Empathic tips

If you've been following me from the beginning then you know that I'm a sensitive. For those just joining or viewing my site this means I'm an empath.

What is an empath?

An empath is a person that feels the emotions of others strongly. It's like we're a sponge soaking up the emotions of other around us. If you've ever felt your good mood or emotions suddenly change due to a person near you being down for any reason, then you may be empathic. If you don't take steps to protect yourself from unwelcomed emotions then people may be draining you, literally.

This post will be about how to protect yourself and ground your energies. I've had several empathic people come to me in the past day or so with issues I could tell were draining them. When someone like this happens it's a sign that either their guide is leading them to me or my guide is asking me to help them. I'm a helpful person by nature and I love to share my knowledge with others.

(Note: These tips can be used for anyone. Not just empathic individuals.) 

Grounding: Grounding is a good way to rid yourself of unwanted emotions and negative thoughts. There is no right or wrong way to do this and you are free to find other creative ways to help you ground your energies. Visualization is the key.

One of the ways I like to ground is to imagine myself as a tree. I sit in a quiet area, close my eyes, and visualize my feet or the base of my spine, if I'm sitting, is the base of the tree. I imagine roots growing deep down into the earth. One or several of the roots will reach all the way to the center of the earth and anchor around it. Once the roots are secured you can start sending the negative thoughts, or emotions down those roots. Do this until you feel like the weight has lifted from your shoulders or you feel lighter. When you start to feel light or vibrating, you can start the process of lifting your roots back to you. Take a cleansing breathe and resume your day.  Repeat the process as needed.

More grounding tips:

• Imagining you are blowing the negative thoughts into a ballon, tying the bottom and allowing it to float away.
• Writing down what is affecting you and tearing it up. 
• Water has healing effects. While in the shower imagine the water is a bright white light flowing over you and allow the negative thought to go down the drain. 
• Walking in nature barefoot. Your feet connecting directly to nature is a grounding in itself. 
• Singing out loud and allowing it to flow out with each note you sing. 
• Dancing and imagining its moving out of you with each movement. 
• Clapping your hands and smashing them away. 
• Breathing them out. Inhale through your mouth and exhale through your nose slowly. 
• Hug a tree or touch a plant. Allow it to flow down the trees roots. 
• Imagining a cord driving into the earth to anchor and send them down. (Same as I described earlier with the tree) 
• Holding crystals. Crystals are excellent for grounding and healing. Squeezing on them releases their healing powers. A brown, black, red, or cream colored stone is for your base chakra or for grounding. A clear white crystal, quartz, is an all around all purpose stone. You can use that as well to increase your energies and rid the negativity from you. 
• Stamp your feet on the floor to allow them to be pounded into the earth. 
• Listening to music. It can calm your energy and help relieve your stresses. Try to stick to uplifting tunes.
• Imagine a white light filling you up completely and allowing it to push out the negative energy from you.

Those are just suggestions. If you've discovered other ways to clear your aura or energies then stick to those. Do what you feel comfortable with.

Protection: When you are empathic you need to guard your energies. If you don't take measures to protect yourself then you will feel like you're on a non stop emotional roller coaster with no way to get off. It will drain your energy, you will feel tired and weak constantly.

Visualization again will help you with protecting your space and energy. A way I like to protect myself is to imagine a white bubble of light surrounding my body. Know that nothing can penetrate this bubble, but love and good energy. Anything that tries will bounce off the bubble and hit the person directing it to you. They're feel it and eventually move on.

If you feel like it's not strong enough then double it up. Nothing wrong with a little more protection to guard what is yours. 

Mirrors are good too. Surround yourself with them and they reflect the bad energy back to its origin. Suit of light armor? Sure. You can use just about anything, use your creativity and again do what you feel comfortable with. Once you've learned how to protect and ground yourself you'll then be able to embrace your empathic abilities.

Well that concludes the lessons for the day. If you have any questions feel free to approach me and I'll be happy to help you in any way I can. If I don't know the answer I'll research my books, or looks for something online to send you.

Be well my friends.

Light and love to you all,
Viktoria.

