empathic shielding

You know you are an empath if you find yourself picking up on other people’s problems. When they are sad, you are sad, when they are happy, you are happy, when they are suffering, so are you. Separating your issues from theirs can be very confusing and makes living life as an empath quite challenging. I would like to offer a very useful and effective technique that I discovered intuitively many years ago to block all these invading energies. Although I am an empath myself, I have developed the ability to choose to experience the energies of others or not.

Empaths naturally fluctuate their energetic vibrations to match other people’s. When someone is sad, angry, hurt, or happy, you match your energy with theirs to feel what they are feeling. Most often, this is done as an attempt to take the pain away from that person; to carry their load for them. Sometimes it stems from the belief that to understand a person’s pain, you must experience it. Whatever the reason, however, a very important lesson for all empaths to learn is that it is not necessary to feel or experience someone else’s pain in order to alleviate it.

How can you stop matching the energies of those around you? Using the training principle. Entrainment is defined as the tendency of two vibrating bodies to come together in phase and vibrate in harmony; also, as the synchronization of two or more rhythmic cycles. This principle is universal and can be seen in many everyday situations. For example, two beating heart muscle cells will be synchronized with time. Grandfather clock pendulums lined up against a wall will begin to swing together. Women who live together for more than a month will have their menstrual cycles at the same time. A guitar string tuned to a particular note, when plucked, will cause another guitar string, tuned to the same note but held a certain distance away, to vibrate.
We can also see examples of this in emotions. Have you ever been around someone who was in a great mood and you felt good too? Or how about the other way around, when you were around someone who was really sad or angry and you started to feel the same way. We tend to refer to this as “infectious.”

Well, you can use this same “infectious” energy to keep yourself from taking on other people’s problems. If you keep your energies higher than those of the people around you, you will find that you are not diving in to collect sadness, anger, hurt, frustration, etc. In fact, you’ll notice that if you spend enough time with these people, they’ll start to even out your energy and you’ll feel better! So how can you keep your energies high? By doing your best, you can stay in a good mood, upbeat, and happy when someone with low energy is around. Think of someone or something you love, count your blessings, imagine holding a kitten, puppy, or baby, or just realize that the best thing you can do for that person is to keep your energies high instead of letting them fall to their fate. level. . Misery may like company, but it’s not very useful to have a room full of miserable people. Be the beacon, the shining light during the storm and help lift that person’s spirits. You’ll both feel much, much better and will begin to learn that meeting a person at their level of pain is not the best way to help them through it.