When you are an empath you feel and sense others energy and emotions. That is a lot to take on. If someone is deeply sad or angry, it seems to make or break your entire personality. You may not even be acting like your self. Almost like you are someone else and in a way you are. I thought I had something seriously wrong with me. I felt almost Bi-polar and maybe like I was suffering from anxiety and depression. I was put on medications and they helped a little but I hated being on the meds. So I decided I rather live with the emotions and anxiety rather than feel numb to the world. That is when I started to do some research.
Western medicine is great, don't get me wrong, but sometimes there are things out side the scope of understanding and proof. I was reading about the gift of Empathy and it started to make sense. I started to read about the signs and symptoms of what it meant to be an empath and better yet, how to protect yourself.
I was at work. I worked in a hospital and sometimes things got stressful. One day I started to feel really angry and I had no idea where it was coming from. I was pissed at everything and everyone. I was a little taken back because I had no just cause for how I was feeling. I was just feeling it. So I went on a little break, took a couple deep breaths and really focused on why I was feeling they way I was. Going outside had helped because I was no longer in that environment or around those co-corkers, so I had a bit more clarity. As I sat quietly and focused on my breathing I started to get a sense or knowing that one of my co-workers was having a hard time. I was visualizing that she was having home problems with her husband. That night I even had a dream in which she told me she and her husband were splitting. I didn't put two and two together yet. After going back to work a few days later and speaking with her, she told me that she was having problems at home and was angry at her life, her job and just pretty much hated the world. That's when I knew.......not only can I see and sense things about people but I was an Empath and could feel other people's energy.
This can be a blessing and a curse. A blessing because you can sense people and their motives before they are obvious to others. A curse because if you do not know how to protect yourself, you can be overcome with so many emotions that you can literally feel crazy. How you choose to deal with your gift is totally up to you. Learning a basic protection method will help you appreciate your gift more and will help you want to use it.
Step 1: Find yourself a quite place. Indoors or outside, it doesn't really matter as long as you feel at peace and won't be distracted.
Step 2: Close your eyes and take slow steady breaths. Take 20 breaths.
Step 3: As you are breathing, start to visualize your heart space. Imagine there is a purple or blue tornado swirling around your heart. As you are seeing this tornado swirl around your heart focus on which direction it is turning. I always remember Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosy. When your heart tornado is spinning left (counterclockwise) you are open and susceptible to psychic attack. Now visualize your heart tornado changing direction. It is spinning right (clockwise) and you will gradually start to feel that open door into your higher self start to close. Notice how you start to feel peaceful and calm. Less stressed.
Step 4: Slowly come back into your self and you environment. This may take a few times to practice and really visualize but once you get comfortable with it, you will now control your own space and when and where you decide to be open.
I hope that you find some peace within and see your gift as a blessing rather than a curse. The gift was given to you, so there is a purpose for it. The fun part is finding what that purpose is.
-Heather
Awesome!!
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