Empath Energy Protection Simplified

Do you often feel overwhelmed by other people's emotions or energy? In this short talk, Brenda Carey offers a fresh perspective on what it means to be an empath and shares a simple approach to staying grounded, centered, and empowered. A gentle reflection for empaths and highly sensitive people seeking healthier energetic boundaries.

Transcript

If you have the tendency to take on other people's emotions, Then you might be an empath like myself. So I'd like to share with you some insights and a simple three-step process that I find helpful when I am just taking on too much. Blessings. My name is Brenda Keary and I'm a holistic healer for highly sensitive souls and allow this time to be a sanctuary for you where you can soften, Heal, And awaken your own inner wisdom. I am so grateful that you are here with me. When I first learned about being an empath well over a decade ago, The analogy of being a sponge was introduced. And yes, Although I understand that analogy, As empaths we have a tendency to suck in or absorb the emotions of other people. However, I didn't necessarily find that very empowering because when I think of like washing my dishes with the sponge, It's sucking in all the gunk and dirt. And yes, When we have porous boundaries, There is a tendency to take in those darker emotions. However, We have the ability to take in the goodness and beauty of emotions as well. So I tend to use the analogy instead of a sponge as more of a crystal that has a little bit more firmness, More boundary likeness to stand firm within myself. And it also emits prisms or light. If the sponge analogy works for you, Great, Use it. But I'd introduce this idea of either a crystal or something that emits light in a more beautiful way. One of the things that I needed to do to allow my boundaries to stand firm and not quite be so porous is this simple three-step process that I'd like to share with you. This doesn't go into all the nuances of being an empath. There are so many unique expressions of this, But think of it as like a blueprint. So the first thing that I do when I find myself taking on too much emotions of what's outside of me, Have to ground myself first. And usually this is simply drawing awareness to the soles of my feet and breathing more deeply. I will have to say most empath clients that I work with don't breathe nearly as deeply enough. Sometimes I'll even imagine drawing up the breath from Mother Earth through the soles of my feet and then into my low belly and just acknowledging that I have a body because sometimes I'm so much up in my head that I forget that I even have a body. And so once I feel more grounded, And I'll ask the simple question. Sometimes I place a hand on my heart or, For me, On my belly because I do tend to stomach, Literally, Stomach other people's emotions. I will ask, Is this mine? And I would encourage you, If you are an empath, To ask this throughout your whole day when you feel like you're drawing in too much. So I'll ask after I've grounded myself, Breathing a little bit more deeply, Is this mine? And I'll take a moment or two just to pause. Sometimes I can determine right away if it is, Sometimes I can't. But at least it's bringing in that awareness and pausing for just that short moment. After I ground myself, Then it's time to release the energies that I might have taken on. I personally like to just do body movement that could be shaking it out, That could be doing like a sweeping motion down my arms, Down my legs. So once I've released the energy and I feel like I've let it go, I might do some bigger exhales while I'm sweeping my skin or shaking out my body. And then I come to a place of stillness. I close my eyes down and I protect. That's the third step. I protect myself. I used to do a light shield, Like I would choose a favorite color and encase my whole body and outside of my body in this beautiful healing light. And sometimes I still do that. If I feel like I really need strong boundaries and strong protection, I will envision that light shield. Since then, I've adapted that a little bit because I feel like sometimes my light boundary was so thick that no one could get in, Even the goodness couldn't be received. So I started thinking of it as more like a filter, Kind of almost like fishnet stockings, If you think of that analogy. And depending on the place that I was going into, I would either envision like large holes in my filter, Or maybe a little bit smaller holes in that filter. Still would use that light energy, But this allowed me have some contact with the outside world and I didn't feel quite so closed off. Use what works for you. Maybe you do need that shield. Maybe you can use a very wide open filter or maybe a smaller hold filter. It's really up to you and you get to kind of experiment and play with it as you go through the three steps of first of all, Ground yourself. Second thing, Release any energies you've taken on. Lasting is protecting your energy. And I really feel like this is crucial in being an empowered empath and a grounded healer, However you see yourself as a healer in this world, Because you are. Thank you so much for being with me today. Blessings on your healing journey.

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts i needed that reminder