Heartbreak can't be rushed like a physical wound heals. The speaker argues that trying to speed up grief with stress and negative energy actually delays recovery. Real healing requires time, going through the pain, and reassessing who you are and what the relationship meant.
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How do you heal a broken heart? Easy. You don't. The same way that you don't heal a wound or a cut that is on your skin. You can't necessarily heal a broken heart. What heals the skin? Time. What heals a broken heart? Time. If you sit there and you're like heal, heal, heal, heal, heal and you get mad at your cut for not healing, it's not going to heal any quicker. In fact it'll probably take longer because of the bad energy going through you and the stress you're putting your body through. The same way that with your broken heart you can't rush it. You have grief. Sometimes you need to go through the grieving process. You have changes that you need to make in yourself, ways that you view yourself and ways that you viewed the relationship. Sometimes things just take time and by trying to rush the process, actually a lot of times delays the process.