Music and Sound

Take your focus away from earth-bound thought patterns by surrounding yourself with music or getting into nature. Sound is the vibration of life. Flow with it. Give yourself permission to sing along, relax, take a nap, dance, walk, or whatever you feel led to do. Shaking a rattle, beating a drum, playing an instrument, chiming a Tibetan bowl, or making a gentle or repetitive sound can also help you clear your chakras, aura, and body.

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Clearing Your Energy Field

Some highly-sensitive people silently show empathy and compassion by soaking up other peoples' negative energy. We naturally want to restore balance and heal people wherever we go, but the trouble is we don’t realize that taking negative energy from other folks will eventually make us sick or get us into trouble, as you’ve read in my personal account on this blog and in my book, Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You. Energy from others first engages with the energetic layers or subtle bodies that create the interconnected electromagnetic field of energy (auric field) around our physical body. Information in this auric field is received by the chakras and sent to the brain for processing and sending messages to the areas of the body that correlate with that type of information. Therefore, clearing your energy field is the place to begin working when you decide you’ve had enough of taking on everyone else’s stuff.

There are many easy and effective ways to control and eliminate detrimental energy and entities that may have entered your field during your workday. If you are employed at a retail store where you encounter customers, or in a hospital or clinic where you tend to those who are sick or dying, you are likely to be affected. Several times, my husband has brought home the ghost of a patient who passed during his shift at the hospital. Let’s not even go into the yucky stuff our police force, emergency response teams, victims of violent crimes, and detectives pick up!

Clearing is an ongoing process and must be done regularly to stay free of other people's energy. When you first put defense mechanisms in place, you may still get overwhelmed in a crowd or when there is emotional turmoil around you, but the discomfort will lessen as you continue to develop your intuition. I tried several techniques to help cut down the amount of energy I let into my field. I started with some very basic ones, which worked quite well, so I continued using them. These are in my book.

There are many things you can do at home to clear your energy field. Depending upon how much stuff you have in your field and how long it has been there and how fast you want to get rid of it, you may want to consider receiving some type of energy work from an energy worker or natural health practitioner. There are a wide variety of modalities to choose from: Reiki, sound healing therapy, healing touch, transference healing, hypnotherapy, vibrational therapy, bio-energetic therapy, and many others. See the resources section on this blog and in the back of my book for a list of providers that I trust.

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Raise Your Vibration

Slower vibrating energies cannot reach you when you vibrate at a faster level than they do. It’s like you become invisible to these energy leeches. Here’s how:

See the light within yourself near your heart center. Visualize that circle of light growing brighter and brighter as it expands to encircle your body. It extends from your body and fills the room you are in. Next, it expands as large as your house. Continue to see this light growing larger to fill your entire neighborhood, city, county, state, continent, and finally the whole Earth and universe. Now see your light joining with the cosmic light of the angels, archangels, Christ and the ascended masters (avatars or perfected beings), and God/Goddess. Allow their light to fill the circle of light surrounding you and raise your vibration. Now, begin to pull this light into your being as the circle of light shrinks to the size of the Earth, your continent, state, county, city, neighborhood, and your room. Bring your light-filled aura closer until it extends only about two and a half feet from your body.

Did you sense the shift? Most empaths do.

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PURCHASE the paperback book, Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You at http://tinyurl.com/EmpathAmazon.
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The author, Yvonne Perry, is available as a spiritual coach. See http://weare1inspirit.com/services/coaching/ for information about a free 10-minute evaluation to see if coaching is right for you.
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The Difference between Compassion and Suffering

This article is derived from a presentation given by Gini Grey during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” on September 6, 2011. Get the full transcription and MP3 audio of Gini’s and Kate Garvey’s presentation at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#Kate

During these times of shifting, it is helpful to know how to be in a place of compassion.  I mean compassion and not sympathy.  Sympathy comes easy for us empaths to feel sorry for someone when we see them suffering. We care about people—our loved ones and people in the world—and we want them to feel better.

But the vibration of sympathy is a slow vibration and it’s got victimhood written all over it. You might say or think, “Poor them or poor me” if you’re in sympathy.  But if you rise to a higher level of empathy and into compassion, you’re in a place where you’re looking at people from that centered place we talked about earlier where you see the power and light in them.  Sure, you see their suffering, but you also see that there’s a powerful spiritual being in there who has created this situation for a learning opportunity, and you know they have the resources to heal.  If I say hello to their bigness at the same time I’m saying hello to their suffering, that’s a gift for them. 

It’s about offering caring kindness but not dropping down into a slower vibration of sympathy, which doesn’t feel good to you and it doesn’t serve anyone else either.  So when you see this stuff going on in the world and with yourself and with other people, notice when you’re dropping down into that pity place or feeling sorry for another, and bring your vibration up.  Use your intention to rise to a higher level of compassion. Get centered and look at that person through your spiritual eye. Then, you will see the big picture and know that everything is fine, or is going to be ok. You will feel better and so will everyone else.

On my Web site, there is a complimentary audio session on compassion, which helps you look at the difference between sympathy, or the dichotomy of that (apathy). The audio guides you to rise up to a higher vibration of compassion. 

Gini Grey has created Spiritual Energy Awareness audio programs. These transformational energy awareness courses help you shift the energy dynamics in your life. Programs include topics such as Energy Balancing Tools, Energy Healing Meditation, and Living in Abundance. For empowering articles visit her Insights & Inspiration and Spiritual Transformers sites http://www.ginigrey.com.

What experience have you had where you operated in sympathy? Was it fulfilling or draining? Do you think that raising to the level of compassion would work for you? Why or why not? Feel free to comment about what you experience when you try this exercise.

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