What is an Empath?

Typically a person resonating with the term ‘Empath’, would be described as being highly sensitive and having heightened intuition and empathy, making them gifted in sensing how other people are feeling. While this is balanced with self care and awareness, empaths have an incredible amount to offer. However, when it feels like a gift that can’t be switched off, or turned down easily, empaths can feel drained of energy quickly and need recovery time to re-charge their energy.

Over Giving as an Empath and the Impact on the Energy Field

Empaths are some of the kindest, most giving people and their innate empathy brings many gifts, including a desire to help others and contribute towards a better world. However, it’s common for empaths to over empathise with the suffering of others, becoming confused about their own energetic boundaries and those of others. This is especially true when empaths are in survival trauma, as this impacts the nervous system and empathetic pathways.

Empaths can also unconsciously absorb the emotions of others and try to process them through their own chakra’s and energy field. This impacts how their energy flows, lowering their vibration and causing them to feel overwhelmed and depleted.

When we try to transform other people’s emotions for them in an attempt to make them feel better, we are essentially holding energy frequencies in our system that that don’t belong to us. We can’t change the karmic choices of others, as we all have free will and we can’t clear and filter frequencies that are not our own within our energy bodies.

When we have clear boundaries about what is Self and what is ‘other’ we can look after our own resources and help others from a place of choice and resilience within ourself.

If this resonates with you, you can find out more about how we can work together.

You may also be interested in my blog post “Maintaining Self-Care in Relationships”.

Why Energy Clearing and Protection is essential for Empaths

Why Do We Need Energy Protection? Everything that exists is made up of energy and interacts with the energies around it, so we all ‘pick up’ energy from people, places and objects. Cleansing our aura regularly helps to keep our energy clear so we feel energised, healthy and positive.

We all clean our bodies, shower, put on clean clothes etc, but most people aren’t aware that every aspects of our lives are reflected in our energy bodies, or Aura. Our aura also benefits from clearing and protection from the ‘elements’, this is similar to us putting on a coat before we go outside to protect us from the weather.

What is Energetic Protection?

It shields and clears the energy bodies from dense energies that can accumulate and drain our vital life force energy. There are many methods of actively using intention to protect, ground and clear our energy bodies.

If you feel this relates to you, we can look at more effective ways of clearing, grounding and protecting your energy field and explore deeper patterns that maybe contributing to any imbalance, so you can strengthen and maintain your energetic boundaries. You can find out more about how we can work together here.