Do you feel what others are feeling?

There are times when you feel upset, sad, or worried, but have trouble answering why you feel that way. That’s because the emotion didn’t start with you. You are absorbing trapped emotions when you “feel” about someone or a situation. You interact with the outside world and are in-tune with the emotions of people.

These absorbed trapped emotions came from another person that you interact with. For example, your consoling your friend who is in grief. You’ll tend to gather the vibration energy and absorb the emotions of sadness. When you participate in someone’s dramatic energy, you end up absorbing some emotions they release into the environment.

This is what empaths do. Empaths are highly-sensitive people who feel the emotions of others as their own. Being able to empathize with another person is viewed as a positive trait. But in some cases, empathy take with them the energy and feelings of the person they encounter. They store absorbed emotions as if they were their own – which is called “energetic enmeshment.” It’s the dark side of empathy that can be a negative thing. If not addressed, it can cause emotional imbalance.

Absorbing Negative Emotions

We are all connected energetically. This is why we gather extrasensory perceptions that allow us to create our social experiences. Moreover, all of us can absorb emotions from people around us. There are others who are more sensitive to other’s emotions. For example, there are doctors, caregivers, and nurses who inevitably take on the pain and suffering of patients that they tend to experience emotional burnout or “secondary traumatic stress.”

It works this way. You’re sending out a projection like a cord of energy that connects with the other person. When you obtain information, the energy projection is released and re-integrated into your energy field. This is something that you do even without realizing that you’re doing it consciously.

There are cases where you resonate with the energy of the person you’re interacting with and absorb the same energy. There are specific interactions which makes you feel good, but some interactions can drain you. When you allow yourself to be more open to the other person, you are receiving the positive and negative energy. You absorb emotions as they emotions travel through the energetic cord. If you become aware of what your interactions bring, you may choose to be around people who can make you feel better than those who can make you feel emotionally worse.

Empaths

Empaths are individuals who feel precisely what others feel. This particular kind of spiritual gift is commonly clairsentience. They have the tendency to absorb emotional energies from the environment and the people around them.

Empaths can learn and understand the environment around them and make choices in life. The gift of clairsentience allows empaths to receive spiritual information through their senses. They learn the way they feel. Their feelings serve as the feedback mechanism that will enable them to understand themselves better and the world around them.

People who do not know that they feel the emotions of others as their own are the untrained ones. They protect themselves from the energies of other people by avoiding large crowds and certain situations.

Empaths who shut off their feelings tend to get disconnected with themselves and the world. This is one worst thing that could happen. Those feelings and emotions serve as the communication tool and knowledge of an empath person.

As you understand how you feel during the day, you will know if you have the characteristics of an empath.

Ask yourself these questions:

• Have I created this emotion?
• Have I absorbed this emotion from others?
• Have I suppressed my emotions?

Your emotions are valuable. They provide essential messages that will help you in understanding yourself, the world, and in making decisions. Make sure that you listen to them.

Ask yourself these questions:

• What do my emotions tell me about myself?
• What do my emotions tell me about this situation?
• What do my emotions tell me about my relationship with this person?

Types of Absorbed Emotions

Received

Received absorbed trapped emotions happen when you absorb emotions from the other person completely. After people talked or interact with you, they feel better, as you have helped them release their emotions. As you receive those emotions, you tend to feel drained out and get stuck with it.

Shared

Shared absorbed trapped emotions happen when one person generates the emotion while you share that feeling. This type occurs typically between partners, spouses, mother, and child, or best friends, especially during times of difficulty.

Absorbing Emotions From The Environment

Anywhere we may be, energies are surrounding us. Some are positively uplifting, while others are emotionally draining.

Have you ever experienced being in a place where you felt heavy? While your conscious mind couldn’t see anything wrong or threatening, there’s a part of you that wants to leave.

We usually experience this in old, distressed homes, hospitals, airports, train and bus stations, and crowded places. These environments are filled with lots of negative emotional and negative energies. The energies in these situations can be stagnant especially if they are not energetically cleansed.

Thus, you stay in that place for an extended period; you will feel those emotions around you. These feelings can come from people who stayed there in the past and those who are staying there in the present. When you become angry, moody, worried, or irritable for no reason, it means that you have absorbed the emotional state of other people. It’s because you have picked up the vibrational energy and you’ve responded to that vibration.

Empaths don’t feel safe in negative places. Because of their sensitivity, they are always the first to respond to those negative environmental vibrations. They are like energy sponges who absorb that negativity as they aim to clear the area and fill it with positive vibes.

If you are an empath, spending time in places with negative energies can make you feel exhausted. While you cannot see that the place is filled with energy pollution, it can affect you on a subconscious level. Even your home and offices can have negative energies and emotions from people who have been there.

On the other hand, spending time in nature will make you feel better. Nature is very powerful as it helps you achieve peacefulness. It releases that negativity and relieves you of energy debris.

Releasing Absorbed Negative Emotions

If you’re an empath, must take time for yourself to restore your energy. Don’t allow the feelings and emotions of the world to burden you. You don’t want to lose yourself in the process, right?

I’m sharing with you a simple yet powerful way to release the negative energies you are absorbing and carrying in life.

Give yourself time as you do this. Make sure that you are in a quiet place so you can efficiently visualize.

Now, visualize a pool made up of transparent blue liquid light energy. Visualize that you are taking steps to go into that pool. As you slowly step down into the pool, use your senses so you can feel, see and enjoy the energy field that’s surrounding you. Gently, try to release all the negative debris that you have absorbed and carried into that pool of liquid light. As you release that negativity, say the following:

“I am allowing the light to remove every negative energy, thoughts, and emotions that I have absorbed from other people and the environment. I ask assistance to help me cleanse them away. I ask my guardian angel as I go through this process completely. Please raise my level of awareness so I can know if there is something I have to be aware of. Help me as I work on every aspect of my life that needs healing. Thank you!”

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