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Sensitive

Yes this newling has a hidden sensitive side. Many don't know this about me, and I've mentioned it on a previous post, but I'll reveal more about what makes me so sensitive. 

When I was a small child I had always been overly emotional. I'd burst into tears easily at the harsh words of another or when I was close to someone who was having a bad day. I never understood my reactions… until a few years ago that is. 

After the death of someone close to me I was surprised to have a dream of this person. It was so vivid that it was almost like a visitation from them. Waking the next morning and remembering the visions from the night before, I recalled this was not the first time I'd experienced something like that. Memories from my time as a child rushed to the front of my mind and awakened something hidden within me. 

I felt as if someone or something was encouraging me to follow the breadcrumbs to discover the gifts long since hidden from myself. 

I started researching about dreams and stumbled upon books about spiritual visitations. Reading about this topic quickly led me to the discovery that I'm a Clairsentient or empath. 

**Empath is a term coming into common usage to refer to a person with expanded sensitivity or clairsentience.
Empath may also refer to:
* Feeling strongly what someone else feels. Picking up emotion and pain from violent movies, violence in the news, watching a violent act.
       
*Empath (fiction), any fictional character that has a paranormal or psychic ability to sense the emotions of others.” (Wikipedia)**

Delving further into these books, I would feel this comforting vibration upon my back. Almost in a soothing manner. After reading about meditations and clearing your mind, I set about to practice. Once I began to ground myself, tying my energy to the center of the earth, I started to see things. Strange ripples of colors surrounding people and objects. Looking to my books for answers I learned about energy and auras. 

Everything is composed of energy. I'd always heard this, but never really gave it any thought. Once I learned to control my emotions, the next step in my discovery was handling of energy. 

Many empaths usually becoming healers. being able to see the energy surrounding someone helps to locate and Aleve their aliments. I used crystals to help draw power from and helped others heal their wounds. both internally and spiritually.

Working with energy, crystals, and healing soon opened my eyes even further. The vibrations surrounding me started to form into light beings. Where I was once able to feel them, they started to reveal themselves to me. 

Angels are all around us. If we take the time to open our minds and eyes they will reveal themselves to us. 

I’ve met my guide. She’d been with me from the beginning. I remember speaking to her as a child, but as the years passed I allowed the outside world’s views to cloud my eyes. She had been waiting…in the back, always watching out for me. I now know that she was the presence I’d felt around me from the beginning. She guides me along the path she feels is best for me to follow. I may disagree with her at first, but I feel she only has my best interests at heart. So I follow her with complete trust.

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What does the future hold?

Since being introduced into this family recently it's been one hell of a roller coaster. We've had our ups and then we've had our downs. Being an empath doesn't do well in these types of environments with the ever changing moods.

An empath, for those who don't know, is a person that is able to feel the energies surrounding them. I can feel the auras or energies encasing our bodies, the hum of life strumming through us, and the feel of the earth's energy buzzing below us. Having this power can be both a blessing and a curse. Although it allows me to feel more deeply, to amplify the touch of a lover or friend, it can also cut you deep when there is so much negativity surrounding you. It can drain you, make you feel weak, like the life is being sucked out of you.

I try to stay close and build the relationship with my new coven, but I need to be surrounded by positive energy. I need it to wrap around me from the inside out, to restore and recharge me. To give me the strength to allow my positive energy to surround those I hold dearest to me.

These are troubling times, I can feel it deep within my soul. There is so much darkness surrounding us that it makes it hard to allow my true self to show through to the others. I feel the air shifting, making it easier for me to breathe now. I hope that it is a sign of more positivity coming our way.

I need for the distance that seems to be tearing my new family apart to be repaired. To be mended and be healed. I don't want for my new friends to separate when all they must do is have a sit down and sort these issues out. How must we fight the evils that threaten to tear us apart when we cannot even fight the ones within our coven? We must unite and fight as one. I call for a coven meeting. Allow us to converge and speak freely. Keeping secrets from each other is never the answer.

I can only pray that the light at the end of the tunnel will become clearer to us once we put this all behind us.

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