Owning Your Sensitivity: From “Curse” to Superpower

One of the biggest turning points for us as Empaths is when we realize that our sensitivity is not something to “fix” or fight against, it’s a gift to both own and embrace. But also it is something we have to work with.

I know that many of us, go through times when we see our ability to feel so deeply as a curse, especially when the emotions of others leave us anxious, exhausted, or confused about what is truly ours.

At its heart, being an Empath means experiencing the emotions and energies of others as if they were our own. It’s more than just sensing a mood shift or reading someone’s body language, it’s a deep, instinctual knowing.

An Empath can feel when someone is anxious, angry, or weighed down by sadness without a word being spoken.

When a Gift Feels Like a Burden

While some Empaths do come to view this heightened emotional awareness as a powerful gift, others continue to struggle with it, especially when they’re carrying their own emotional or physical imbalances.

And this is when many Empaths label their sensitivity as a curse rather than a blessing. However, with time, self-awareness, and healing, this gift can become a source of strength and wisdom.

A Birthright That Feels Natural

Many Empaths spend years unaware of their gift. Because this ability to feel others so deeply is innate, they assume it’s something everyone experiences. They don’t question why they “just know” when someone is upset or why certain places leave them feeling drained or anxious.

This sensitivity isn’t something Empaths force or practice, it’s simply a birthright, an inherent part of their nature. Once we awaken to this truth, everything changes. We often begin to understand that what sets us apart is not a weakness but a unique strength that allows us to connect, heal, and guide others in profound ways.

Stop Fighting What Makes You Powerful

However, there are too many Empaths, who spend years trying to toughen up or dull their sensitivity, believing life would be easier if they didn’t feel so much, and yes, I was probably one of them. But the more we fight our nature, the more drained and disconnected we feel.

Our sensitivity allows us to connect deeply, sense truth beyond words, and see the world through a lens that others can’t. The goal isn’t to shut this off, it’s to learn how to work with it.

Stepping into your Empath power begins with emotional ownership. So, if you have been struggling, here’s how to start:

Know What’s Yours and What’s Not:

Pause throughout the day and ask yourself, “Is this feeling mine or someone else’s?” Simply naming this distinction shifts your energy and stops you from internalizing emotions that don’t belong to you.

Create Healthy Boundaries:

Boundaries aren’t walls; they’re filters. By saying “no” when something feels wrong, limiting time in draining environments, and surrounding yourself with supportive energy, you respect your sensitivity instead of resenting it.

Emotions are meant to move. Don’t bottle them up or judge yourself for feeling “too much.” Letting emotions flow through breathwork, movement, journaling, or meditation prevents energetic build-up and restores your balance.

Empath empowerment is about transformation, not turning sensitivity down, but turning yourself up.

When you embrace your nature fully, you stop living as a sponge for everyone else’s pain and start becoming a lighthouse, shining brightly, and helping guide others home to themselves.

Before we go any further, I should point out that if you are physically out of balance, if you are suffering with any type of autoimmune condition, diagnosed or undiagnosed, if you suffer with food intolerances or you are living a lifestyle that is not conducive to your health and happiness, any of those can impact how you show up in the world and thus how you experience life as an Empath. In other words, you will find it a lot harder to find emotional stability, and you will probably not enjoy Empath life.

Bearing that all in mind let’s take a look at ways to start owning your sensitivity.

5 Steps to Start Owning Your Sensitivity Today

One: Acknowledge That Your Feelings Are Valid

Stop apologizing for feeling “too much.” Your emotions are not weaknesses; they’re messages and signals. Instead of trying to suppress them, try saying:

“My feelings are here to guide me.”

Simply acknowledging your emotions helps you take ownership of them rather than feeling victimized by them.

Two: Ground Your Energy Daily

Sensitivity feels overwhelming when you’re ungrounded. Incorporate grounding rituals into your routine, walk barefoot on the earth, spend time in nature, meditate with deep breathing, or visualize roots growing from your feet into the ground. Even 5 minutes a day can help you feel anchored and calm. See this post for more.

