For The Energetically Sensitive
There are folks in the world that just seem to feel things very strongly...sometimes differently to those around them... Often if you've grown up experiencing the world in this way you will have been told you're 'too sensitive', 'over sensitive', too emotional', 'you need to get a thicker skin', you need to toughen up'...amongst other things...
I believe this sensitivity is not what's wrong with you but in fact it is what's right with you... The difficulty is we're just not taught how to deal with it in life...
Below you will find some resources that can be useful to understand this experience you have and to support yourself with it.
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What is an empath?
Being an empath is when you are affected by other people’s energies, and have an innate ability to intuitively feel and perceive others. Your life is unconsciously influenced by others’ desires, wishes, thoughts, and moods. Being an empath is much more than being highly sensitive and it’s not just limited to emotions. Empaths can perceive physical sensitivities and spiritual urges, as well as just knowing the motivations and intentions of other people. You either are an empath or you aren’t.
The Highly Sensitive Person
Like most sensitive souls, you already know you’re sensitive.
You soak up others’ moods and desires like a sponge. You absorb sensation the way a paintbrush grasps each color it touches on a palette.
Super sensitive souls like you and I have always been a part of the human landscape, and according to the “Highly Sensitive Person” pioneer Elaine Aron’s research, we make up around 20 percent of the population.
THOUGHTS ON ALIGNMENT- Lynette Arkadie
We spend so much time learning…learning history, mathematics, language arts in school. Learning how to ride a bike, cook, make the bed. We learn how to drive, perform job tasks and how to advance in our careers. And yet, we neglect to learn the one thing that affects every single aspect of our lives. The one thing that innervates every thing we think, feel and experience day in and day out. It’s the communication between our body, mind and spirit.
There is a communication loop between these three aspects of our “selves.” When these three parts of you are incongruent, your life will feel chaotic, and you will find it difficult to move forward and manifest your dreams. If you want to take charge of the direction of your life, you need to learn how to get them into vibrational alignment.
Survival Tips for Empaths - Dr Judith Orloff
Judith Orloff, MD is a New York Times best-selling author of The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People. Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist and is herself, an empath. She synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality. Dr. Orloff also specializes in treating empaths and highly sensitive people in her private practice. She has something interesting reading, videos and other resources for sensitive folks on her website www.drjudithorloff.com.
17 Survival Tips For Empaths And Highly Sensitive People - By A Conscious Rethink
If you are an empath or highly sensitive individual, it can seem like your personal world is continually invaded by the energy and feelings of those around you. This can wear you down and drain you of your own life force if you are not careful, which is why it is so vital to utilize all of the coping mechanisms discussed below.
Your giving nature and highly attuned senses are gifts to this world, but without proper care, they run the risk of being lost. If you’re an empath, I urge you to keep this list close at hand for those times when the outer universe is harming your inner universe.
1. Identify Drains & Energizers
The first and most important thing that any empath can do is to figure out when and how their energy gets drained and, similarly, those things that act to energize them.
With this knowledge, they can try to avoid situations, places, and even people who sap their energy, while making sure they spend enough time doing the things that replenish their stores.
It may sound simple, but stemming the flow out and boosting the flow in are essential elements for empaths to not just survive, but flourish.
2. Create A Shield
There are bound to be some situations that you, as a highly sensitive person, would rather avoid, but simply can’t because of their significance in your life. Important work functions, large family gatherings, and other social events could all involve people and energies that you find difficult to deal with.
Since they are somewhat necessary, you have to find a way to cope with such circumstances and an energy shield is one way to do that.
It will require effort and practice on your part, but eventually you can form a mental barrier that lets in what you wish to let in, but deflects anything negative away. You just need to image a bubble surrounding your being – a bubble of light is a good way to think about it. Inside this bubble is your world, where you can focus inwards and find your balance, while everything else is on the outside.
When you sense your energy being drained by other people or the occasion, you can retreat inside your bubble and stop the flow. It all comes down to awareness of you and what’s within you.
The Lost Thing
The Lost Thing is a short film by Shaun Tan. It is the story of a lost thing and a boy who sees something special and goes on a journey to find where the lost thing belongs. It is a story that reminds me of how it can feel when you're energetically sensitive and looking for your 'people'. My message to you and Shaun Tan's message...keep looking because what you find might surprise and delight you.... You're people are out there and if you keep looking you'll find them!
This page is a work in progress that I will continue to add to...