Protection Methods For Empaths

 

September 11, 2021

Empaths are emotional sponges who absorb other people's emotions into their own bodies. They have an ability to completely submerge into someone else's mind, perspective, and emotions. At the same time, that means that they also take on their stress and negativity and end up feeling exhausted.

Empaths have little to no boundaries between themselves and others. As a result, this excessive stimulation and sensory overload often overwhelms them. Being aware of empathetic abilities is not enough. Empaths need to also shield themselves with protection methods to keep their balance.

Simple Shield. Because of how Empaths are created, “normal” boundaries don't exist for Empaths.

 This method is for Empaths and sensitive people who need a quick way to block out toxic energy. Whenever a feeling of discomfort, guilt, a frustrating situation, or being around an emotional vampire arises, simply start to visualize a shield. Picture a white or other comforting color shining through from that shield and completely taking over your body.

Picture it as it expands from the shield unto you; as the moment it touches you, it protects you from any toxic or intrusive energy. Behind this shield, you are safe, you are centered, and you are loving. Focus on your breath. Slowly and deeply, inhale and exhale. Think of yourself as exhaling negative energy. Pay attention to your breath as you release it by holding it and breathing it out slowly. Once you steady your breath, repeat this mantra with confidence and authority: "Return to sender, return to sender, and return to sender."

Removing excess negative energy through controlled breathing. Chest breathing says you're in a consistent state of anxiety.

 By commanding yourself, you take control of your mind. You remind yourself that the negativity is part of someone else's journey and you use your breath to send it back into the universe. As empaths are sponges that absorb all the stimulation of their environment, they tend to let in a lot of noise. To protect their energy from over-stimulation, they need to set the intention to protect their environment. That means, for example, at work, knowing when to question authority, when to say no to a favour, and when to step out.

Empaths in particular need to learn how to set energetic boundaries.

On a physical level, that also means putting up plants or photos that provide emotional support and reminders in stressful situations. Certain sacred objects like crystals, protective stones, and the statue of Quan Yin (the goddess of compassion) might also be useful. Earthing can be a really powerful method and it is all about connecting back with nature. Nature has a grounding effect, as by literally stepping on it, especially barefoot, you feel closer to the earth. Even looking at the green and blue shades of the earth can psychologically release happy chemicals to clear out any negative energy you have taken on. Noticing the clouds pass by and the flowers blooming is an anchoring reminder of the big picture.

Its good for everyone, but Empaths in particular need alone time to ground, and re-energize directly from the Earth.

In addition, it allows you to step away from what is disturbing you. An easy way to dissolve stress and purify the mind is to completely immerse yourself in water. The water represents the Earth's energy as it flows through you and washes off all negative energy. You can take a bath with bath salts or simply shower with intention.
Lavender essential oils are also great for providing a calming energy. You can also picture yourself standing under a waterfall with water streaming down on you. This waterfall is releasing all the negative energy down and away from you as it flows. The easiest way to re-energize is to take time away from any place and any person that may affect your energy. Use your alone time to recharge and connect back with your power. Empty your cup from unwanted energy and fill it back with the space and the activities that make you feel full again.
Planning for emotional overloads, such as the night in after a big work meeting, will center you back. Think of it as a recovery plan. Use this time to journal, meditate, and stay away from your phone.

The Empath

 

September 5, 2021

The last 3 ½ years have been fascinating. There have been a handful of revelations that I had never really thought I would understand. One was coming to understand the number 26; it was a number that kept popping up in high school. And yes, you would be right in assuming that it was wrapped firmly around the Nanny. As a 16 year old kid there was absolutely no way of knowing why or how the number would affect us, but still it was there on the wall clock, 2:26, the date in her note book 2/26/84. Then there was a long period of separation that never should have been, but was 26 years in length until we were reunited. (There was an intermediate period where the universe asked us a question of which we both got very wrong). The universe was telling us that yes you are destined to be together but first, there are lessons to be learned; awful tough lessons. Prior to our reunification in 2018, beginning in 2015, again the number 26 would pop up in unexpected places, I would find an old receipt for $26.26, and increasingly often I would look at a clock and it would read whatever hour and twenty-six minutes.

In truth, the number scared me; I could not envision the obvious idea that the number indicated how much time that I would continue to spend with the narcissistic leprechaun of who was killing me with her energy vampire alcoholic ways. I could not envision that it had anything to do with the Nanny, 20 years previous, she had married this other jackass and the way we had parted had been less than ideal. Sure, we were “friends” on Facebook, but there was zero inter-action between us; so it had seemed pointless to even consider her. The universe was working to wake me up and give me hope when I was in a situation where I had very little. Understanding the number 26 is vital for my future; the Nanny is and always has been my soul mate extending back billions of years.

