Empathy Part Of Soul Evolution & Healing Journey
A healing journey includes empathy. How else can we sympathize with our self and others? Have you ever found yourself feeling unwell despite being healthy and everything in your life going well? There could be a deep reason for this. You may be what is called an empathic person or “empath” for short.
Empaths are sensitive individuals who are not only able to feel others’ emotions, they sometimes take them on thinking they’re theirs. This means both the pleasant and the uncomfortable feelings. With this knowledge and ability, empaths gain understanding and great empathy.
The majority of empaths end up taking on feelings that aren’t their own until they learn to automatically disassociate themselves from other people’s energies and issues. This sounds easy but it actually is anything but easy. Many of these sensitive souls have difficulty coping when they’re in large crowds and intense energy centers such as cities. In most cases this unease will dissipate as they learn to release what is not in their best interest, whether it stems from their own perceptions or it is something they pick up from their environment.
It’s a normal requirement of anyone to discharge emotions and accumulated stress when feeling overwhelmed and emotional. This reaction is seen when people reach for comfort foods, alcoholic beverages, or in a healthier discharge they’ll go walk it off. If your go-to for stress relief is alcohol, it’s important to know alcohol only amplifies what we’re already feeling. This is definitely not the best solution for empaths especially because they’re tuned in to such great extent to others.
Natural approaches such as deep breathing, meditation and energy work like Reiki are more suitable and beneficial for de-stressing empathic souls and everyone else for that matter.
Eventually the perspective and belief that empaths hold about having to be guarded is enlightened with the realization of Oneness.
The empath no longer reacts to the environment or circumstances as fear is released and replaced with a faith and trust in life. The empath has evolved and is able to decipher what is real and what is only perception. This is when empaths excel at offering the right kind of advice and assistance at the right time.
As part of their caring nature most empaths are on an unavoidable path to help others.
When approached for help, they need to decide how best they can help another.
. This is a necessary step before committing to others, or there’s a real risk they could become enablers. Empaths must take the time to sense and observe the unconscious energy at play when dealing with other people and in all of their relationships. In many instances their role is simply to guide by setting an example. They will learn to let others carry their own burdens and find their own way just as they had to.
An empath won’t ever refuse to help another. They know what we do to others, we do to ourselves.
Empaths become apt at gauging each presenting situation for what it is. Is it a cry for help or attention? A cry for help is a plea for assistance, whereas a cry for attention is an unmet need for love and reassurance. The two will require different approaches and interventions. A deeper understanding of human emotions helps empaths recognize the difference, and respond accordingly, knowing not everyone wants or needs help. Some of the people empaths encounter will be there to teach the empath about discernment and boundaries.
Empathic individuals are often seen as anti-social or hermit-like. Given the times we are in, this is now not so out of the ordinary since most people have now retreated to themselves. It’s been going this way for some time though. It’s only that now we’ve been thrusted right in it. It is here where people will develop empathy not only for others but for themselves as well.
It’s not that empaths aren’t outgoing—some are—or do not want to participate and enjoy, but rather they live with different sets of priorities and values. They know and feel how dependence on anything outside self can lead to imbalances and disharmony. Given the sense of how others feel, they’re usually able to minimize upsetting anyone they interact with. They’ll go out of their way to ensure others aren’t offended or disturbed.
Everyone is empathic to a certain degree.
Humanity is now at a point where we’re being catapulted to unite and stand for all that’s fair, and this starts by acknowledging and accepting our own complicity in what goes on.
Blessings to all emerging empaths, and much empathy to the empathic hearts who know and are proud of just who they are! We’re all harbingers in this new heart and soul evolution.