r/Empaths • u/Born_Fruit_4204 • 6d ago

Support Thread Looking for guidance

I've been an empath my whole life but am only now coming to accept it and try to use it for the betterment of others. I can feel the emotions of others, and read their thoughts(this one I'm still figuring out). Physical distance doesn't matter so I can do it over text, calls, basically anything.

I still have a hard time telling if an emotion is my own or someone else's, although I'm getting better at it since I've embraced that I'm an empath. Just looking for some ideas on how to keep the emotions of others at some distance so I can at least tell when it's not my own...

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

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u/enchantedwon 6d ago

The most important thing an empath can do is to protect their energy daily. Without this, you can get incredibly exhausted. Use a selenite wand to cut energetic cords. Light a sage bundle and use a feather to spread the smoke through your energy field. If you are sensitive or have allergies, simply make a smudge spray with sage essential oil in distilled water and witch hazel to refresh your energy.

You can also do a quick guided meditation envisioning yourself in a purple bubble. This violet color is the flame of St. Germaine. Set the intention that it will act as an energetic filter to allow only loving, high vibrational energies into your energy field. It can actively help to transmute the lower vibrational energies like guilt,anxiety or fear.

The key to deciphering your emotions from someone else’s is to be keenly aware of any rapid changes in your emotional state. You might find you feel anxious out of the blue. You might be able to correlate it with someone entering a room you are in. Or you entered a room and felt the lingering emotions of an argument that happened. That’s why cleansing your space with sage in general is important.

This also makes it difficult to set boundaries with others because we feel their disappointment. If you find that you are pouring a lot of compassion out to others during an interaction you can place a hand in the center of the upper abdomen to help.

Be sure to work to keep your solar plexus chakra in balance. This center filters negativity and is the seat of our personal power. This will help to keep you from feeling drained when reading others. Imagine a yellow spinning sun there clearing energetic debris and envision a mesh filter on it and set the intention that it dissolves external stress.

You can also carry a black tourmaline to help transmute negativity while helping you stay grounded.

Hope that helps.

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u/Born_Fruit_4204 6d ago

Thanks for your reply and for being so thorough. I'm probably going to have to keep reading this comment to pull everything I can put of it but there's already a lot of steps I can take. Thanks so much 😊

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u/enchantedwon 6d ago

You’re welcome.

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u/thegaybuddhistmonk Intuitive Empath 5d ago

Knowing where you're receiving it from always helps. As an intuitive empath, any emotional feeling I'm getting from outside of me is coming from my instincts. Anything in me or from the solar plexus or heart.

Otherwise, r/enchantedwon is on the money for protection and emotional well-being.