Baba Sam Shelley
How to Heal Spiritually and Emotionally | Step-by-Step Healing Guide
How to heal spiritually and emotionally isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about remembering that you were never broken.
Yesterday, I sat in my driveway for 20 minutes and cried. Not the cute crying you see in movies. The ugly kind: red face, snot, and silence. I wasn’t sad about anything specific. I was just releasing.
My therapist calls it emotional composting. All the feelings we shove down eventually need to come up and out. And when they do, it can be messy. But after that cry, I felt amazing, lighter and clearer.
That’s the strange part about spiritual and emotional healing. It rarely appears graceful. It’s not yoga poses under golden sunlight or smoothie bowls labeled “self-care.” It’s more like sitting in your car, letting everything fall apart, and realizing that maybe that's what healing looks like.
1. The Truth About Emotional and Spiritual Healing
When people talk about how to heal spiritually and emotionally, they often make it sound like a checklist: meditate, journal, drink more water, repeat affirmations. Those things help, but they miss the essence.
Healing isn’t about fixing what’s wrong. It’s about listening to what your emotions are trying to tell you. The anxiety you feel? It’s a messenger. The sadness that hits you out of nowhere? It’s trying to speak. Your body and soul are always communicating; most of us just stopped listening somewhere along the way.
When I finally stopped trying to control my feelings and asked, “What is this trying to teach me?” everything began to shift. That’s when emotional and spiritual healing truly started.
2. Feel to Heal
We’ve been taught to suppress emotions, to stay busy, smile, and “get over it.” But what you resist doesn’t disappear; it festers.
To heal emotionally, you have to allow yourself to feel what you’ve buried. That’s where the composting metaphor fits. Just like turning old scraps into fertile soil, you turn pain into wisdom by letting it break down naturally.
Here’s what helps:
Cry without judgment. Tears are a release mechanism, not a weakness.
Write it out. Journaling clears the fog in your head and brings clarity.
Move your body. Emotional energy lives in your muscles. Stretch, dance, shake, it helps move stuck energy.
Rest. Healing happens when you stop fighting yourself.
Feeling your emotions doesn’t make you fragile; it makes you free.
3. The Spiritual Side of Healing
For a long time, I thought spiritual healing meant sitting on a mountaintop or finding a guru who could “fix” me. Turns out, spiritual healing is much simpler. It’s about remembering that you already have access to peace; it’s just hidden under the noise.
You can reconnect to your spirit through small, real-world moments:
Sitting quietly with your breath.
Spending time in nature.
Speaking honestly to yourself or the divine.
Practicing gratitude for what is instead of chasing what’s not.
Every time you pause and listen inward, you strengthen your connection to something greater. That’s spiritual healing in its most authentic form, no incense required.
4. How to Remove Anxiety Spiritually
If you live with anxiety, you know how exhausting it feels to always be on edge. But anxiety is often just your soul trying to get your attention. Instead of asking, “How do I make this stop?” try asking, “What does this need?”
Here are simple ways to remove anxiety spiritually:
Ground yourself. Feel your feet on the floor, take slow breaths, and notice your surroundings.
Chant, hum, or breathe deeply. Sound and breath calm the nervous system and open energy channels.
Affirm peace. Repeat: “I am safe. I am supported. I am here.”
Forgive yourself. Let go of perfection. You’re allowed to be in process.
This is how emotional and spiritual healing work together, the mind calms when the soul feels seen.
5. Learning the Language of the Body
Your body is your biggest spiritual teacher. Every symptom, ache, or emotion is a message. Headaches might say “too much pressure.” A tight chest? “You’re holding grief.” Fatigue? “You’re carrying more than your share.”
When you approach your body with curiosity instead of frustration, you begin to heal spiritually and emotionally from the inside out. The body doesn’t lie; it remembers what the mind tries to forget.
Ask yourself daily:
What am I feeling right now?
Where do I feel it in my body?
What might this part of me need?
Those three questions can do more for your healing than a dozen self-help books.
6. Letting Go of the Fixing Mindset
Here’s the biggest myth: that healing means becoming someone new. It doesn’t. It means peeling back everything that isn’t you.
When you stop chasing an idea of perfection and start embracing your humanness, you realize there’s nothing to fix, only more of you to love. Spiritual and emotional healing happens in that soft acceptance.
Some days you’ll feel light. Other days you’ll cry in your driveway. Both are sacred.
7. A Gentle Reminder
If you take one thing away from this, let it be this: healing isn’t glamorous, but it’s holy. It’s crying, laughing, forgiving, resting, breathing, and beginning again, over and over.
You don’t need to do it perfectly. You just need to keep showing up.
That’s why I created a simple free guide on how I approach emotional and spiritual healing, real tools, no fluff. It’s the same process that helped me feel grounded, peaceful, and connected after years of struggle.
Because the truth is, healing isn’t about becoming someone different. It’s about remembering who you really are beneath the pain, whole, wise, and already enough.
So the next time you find yourself crying for no reason, don’t rush to stop it. Let it flow. That’s not breaking down, it’s your soul breaking open.