Have you recently suffered through a break up?  Are you grieving the end of a relationship?  Is your heart broken?  You don’t have to be a medical doctor to heal a broken heart.  I’m going to give you some practical advice on how to get over a break up.

The first thing that you need to do is to stop beating yourself up about the break up.  A relationship requires two people to make it work.  If one of the parties in the relationship no longer wants to participate in the relationship then it is not going to work.  Learn from your mistakes in the relationship, but don’t dwell on them, and move on.

Ending a relationship doesn’t mean that you will never have another relationship again.  It simply means that you can take what you’ve learned from the previous relationship and apply it to your new relationships.

One way that you can help to heal your broken heart is to give back each others belongings. By exchanging these items you are symbolically signaling the end of the relationship. Anything that you have that belongs to the other person that you keep needs to be either thrown away or placed in a box and put away. By removing these items you will be able to wait until the pain has gone before you take them out again.

It is critical that you become apart of the world at large again as soon as possible. Start by engaging your friends and family as much as possible. Allow them to help you through the process of getting over the relationship.

Next get out and about and do things. Go to the gym and workout. Go out to the club if that’s your thing. Get out and do new things and meet new people as soon as possible.

Finally go on dates with other people. Go out and have fun meeting and being with someone new. Don’t limit yourself to just one person. Go out with a variety of people. Have a good time, but don’t feel the need to fall in love or have an extra special connection with that person.

Remember that it will take time and patience for your heart to heal. But you will soon find that as time goes by the pain lessens and you will fall in love again.

Kitwana writes about how to get over a break up and other relationship issues at http://MagicOfMakingUpBlueprint.com