For Consideration: How to Respect an Empaths Boundaries Online

1) If you would like to tag us in a post, and we very much appreciate the thoughtfulness that is behind such a loving gesture, please ask us before tagging us.

Why?

There are some days when we are already feeling inundated by energies. For example, when a major world event is happening or is about to happen in our world, or in our lives. On these days, a tag may only serve in further exacerbating the issue for us, thus overwhelming our already overtaxed systems.

Personally, if/when you have tagged me, I deeply appreciate it. I most likely thanked you, and then I have most likely asked for it to be taken down (not always, only when it has brought in too much energy).

Please do your best to honor what is being asked when someone has taken the time out to ask this of you.

If I haven’t asked this of you, thank you again and please leave it up! We do not all consciously abide in the same vibrations of experiencing, as such, our experiences of the world can be very different, and that is okay. We can learn to honor one another.

2) Understand that we, as empaths, may have to block or unfollow you at times.

Please do your best not to take it personally, especially when there has been no direct exchange of any sort. This is a bummer for me as well. I want nothing more than to be able to accept more energies and people into my space. I am working towards it, and this will take some time. I am in the process of actively working to build my field so that I can handle more energies without it taking an undue toll on my body and mind.

It is quite a different thing when you feel energies consciously. The amount of energy that we are exposed to online takes a toll on all of us, whether we are aware of it or not. It is not good for our bodies to be constantly inundated with this level of energy. Each one of us, empath or not, would do well to take some time off-line here and there. This will provide our bodies and minds with a good ol’ rest as we learn to more healthily acclimate in this grand age of technology.

I totally get why it may not feel so good to be unfollowed or blocked. However, it may not always be about you on a personal level. It may be about the energies that are currently in your field. Please, kindly do your very best at working to understand in your heart that, as an empath, being online can be an intense experience as we are acclimating to a world that is teeming with energies.

Personally, I have been offline for several years due to ‘choice in learning.’ I just got back online in July of 2023. Sometimes, due to the extent that I feel others, what is happening is that I am actively working to filter through various energies so that I can allow in more peeps, big picture. I am actively working to create a solid base of positive Souls, (for vibrational reasons), so that I can remain in my vibration when harsher energies come in. More specifically, I am speaking to higher amplitude energies. We are all oscillators of sorts, (like tuning forks), and this holds true whether we are aware of it or not. When feeling others as we feel ourselves, especially when the energy that is coming into our field is much larger in amplitude than our singular physical field of energy, (for example, a world event where you are feeling a collective of people at once), it takes time to train mind not to take it on as our own, even with awareness around the fact that such energy is not stemming from within us. Why is this? It is in part due to how we are conditioned, i.e., we as a collective are very much conditioned to a point where most everything is made about self. Also, it is due to the fact that it is one of mind’s jobs to ensure the survival of our body.

Just know, I may have to temporarily or permanantly block a person from time to time in order to see if a particular energy clears from my field with this choice. I may have to do this multiple times in order to more clearly feel your energetic fingerprint, and as apart from the energies that may be in your field in any given moment of time. This allows me to remain present for those that I am truly to be present with in any given moment. I say this because I get to ‘feel’ the stories.

3) Pay heed to your thoughts.

If you are in a negative state of mind, please do pay heed lovely Souls.

Also, if you sense to the extent that you can consciously feel others who are in the field of someone who contacts you, (this is way more challenging online, and with people that you are just meeting), or you know that you are communing with someone who feels to this extent, please do make sure that your field is clear prior to contacting them. We may not need this from you forever, however, if this is being asked of you, please consider showing some good ol’ lovin’! It will be deeply appreciated.

4) Please ask us if we are good with it, before adding our emails to any mass newsletter mailouts.

For me, I feel it when a newsletter comes in through my e-mail inbox. It will wake me up if I am sleeping, or cause a bit of distraction if I am in creative mode and/or simply enjoying my moment. It differs depending on the group of souls, the number of souls that the newsletter is being sent out to, as well as the sender of such newsletters. Some newsletter sendouts are okay. However, some feel like a deluge of restless, toxic energy that comes in a wave. I got to look at this one again when I got onto Medium in September of 2023. Man oh man! I had to stop email notifications, and unsubscribe from many peeps. A torrential rainfall of energy would come at me. I’d check my messages, and BOOM — an e-mail newsletter would be resting in my inbox, and at just the time I noted the influx of energy. To be clear, this is not always the case, however this is epecially true when major world events are happening in our world.

Empaths, these are just a few of the things that came to mind for me in this moment. Please add in anything that comes to your mind in the comments section below, re: what would help make and keep your/our online experience a pleasant one. Let our Medium friends who may not be empaths, and who may not feel to this extent, know how they may kindly help us out along the way!

Thank you for reading!

If anything has come to heart and/or mind upon reading this piece, I would love to hear from you! Please share in comments below.

Soul to Soul,

Creative Hearts Align