Energy practices for Empaths ✨

Someone called me an empath the other week and I felt so triggered by this word! I totally pushed against myself being an empath. I seen it as a weakness, I seen it as a lack of strength, I seen it as something I once was, not something I am. 

I started to process my negative reaction to the word and unpack what was really going on inside me and why. 

I am highly empathic. I feel to a very fierce degree and it’s something that I’ve struggled with my whole life. I have felt too much. It’s been overwhelming and I have gotten myself into a lot of sticky situations because I was overly empathetic and lacked a foundational strength in my energy body. People have taken advantage of my caring nature and I've been quite hurt. 

Energetically I see Empath’s with a very open navel or sacral chakra. This is our second Chakra, this is where we feel emotions. If this chakra is naturally open and we have imbalances above and below it’s going to create imbalances in our lives.

 So, what is an Empath you may ask…

Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Empaths are highly sensitive individuals that are acutely aware of other people’s feelings and emotions. They can walk into a room and unconsciously analyse what others are feeling or what mood they are in. They may naturally gravitate toward the person in the bad mood and try to cheer them up.

Your empathy is your super power but it can be a super downfall if you’re not aware of how to use it.

Empaths can unconsciously try to “fix” others emotions. Feeling the other persons emotions so intensely or like its their own, they can unconsciously try to solve others problems without them asking. This stems from a lack of boundaries or being too open in the sacral/ navel chakra. This lack of boundaries can stem from a lack of self worth. This ‘lack’ may find Empaths looking for validation externally, through “fixing” things or making others “feel better” instead of taking care of themselves and their own needs first and validating themselves internally.

An embodied Empath will use their ability to feel others to understand and care for them but will also allow others to ask for their help without crossing boundaries.

If you think you’re an Empath and find yourself unconsciously trying to “rescue” people or find yourself giving more than you are receiving. You might also find yourself feeling drained, thinking or feeling like no one really appreciates you.

I am going to go over some simple energy practices you can do on the daily, to strengthen your navel center. Build your self worth. Boost your energy body and start working your super power to your advantage.

Because when you are truly embodied, Empath - People feel seen by you, they feel safe with you, they feel empowered by you. You have a magnetic energy and people want to be around you.

So lets start making our energy work for us not against us.

Energy Practices for Empath’s.

Water cleanse

A cleansing shower or bath is like an energy recharge for an Empath.

Using a natural water source like the ocean or river /creek is also a great idea.

Setting your intention to clear your body or any energy that doesn’t belong to you can help dramatically shift / change your energy.

Imagining all that energy going down the drain or getting absorbed into the body of water.

Nature

When you feel overwhelmed Empath, try not to just sit in your emotions. Get into nature. Even if that means sitting in the sun for 10 minutes and allowing the rays to flow over your body. Grounding your feet into the earth. Walking along the beach or going for a bush walk. Allow the energy of nature to transmute and help you process whatever emotion you are feeling. Know you have support and you don’t have to do it all on your own.

Smoke

Simple and effective - using a palo santo stick, a smudge wand or an incense stick - breathe in the aroma to help shift your mental focus into the present. Then intentionally wave the smoke around your body to cleanse your energy field and cut any cords you have to people, places, things, situations or events.

Meditation

A simple guided meditation, or taking yourself through your own mediation, focusing on – bringing the breath into the belly and filling it up, then gently releasing, try this for a minimum of 10 breaths. This brings your awareness to the navel center and helps reconnect back to your power. Bringing you into your body and out of your head.

Shield

Focus on your breath, then imagine a blue bubble around your auric field (about 2meter circumference around your body) feel this shield and intend that no ones energy can pass through. Affirm you are safe. You can also use our Earth Angel Mist, which I designed as an energy shield. Spraying before you leave the house or whenever you are feeling energetically unstable. 

Empowered Communication 

When you start to feel an emotion, tune into your body and ask, Is this my emotion or is this someone else's? 

If you cant discern, feel free to do any of the above steps to diffuse the charge of the emotion and begin to process it. Also feel inclined to ask yourself. Where does this feeling come from? What is going on underneath this feeling? The more we start to communicate with ourselves and understand our own emotion, the stronger our self worth becomes. 

Since I have been working on strengthening my energy body, I see myself feeling others emotions but I am also able to not over step boundaries and try to take care of them without their consent, which would just end up with me feeling drained and unseen.

I find myself less reactive when people are feeling strong emotions around me. I had quite a submissive nature in the past and now I am assertive and able to stand in my power.

I now see my empathy as my super power not my weakness and I embrace it.

I use it to help, not to rescue, and I get to feel and connect with people naturally and deeply in a way a lot of people cannot.

I hope this post helped and if you have any questions please reach out.

Goodluck Empath. 

Lucy Grace.