3 Sure Signs You're An Empath and You Could Use a Much Thicker Skin

Or you'll be shaken every time

1. You Attract All Kinds Of People

Don't assume this is a good thing. You attract good people, but you equally attract bad people. You also attract the worst of people whose main goal is to use and abuse you. Your heart is good and your energy is pure, but this exposes you to so many evils and can get you stuck in messed up situations.

You're gentle and kind and people can sense that. It’s healing to many, but others will just want to take advantage and take things from you because they know they can.

You're gentle and kind, but you're not here to be used and abused and taken advantage of. These things will happen for sure in the disempowered stage.

The disempowered stage is the stage when you don't know who you are yet and the power you hold. This stage usually occurs early in your life, during childhood, when you start to develop coping mechanisms that turn out to be negative later on. Like running away and hiding from the world when you can’t handle your emotions any longer or being afraid to speak up and put people in their place because you’re scared of confrontation.

Being an empath in a disempowered stage will feel like a curse. It can make life too hard to bear. It will have you constantly wishing you weren't even born. It can make you feel like a doormat that everybody drags their dirty feet on.

But it doesn't have to remain that way. You can empower yourself and become strong so no one can mess with you any longer!

2. You Absorb Other People’s Energies

You're so sensitive you absorb other people's energies like a sponge. You can quickly take on emotions, feelings, and thoughts from your environment without even knowing it and when this happens, you carry it with you wherever you go and it can weigh heavily on your heart.

This can make you feel so miserable all the time you’ll wish you can disappear and get away from it all. But it doesn't have to be this way. Don't let that be your story.

You can only stay in the disempowered state if you don’t know who you are. The moment you know who you are, you are empowered and you can start to develop your thick skin.

To develop a tough skin, you have to understand you're an empath and it's for a very good reason. You're an empath and it's a gift. Humanity needs you kind and gentle.

When people can make you feel so bad that you want your sensitivity to be taken away, then your power is taken away.

An empowered empath knows they are an empath. They also know it's a gift and not a curse.

They know they are highly sensitive and can absorb energies good and bad and so they guard themselves at all times. They don't run or hide from the world, but they get outside protected and guarded against outside energies.

You can either absorb negative energies and let them penetrate every cell in your body or you can realize you’ve absorbed something unpleasant and work to get rid of it fast.

You also get to decide whether to tune into the frequency of others and absorb their energies or block it all and mind your own energy.

3. You Are Easily Stressed Out

The nervous system of an empath is extremely sensitive and open to processing information from the external environment. You can sometimes feel assaulted by other people’s energy, thoughts, and emotions. Little things can bother you for so long and big things can crush your spirit because you feel so deeply.

You have to develop a thick skin and be empowered, or this wicked, broken world will eat you alive.

As an empowered empath, you have a choice in any situation.

You can dwell on problems and let them stress you out and rob you of your peace for days, or you can decide to lift yourself up out of any stressful situations by learning something from them.

Also, self-love will help you develop such a thick skin that nothing outside of you can penetrate your energetic field.

It is the self-love and an acceptance of self that shatter all the disempowering beliefs you held before. Beliefs such as your sensitivity is a curse or that you're doomed to a life of pain and misery.

None of that is true.

The more you love and accept yourself, the more you realize how powerful your empathic abilities are and the more they will develop. The more your abilities develop, the more you can manipulate energies instead of letting harsh energies manipulate your spirit.

The more you know and love all of who you are, the more empowered you become and the thicker your skin grows to protect you from anything harsh that may come your way.

Note: This article is only meant to provide spiritual guidance.

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