Three: Set Energetic Boundaries

Learn to protect your energy without shutting down your heart. Visualization tools (like imagining a protective bubble of light around you) can be powerful, as can saying “no” when something feels wrong. Boundaries allow you to accept your sensitivity while keeping yourself safe from emotional overload.

Four: Practice Emotional Release

Empaths absorb a lot, and emotions can get stuck if not released. Use tools like movement, breathwork, or power poses to clear your energy (See this post for more ways). Letting emotions flow prevents you from carrying energy that isn’t yours and helps you return to centre.

Five: Keep Your Mind Calm

Your empathy is a gift that allows you to connect deeply, intuitively guide others, and see truths for what they are. However, overactive thoughts can be destructive to a creative Empath mind. And your thoughts can be heavily influenced by the energy of your external world. Each time you find your thoughts going into overdrive or becoming somewhat toxic, pause and reframe them by repeating a mantra such as: “I am safe. I am strong. This moment will pass.”

These five steps are simple but powerful. Practiced daily, they’ll help you move from feeling overwhelmed and burdened to feeling empowered and aligned.

Hope this helps on your journey.

Until next time, stay happy and healthy.

Diane.

©Diane Kathrine

2May2025

Coping with Noisy Energy in Daily Life

Posted in Help for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

Have you ever read the term noisy energy, and wasn’t too sure what it meant?

Or are you not sure how it may affect you?

That’s what I hope to address today.

To best explain the concept of noisy energy, it is when you feel someone’s energy so powerfully that it almost feels like noise.

You might react to it as you would to uncomfortable loud sounds. Or you may just feel irritated by it. (You may even be tempted to say shush.)

So, the next question has to be, what makes someone have noisy energy?

Continue reading →

28Jan2025

Breaking Down the Law of Attraction for Empaths

Posted in Help for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

We all vibrate at different frequencies. We attract into our lives anything of a similar vibration.

The more we work on ourselves in the mind, body and spirit, the faster we vibrate.

When we face our past hurts with truth, or when we become aware of the consequences of our actions and work to become a better person, or when we give up that which does not serve our body and mind, we become a better version of ourselves, and this speeds up our energetic vibration.

When we’ve done a lot of work on ourselves, we generally feel happier and healthier, and being around negativity or dark vibes (lower vibration) feels awful, and we energetically invite in a better life.

Yet, just because we’ve done the work, it does not make us invincible; we can still be drawn back into negative thinking and negative ways. And, let’s face it, this modern world is designed to keep triggering us in nasty ways.

The more we focus on negative issues, the more negativity we find.

Distracting ourselves or disengaging from anything that darkens our thoughts is not always easy. And when we stay too long in dark mental spaces we attract back more of the same.

This is also known as the law of attraction (LOA),.

I know there are many people, who have turned away from the law of attraction for the reason they did not get the promised results by adhering to the rules. I myself got very disillusioned by it all.

Many years ago, I read all the books that I could get my hands on, on the subject of the LOA. I then followed the rules laid out. I did the positive mantras and meditations, and tried to stay on top of negative thinking. But it didn’t seem to work. My life didn’t get more positive and I wasn’t any happier. It wasn’t until many years later that I came to understand why.

Through my research and self-trials, I developed such an understanding of the LOA that it prompted me to write a book on the subject, which I published in 2018. If you want to read more about it click on the link.

My research helped me understand all the nuances of the law. And how things are never as they really seem.

For example; I once knew a girl whose father was incredibly rich; he owned a beautiful big yacht that his crew would sail all over the Med. I assumed he must be super-contented in life, but she told me her father was not truly fulfilled. He always wanted more. When he sailed into affluent ports, there would always be a bigger better yacht, than his, moored up. He measured his worth by his wealth. So, when someone had more than him, it made him feel inferior. He continued to amass his fortune, but never really felt complete inside. To the world, he would be seen as the ultimate success story, but appearances are so deceiving.

