(Find the first part of my journey here.)
Upon learning I am an empath I went into isolation for a while. I didn’t know who to trust. Finally, I reached out and gained a handful of people who gave me the support system I need. Ultimately, though, I had to figure out my life and how to live it on my own. Either I needed to learn how to live with it, or I needed to find a way to turn it off.
I did a lot of reading and research online. I joined a couple of online communities dedicated to empaths. It is necessary to delve into the spiritual when you work with empathic abilities. You have to be extra careful because anything spiritual can go either very light or very dark and sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.
I found a home in a couple of the communities and I found sisters and brothers who felt the same things I did. I also found a couple of communities that I didn’t hesitate to run the other way from as fast as I could. The energy in the rooms was heavy and intense and uncomfortable.
Learning About Energy
Energy is the biggest thing you learn about when you begin to study about empaths. After doing as much reading as I have I don’t think even now I understand as much as I need to. But I know enough to know that the emotions I feel from other people are actually energy that they are putting out. There are some people whose energy is so pure and light you love to be around them. They radiate love and peace. Then there are those whose energy is dark and heavy. People who bring you down just being around them.
The best way I describe an empath to those who are unfamiliar is that we are a sponge for the emotions of other people. It really is too simple an explanation but unless they want to delve further into understanding, nothing more is necessary to explain to them. I pick up the energies, the emotions, the attitudes of people around me. And sometimes I can’t recognize that they aren’t my own emotions.
This journey for me has just begun. I’m still learning. There’s so much more that I don’t know. There are dark corners in seedy places that have information that might be valuable but I don’t want to go there. Maybe when I feel stronger and more protected. Until then, there are two valuable things that help me on a daily basis: Epsom salt baths to cleanse any negative energy I may have sponged from others. (Yes it really does work) and a quick prayer to St. Michael: (St Michael with Thy light, Enlighten me. St. Michael with Thy Sword defend me. St. Michael with Thy wings protect me.)
I still read. And study. And I learn from experiences.
This is a life-long course.
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Interesting, I have a problem trusting others and do feel negative and positive energy from the people I am around. Solitude! I am drawn to the outdoors preferably up in the mountains where I can get away from people and just contemplate. Spiritually, I turned to the Creator 36 years ago during a divorce and meeting my second wife. I have grown stronger in my faith and spirituality during this time. I am still trying to climb out of a manic depressive life. It is getting better, I think I have climbed the tallest mountains emotionally and now see only see mostly small hills. More later maybe.