Empathic Development
7 Signs You Are an Empath and How to Develop Your Abilities
An empath is a person gifted at detecting, reading, and picking up energies
You woke up feeling great. Then you picked up your phone. You checked Instagram, and you saw your friend got engaged. You are the only one left in the group without a man, but you're happy for your friend.
You logged on to Facebook, and you saw some people still believe the coronavirus is just a conspiracy theory. There are others who think masks are unnecessary. You are getting upset so you log off and then you check your email. Your work schedule hasn’t even started yet, and your boss is already testing you!
You got out of bed, showered, and made breakfast. You sat down to eat and listen to the morning news. You changed the channel to CNN, and you saw the number of new coronavirus cases and the number of people who died. You saw the number who have lost their jobs and are struggling to make ends meet.
At this point, your spirit is low. You feel drained.
You get up to go for your morning walk. You meet your neighbor who told you about the tough time she’s going through. She dumped her issues on you (she didn't mean to) and walked away, and it stays with you.
You can’t stop thinking about the things she said and the morning you had. You don’t know what to do to help. You’ve now absorbed all those energies and you don’t feel so good.
Nothing is wrong in your life personally, but you feel down. You feel like crawling back in the bed and pulling the covers over your head.
It dawns on you — social media and the news in the morning is bad for your mental health. It ruined your day before it started.
If that's familiar, chances are you are an empath. You picked up on energy that doesn't belong to you.
Here are seven sure signs you are an empath:
1. You Absorb Other People’s Energies
As an empath, you are sensitive to the energies around you.
You can quickly take on emotions, feelings, and thoughts from your environment without even knowing it.
2. You Are Sensitive
An empath is fine-tuned to detect and process energy.
You are sensitive to stimuli and even to the suffering of people and animals. You love animals and can’t stand to see them suffer.
When a loved one is sick or injured, you might feel their ailment like it’s your own. You are sensitive to loud noises, bright lights, and crowds.
You don’t like chaos.
3. You Are Easily Anxious and Stressed
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.
A non-empath can have lots of stress in their life and not burn out. Not an empath. Stress makes you burned out.
You sometimes overdramatize and make situations seem worse than it is because you feel so deeply.
4. People Are Drawn to Your Energy Field
Good people come to you. Bad people gravitate towards you.
This is because others can detect your open nervous system and it’s healing to some.
People come to you for advice. Random people start conversations with you everywhere, even when you aren't interested.
Babies and animals love you!
5. You Can Read People Like a Book
People are transparent to an empath because empaths can feel and know things. They can’t be tricked.
You see right through people and the bs. You can also tell the motives of a person.
People know they can’t get anything past you.
Although people are drawn to you, some are uncomfortable around you because you see them for who they really are.
6. You Need a Lot of Time Alone
Being an empath can be exhausting!
After spending a day absorbing and processing energies, you need time alone to recharge your batteries.
You need the time alone to clear your mind and uplift your spirit.
But people may not understand this and can make you seem aloof or closed off.
7. You Are Uncomfortable in Your Body
As an Empath, you are often misunderstood and you feel like you don’t fit in.
Most empaths at some point in their life will feel uncomfortable in their bodies. Like it doesn’t belong. Like they don’t belong.
They dissociate from their bodies because they associate discomfort with the body. When they dissociate from the body, they lose connection with their intuition — an empath's most powerful tool.
The Two Stages in Your Empathetic Development
1. The disempowered stage
This 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 when you can’t handle it.
When a child starts feeling powerful energies around them and they don’t know how to deal with it, they run and isolate themselves.
If the child does not develop their empathic abilities, he or she can stay in the disempowered stage their entire lives. They grow up timid.
This can carry on until the person has had a spiritual awakening or something similar or is surrounded by people with developed empathic abilities.
The core belief of a disempowered empath is: The energy that presents itself before me is stronger than I am.
You are not here to run away from negative energy; you are here to fix it. To transmute it to make this place a better place.
2. The empowered stage
This occurs later on in life when a person matures and learns who they really are and what they are here to do.
When they realize that their empathic ability is a blessing and not a curse.
This can also occur earlier in life.
Let’s say you are a 13-year-old empath reading this, you can jump right to the empowered stage with the information you now have.
An empowered empath knows they have a choice in any situation.
They know they can become a sponge and absorb outside energies, or they can separate themselves and observe.
That is the key to an empath’s power.
Empowered empaths know they are an influencer of energy, so they become alchemists.
They see the energy is not to their liking, so they become a fire. They burn the dense energy, transmute it and turn it into something more empowering.
They enter a space filled with negative energy and they switch to influencer mode and influence the energy of the space they are in.
An empowered empath immediately overpowers the dense energy with their own positive energy. That’s the purpose of an empath.
The most important part of an empaths mission is to take gross, dense, negative energy, and transmute it.
An empowered empath can also choose to take in and absorb positive energies they like from around them. They can choose to be a sponge in absorbing light energy.
The core belief of an empowered empath: There is no energy stronger than me!
How to Become an Empowered Empath
1. Know thyself
An empowered empath knows they are an empath. They know they are very sensitive and can absorb energies good and bad.
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.
Once you realize who you are, you lose all the fears. You lose the need to isolate yourself. You lose the need to fit in.
You stand tall because you know there is no energy stronger than you.
2. Love and accept yourself
It is the self-love that shatters all the disempowering beliefs you held before.
The more you love and accept yourself, the more you realize how powerful your empathic abilities are and the more your empathic abilities will develop.
You know you are sensitive, but not weak or fragile. You know your empathetic ability is a superpower.
The more you know and love all of who you are, the more empowered you become.