We come to learn that the best things in life really are free. Material possessions offer little nourishment for the soul. Money really can’t buy health, happiness and inner peace. It just makes life more comfortable. But the vast majority see wealth as the ultimate goal in life and a guaranteed passageway to happiness.

Another puzzle with the LOA, is that bad things happen to good people which may make one question, where is the law working in that?

Bad things happen to good people. And good things happen to bad people. And yes, some people do cruel things to defenceless children or animals.

This is when the LOA doesn’t seem to make sense. Why do innocents suffer so?

I don’t have an answer for that.

But we don’t know how the law of karma has played out in these situations or indeed what the individuals soul contracts are.

It also seems baffling when some people, who are not nice, do well in life. They may have a life that most could dream of and have people pander to their every whim. How is the law of attraction working there? If they are bad people, should they not be vibrating at a low frequency and attracting awful stuff?

This is when we can see how the law of attraction really works. It shows how our beliefs and what we carry inside, emotionally, creates our world.

Let me explain:

If you ask an Empath what they feel when around a psychopath and some narcistic types (grandiose), they will tell you they don’t feel much emotionally. Why? because these types have no remorse, they don’t have shame or a guilty conscience, and they don’t have pained emotions buried deep within. (That’s why, to an Empath, they almost feel clean. They may sense a darkness around them, but not from their emotions.) These types have big egos, and they believe in themselves 100%. They work the LOA to their advantage without even trying. They truly believe they are entitled to a fabulous lifestyle, and this is what many of them create, whilst stepping over anyone who gets in their way. But karma eventually comes around.

Having been observing the world for many years, I’ve seen the law of attraction and karma work over and over. People may seem to get away with the bad things they’ve done for years, then, suddenly, karma catches up.

The slower someone vibrates, the slower their karmic return, and this is why it takes many, many years for some to ‘reap what they sew’.

Adhere to the Law

I don’t know everyone’s understanding of the LOA, but I expect most people think: we attract back to us what we focus on. Which is correct. And if we stay in a positive mindset, we can attract back what we want. Which is also correct. But there is so much more to it than that.

For one thing, what many people think they want (ego) is not what the heart wants (soul), and this causes a contradiction within one’s energy. Also, many of us carry buried pain within that we are not aware of. We’ve carried it for so long, and buried it so deeply, that we don’t even realize it’s there. We also have many triggers that activates this buried pain which affects our thoughts and feelings.

How we think is often affected by the way we feel. But how we feel isn’t just affected by our thoughts. Our hormones, past traumas, diet, the people we hang out with, prescription drugs, environmental factors, sleeping habits, levels of Sensitivity, and more, all have a massive impact on how we think and feel, and thus what energy we emit.

It is very difficult to just change our way of thinking, when we have so many other factors controlling our thoughts. Also, even with the best intentions, the majority of the time we have no idea what or when we are thinking. And it is often our feelings that ignite our thoughts.

The Importance of Empaths Avoiding Stress

So, for this reason, many people give up on the law of attraction and trying to keep their energy clean, in a matter of weeks or months.

To see the LOA work, we have to make changes and stick with them, forever, but not with just our thoughts, and that’s where most people come unstuck and end up giving up.

I know if I hadn’t experienced dark times, I would not have pushed myself forward to be where I am now. Many good things come out of negative situations. I am a big believer in that.

However, we don’t need to continually have unnecessary negative emotions and experiences to grow. And when I say unnecessary, I mean the negativity that is perpetually stirred up in the world, designed to keep us down.

Goals

The ultimate goal is to evolve out of suffering by making the appropriate changes.

I’m not saying once we’ve done the work, we will never have a negative experience again, or that we won’t have those uncomfortable hunches that lead us away from unnecessary situations, but we should avoid festering within negativity that has been purposely stoked up, if we want to live happily and healthily.

I have written many times before that Empaths tend to have certain negative experiences for the exact reason that it keeps us evolving. The more work we do on ourselves, the faster we vibrate, and these negative experiences should lessen.

