Do you feel yourself when in company… happy one minute and the next feeling sad? Could you walk into a shop and start feeling anxious very quickly? Do you find yourself talking to a friend online and feeling happy and the next thing a sense of sadness surrounds your entire being? If you are well and a friend calls to your home… your friend isn’t too well, suddenly you feel pain somewhere in your body and didn’t have it before your friend came? Are you overly sensitive? Do you find it hard to say no?
If you have answered “Yes” to most if not all of these questions then you most certainly are empathic… which is when you pick up and feel happiness, sadness, anxiety, any pain at all from another person… this is a very special gift however it can be very hard when you don’t realise that you have this gift of being an empathic…
You don’t have to be in front of a person to pick up and feel what they are feeling, you could be thousands of miles away from each other and still pick up on them and feel what they are feeling and also feel these emotions and pain etc much worse than the actual person suffering them. You may also find yourself finishing what a person is saying, this I know has happened many times with me.
Types of Empathy
By Serena
There are 3 types of Empathy which include… emotional, physical and also intellectual shape shifting…
Emotional being, when you actually pick up the feelings of someone (could be a total stranger) and feel there emotions i.e. feeling of sadness or feeling of happiness.
Physical being, say you are outside or have a friend in your home and you are grand and all of a sudden you feel this pain… which can be quite severe… this is you picking up someone else’s pain… also you may feel this before the other person too.
Intellectual shape shifting, which is when you tend to finish off what someone is saying to you… this just happens and happens a lot with us Empaths.
How to deal with being an Empath
By Serena
It can be very hard to deal with being an Empath… especially if you feel you are on your own!! Please never feel you are on your own as we have thousands of fellow Empaths in this world… I do strongly advise that you do ground & protect each day and put extra protection up also as with being empathic, we can be as open as a book! We can also get drained very easily, which again is why it is so important to ground & protect! Something I have found to of benefit to myself was the fact that I met and do meet so many other Empaths out there… which to me is very important as you do not feel on your own…. What I would also say is… when putting up extra protection, try to visualise either yourself in a bubble or visualise each time you protect… golden swirls all around you and like you’re building a wall of protection all over yourself… this will not stop you from feeling others emotions and pain etc however it will help… We also run a circle on site called “Empathy Circle” which is very good for understanding and learning to cope with being an Empath… please feel free to take a look at our circle time-table.
