It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so deeply ~ Unknown
Empaths are highly sensitive to the energy of others and the energy of their surroundings.
It sounds wonderful, but many Empaths struggle as they don’t realise they have this gift and/or don’t know how to control it. It’s not something that develops, but a state of being. Emotions are energy, and the curse comes from being energetically open to the environment around them; the good, the bad and the ugly, without an off switch. An empath is like a sponge soaking up everything around them. They often feel ungrounded and exhausted for no logical reason.
On the other hand, empaths are natural healers. Part of training to work with energy is developing the ability to sense it. An empath is highly developed in this area, having already spent a lifetime feeling the emotions/energy of people around them. They have the ability from the word go to sense the energy of others. Whilst working with their own energy, they learn to trust their intuition, how to shut down their energy system to others when they need to and develop stronger boundaries. They develop an off switch to be able to go about their day-to-day life without being bombarded by the emotions of others.
Whilst it is amazing to be able to open to feel energy to help other people, an empath has a tendency to drain their own energy in the process. By developing an off switch, they have more energy for themselves, which in turn means they have more energy to help others when help is needed, rather than being drained by the environment around them.
So empaths really are natural healers, and by working with their energy, they learn to expand this ability whilst controlling it in terms of an off switch. The gift becomes a true blessing instead of a curse.
If you are an empath and would like to turn your gift into a blessing rather than a curse, visit my Wild Empath E-Course for information on how I can help you.