Luckily, we can come to recognise the difference between an experience that is meant to help us evolve, and negativity that is continually stirred up to keep us distracted and divided.

The Purpose of Being Distracted and Divided

Yet even when we have raised our vibration, it is very easy to dip back into dark thoughts and feelings, if we allow ourselves, because of our emotional memories and negativity bias (preference to focus on negativity). Which impacts the way the law of attraction works for us.

Those in control, who stir up negativity, know about the negativity bias, and they know how to draw humans into emotional suffering. When we stay within the realm of dark thinking, not only does it prevent us from evolving, it will weaken the body, and make life so much more difficult than it needs to be.

When it comes to the law, we have to consider that none of us really knows what we set out to experience in life, but choosing to keep our outlook and thoughts more positive, and not dipping into unnecessary negativity it will most definitely make our reality nicer, whether we live in rags or riches.

Understanding how the LOA works for an Empath, and for anyone else for that matter, is important if we want to avoid unnecessary unhappiness. And the best starting point is working to become the best version of ourselves, avoid our triggers and understand what lowers or raises our vibration.

Here are 5 things that will help:

Avoid triggers (e.g. certain people, social media or negative news outlets)
Do more of what makes you feel good (e.g. yoga, a long bath, a walk in nature, grounding, etc.)
Smile at strangers (it’s incredibly uplifting.)
Avoid negative self-talk (e.g. I’m overweight, I’m ill, my back aches, the world is a mess, etc.)
Start your day with a positive thought (e.g. today will be amazing!)

Obviously, this is a vast subject that takes much more than one post to cover, but I hope it acts as a reminder to stop focusing on your weak points or frustrations, and focus on how incredible you really are.

You have faced and overcome so much in life that you really should be proud of yourself!

And remember, if you want to change the world, change your energy!!!!

Should you want to learn more about how the law of attraction works for an Empath, click here.

I hope this helps on your journey.

Until next time,

Diane.

©DianeKathrine

27Mar2024

The Importance of Empaths Avoiding Stress

Posted in EMPATH EMPOWERMENT, healing for Empaths, Help for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

Most Empaths do not handle stress well. Fact!

Why?

For one thing, being overly sensitive in this insensitive world plays a big part. Our Empathic antenna is always on high alert as we navigate our way through life, picking up all sorts of pained emotions and stresses as well as dealing with our own stress.

As Empaths, our emotional senses are generally heightened, which can mean we just don’t handle any other excess stress. And it certainly doesn’t help that so much in this world seems to be designed to cause worry in one way or another. For example: the cost of living, excess traffic, career misery, and, for us Empaths, over feeling everything.

But one major issue, for an Empath, is the energy we project when feeling stressed. It can have a rebound effect, which, in the long run, can cause many more issues. We will look at how this works shortly. But first, why does an Empath so quickly get hooked by anything that triggers stress? Continue reading →

29Feb2024

The New Lens: Rethinking What’s Real

Posted in Help for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

Whilst going through my files recently, to make some space on my laptop, I came across an article that I had written a few years ago, but never got around to posting. As I read through, it made me smile, thinking about how much of it relates to the journey of life.

So, I decided I would share it with you all today, and see whether you too can relate to it.

Enjoy… Continue reading →

12Jan2024

Should Empaths Control Their Feelings or Should Free Speech Be Controlled?

Posted in Help for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

I write this post whilst sitting out on a veranda in Marbella, Spain, overlooking a rather spectacular golf course. My husband is out on the course playing golf, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to write a post, and share some thoughts with you, as I’ve not had much time to write of late.

As I tap away at my keyboard, the sun is shining down through a cloud-speckled blue sky, and within my eyeline palm trees are swaying gently on a light breeze. Perfect!

It is just so lovely being outdoors. The past few months in the UK have been pretty much non-stop rain. I’m not sure what kind of weather you’re experiencing, in your part of the world, but being able to get outdoors without an umbrella and a rain coat is so uplifting, and now almost feels like a novelty.

