Empathy is one of the first types of intuition that we develop as human beings and when managed well, it can support you to live your highest good.
Empathy is a core level intuition. It’s developed at a very young age before we can speak and it helps us navigate the world through emotion.
Empathy as a survival strategy
As a child though, we can empath feeling tones so consistently that we begin to mimic them ourselves and attract people that display the same kind of emotion.
For example, if a parent is sad or angry or they’re not present, the child may start to absorb whatever’s going on for them, so that the parent will feel better. The parent will then be present with the child.
From the child’s perspective, this is a survival strategy.
As an adult, you might find that you attract people who need to be taken care of in some way.
Whether it’s financially or with their health or they need to be taken care of emotionally, an empath will not only do things for them but they will also absorb the emotions of the other person.
How empathy can drain you
If you don’t know how to manage your gift of empathy, you’ll continually take on what other people feel. Instead of being present to your own feelings, you’ll continually absorb what they feel and make that more important than your own feelings.
Empathing in this way will not support you or them because whatever it is the other person is feeling, you have to imagine that’s their soul’s way of growing and learning.
A better way to handle your gift of empathy, is to start to become aware when you are picking up on other people’s thoughts and emotions. From there, you simply observe it.
Moving from emotional empathy to mental empathy
To start moving from emotional empathy to mental empathy, imagine somebody that you have a negative relationship with. Then I want you to notice how you feel in your body.
Is there a heaviness in your heart? Do you feel anxiety? Do you feel like a pain in your neck or a headache? Or maybe there’s something else in your body that hurts?
Once you’ve seen how it affects your body, how much energy you’re losing, you can give the command:
I’m using my free will.
I’m using my free will to mentally empath my day, to mentally empath that person. I’m using my free will to mentally empath at my job, to mentally empath that client, my family or friends.
How your empathy can support you
When you start to mentally empath, you’re shifting your energy from your heart to your head and allowing your higher-self to take over.
Your higher self really knows how to govern the gift of emotional empathy and when you do this, you can create a ring of light around you to support you.
Then you can go back and imagine being in that person’s presence again. What you’ll find is that their feelings hit this wall of light and they fall away.
This really helps to stay in a clean clear position.
If you’re finding that somebody’s pulling on you or needing your energy, you can start to mentally empath at any time. Doing this will create a present but detached state to support you, so you can hold strong and set healthy boundaries.
Infinite blessings,
Adrienne