How Can I Protect My Energy as an Empath

A Quick Guide for Empaths

Photo Credit Amanda Hillsdale

Hello Gorgeous Wildling!

If you have found this blog post, I am excited for you! I cannot tell you how often I see this question dance across social media groups a day, so let's dive in.

What is an Empath?

Here's how I define Empaths, an Empath is a highly sensitive person with extra sensory gifts. Often this gift feels like a burden to us when we don't understand how to "shut it off". Our gifts are also often a survival tool we gain as young people through having rough childhood experiences that require us to be hypersensitive to people's body language, energy, and tone. If this is you, I get it and am here to help. In this quick post we are going to talk about how to protect your energy as empath.

How We Connect as Empaths

Sometimes you walk into a room full of people, feel the pain or sadness, and respond to it. Codependly we rush into the safe, avoiding it too much, and run away. Depending on how you connect, it could be through energy cords or ethereal cords. (I have a free course to help you understand what this means, and you can access it by becoming a site member for free by clicking here).

Our Power is in Our Breath to Protect Our Energy as Empath

This may sound a little silly. However, we have so much power in our breath. Here is a guided meditation to help you learn how to breathe in your body and add a protective metaphysical layer around yourself. I recommend spending 6 weeks practicing this exercise every morning when you first wake up, again before your go out and socialize and a third time before bed to release the day. With daily pracitce you will being to notice a shift in your energy field after the first time and it will gradually grow larger raidating outward as your practice more often.

Energy Vampire, Let's Talk About Them

Energy vampirism is an interesting topic to discuss because many people associate the term with energy vampires. Yet, in reality, every single person on this planet has been, or will have the opportunity to be, an energy vampire at some point in their life. Before you gasp and grab your pearls, let me explain.

Let’s take, for example, a sick family member that you are taking care of. As you do, an energy vampire can take place. A sick person requires your time, energy, and resources to be taken care of. Does that qualify as something evil or malicious? Absolutely not.

It’s about finding balance and creating healthy boundaries for yourself, personally, professionally, and energetically in the physical and spiritual world, so that when you have to come in contact with someone who is an energy vampire or in an energy vampire's chapter of life, it does not drain you of your energy

The breath work exercise that I have added above over on YouTube is an excellent resource because as you practice your building, spiritual and energetic muscle memory, you will get to a point where you can roll your fingers across your palms and completely ground and bubble your energy before you walk into a room full of people without having to do a breath work exercise for 15 minutes it’s about consistently building muscle to remember how to check in with each part of your body and to close down your energetic field, so nothing is capable of penetrating it

So that when you have that family member who is sick, you can support and care for them without being energetically drained by them

I like to use this example, having a sick family member, the best, because it is the most frequent form of energy vampirism, and little to no conversation about this exists

I’d like to explore this topic even further with much more depth than I have available

Here, so that I will be adding a link here for the next article discussing energy, vampirism, and different types of energetic, spiritual, and physical vampirism at a later date