Anyway, I digress from the topic I wanted to discuss with you all today, and that is the subject of whether we should have the right to control freedom of speech to protect our feelings. Because, in a world that appears to be on the cusp of collapse, having freedom of speech just seems so important, especially when so many people are swallowing down their truth for fear of being cancelled, attacked, ridiculed or rejected. Continue reading →

20Apr2023

WHAT IS THE EMPATH SHUTDOWN?

Posted in Help for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

Have you ever been in a certain person’s presence, and found yourself feeling really weird, or even negative, yet having no reason for it? As in, the other person has done nothing to offend or upset you?

Or have you ever found you’ve not been able to talk to a certain person and not really known why? You might find yourself stumbling over your words, or sentences don’t form in your mouth. And again, there’s no real reason. The other person seems perfectly lovely.

This could be all part of The Empath Shutdown.

Here are some more symptoms of how an Empath can act, around certain people, when in Shutdown:

Continue reading →

10Feb2023

6 SIGNS AN EMPATH HAS A NEGATIVITY ADDICTION

Posted in Help for Empaths, Mind, Body and Spirit, Protection for the Empath by Diane Kathrine

Did you even think it was possible to become addicted to negativity?

I mean, it sounds utterly bonkers, doesn’t it?

When we think of addictions, we often just think about the ones related to drugs or alcohol, perhaps even to gambling. But to negativity?

So, how does it work? Continue reading →

8Dec2022

The 4 Types of People an Empath Should Avoid

Posted in EMPATH EMPOWERMENT, Help for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

If you are an Empath, you will already know that people can impact you in weird and wonderful ways.

Some people can lift you up, some people will drag you down, and some people do none of the above.

Generally speaking, it doesn’t take long to make the determination of how you will be impacted by the people who come into your life. And what I mean by this is, after only a short period of time, spent in a certain person’s presence, you will get to feel their energy and the effect it has on your body and mind.

An Empath quickly comes to understand that if someone’s energy continuously invokes a negative physical or emotional reaction, when in their presence, that it might be best to avoid them.

That said, it’s not always people’s energy which is the problem, instead it is the traits they carry.

So, bearing that in mind, there are some types of people that an Empath is best avoiding. Continue reading →

5Oct2022

WHY DO SO MANY EMPATHS SUFFER ADRENAL FATIGUE?

Posted in EMPATH EMPOWERMENT, Empath's Diet, healing for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

If you read my last article, you may have noticed I mentioned that many Empaths tend to be prone to suffering adrenal fatigue, caused by amygdala activation.

The term adrenal fatigue has been used to explain: a group of symptoms that are said to occur in people who are under long-term mental, emotional, or physical stress.

In case you’re wondering, the adrenals are small organs located above the kidneys that produce stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.

The theory is when someone suffers long-term stresses, the body prioritises the production of stress hormones, which then stops or hinders the production of other important hormones (such as progesterone) that are produced by the adrenals.

This then has a knock-on effect throughout the body and the hormones produced.

So, what are the symptoms of adrenal fatigue? Let’s take a look: Continue reading →

3Jul2022

CAN SOMEONE BE AN EMPATH WITHOUT HAVING EMPATHY?

Posted in Help for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

Have you ever wondered whether empathy is built-In? Does it come part and parcel of being an Empath? Or is it something that comes with the journey of life?

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day. He was explaining to me how he was teaching his daughter the impact of her actions, and how teasing or making fun of other children was not a kind thing to do. Which then led to the discussion as to whether telling your child is enough? Or do they have to experience unkindness from others for them to understand the impact of cruelty.

It got me thinking… If I hadn’t been on the receiving end of cruel words, as a child, would I have the same empathy and understanding as I do now? In that I always try to consider the effect of my words, and will avoid saying something that may hurt or offend another. Or, did my empathy come part and parcel of being an Empath?

