The 2nd Secret of an Empath

Empaths have the gift to feel. They feel the days of the week, other people’s emotions, the vibration of objects and the energy of places.

To “feel” is what Empaths do and is their most powerful and important gift. They feel deep empathy, experience powerful intuitive feelings, and understand others by the way they feel. Their ability to gauge the world, by the way it feels, helps the Empath navigate their way through life. It also helps protect them from making bad choices and decisions.

To some, feeling everything so powerfully may, understandably, seem more like a curse than a blessing. And until the Empath learns to control it, this gift will indeed seem to be a curse.

This gift, that could be classed as a sixth-sense, is a sense that isn’t recognized by most. Claiming to have the ability to feel, and read, other people’s energy may be scoffed at by those who don’t themselves experience this trait. There is little an Empath can do about that. But there is no denying that Empaths get flooded by sensory stimuli, coming from the thoughts, emotions and physical state, of those they come into contact with.

The Empath’s ability to “feel” could be likened to the psychic gift of clairsentience—known as the ability to sense subtle energy in inanimate objects—but the Empath also has the ability to sense, and read, energy in people and places.

All humans are sensory beings but it is known the Empath’s, or highly sensitive person’s, senses are heightened. They receive sensory stimuli, like everyone else, but process much more information from it than the average person.

Because they don’t take it on purpose, the excess energy they accumulate often becomes overwhelming. Spending time in a busy, peopled, room is often draining for the Empath, as they acquire many different energetic vibrations. Each person has their own unique frequency at which they vibrate.

How individuals think and feel affects the pulse rate of these frequencies and also how they feel to an Empath. The healthier, happier and more positive the person the faster and purer their vibration is. When someone is of ill-health, angry, bitter or resentful, the slower their vibrational frequency and the worse their energy will feel to an Empath.

The Empath’s ability to experience other peoples’ emotions, and energy, is very real phenomena. They are simply sensing an individual’s vibratory frequencies. But because it is not always recognized or understood, by those who don’t have the same ability, it is difficult for them to understand. That is not to say the non-Empaths of the world don’t feel other people’s emotions, they do just in a subtler way. Every person senses bad moods, hostile atmospheres and other mood-related-energy impressions, but they do not feel it a fraction as powerfully as an Empath.

The Power of the Empath

Because of what they feel, or pick up emotionally from others, some Empaths go through life feeling vulnerable and cowardly. Even if they tried to convince themselves of their true power their Sensitive nature, or not being able to switch off from external negativity, often persuades them otherwise. What I want to let you know, before we go any further, is that if you are an Empath you are stronger than you could ever imagine. There are few who could go through life feeling all you do and still get up to face another day.

The barrage of emotions an Empath endures may make them appear fragile and defenceless but that could not be further from the truth. Because they don’t always understand how to control them, their emotions become the Empath’s Achilles heel, which leads to a sense of vulnerability. If the techniques they use, for protection or to prevent overwhelm, do not work it may cause another sense of failure. This then instils their conviction of being defenceless.

Empaths become overstimulated by people’s energy and emotions. This overstimulation has nothing to do with being weak, or a failure, it amounts to being exposed to too much stimuli for their Sensitive nature.

It is sad that so many Empaths become reclusive for the reason it is too painful, or overwhelming, to be out in public. That said, stepping away from the world often proves to be an incredible time for growth and self-reflection for the Empath. But if you find you are hiding because you cannot handle the way the world makes you feel, I hope, by the time you have finished reading this book, you will know exactly what to do to harness your inner-power and get back out there (if that is what you want).

Know Your Own

The first thing any Empath should learn to recognize, on their quest to harness their hidden power, is what emotion belongs to whom. Part of an Empath’s journey is about differentiating between their emotions and those belonging to others. Knowing this helps you deal with other people’s stuff. It also allows you to understand your own feelings and how to act on them accordingly. Staying aware, when in public, helps you make this ascertainment. It is too easy to take on another person’s pain and mistake it as your own. Once you learn to recognize them, being able to differentiate the energies and emotions, coming from your external environment, makes life less complicated and uncomfortable.

Depending on what you are experiencing in life should depend on how you feel. If you have been in a troubled place it will affect your emotions and thoughts. If your life has been steady, with no particular ups and downs, and you are experiencing a torrent of negativity you are likely processing another person’s energy. Falsely identifying with emotional energy is easy to do. You can get so wrapped up within other people’s erratic energies that you do not question their origin.

So how can you tell when an emotion does not belong to you? The easiest and quickest way to make this determination is to speak to the emotions directly. When you initially sense any type of overpowering emotional energy say to yourself: if these emotions are not mine, leave me now!

If the emotions do not belong to you, and are coming from another, they promptly start to lose their grip.

You will feel a definite shift in the way the emotion feels. It may be subtle but you will feel a change. When you notice this subsidence, distract yourself, immediately. Why? Because negative emotions are powerful and although they may have receded slightly they can return swiftly and with a vengeance, especially if you allow your focus to return to them.

Unpleasant emotions engage unpleasant repetitive thoughts and once your thoughts get wrapped up in the emotions, belonging to others, there is no getting away from them.

This is an extract from my first book.

If you would like to read more, then why not look at my book, 7 Secrets of the Sensitive.

Here’s a little more of what you can expect to discover:

Why parts of the Empath brain overreact to emotions and learn how to stop this from happening.
Projection and how Empaths send out what they think and feel to others.
How the disruption of our chakras affect the body and mind.
How and why certain foods destroy the Empath’s emotional wellbeing.
The reason why Empaths feel everything so powerfully.
What the dominant and sometimes overpowering Empath gut sensations mean.
The overwhelming emotional overload Empaths experience and how to instantly overcome it.
How Empath fatigue affects life and who or what causes it.
Why Empaths attract certain types (including narcissists) and repel others.
The reason Empaths form instant dislikes for certain people.
Inauthentic behavior and how it weakens an Empath.
Trauma triggers and their causes.
How to recognize psychic attack and how to protect from it.
Thoughtbombing, what it is and how to stop it.
How to tell the difference between your own emotions and those which don’t belong to you.