Being an Empath does not mean that you have to deal with your gifts alone. There are ways in which you can develop yourself and practical exercises that will help you through all this. But before presenting these ways, you need to know how to identify which type of empath you are to know exactly who you are. Are you an Emotional Empath, a Claircognizant Empath, a Fauna Empath, a Physically Receptive Empath, a Spiritual Empath, a Geomantic Empath, a Precognitive Empath, a Psychometric Empath, a Flora Empath, or a Telepathic Empath?
Emotional Empaths
The first sign of you being an Emotional Empath that is common to most Empaths, but differs in the reaction, is if you can know when someone is lying. Whenever someone lies, there is a bulk of emotions filling you and you will feel the actual deceitful energy that this lie generates. Another sign of being an Emotional Empath is the creativity and love for nature that you have. Empaths are more creative and love nature more than other people do. To Emotional Empaths, creativity can be even greater because they can express more emotion and feelings that accumulate from other people. Also, they will love to travel and meditate.Since Emotional Empaths can pick up the emotions of others so well, they also know if a person is facing problems or not. This way, they will be able to know beforehand what kind of problems a friend or family member has and be prepared to find an appropriate solution faster than a normal person would. Another sign that indicates an Emotional Empath is that they feel pain and sadness in extreme amounts.
An Emotional Empath will think of the past and all the people who have hurt him or her more often than people lacking this ability do. Also, the pain of a friend, news, and TV shows will be extremely hard to watch without feeling emotional pain. Emotional Empaths also have the distinct ability to channel feelings of others and make them their own. This type of Empath could feel the pain of people who lost someone they loved or the pain of a couple that broke up.
Emotional Empaths can build emotional connections with other people and link their emotions with them, something that can be both a curse and a gift. It could be a curse for an Emotional Empath who doesn’t know how to control this situation and a gift because helping people is a need most Empaths have and people will seek out the Emotional Empath for advice constantly. Whether they are friends, family, or someone you just met, those people will feel that you are able to understand them a lot better and on a deeper degree than most. Other people view the Emotional Empath as someone who is very sensitive and often say so, but not in a kind way; they are more judgmental of this. Since an Emotional Empath can be bothered more by something like comments of others, smells, and noise than other people, they may come off as so sensitive that others will roll their eyes at them.
Some may not even know or understand the gifts of an Emotional Empath. Another sign we can mention is that large crowds to an Emotional Empath can be daunting. To untrained Emotional Empaths, being in a group of four people is difficult to control as far as emotions go; imagine feeling the energy of a whole crowd. Since Emotional Empaths can absorb the feelings of other people after they are done conversing with someone they may feel drained of energy and repeat the conversation over and over again. This stress to your emotions that is caused can make you feel physically ill. The illness could vary from a cold to catching the flu or feeling unwell for a couple of days.
This may lead you to the need to avoid other people for a short while. Maybe avoid the person who caused you this emotional havoc altogether. There may be a load of different emotions existing within you at the same time and this can be too much for you to handle; this situation may cause you panic attacks and depression. An Emotional Empath may struggle with relationships more than others.
They will encounter people that will make them feel, every time they talk to these people, as if everything is about them. These people are toxic to Emotional Empaths and can cause them an emotional overload. Emotional Empaths will try and fix those people and every situation they may find themselves in because they think this emotional overload will be fixed if the troubles of others are done.
For Empaths, this is not the case since they will understand and feel the other person, regardless of if their energies are similar or not. Through meditation, you will be able to hold an energetic boundary between you and other people. An Emotional Empath is the most common type amongst Empaths and this means that more people should be informed and aware of their gifts and develop their skills accordingly.
Claircognizant Empaths
A Claircognizant Empath knows things before they even happen, and they may gather a great amount of information at the same time. Claircognizant Empaths have the ability to tap into their intuition and know when something has to be done or their gut feeling tells them that something good or bad is going to happen in the future.
The characteristics of this ability should not get confused with: Clairaudience: Which refers to someone who has an external and internal hearing. Clairvoyance: Which refers to someone who is able to get images in his or her mind, and is able to see angels and symbols. Clairsentience: Which refers to someone who is able to sense a spirit whenever they find themselves a room and have a strong intuition about a situation or about people.
The difference between simply being claircognizant and a Claircognizant Empath is that in the first case the people who possess these abilities do not necessarily feel other people’s emotional states, while Empaths have this ability and the abilities of claircognizant. For example, ideas may come to you out of the blue and you will have an inner knowing when an idea is good or bad, even if other people believe it is a good idea. Also, a Claircognizant Empath will be able to have information about the outcomes of future situations and will be able to find something that has been lost.