Let’s face it, there aren’t many children who sail through life without getting bullied or teased for one thing or another.

I’m sure you all have memories of being picked on by someone, whether that be an older sibling, parent, teacher or other. I don’t think anyone really escapes. And whether sensitive or not, the effects of being on the receiving end of cruel words in childhood can be carried for a lifetime. Continue reading →

14May2022

Empaths: Stop Absorbing Other People’s Emotions

Posted in Clearing Negative Energy, Empath's Emotions, Grounding for Empaths, Help for Empaths, Protection for the Empath by Diane Kathrine

One thing we all know, as Empaths, is that we feel other people’s emotions.

Which isn’t always a bad thing, when they aren’t affecting us in a negative way.

However, the problem arises when we start absorbing the emotions, belonging to others, and taking them on as our own.

Regularly absorbing other peoples’ emotions can affect our health and happiness in so many different ways. Often leading to issues such as emotional toxicity.

When we absorb other people’s emotions it can affect not only the way we feel, but also the way we think. It impacts our adrenals, which are the stress glands. This then has a knock-on effect on the other endocrine glands, which are the glands that produce our hormones. This in turn can lead to hormone imbalances.

Everything in the body is connected, and so are our endocrine glands. When one hormone goes out of balance, it can affect another gland and the hormones it produces. So, what starts off as absorbing another’s emotions, and thus taking on their stress, can eventually lead to thyroid issues, chronic fatigue, food intolerances, and so much more.

I often describe the aftereffect of Empaths absorbing negative emotions as like having an allergy or food intolerance. Just like an allergen might give you a physical reaction, when you come into contact with it, you can get a physical reaction from the emotions you absorb. Continue reading →

15Mar2022

11 CALMING & HEALING TEAS FOR AN EMPATH

Posted in Balancing Empath Emotion, EMPATH EMPOWERMENT, Empath's Diet, Empath's Emotions, healing for Empaths, Help for Empaths by Diane Kathrine

As you know, here on my blog, I like to write articles about how to make life easier for an Empath, and how to combat the emotions they often have to deal with.

One of those ways is by sipping a lovely cup of healing char.

Teas that calm your soul and soothe your emotions have so many benefits for an Empath.

Because, let’s face it, one problem that comes with Empath life is having heightened or erratic emotions. (Especially after what we’ve all been through these past years.)

Heightened emotions can lead to all sorts of health issues, especially of the adrenal glands (endocrine glands that produce the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol).

When the adrenals get overactivated, by too much stress, it can cause a whole host of mental and physical problems, as well as autoimmune conditions…

Increased cortisol can also lead to weight gain (hello pot belly), without you having to overeat. Which is made all the worse worse if you drink coffee with caffeine.

So, anything we can do to help soothe our emotions, naturally, is a big bonus for all-round wellbeing (and for our waistline). And this is where herbal teas come in…

Nature gave us many of the things we need to heal, or find calm in life, in the way of herbs and spices. Too often, when on the hunt for a ‘quick-fix’, we overlook these powerful healers.

Drinking more herbal tea not only increases your water intake (water being another great one for soothing emotions), but it gives you the healing benefits of the herbal infusion at the same time.

My Choice

Although I am about to share 11 exceptional soothing teas, I have two favourites: Continue reading →

25Nov2021

As an Empath, if It’s Not True for Me Does That Mean It’s Not True for You?

Posted in Empath Power, Empath's Life Purpose, Help for Empaths, Protection for the Empath by Diane Kathrine

It is an interesting question, isn’t it? If It’s Not True for Me Does That Mean It’s Not True for You?

If I experience something as an Empath, but you don’t, does that mean that you’re not an Empath?

If you have strong intuition, but I don’t, does that mean I’m a weak Empath?

If I can see your aura, but you can’t see mine, does that make me a more powerful Empath?

If you know the meaning of the emotions you feel in another, but another Empath doesn’t, does that mean they are unskilled or inauthentic?

