Life as an empath.

It may seem easy to claim that you are an empath, because we all want to be nice and look good, but being an empath it is not an easy journey, one struggles everyday in balancing their own emotions and those of others.

Here is an empaths regular day, goes shopping with their girlfriends, and starts feeling out of sort without any particular reason, suddenly feels sick, their heart is beating, it feels like they cannot breathe, the chest is becoming tight.

The empath says to himself, I must have consumed something in excess, that’s why I don’t feel well out of the blue, because the first reaction is “it is me”, the second is the fact that empaths have to eat, drink, sleep well, and control their emotional state regularly, otherwise they can easily lose it…

Fortunately, when the empath is atunned with their emotions and has embarked on their healing journey, when learns about boundaries (energetic and physical), when learns how to self regulate their nervous system and how to self soothe themselves, becomes aware that the suffering might be coming from an outside source.

In the example that I am giving above which is a true story that happened lately, the empath says to the friends that I am feeling weird, and explains in details, my heart feels like exploding and I haven’t felt this way ever (foreign feeling, sudden), and one of the friends says I am feeling exactly the same way…

The empath then steps back, goes around for a little walk, away from the friend, the feeling dissapers, also even if we don’t step away with the awareness the feeling dissipates, but until we do that we may think it is our own.

Being an empath it is not easy.Definitely, it is a gift we have heard that over and over, and it is because we are blessed with a psychic and intuitive armor that can help us get what we need but also help others finding themselves and assisting them in their healing process.

However, it is very much exhausting, because you don’t only live for yourself, you are an anntena that picks intuitive data all over the place and that can make you feel unsecured and unsettled.

On the other hand, an empath is either spending plenty of time in isolation since it cannot handle the overwhelming energy around them, or goes out in the world and than does lots of work in grounding themselves and transmuting what has picked up.

Living as an empath it is beautiful and empowering, however keeping the harmony and being with and around others it is pretty much a hard task, the anxiety, the restlessness, the mood swings, but sometimes the happiness and excitement can be experienced with lots of intensity.

All of my life I have wished to feel emotionally, stable and that only happens when I am by myself, practicing healing modalities, which it is a full time job for an empath.

Even though whith time I have learned how to deal with it in a more practical way, when I am in the crowd, my ability to remain sane, non-reactive and centered is greatly shakened.

Empathy is a lifestyle, and a lifelong deep emotional involvement,not just some good sense, or sympathy for our fellow human beings.

Thank you for reading, I hope this helps.

RS