How to be a Healthy Empath

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Sage
Sea Salt
Bath/shower
Time outdoors
Journal
Educational reading
Detox
Flower essences
Energy healing

Step 1

Empaths must learn the difference between their feelings and the feelings of others. One way to tell is to practice noticing how you feel before an interaction and how you feel after. For example, if you feel tightness appear in your throat out of the blue while talking to someone and it lingers after you've left followed by a sense of grief and uneasiness that you didn't feel before, you picked up their stuff.
Step 2

Start asking yourself, "does this emotion/pain belong to me or did I absorb it from someone else?" Sometimes it will be your stuff, but it's important to recognize when it's not so you can have a better understanding of your sensitivities with people.
Step 3

If you pick up an emotion that doesn't feel like yours, it has to be cleared or it will linger and make you feel miserable. If these energies aren't cleared in the long-term it can lead to illness. This is why it is vital for empaths to clear their energy field and make that their number one self-care priority.
Step 4

Don't apologize for your sensitivities. That would be like apologizing because you're allergic to grass. It is what it is. Honor your sensitivities. If you don't feel like going somewhere, don't. If you don't like the way you feel when you're around someone, don't hang out with them. Trust what you feel. This is your source of intuitive power intended to help you.
Step 5

Because their feelings are so strong, empaths can feel whether a situation is good for them or not good for them. When empaths go against what they're feeling, they will feel very stressed and may even end up berating themselves. Please trust your connection to this world. You have a gift.
Step 6

Use your passion to make a difference. If you feel upset over an injustice, do something about it. A happy empath is one who feels they are part of a solution to the problem - apathy is not in their dictionary.
Step 7

Other intuitive feelings empaths might experience are chills/goosebumps when hit with a feeling. They may also feel when energy enters their system, especially their heart and solar plexus in what feels like a whack or thud in these areas. When something doesn't feel right they may have physical tension in their chest or gut other part of their body.
Step 8

To clear other people's energy from you, sage your house, take a sea salt bath or better yet go in the ocean. Use a chakra clearing CD like Chakra Healing with Archangels (see resources below). Play joyful classical music or other healing music in your house. "Protected" is a powerful energy clearer for you and your home. (see resources).
Step 9

It is highly recommended that empaths train in Reiki. Reiki will help you learn how to strengthen your energy field and clear negativity from your system. It is vital for empaths to have access to these energy healing tools. Reiki transmutes energy and since empaths absorb energy they will want to know how to transmute the unwanted energy they pick up!
Step 10

Practice energy strength building exercises like chakra balancing, Tai Chi, yoga and meditation.
Step 11

Empaths are usually very sensitive to chemicals so it's important to avoid chemicals and processed foods.
Step 12

Empaths are also often sensitive to drugs and herbs so energy medicine, such as acupuncture, Reiki and homeopathy tend to help them most with healing.
Step 13

Flower essences are incredibly helpful for empaths and highly recommended! (see resources)
Step 14

Retreat! Some people may think empaths tend to be hermits. This is how empaths recharge. Their system can get overloaded with all sorts of energies and needs a break from everything to recharge. Take a break from all people - shut off the phone and spend quiet time. Try to get out in nature. You will return to feeling peaceful and like yourself after this much needed break.
Step 15

Don't allow yourself to be a victim to the world around you. Sure, you may feel different and maybe even freakish at times. You may feel no one understands you, but that's not true. There are lots of empaths in the world who totally get it.
Step 16

Accept that this is your sensitivity and instead of judging yourself, work with it. How can being an empath help you or others? Focus on this.
Step 17

Learn how to make energy protection and clearing a regular part of your life, as natural for you as brushing your teeth.

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goldiec said

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on 3/3/2009 Great article, thanks for sharing

on 2/5/2009 Thanks for this article! There is a huge difference between "knowing" what to do, and actually DOING it! Unfortunately, I haven't been doing it lately, and my life has felt very much out of balance. Your article is a great reminder to me. I'm very, very empathic, and I since I've changed what I eat everyday, I'm baffled by how sensitive I've become. But getting free of all that addictive,toxic food the more reason for me to take better care of myself. Thanks for writing this!