Or what if I get incredibly fatigued when around a certain person, but another Empath doesn’t, does that mean I’m just bored of paying attention to that person, and the other Empath has got a greater attention span? Or is it they’re vibrational frequency or negativity is ‘sucking out my sunshine?’

I have said it before and I will say it again, as Empaths we are all diverse. Just like everyone else, we have different personalities, we have had different upbringings, we have different DNA, we have differing physical ailments, we have different beliefs and different abilities.

What works for one Empath won’t necessarily work for another.

Some Empaths are introvert. Some Empaths are extrovert. Some Empaths will be highly vocal in their beliefs, others will keep their opinions to themselves (often from learning that when someone is not ready for the information, they cannot hear).

However, we are so pushed into herd thinking, that it becomes difficult for us to accept that, even as Empaths, someone can have different abilities, outlooks or issues to deal with.

I have even seen written, within the Empath community, that an Empath having to ground or protect, from the emotional energy of others, is a ridiculous idea. The writer stated we simply need to learn to navigate the various energetic frequencies instead of ‘protecting’ from them.

Which could be classed as a very valid concept. Learning to navigate the energetic frequencies that surround people and our environment is an excellent idea. But it really isn’t that cut and dry.

Just because one Empath doesn’t need to take measures of protection/grounding, before spending time in public, or within certain energetic frequencies, does not mean that another won’t need to. Their energy sensitivity may be higher.

Humans Are All Different

There are some who need to take extra vitamin C and zinc, in the winter months, to protect from winter viruses. Others take no supplements and are fine. Some people need to use extra high factors of sun cream, to protect from sunburn, others don’t. One person may need to use earplugs to protect from sound frequencies, or music, another might not. And yes, some Empaths need to take protective measures, before going in public places, and some don’t. It really is that simple!

I have said before on this blog that the more I learn about life, the less I know. But something I do know, is that the human experience is supposed to be unique for each of us, as is the Empath experience.

It is just society that tries to convince us that we should all be the same box-tickers, living like robots, with no acceptance for anyone who has opposite beliefs or indeed ‘unusual abilities.’

Lack of Acceptance

Now, although this post may sound like I’m having a good old rant, I really wanted to point out the importance of acceptance, and how it can really change our outlook on life.

We see it all around us. People expect others to accept them, for their beliefs, feelings or ways of living, but they refuse to accept anyone who chooses not to adopt their views…

It is human nature to want to be accepted, but if someone is not willing to understand or accept that others experience life from a different perspective than themselves, how can it happen?

Acceptance is Bad for Business

Why do you think we are encouraged to attack each other constantly, instead of accepting each other?

We cannot stop hate with hate, we cannot stop racism with racism, we cannot stop discrimination with discrimination, and we cannot stop unacceptance with unacceptance. But that is so often the narrative pushed.

One thing is for sure, if the world can simply learn to accept others, and all their differences, then there would be no reason to fight. But I doubt that would ever be encouraged by the ‘mainstream’, because, let’s face it, acceptance of self and each other is bad for business.

Make The Changes You Can, Accept What You Can’t

When I advocate for acceptance of others, I am not saying we get to live happily ever after with someone we have no right to be with, or that we should put up with bad behaviour. But if we accept the fact that we are all supposed to be unique, it goes a long way towards a happier life.

I am also not trying to encourage anyone not to make changes in life or just to accept their lot. More that we should ‘change what we can change, and accept what we can’t’.

When we truly accept that we are all meant to be different, in our appearance, health, thoughts, beliefs and abilities, it is incredibly liberating.

Even by accepting that some people can be completely disagreeable and we will never get along with them, it frees up so much of our time wasted in frustration by them or their ways.

If It’s Not True for Me does That Mean It’s Not True for You?

So, going back to the title of this post: As Empaths, if It’s Not True for Me Does That Mean It’s Not True for You?

We can say that my life and your life or my truth and your truth may be poles apart, but if we can come to accept that, then the world will be a much brighter place to live.

Until next time,

Diane