   An Empath is born from trauma; it does not matter from what type, physical, emotional, sexual, and even spiritual. My gift was given me from emotional and physical abuse. As I have out lined in other articles, I was the victim of incredibly severe bullying outside the home and at home, the abuse was severe. As both my brother and I approached the 180 cm 6 ‘mark in height and 85+ kgs 185 lbs. in weight, both mom and dad’s ability to throw us around at will was limited, as an alternative tactic they would ambush us, always when we were most vulnerable to it. As a defense mechanism, I chose to take my chances on the streets of Toronto finding a measure of safety there, because there was none to be had at home.

The problem with violence is that it learns, the four of us in that “family” learned new and better ways to hurt and severely wound each other. As in any conflict, the most desired weapon is one that will preemptively stop/end the conflict. Many times while being ambushed, I had wished that there had been a way of being warned ahead of time as to how bad it was going to be. Given that knowledge perhaps there might be a way of disarming or limiting the damage done.

The manifestation of this defense mechanism was unexpected and essentially useless to me. It did not begin to show itself to me until after a particularly violent episode between my father and myself, which involved being thrown against a wall while I was sound asleep and leaving a Chris sized dent in the wall. The problem was of course that I had no idea that such a thing was possible so there had been no way to prepare or train for such an eventuality as becoming an empath. My only exposure to the word Empath during the next 30 years was the television series, “Star Trek The Next Generation” and the character, Deanna Troi, who was an “empath”. Hers was a character that I thought hokey, and yet, I easily appreciated how and why she was beneficial to the captain of the Enterprise.

Her character had been trained since birth to focus on and interpret emotions that people broadcast unconsciously. She made it look easy and natural, and was mis-leading in that people broadcast singular emotions; whereas truthfully, you all do not. You are all a messy hodge- podge of everything all at once all the time; it has been chaotic and overwhelming absorbing all your stuff. But the worst part of all of it was having no understanding of why I did.  

The 7 Common Types of Empaths 

Empath Type	Core Sensitivity	Strengths	Common Challenges
Emotional Empath	Feels others’ emotions as if they were their own	Deep compassion, emotional intelligence, strong relational bonds	Emotional overwhelm, mood absorption, burnout
Physical Empath	Feels physical sensations or symptoms in others	Healing intuition, body awareness, caregiving abilities	Somatic overload, misidentifying others’ pain as their own
Intuitive Empath	Picks up subtle information, motives, or outcomes	Strong intuition, pattern recognition, foresight	Anxiety, second-guessing, information overload
Environmental Empath	Sensitive to places, crowds, and atmospheres	Awareness of energy shifts, design and spatial intuition	Sensory overload, exhaustion in busy or chaotic spaces
Animal Empath	Deeply attuned to animals’ emotions and needs	Strong human-animal bonds, animal care and advocacy	Emotional distress from animal suffering
Plant / Earth Empath	Connected to plants, nature, and ecosystems	Grounding presence, environmental awareness, nurturing energy	Feeling ecological grief, discomfort in artificial environments
Spiritual Empath	Sensitive to collective emotions or spiritual states	Sense of meaning, connection to humanity as a whole	Existential overwhelm, boundary confusion

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A couple of grounding notes (important)

• Most people aren’t just one type—they’re usually a blend.

• These categories describe how sensitivity shows up, not how “psychic” someone is.

• From a scientific lens, many of these traits overlap with high empathy, sensory processing sensitivity (HSP), and emotional attunement.

It is thanks to the Nanny and her incredible insights in to my character that I learned that I was an empath. She found groups on Facebook for empaths and, there I was able to learn that most of us share the same experience in that we did not know that we were empaths. The pandemic has actually been something of a boon to me, the first few months of it were incredibly tough, people’s fear and anxiety were through the roof, and I would literally come home a quivering mess having had to deal with it all week as an essential worker. However as time passed, it became easier to focus on who was feeling what, where the strongest signal was coming from, and very importantly; how to at least for a time, block the signal, after deciding what I think of the broadcaster; to in a way, weaponize my gift using both my abilities as an empath, and my ability to see auras.

There are different types of empaths, and their differing types of strengths are impressive. To be completely honest and non-insulting, I honestly feel sorry for those who are not an empath.

