When Do Empaths Most Often Pick Up Energy?

Empaths can pick up other peoples’ emotions when least expected. For example, if someone at work had an argument on the way to work, and then walks over to you and starts a conversation, you might feel the energy of his residual anger. This can be very confusing if you are not aware of his previous phone call. You may actually feel angry and think it is your stuff.

If you suddenly feel angry for no reason or start complaining about something that you care virtually nothing about, you have probably picked up on the emotions of someone around you. This type of “mirroring,” which seems to be more prevalent when we are exhausted or stressed out, can cause an empathic person to behave in an irrational manner. Some have even been misdiagnosed as having bipolar disorder.

In my book, Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, I gave excerpts from interviews I did with empaths. You will find a wide variety of situations in which folks have found themselves as a result of this intuitive gift. Some of these people have just realized they are empaths; others are veteran empaths who are using this intuitive gift as part of their healing practice.

Empathic abilities can be both a gift and a curse. One person I interviewed said that it has both saved his life and broken his heart. “I thought I was an agoraphobic for the longest because when I was around a lot of people I felt overwhelmed,” said Jonathan. “I thought it was anxiety, but then I began to be able to tell when someone was lying to me. It can hurt to know someone you love is lying to you.”

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Like Father (Mother) Like Son (Daughter) and So Forth

If you are an empath, more than likely some members of your family are empaths are as well. With no training on how to use this gift and manage energy, you know it can seem like a curse. That's because empaths are natural healers even though many don’t know it. They take energetic burdens from others in a subconscious attempt to heal them by transmuting (converting) the detrimental energy into beneficial energy. If you want to stay well and emotionally fit, you must do this transmutation with the help of your higher guidance and ascended masters. There is no need to use your body as a punching bag.

As humanity and Earth is moving through a shift in consciousness, all kinds of family secrets are coming to the surface to be healed, transmuted, and integrated. Those who don't want to deal with their stuff may try to blame their misery on someone else. Don't be fooled by family members who are trying to dump their stuff on you!

You (and your family members) may be remembering childhood issues that have been repressed for many years. Everything is coming to the light. You may be hearing voices in your head. These are the forces of darkness (ego, separation) trying to prevent this healing and transmutation from happening. Don't worry. The Light is greater than darkness. Rather than paying attention to those negative voices that try to make you believe you are weak, focus on the fact that you are a being of light having a human experience intended to develop your soul and help you master the right use of energy.

Affirmations coupled with sincere feelings will help reprogram your mind to accept and act upon higher truth. I’m writing a new book that is going to help take empaths through the 2012 shift and beyond by offering exercises, suggestions, and tips for raising your vibration, healing your past, and standing in your new and empowered identity. In that book, I will teach how to anchor yourself in the place of heart-centered peace through conscious breathing.

But you don't have to wait until May! I gave a sneak preview of a heart-centered meditation in a presentation I made in "From Fizzle to Sizzle Relationship Telesummit," and I'd like to share that presentation with you now. Just click the arrow in the player below to listen.

Love and Light from Yvonne Perry, aurthor of the paperback book, Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You at http://tinyurl.com/EmpathAmazon. The e-book version is now available for Kindle, iPhone, iPad, and other digital reading devices.Why not have someone read the book to you? Check out the audio book MP3 file version.

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Interview with an Empath Having Anxiety Attacks

Last week, a man contacted me about the anxiety attacks he started having within the past two years. They were so bad at first that he went to the hospital thinking he was having a heart attack. The medical staff ran all kinds of tests and found absolutely nothing wrong with him and had no explanation for the chest pains, racing heartbeat, nervousness, shaking, anxiety, and general feeling of being ill. The ER doctor diagnosed it as heat exhaustion and dehydration and told him to go to his primary care physician for follow up. The PCP wanted to prescribe anti-depressants, but my client did not want to take them. Keep in mind that all of this followed an event at work when a coworker had a heart attack.

The anxiety attacks subsided after my client had energy work and he wasn’t bothered like this for nearly a year. When he started having physical symptoms again this summer, he went to the hospital again with his heart racing. The medical staff ran all kinds of tests and found him perfectly healthy and had no explanation other than dehydration since it was very hot outside. However, he had been drinking plenty of fluids to avoid another episode like he had the year before. He had been on antibiotics for a head cold and thought perhaps an allergic reaction was occurring. He stopped taking the medication and the symptoms immediately lessened.

