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Understanding & Managing Your Empathic Gifts: Part 1

If you are highly empathic (also called clairsentient), you may notice that your emotional state can shift quickly depending on what and who is around you.

One moment you feel completely fine, and the next you may feel anxious, heavy, distracted, energized, excited, or emotionally overwhelmed without immediately knowing why.

This is one of the challenges and gifts of clairsentience.

Your ability to sense emotional energy gives you information about the people, places, and situations around you so the goal isn't to shut this gift down.

The goal is to become more conscious of what you're sensing so you can determine what belongs to you, what doesn't, and what you actually want to allow into your energetic space.

This month, we're going to work with your empathic gifts from that perspective with a series of activities.

Activity 1: Establish Your Emotional Set Point

Begin by choosing an emotional state you would like to return to throughout your day. 

Simply pause now and choose a feeling of alignment you’d like to maintain.

This doesn't have to be an extremely high or ecstatic state. 

A simple feeling such as peace, happiness, love, confidence, contentment, curiosity, or gratitude can become your emotional set point.

Ask yourself: What emotion do I want to experience more often?

Once you give it a name, notice where that emotion goes to and lives in your body. 

Where are you feeling that emotion active?

Allow yourself to feel it rather than simply thinking about it.

You can practice this first thing in the morning, before getting out of bed or when you remember. 

Spend a few moments remembering what in your life now already represents this feeling and allow your body to settle into that feeling.

Then ask: What emotion do I choose today? How can I embody it?

The purpose isn't to force yourself to be positive all day. Instead, you are creating an internal reference point. When you notice yourself moving away from your chosen emotional state, you have something to return to. 

This helps you identify when something else has pulled you away from your desired state.

Activity 2: Connect With Your Heart as a Clairsentient Center

Clairsentience is often experienced through the body, and the heart area can be an especially important place to notice your emotional and intuitive responses.

When your heart space feels crowded with old emotions, other people's energy, worry, or stress, it can become more difficult to distinguish true intuitive information from everything else you're carrying.

Take a few moments to bring your awareness to your heart.

Imagine colored light gently rinsing through the area.

Visualize light moving through your heart and chest, cleansing away anything that does not belong to you.

You can use a color that feels cleansing or soothing to you blue, white, or pay attention to the shade that simply shows up. 

Don't overthink the color, just breathe, imagine the light cleansing your heart and notice what light comes to mind or feels good.

Activity 3: Practice Empathic Boundaries

One of the most important skills for an empath isn't learning how to sense more.

It's learning how to manage what you already sense.

Begin noticing the energy coming toward you throughout your day. Noticing the energy of incoming messages, emails or even new conversations as they arise.

Before immediately reacting, pause.

Ask: How does this feel? Is this mine? Do I want to engage with this? What would happen if I gave myself some space before responding?

You don't have to respond to every emotional wave you encounter.

You can step away. You can take time before answering. You can unfollow, mute, disengage, change the subject, leave a conversation, or simply decide that something doesn't belong in your energy field today.

Knowing what you allow into your energy is part of your power as a clairsentient.

For this exercise, simply notice, pause and decide whether to or how you want to engage when any energy, from any person or source, comes across your desk.

Activity 4: Your Clairsentient Awareness Practice

As a build off the last exercise, for the next several days, notice three things:

1. What energy comes toward you?

2. How does your body respond to it?

3. Do you want more of it, less of it, or a different relationship with it?

Simply to become aware and perhaps, make a choice to pivot your relationship to what you want more or less of.

The more clearly you align your own emotional baseline, the easier it becomes to recognize when something changes.