When I was young I noticed how some of my friends loved being in crowds and couldn’t wait to go to parties, to the crowded beach, or hit the shopping malls… -but I didn’t feel the same way… I felt overwhelmed, and exhausted by large crowds. My friends would say “What’s the matter with you?” but I didn’t know what to answer – all I knew that crowded places made me feel stressed. I’d go there feeling just fine but I would leave nervous or with some horrible new ache or pain.
I didn’t know back then that my body just absorbed other peoples’ energy like a sponge. Now I call it being an “emotional empath or intuitive empath”.
Over time, my intuition became stronger, and I have learned how to deal with it. I also realized why I felt this way.
From working with patients and other healers I realized that I was experiencing intuitive empathy: the ability to sense what’s going on in another person’s body – both emotionally and physically.
Now, let me explain the dynamics of intuitive empathy…
The more people we have in a room, the more our energy fields interact. This is why we become overwhelmed in crowded places.
I’m not referring to ordinary empathy–for instance, when you sympathize with a friend whose partner left her. Intuitive empathy goes way beyond this. It’s the capacity to energetically merge with someone else, and for the moment, see their life through their eyes. If you ever felt like this, it may be impossible to distinguish these sensations from your own. You may think it is your pains but the pains are not yours.
These experiences can make you feel very sick and stressed.
I know. I’ve been there. What I didn’t realize before was that my intuitive empathy is actually a gift but you need to know how to use it and protect this gift.
Most people never get to the good part of intuitive empathy because they don’t know how. Their pains and symptoms confuse even doctors. They go in for care, but it’s like the blind leading the blind. No one knows what is going on. Intuitive Empaths, unintentionally manifest a lot of “unexplained” symptoms that frustrated doctors don’t know how manage.
Intuitive Empaths may be labeled as “agoraphobic” or having a “panic disorder,” or labeled with any other diagnosis which may not be true. The person may take drugs for the condition but still continue to suffer….
The first important step to cope with intuitive empathy is to understand your own nature. Understand that you are an emotional empath and you have a tendency to absorb other people’s energy….
Being too sensitive to other people’s energy is a negative part. But on the other hand, intuitive empathy is a gift. It allows you to sense energy better than other people. It allows you to see the invisible and point out the real problems. Being an empath means having a healing gift and your tendency towards becoming an intuitive healer.
