart

A broken heart truly hurts, causing several negative health consequences for body and soul, some of which can be very dangerous. It can feel like your life will never be the same again. This feeling can be so intense that you can hardly function normally.

Losing a connection that breaks your heart can feel like an emotional amputation.

Retreating into yourself, denying problems, and pain will not make them disappear on their own. They can only turn into a trauma that will block your emotions and prevent you from coming out of the whirlwind of love.

Below are some clear spiritual signs of a broken heart:

1) Your body is malfunctioning

The psycho-emotional state is reflected on the physiological level of the organism.

Some people immediately begin to console themselves with sweets and uncontrolled food intake, while others completely lose their appetite. A direct consequence of elevated cortisol and adrenaline can cause inflammatory processes that firstly affect your largest organ – the skin.

Insomnia is common as well.

2) Mental illnesses and conditions are surfacing

You might be feeling restless, depressed, anxious, and fearful.

Interestingly, this happens more often in situations of blows to personal self-esteem and self-confidence (as is the case with the severance of emotional ties) than with individual severe losses (the death of a close person, for example).

3) A highly intuitive advisor confirms it

The spiritual signs above and below will give you a good idea about whether you have a broken heart.

But a surefire way to know for sure is to speak with a real gifted advisor.

The problem is finding someone you can trust. 

There’s an abundance of fake “experts” out there, but very few genuine gifted advisors who can offer practical life advice. 

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4) Abstinence crisis

Characteristic of drug withdrawal, this is also present in a broken heart. Dr. Michael Lajbovic claims that euphoria is common among love and drug addicts.

All the beautiful things that a person was used to in the previous period, without even being aware of it, created an addiction. The sudden cessation of the previous way of life is very difficult to bear. It creates a fight between the instinctive and logical part of the brain.

This leads to negative moods, nervousness, feelings of emptiness and sleep disorders.

5) Pronounced identity crisis

Forced into new circumstances, one can ask, “who am I now?”, and not find a satisfactory answer to this question. Another danger looms over a person with a broken heart – the possibility of recurrence of the loss, and the fear of that situation.

6) You feel hatred and anger most days

Negative emotions poison our souls.

When you feel anger and rage against a person, even though that person has hurt you emotionally, you keep coming back to the same story. Bad feelings don’t allow you to look ahead and keep you trapped in the past.

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7) You are hard on yourself

Endless crying comes from regret, loss, and pain, as much from self-pity.

This is the part that makes you feel shameful. Occasionally you might be embarrassed by your lack of self-control. When you are too self-critical, you lose confidence, doubt arises, and you block your progress.

8) You seek recovery relationships

Out of egoistic reasons, after love, we usually seek superficial relationships. We need to feel wanted.

Even if there is sympathy and pleasure and it doesn’t last long, it often happens that in such a relationship we hurt another person out of an unconscious need to take revenge for the injuries we suffered ourselves.

9) You are still delusional about the outcome

In the company of our loved ones, you may become prone to over-analyzing the causes and reasons that broke your heart.

While a certain amount of such processing is important and healthy, constantly returning to the same topics and conclusions can contribute to reviving the painful past unrealistically and digging through the wounds.

10) Impaired heart-brain connection

It all starts with dilated pupils, sweating, a rapid heartbeat, insomnia and apathy. Our emotional life affects the overall condition of the body, so we feel as if we are drained and without a drop of blood. The position of holistic medicine is that unrequited love over time produces all the symptoms of the most violent PMS.

11) You are standing still

You keep falling into the same pits by suppressing your pain. You feel completely empty inside.

Your heart holds onto repressed emotions and negative feelings that poison your body and soul – anger, revenge, hatred, insecurity, jealousy, guilt, feelings of inferiority, fear, sadness, despair, and feelings of helplessness.

Solutions: How to avoid walking around heartbroken for too long

The biggest nonsense that someone can tell you at this moment is – it’s nothing, it will pass, be strong. Learned patterns of behavior are difficult to change in life.

If it’s nothing, then why does it hurt so much? Of course, it will pass, but how long will it last and what will you be like when you come out of the vortex of love? An emotional invalid or a love colonel? Blocked by emotional trauma, your next choice won’t get better if you don’t try to heal.

Allow yourself to grieve

Know your pain and your injury. Providing time for grief is one of the most important steps in the healing process.

We usually want to be alone more often than usual, so provide yourself with peace and solitude. Find a time and space where you feel safe to express your emotions. Don’t suppress the pain as it will be reflected in your future relationships.

Practice activities that you can enjoy doing alone like walking, cooking, gardening, traveling etc. In this way we can deepen the relationship with ourselves and see grief as an opportunity to improve the communication we have with ourselves.

Meditation, cooking, exercising or simply breathing consciously can help. It sounds trivial, but these are all things that release happiness hormones. Learn to be comfortable in your own company.

“You can’t be alone if you like the person you’re alone with.”

– V. Dyer

Keep a diary

Record what you feel. This way of “confessing to yourself” can help you process your emotions from another angle.

