4 Tips To Strengthen Your Empath Gifts
Updated 2025.07.21
An empath is someone who can clearly perceive the emotional vibes and energy fields of those around them.
Empathetic people can be highly sensitive to many outside influences.
An empath may be able to more easily notice the emotions of others, pick up on shifts from diet changes, perceive the vibe of a space, sense the impact of media and even subtle energies like auras, residual energy and Spirit.
Any outside energy coming in can affect the clarity, accuracy and precision of your gifts.
Each input is something your energy field needs to process and the more energetic information that comes in, the harder it is to pick up anything clearly.
When it comes to strengthening empathic gifts, the key is boundaries.
You must be willing to examine all the external energy coming into your life and notice how it affects you.
Empathic gifts can improve with healthy boundaries specifically around people, things, places and media influences that don’t support your highest good.
As an empath, while you can likely sense other people’s pain and suffering, it’s also important that you have a way to release these outside energies at the end of the day.
Just because someone is experiencing pain and you are aware of it, doesn’t mean it’s yours to take on, fix or embody.
When you take on too much of other people’s energy, it will introduce cloudiness for what’s your energy vs. what belongs to someone else.
So it helps to ask, at the end of the day, is what I feel mine? Is this problem mine to fix? Is this energy something I can do anything about?
If not, it’s okay to let it go.
In addition to this, to strengthen your empathic gifts, below are a few steps:
1. Monitor your electronic media time
Whenever you start to feel overloaded with energetic or emotional information, turn off any device that’s adding unnecessary additional energy input.
Give yourself only thirty minutes a day to check in with the day’s media - don’t drain your emotional bandwidth on the daily news.
Whenever you feel extra sensitive, turn off extra devices for a couple hours or even a whole day.
Avoid scrolling - as that’s picking up and reading energy.
Simply taking a media break can help your empathic sensors re-calibrate.
2. Take breaks from negative emotional sources
Take breaks from anything or anyone that makes you upset, off balance or depresses your energy.
You do not need to be 100% available to absorb the pain and suffering of everyone around you, all the time. You are allowed to take a break.
Pain and suffering may not be the negative source - it could be comparison online or outside pressures.
You can take a break from seeing what people are flaunting on social media. You can take a break from listening to what other people want you to do with your time.
During your break from other people’s energy, do something that matters to you. A job that needs to be finished, a chore that’s been delayed or something fun, like a hobby.
3. Energetically disconnect from other people
Disconnect energetically from others.
I like a cord-cutting exercise. At the end of the day, I visualize everyone energetically attached to my energy field being released and floating back to their energy bodies.
When your energy field is continually being pinged, it can be hard to identify what truly needs your attention.
You can receive energy pings from any distance. You may have someone come into your mind and get the feeling to message them.
Empathic abilities are helpful because they can guide us to the people, projects, and individuals that need our attention.
But when our attention is being pinged by non-necessary sources, it can be hard to discern where to direct our sensitivities.
Regularly energetically clearing your cords can help you tune into your own energetic needs, which can recharge your empathic abilities.
This can help you return to what requires your most essential attention now, allowing you to apply your empathic gifts where they’re needed most.
4. Guide your thoughts to happier places
Take a few moments now and focus on what is going well. What do you like about this moment now?
This guides your energy and thus your empathy where you want it to go.
Thoughts are the first seeds of emotion, which leads to manifestation in the material realm.
As a highly sensitive person, this means that you are connected to subtle energy, emotions and wavelengths of others.
Pay a little more attention to what thought and emotional wavelengths you are riding. You'll feel less at the mercy of the universe around you and more in control of your gifts.
As an empath you have some control over how you feel and what you allow yourself to absorb.
If you spend a lot of time thinking about things you’re upset about, this will trigger a continual pattern of sadness and emotions.
This will make you feel more negatively and you'll feel more burned out by your gifts.
If you have empathic gifts, you want to spend some time thinking happy thoughts. These happy thoughts recharge your emotional bandwidth.
When you have a full emotional bandwidth it’s much easier to use your empathic abilities to perceive things accurately.
So to recap, to strengthen your empathic gifts:
Monitor your electronic media time
Take breaks from negative emotional sources
Energetically disconnect from other people
Guide your thoughts to happier places
When you manage your incoming energy sources, you'll strengthen your gifts while feeling calmer and happier.
Your heart will feel more at peace. When the heart is at peace, it will be easier for you to read its signals when you need them most.
Strong levels of empathy are considered a superpower. This gift can be used for energy work, clairsentient readings, reading the vibe of a room, being more emotionally aware of others and so much more.
Being an empath can be a beautiful gift. It can help you feel magnified versions of joy, hope, happiness and love.
When you work on your own boundaries, releasing the energy you absorb, and regularly disconnecting, this clears your energy field of any type of emotion, thought, or idea that can block the clarity of your gifts.
The more your heart field is clear, the stronger your empathic gifts will become.
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