For example, if you had lost an object, you would be able to find it wherever it may be. People may come often to you and present you with problems they are unable to solve. When they leave you, almost always they feel as if you gave them the solution to their problems. Because people come to you to solve their problems, your mind is always working and there are a lot of thoughts running through your head. Claircognizant Empaths even have the gift of knowing what those in front of them are going to say next. Another thing they excel at is learning a new instrument to play.
Even if they have never played a particular instrument before, they can know exactly how to play the keys after a few lessons. To develop your Claircognizant Empath gifts, you could put one of the questions that are on your mind on paper. By setting a timer for an amount of time that you are comfortable with and writing down your thoughts about this question, you will be able to relieve your mind and know the information that could be lost at the depth of your subconscious due to the number of questions you have gathered.
Also, when you get this moment where you just know things, write them down so that you could identify them in the future. Describe the exact feeling you get in each case and compare them with future moments of knowing things. You could also start reading more and learn things that are similar to the knowledge moments you have. Learning a new language, for example, or taking up a new hobby could always help in developing your gifts. Enrich your mind with knowledge so that your knowing moments will be clearer in the future and will include more things.
Fauna Empaths
Fauna Empaths and Flora Empaths are usually categorized under one type named Earth Empaths. These Empaths are very sensitive to the energy nature sends them. Their emotions are even allied with each season change and they are extremely sensitive and angered by climate change and all the abuse nature suffers from humans. They are also connected more with crystals since they are created inside the earth.
Fauna Empaths or Animal Empaths have a connection with animals. This connection can be translated to you knowing how your pets or animals in general feel and to animals or your pets knowing how you feel. Your pet may adopt behaviors similar to yours, for example, they sleep the same time as you do, they scratch their nose at the same time as you do and this behavior is noticed by several people. Fauna Empaths will communicate with bugs and they often find themselves talking to them. They are also able to relate to specific types of animals like dogs, cats, bunnies, birds, etc. Naturally, Fauna Empaths will feel angry, guilty, and sad when they eat animal products, so it is common for these Empaths to stop eating animal products altogether. You will find yourself loving animals more than people and you will be at your most relaxed state when you are surrounded by animals, so try to do that as often and for a prolonged period of time as you can.
Flora Empaths
A Flora Empath or a Plant Empath is sensitive to the energy the plants send them. They just know what a plant needs to grow, especially how much water it needs, if it needs to soak in the sunlight or it needs less sunlight to grow, and generally their houses will be filled with plant life. If a plant or even a tree is dead, they will be stressed and sad.
Flora Empaths used to be healers in ancient times since they knew which herb was appropriate to cure a certain ailment. This ability continues today since Flora Empaths are extremely good in healing ailments with herbs and taking modern-day medicine is not their cup of tea. The perfect place for them to relax and meditate is under a tree and surrounded by nature. Develop your abilities by reading and growing specific herbs and plants to your garden and create remedies with them. If you don’t have a garden, create one since this place will become your own fortress of solitude, calmness, and relaxation.
Physical Receptive
Empaths Physical Receptive Empaths are the ones who absorb the physical symptoms other people have. This is not necessarily referring only to illnesses, but also to feelings of stress, anger, happiness, anxiety, and many more. These Empaths can endanger their life by being outside without properly controlling their energy. They may stand next to people and feel as if they want to fall asleep or even feel restless and sick when finding themselves in crowds, so they opt for avoiding them altogether.
Especially when it comes to Physical Receptive Empaths who do not know the gifts they possess, they may be visiting doctors to explain why they feel so physically ill, tired, exhausted, but they are told that they are alright. These Empaths feel the desire to always stay at home and are overwhelmed by everything in the world and are also the ones who know the true value of physical exercise.
Spiritual Empaths
A Spiritual Empath or otherwise Medium Empath has the skills to sense spirits and are able to form communication with them through dreams. They are also sensitive to angels and other beings that are not present in the physical world. Spiritual Empaths can also allow spirits to talk through them or write in order to deliver messages. This type of Empath is also called Medium because they have the potential to turn into mediums or spiritual guides.
The problems they face are related to the fact that they can get overwhelmed by spirits trying to contact the physical world and the Empaths have to learn and close those communication channels. They can do this through meditation, talismans, or crystals. Geomantic Empaths A Geomantic Empath can feel the energies that exist in a certain place and may also have a connection to a holy place since they can sense the spiritual energy of this site.
They can also sense a past life and for this reason they could be drawn to a foreign country they have no connection to in this life. Since they are able to sense the energy in a room, they can gather information about it, but they have to beware not to take in the emotions they don’t want to feel, like pain, sadness or anger. For example, if they want to enter an abandoned hospital or a crime scene, they need to protect themselves from this negative and tragic energy through crystals, awareness, and meditation.