He continued to struggle with mild symptoms that would peak at times causing him to still wonder what the hell was going on. He's a young, healthy man. Why was he having panic attacks and feeling so strange emotionally and physically?  Within the past few months, these panic attacks started to affect his work and business. He finally contacted me. Here is a synopsis of our conversation.

EMPATH: The anxiety attack today was almost instant—no warning that it was coming on—but I was able to calm myself before I started feeling really bad. I thought it might be tobacco so I tried cutting down. I want to stop using it. I’m under a lot of stress right now and that makes things worse. Can you feel my energy through the phone?

YVONNE: Oh, yes! I feel your energy. It’s crazy wild and I’m having to remind myself to breathe. The human body has an electromagnetic field around it and yours is very cluttered. You definitely need to ground your energy and clear your field. Do you know how to do this?
EMPATH: No.

YVONNE: Do you have my book, Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You?
EMPATH: Yes, but I haven’t read it yet.

YVONNE: Chapter 9 walks you through the grounding and centering steps and describes a lot of other helpful things you can do to manage your energy. You can also listen to the audios on my blog: http://whosestuffisthis.blogspot.com/search/label/Audios%20for%20Empaths. 
Who have you been around in the past 24 hours? What was their energy like?

EMPATH: I was talking to a man named Leon this morning just before this attack occurred. He has a stressful job, he’s trying to get a promotion, and his wife is sick.
YVONNE: You are an empath and you pick up energy from others quite easily. Empaths have the ability to heal and transmute the suffering of others by taking detrimental energy into their own body or auric fields. Having this ability is a gift once you know how to manage it. There are many people like you and that is why I wrote a book to help them. It’s the book I wish I’d had twelve years ago when I was going through what you are now.

EMPATH: What is this gift for? If it’s possible to pick up other people’s feelings, there has to be a reason for it. I don’t know why I have this gift if I don’t want it. Why is it so uncontrollable? I work on machines because they don’t have feelings. I can’t be around people on a daily basis.
YVONNE: Many empaths find it difficult to be around others—some even become hermits. We empaths are more comfortable in an environment where our own energy is predominant.
The gift is to help heal humanity and the planet. It is controllable. I’m putting together a free telesummit in September to train empaths how to use the gift to heal themselves and others without paying a personal price. Please sign up and plan to listen to these calls: http://whosestuffisthis.blogspot.com/p/websites-and-blogs-for-empaths.html

I had to clear my own energy field after working with this client. I also cleared his field for him and arranged a followup chat to see how he is doing after he starts putting some grounding and centering exercises into practice.

Everything on this planet is composed of energy. We use the energy in the plants, drugs, and chemicals to treat illnesses. Empathic fatigue is not something your doctor will diagnose or treat. It is an energetic imbalance and must be corrected through spiritual means. For far too long the medical world has tried to separate the body from the mind and soul. We are entering a time when this will no longer be possible. The medical world will either have to change or people—especially empaths—will have to find alternative methods for maintaining health on all levels.

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What Inspired Me to write a Book About Being an Empath?

I was asked recently, "What inspired you to write this book?"

Like most empathic people, I have always wanted to help others avoid suffering. As strange as this may sound, the one way empaths do this is by taking on the problems of others and suffering on their behalf—kind of like a surrogate for affliction. The other person feels better, but the empath feels horrible.

Many compassionate people do not understand how to set energetic boundaries; they unknowingly pick up energy, emotions, feelings, and illness from their environment and the collective unconscious. Over the past ten years, I’ve researched and tried all kinds of things to alleviate empathy fatigue. There are all kinds of energy-related treatments—herbal remedies, visualizations, meditations, prayers, etc.—that can assist an empathic person on a path to emotional maturity (using the gift of empathy wisely without paying a personal price).

Since writing is my forte, I started writing a blog (http://weareoneinspirit.com) about some of the spiritual practices and protection tips that I use to keep my energy field clear and balance my chakras. A psychotherapist friend of mine, Dr. Caron Goode, suggested I put this information into a guidebook that could be used by energy-sensitive people to set boundaries and manage the overload of energy they absorb. Caron and I feel there is a real need for this material. She provided insight on the psychological aspect of empathy and I wrote about my personal journey through the empath wilderness and how I learned to psychically protect myself as I moved toward wholeness.

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