They say being an emapth is a gift but I occasionally wondered what type of cruel gift is this. I’m just playing but it does have it’s ups and downs. I appreciate the gift now more than I ever did. Let’s start from the beginning.
When I went through my major awakening all of my gifts opened with what seemed to be maximum strength. ~Side Note: I say major awakening because as I look back over my life I can see things that let me know I was always aware ~ As an empathy I could physically and emotionally feel everything. Everything is a bit much but that’s how I felt at the time. I was crying about things I never would have cried about in the past. One time my computer messed up at work and the IT guy had to come and fix it. Out of the blue this made me sad and I started crying. As time went on I learned that most of these emotions were things I was picking up on that did not belong to me. On a different occasion my shins on both legs started randomly hurting. It was odd because I know I hadn’t did anything recently that would cause my shins to hurt. A couple of hours later I was sitting in the living room talking to my daughter and she mentioned all the running she did the day before made her shins hurt. I then realized that this feeling did not belong to me either. These are only a couple of examples of feeling I felt that didn’t belong to me. If you’re an empathy you are probably saying to yourself I’ve been there in one form or another. From all of the emotional and physical ups and downs I’ve learned to recognize what belongs to me and what belongs to someone else. If you’re like I was you’re probably saying I wish there was something I could do about this. You are probably 100% sure this can’t be controlled, and you just have to suffer through it. I can tell you from experience there are things you can do to help protect yourself. I had a conversation with another empath a couple of weeks ago and we were both laughing and saying “I don’t think I’m an empath anymore”. We talked about how we were no long at a point where we picked up on other people energy like we use to.
As time goes on you’ll learn techniques that will allow you to flow better in life with this gift. See my article on managing my gift. There I list out some things I’ve learned from reading books, articles, speakers, other empaths and listening to my higher self.
Flowing With My Spirit 