3 Ways Empaths Can Stop Absorbing Other People’s Energy
Don’t hold on to the things that hold you down
I. Don’t Take Things Too Seriously
Being an empath is a spiritual gift, but if you don’t learn how to use your gifts effectively, they can turn against you.
You’re gifted if you can control your gifts, but if you can’t, life becomes messy and exhausting when you’re carrying thoughts and emotions that don’t even belong to you.
The first thing to understand is that everything doesn't require a reaction.
You don't have to jump up to help every time help is needed. Allow other people to help too. Sometimes, it’s not that serious and other times, it can wait.
You’re not required to drop what you’re doing and be on your way to pull someone out of a pit. You must learn to allow others to get out of the pit they dug for themselves. As they dig themselves out, they learn the lessons.
As an empath, you must know when to let someone learn the lesson so they can be better.
You have to let others to become strong on their own. Challenge strengthens and so you must allow others to be made stronger in their challenges. That’s the purpose of suffering.
As an empath, you must learn how to ground yourself deeply into your root. You must be strong in the mind as well as you’re made stronger and wise on a soul level.
You must learn how not to react or respond to everything. Don’t text back right away. Give yourself time to think before you speak. Allow yourself to be slow to speak.
Everything outside of you doesn’t require your deep thought, and it definitely doesn’t have to throw you off balance. If it does, you must check yourself. If the inner world is balanced, the outside reflects.
As an empath, you’re naturally going to follow your heart because you have a big heart, but you must also use your head. You must learn to not take everything at heart and think twice before you react.
When your empathy is in excess, you put yourself in sticky situations, all because you did too much.
It’s easy to get caught up in the drama, but you must know that sometimes it’s all an act. You must learn how to care for and help others in moderation. Learn the art of saying no politely and peacefully. And most importantly, you must pray for wisdom and discernment to see through all the acts and illusions.
Everything that happens around you doesn’t require a reaction.
II. Don’t Carry Other People’s Emotions
As an empath, you’re most likely a lightworker with a soul mission to help. You care about others and want to help wherever help is needed, and that’s a beautiful thing.
You love helping everybody and everything, but it is not your responsibility to carry other people’s burdens.
You must learn to put yourself first and know when to stay away from a situation. If you don’t control your gifts, it starts to feel like a curse when it overwhelms you.
The energy of your surroundings determines your mood.
If you’re in an uplifting environment, you feel uplifted. If the energy is dark, it feels as if darkness is hovering over your head.
Spend time around those who lift and light you up and stay away from anyone who threatens to bring you down and dim your light.
Know when to sit back and let someone else help. Other times, you have to allow people to work it out on their own. Trust that people will be able to figure it out themselves.
You need discernment to manage your gifts and your intuition is your guide.
Learn how to refuse to take other people’s burdens. Learn to say no and guard your energy. Give it all back and walk away with your light energy and your inner peace of mind intact.
You have to be alert as you deal with the world.
If you get yourself involved in everything that goes on around you, very soon, you’re going to be lost in other people’s emotion.
Allow others to do for themselves the things they’re fully capable of doing for themselves. Avoid making any promises that you’re able to save. We can only save ourselves. Allow people to handle their issues so they can grow.
Other people's energy isn't your baggage. Don't take it with you. Leave it with who it belongs to. As a transmuter lightworker, you can show people how to transmute their own energies.
You can absorb negative energy from those you get close to, and you can also absorb positive energy.
To use your gifts effectively, you need all the positivity and light energy you can get.
Look for happy and optimistic people who can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Deliberately look for positive people and situations and immerse yourself in them.
When you surround yourself with these people, you can also see the light when you couldn't see it before and you may feel lighter.
You love helping everybody and everything and that’s great, but it is not your responsibility to carry other people’s burdens.
III. Make Energy Flow Through You
As much as most empaths love helping, they love being alone, but it’s not natural for a person to exist in isolation for too long. Humans were created for one another.
But sometimes when you come out of isolation to connect, you find that other people’s energies aren’t compatible with your own. When you connect, you come in contact with many energies and you will absorb some emotions as a result.
That's just how it is.
When you find that you've absorbed and are carrying someone else’s heavy emotions on your head, you must learn a way to set it down and walk away from it.
Most empaths are energy alchemists. As one, you have the power to take any dense energy and transmute it into something light. You can control the energies inside of you by showing them where to go.
You can control your emotions by releasing or letting them flow.
Give thanks always and pray about them. As you help humanity, ask for help handling other people's energies.
When you absorb anything that feels heavy on you, send them into the earth. Walk barefoot on the earth to plant your root so that whatever you absorb can be absorbed by the earth. Nature will heal you. You could take a walk by the ocean and allow the breeze of the water to cleanse and refresh you.
Energy can't be destroyed but can only be transformed. You can channel negative energies to create positive, for instance, by writing about it, singing about it, or even just talking about the fact that what you feel isn't really yours so that it loses its power.
You were born to be a helper and healer and you were given everything you needed to do the work.
Tap into your gifts so you and others can live a better, easier life.
When you absorb anything that feels too heavy, release it, let it flow, or transmute it.
Note: This article is only meant to provide spiritual guidance and light-hearted content.
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