Spiritual Healing After a Car Injury

Everyday, people get injured in car accidents. While some of the injuries sustained from car accidents can be minor, a few of these injuries can be serious or downright fatal. Regardless of the severity of physical injuries, they often come with mental and spiritual trauma.

The trauma of the mind and the soul can leave sufferers with a feeling of numbness, distress, and a sense of disconnect with everything around them. Over time it can lead to mental health disorders like anxiety and depression.

Apart from undergoing treatment and therapy to heal the physical injuries, it is also important to treat the repair oneself from within.

#1 Support from Others

Healing from a traumatic incident such as a car accident can feel extremely isolating. People tend to withdraw and keep to themselves but fail to realize that it is during times of distress that they need to lean on their social support system.

Reaching out to family members, close friends, or even a licensed psychiatrist for therapy can help with providing assurance, strength and guidance during the recovery and healing process.

It can be hard to reach out especially if one feels that their injury is minor compared to other cases of car accidents. But even someone who has suffered from injuries caused by airbag injuries can get legal help to begin their own healing process from such trauma.

Together with a lawyer, they can learn more about what can be done to hold everyone involved accountable for their actions.

#2 Mindfulness Practice

Being in a traumatic event such as a car accident can cause a shift in one’s daily routine. For most individuals, when their routine is disrupted this causes chemical changes in the brain.

These imbalances can amplify any stress erupting from the traumatic event, which can exacerbate any physical pain and reduce the effectivity of any medication or therapy done to heal from any injuries.

Meditation is a form of mindfulness that is meant to bring awareness to one’s experience in the now, whether it is a negative or positive one.

Mindfulness practice means being aware of the different stimuli one’s sense are receiving, and not giving any judgment to these stimulations. Over time, mindfulness practice strengthens emotional regulation and pain tolerance, relieving an injured person from the trauma caused by the car injury.

Tips To Practice Mindfulness

Here are 5 tips to find success with your mindfulness practice:

• recognize that thoughts are simply thoughts; 
• when you are inconsistent with your daily practice, forgive yourself;
• when your mind wanders to thinking, bring it back to your breath;
• when you are eating, notice the texture, color, and taste of the food;
• when walking, be mindful of the world around you, paying attention to your 5 senses.

#3 Building Self-Compassion

There isn’t always a template for the healing process, especially in the mental and spiritual healing of things. After getting injured in a car accident, it’s always important to remember that not everyone gets back on their feet the same.

Some may find that the healing of their physical injuries also means the end of their spiritual hurt, but others may find it harder to move on from the trauma of the car accident.

The period between the injury and full recovery can be filled with so much critical thoughts directed inward. Practicing kindness and compassion towards oneself can help facilitate the process of healing from within.

Remember that healing is a process and not an immediate occurrence; it is okay to feel weak or struggle while recovering.