Discovery

 

October 17, 2020

DIS Divine Masculine

Back in 1997, while at a Flying J truck stop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, U.S.A., I experienced the real beginning of my spiritual awakening. It was an agonizing experience; my 3rd eye pried itself open. This sometimes happens to individuals who experience extreme emotional trauma. In previous essays, I have described the abuse that took place throughout the first two and a half decades of my life. The events of 1991-2 had left me extraordinarily vulnerable. The following five years had left me in a depressive hole so deep, dark, and utterly lifeless, that by that snowy night in Wisconsin, my sense of self-worth had collapsed into a place where I had absolutely no expectations of anything or anyone. As a child, I had thought that I had known what loneliness and depression had felt like, as it turned out, I had not even scratched the surface of the abyss.

DIS An artists concept of what a Black Hole may look like. In this case, Cygnus X1

At that time, my grail quest was pretty well not a quest at all, it, as well as everything else in my life, had stalled. At the time, I worked with a couple of people who introduced me to a couple of different ideas, one, that every person we encounter we are supposed to. And two, Machu Picchu in Peru, in this case, the fella who talked about it had grown up in a village not far from there. In both cases, I ignored their importance, as I could not dredge up the mental energy to explore these things. However, quietly in the background, my 3rd eye was open, but I had no concept as to what it was trying to show me.

As time progressed, slowly but surely, under the sure guidance of my not understood 3rd eye, things began to improve. It was finding secure logical evidence, and following that trail through all the baffling twists and turns and, seeming dead ends of my grail quest that brought hope. Initially, I was dismayed and immensely disappointed that the grail seemed to have no structure, no priests, and no way of “joining.” As I continued my study of the grail, over time it became glaringly obvious that in its wisdom, there was no need of any of that. For many years, I concentrated mainly on its scientific history, learning about the Annunaki, the chalice being Mary’s or any other woman’s womb, and unlearning Jesus’s contrived life.

For quite some time I kind of plateaued there, then, the words Mystery Schools began to appear everywhere. At roughly the same time, the number 26 began to appear reasonably often as well. The number brought up uncomfortable associations, and I tried hard to not understand them. 

 DIS The Third Eye. The 3^rd eye is known to bring clarity to matters of intuition. This I'm eternally grateful for because it has saved me too many times to count. The seat of your 3^rd eye is your Pineal Gland, this was developed in humans to help us understand instructions from our Annunaki overlords. Especially if complex, like Hemiunu who designed the Great Pyramid at Giza. Or Unapishtim, (Noah) who built an ark.

This then was a period of personal upheaval, my life partner and business associate was a blackout alcoholic, my health was in a period of decline, namely my eyesight; cataracts. During the preceding 15 years, I had become aware of the possibility of there being far more to life than that which we see with our limited human faculties. I had been introduced to an author by the name of James Redfield; you may know him by his descriptive pseudo-handbook, “The Celestine Prophecy”. In this work, he describes how through human interaction, we increase vibratory frequencies and are able to see one and the other’s auras. An ability that I was very skeptical about.

That being said, I was aware of the possibility from having watched a 1970s T.V. show called “Science International”, where in a segment from one episode, they had shown pictures of a person’s aura. From then, I had believed that a person’s aura could only be seen by camera. It was during my own cataract surgery, that I was given proof positive, of there being an entire universe of energies that we as humans are entirely unaware of. As the lens was lifted off of each of my eyes, the raw data that I became aware of was absolutely mind-blowing. I have since learned how to see auras at will.

DIS Raw Data. Our eyes, though marvellous bits of “bio-tech” are limited by the blinders that we wear, the lenses of our eyes. The wavelengths of which we see in this realm, are really quite narrow, between 400 and 790 THz.

Yeah, now I know more about you than you do. That period of upheaval was good for me. I left the alcoholic, reunited with the nanny, learned what the number 26 was all about, and learned that I am an empath. I too began to study the mystery schools in earnest.

Discovering Hermetics allowed for a completely new viewpoint on spiritualism, answering why and what Jesus Christ really meant when he talks about love. Upon making that connection, and learning what really happened between the nanny and myself all those many years ago, created a vast space inside me where love, joy, and appreciation for self grows exponentially daily, allowing this to take place, a critically needed reunification with my sacred feminine.

 DIS The Sacred Feminine. The goal of humanity is acsension. I don't know exactly what that means, the one thing I'm sure of is, its not a physical place. Its far more likely to be a state of being. That the two sides of us must be reunited, is abundantly clear. How precisely we're to do that, I don't know. Like you, I'm learning how as well.

As we go forward on our grail quest, we will talk in depth about this. The most astounding discovery during the last three years has been this though, finding out that I am an empath, I had no idea that there was such a thing. If someone had said the word empath to me, I would have thought of the T.V. show Star Trek: The Next Generation and the character Counsellor Deanna Troi. As we go forward, we will talk in depth about the classifications of an empath, his/her strengths and weaknesses, and how we are created. Making this discovery about myself sure has answered a host of questions that I never expected to understand.