What Is Emotional Flooding For Empaths And Highly Sensitive

This is a short share for empaths and highly sensitive beings who are curious about their emotions and learning more about the nervous system. It includes a description of what emotional flooding is and some tips for expanding your awareness to create a more regulated nervous system.

Transcript

Hi friends,

I'm Anita Kaiser and I wanted to talk to you today about emotional flooding.

What is emotional flooding?

So for empaths and highly sensitive beings our threshold for becoming flooded is smaller than the average person.

And so it takes less to push us to that place where we are flooded.

And so being emotionally flooded,

This is a term we use in the tapping world,

It's that space of panic or overwhelm that many of us get to more often than we'd like.

And so when you're in that place,

That emotionally flooded place,

It's very hard to take action in your life,

To be proactive and really just to make decisions.

It's not a place where your logical rational mind can help you make decisions,

Right?

Because your logical rational mind has actually gone offline.

Your nervous system has gone into overdrive.

And so for each of us panic,

Overwhelm feels a little bit different,

But for me in my body it's very often like waves,

Right?

Like a wave rolls in and I feel like completely overwhelmed and then I have a moment of,

Oh well maybe it's not so bad,

Then I'll be again overcome by another wave of like,

Ah,

There's just too much happening.

So the first step to stopping that is noticing when it happens to you.

And as you start on this journey,

It may take you a few days or a week to notice that,

Oh my goodness,

That happened and I ended up leaving my body.

And that's okay because you noticed this time,

Even if it took you a bit of time.

And the more you practice this,

The more you're going to see it as it is happening so you can adjust accordingly.

That's what I wanted to share with you today.

Let me know if this has been helpful for you and make sure you follow me on Insight Timer.

Reviews

I’m just learning I’m an hsp. It explains why I’ve always been so emotional and fearful. I’m trying to soak up as much information as possible to learn how to navigate my life with this trait vs trying to overcome it. Thank you for this brief explanation of emotional flooding, It’s nice to have a name for it.

Great reminder to notice, easily overlooked action that can help ground and soothe when we’re overwhelmed. Thank you, Anita!

Thank you so much ! I needed to listen to this today .

This was very helpful. I tend to let peoples emotions overwhelm me. When I realize I’m flooded, if I can, I go somewhere private, I feel everything, and I let loose, I feel every emotion that I took on. I’ll sob until I feel a release. Then I’m exhausted, it could last all day. I’ve always needed help with not letting my waves turn into a flood. Thank you.

Very recognisable!!
I do usually notice, since I learned about adrenalin being so bad for ME-patients.
Except that's the bigger problem : after the flooding it takes hours to days for the adrenalin to leave our poisoned body... 😏
But the sooner we notice, the sooner we're high on adrenalin, the sooner we can try to detox again (over and over)
🙏✨

Nice brief description of the sensations one might potentially experience, with both explanation of why HSPs and empaths reach that point so quickly and encouragement that this is not a forever-uncontrollable issue. Much needed today - thank you!

Gratitude for sharing this gift with us here on Insight Timer. I see you and the light within you. Be well. 🤲🏻❤🤲🏻