Writing about thoughts and feelings that resulted from a traumatic or stressful life experience can help you better cope with the emotional consequences.

Don’t suppress tears, mood swings and suffering, because they will come to the surface when you least expect it. Face your feelings, tell yourself that all your emotions are acceptable, even those that make you feel bad.

Accept pain and sorrow as a normal part of healing a broken heart. When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, we express care and tenderness towards ourselves. Meanwhile, the sadness becomes less intense, and the remedial process begins.

Get rid of attachment

You can’t just remove the person that broke your heart from your head. Not even surgically. Hypnosis might help, but the question remains how to put the remaining pieces together.

Accept that they will stay in your head for some time. Our mind simply doesn’t react to direct commands, unless you are Buddha, I guess.

We often confuse attachment with love even though the two things have nothing to do with each other. Love requires freedom to be able to spread, flourish and develop. If it’s trapped in attachment, it will suffocate. The sentence “but I can’t live without them” shouldn’t exist! There is no one who can fill the void for you.

Never return to a ship that has sunk

No relationship ends ‘just like that’. It can be very comforting to see what really caused you to fall apart. This makes it easier to deal with your love-sickness and to accept it.

Small subliminal sources of interference can lead to larger rifts in a relationship in the long term. Try to check where these disturbances came from and what exactly happened.

Remember what didn’t work in your relationship, get out of the delusion. This can be very desirable during the treatment of a broken heart. In the short term, this can keep you “stuck in the past,” but in the long run, this is a fantastic healing strategy.

To consciously interrupt troublesome thoughts, you can always try repeating the words: “pink elephant, pink elephant, pink elephant…”. This will help you sober up faster. At some point you will train yourself to see these thoughts as unfavorable.

Surround yourself with healthy support

Help yourself. The more you work on breaking down the pain into small pieces, the sooner it will disappear.

The support and encouragement from loved ones are crucial. Accept the attention and tenderness of your friends, family, and pets.

If, after a storm, you direct all your attention to the mud in which you stand, you may not notice that the skies above you are clear. No matter how repetitive it sounds – it’s important to focus on the positive things.

Take it easy. Maybe you can gain some new insight through exchanging thoughts with other people. Talk to someone who doesn’t judge you and really listens to your pain.

The problem arises only when nothing is learned through the material covered. In that case, it happens that the life cycle repeats itself, and then you ask yourself – why do the same things always happen to me? Well, it’s most likely because you still need to learn.

“Normal people have problems. Only the smart ones ask for help.”

– D. Amen

Pamper both body and soul

Current brain research shows that the heart sends signals to the brain in the same way as, conversely, the brain influences heart function. Massive emotional stress has a bad effect on immunity.

Give yourself an injection of positive energy every day through healthy food, aromatic teas, fresh flowers, relaxing baths, and spa treatments. Be your best friend.

Even if you couldn’t get out of bed today because you felt a rush of incredible sadness, try breathing consciously.

Look at the palms of your hands, observe the sun rays coming from your window, name the colors you see in the room. Mindfulness techniques can be of great help in keeping your thoughts in the present day. They can also help to accept the situation and get on with your own life.

Fill your body and mind with fresh energy and light.

“Be on good terms with yourself and you will see how soon other people will be on good terms with you.”

– Napoleon Hill

Movement dictates emotion

Don’t make long-term plans, enjoy the surprises that each new day brings.

Occupy your brain with something new.

This way you won’t have too much time to overanalyze what happened in the recent past. In addition, the brain will be busy creating new synapses that have to be built every time we master a new skill.

Activate serotonin through sports. Avoid aggressive activities like boxing or aerobics, which additionally secrete adrenaline and intensify anger. Try doing yoga and Pilates as they will help establish spiritual and physical balance.

“I sing and dance not because I am happy. I am happy because I sing and dance.”

– A Chinese proverb

What does it take to survive?

Since there is no cure for a broken heart, we have no choice but to get sick. Wounds don’t heal in two days and neither does the metaphorical one in your heart.

Don’t ignore your pain. Face it and hug it as if it was the finest cashmere cloak. Find enough compassion for yourself. Have mercy on the frightened child in you. Give yourself time to learn to love again, as this will untie those aching spasms in your heart.

No matter how strong the pain was, at least you loved. The suffering of a broken heart can be fruitful because it gives birth to wisdom.

Open yourself up to new experiences and be ready to love sincerely and deeply like never before. The best way to heal your broken heart is to laugh again.

“We can handle much more than we think; all human experiences speak in favor of it. All it takes is to learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don’t deny your pain, don’t even completely surrender to it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will go away, and you will still be there.”

– Harold Kushner

Final thoughts

Hopefully, the spiritual signs above will shed some light on what you can do about your broken heart.

But if there’s a part of you that still wants to know more, I recommend speaking to a genuine, professional advisor. 

And there’s one company that I always end up recommending, Psychic Source. Not only did they blow me away with their accurate readings, but they were also kind and understanding of my situation. 

So if you’re tired of wondering about what you should do, get in touch with a legit advisor and take your future into your own hands. I did, and I’ve never looked back since. 

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