Precognitive Empaths
A Precognitive Empath is able to see visions of the future. Their dreams are not just that since they happen in real life. Those dreams include exact images of what is going to take place or they may depict symbols that indicate the future. The second case can pose several difficulties for a Precognitive Empath since deciphering the symbols is not easy. When you wake up, you should write down the contents of your dream and see if those will come true.
Another sign of a Precognitive Empath is when you can tell who is knocking at your door before you asked for the identity of the said person or what a person will say next. You will also get weird sensations that are translated into anxiety when you feel that something bad is going to happen to someone or even to you. Precognitive Empaths can have Déjà vu sensations more often than are common; you will feel it when you have already been in a place or a situation before. Any change that happens to the energy around you will be felt by you immediately.
Having visions of the future will help you warn people about dangerous situations so that they can avoid it; however, keep in mind that you could be wrong since the future can change from one moment to another; it is not set in stone.
Psychometric Empaths
A Psychometric Empath is the one who can read the energy of objects. He or she can tell how happy or unhappy a couple is by touching a wedding ring or an engagement ring. They also know when an object was created, where it was created, and its value. However, they need to be careful when it comes to using this ability because if they touch an unknown object that has a sad and tragic history behind it, they may take in unwanted feelings and drain their energy.
Telepathic Empaths
A Telepathic Empath is able to instinctively read people’s thoughts and emotions they have not expressed yet to them. They can also trace back someone’s belief to the reason why it was formed this way. A Telepathic Empath can feel when a friend or a family member is in a difficult situation. For example, they can sense that a friend of theirs is sick and after a few moments they get a call from that friend confirming their intuition. However, these skills can be confused with an Empath’s own feelings.
This is resolved by how well an Empath knows himself or herself. When his or her feelings are brimming with emotion, the intuition may not be about the abilities but about the Empath. Each feeling they get from the world around them enables them to use their intuition more and this way control it.
Stages of Controlling Your Gifts
Being an Empath, no matter the type, is not going to be an easy ride filled with rainbows.
There are stages that will lead you through until you are able to be completely comfortable with your gifts. At first, your gift may seem as a burden; as if there is something really wrong with you, especially when you don’t know you are an Empath. When you learn that you are an Empath and read the basics of your gifts, the shock will make you feel as if you need to be rid of them. You will try to convince yourself and those around you that you will be able to control your emotions without proper Empath guidance and you are like most people, normal.
The second stage, when you realize how special you are, is to take measures to take care of yourself better since you had the time you needed to let everything in and to think things through. During this stage, you will avoid overwhelming yourself and accept your gifts and the special person you are. At this point, you will need to start exercising some self-care routines we will present in later chapters of this book. During the third stage, you would have understood that doing some self-care routines is not enough and you will be researching everything there is to know about energy fields.
You will need to practice meditation, visualizations, and even shield your energy to keep it out of other people’s reach. However, you may still get this feeling of everything being too much for you to handle, you may get frustrated with all there is to know, and seem as a mountain where the top is unreachable for you. The fourth stage will find you being a bit more optimistic about your amazing gifts. During the time between the third and fourth stages, you would see improvements in yourself and your powers will be less difficult for you to control since you will be able to be in the presence of many people at once.
Those improvements will make you see that eventually, you will be able to control something that seemed uncontrollable in the beginning. As you practice more on controlling your gifts, you will enter the fifth stage where you have managed to control your gifts and even use them quickly. You will know more about how to use your powers and start to understand that you could help others in unique ways. Also, at this stage, you will realize that there is nothing you own to the world to use your gifts to the point of making you physically ill. Your gifts are yours alone and it is up to you on how and when you should use them.
As a consequence of the fifth stage, the sixth stage is all about you being able to stay in large crowds without feeling the pressure and energy drain you felt at the start. You will still feel the emotions of other people, but you will not take them as your own which is the main reason for your energy drain. Even though you will still be able to feel the emotions of other people, this situation will be similar to knowing that the TV is open in the background. The final stage includes you absorbing the energy of other people if you choose, but you will not have to practice any energy work on most days. You will still need to practice and clean your energy, but now it will seem more like taking a shower to get clean rather than needing to do it in order to survive those overwhelming situations.
There are many things to know when someone realizes that they are an Empath. Being one is practically a whole new world, but keep in mind that things are not as bad as they may seem. An Empath must know everything about the problems he or she may face to be prepared and then learn the ways of tackling those problems and controlling his or her gifts effectively.
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