Sometimes simple intuition isn’t what you feel. You can be an emotional empath.
It’s okay to be emotional. Feeling strong emotions has many good points. Unfortunately, being around negative people can have the opposite effect. In this case, it could be draining.
To be an emotional empath takes strength. After all, empathy allows you to absorb the feelings of everyone around you, even the ones you don’t know about. Trying to sort through all of the emotional airwaves can be challenging.
Are you an emotional empath?
So, I guess you’re wondering because you feel overwhelmed by emotion if you’re an empath – an emotional therapist. You may have felt an outpouring of heartache and had no idea where it was coming from. Or maybe you felt the overwhelming joy emanating from a group of friends… so much joy that you felt tears welling up in your eyes.
Well, here are some signs that you might fall into this category.
- You are a lie detector
Let me say this: It’s very difficult for someone to lie to you, as an emotion. Emotional feelings are inside you the moment someone else is lying. The jittery energy created by the lie just fell off and you had a hard time not letting the liar know that you knew…if you know what I mean lol.
Liars cannot hide things, deceive, or lie out of sympathy because they know how to read energies and expressions so well. If lies can’t get past you, you’re talented.
- You are creative
Whether it’s drawing, writing, dancing, playing a musical instrument, or acting, you are creative. When you’re creative, most of the time, you’re also blessed with an empathetic nature.
Let’s face it, when there’s so much emotion coursing through your body and mind, there’s no way you can refrain from creating something. Creativity is like venting your emotional feelings or draining a little of that excess knowledge you get just by going through the day. Yes, this could be you.
- You are a free spirit
Emotional empathy is usually a free spirit. If you are, then you likely enjoy travel, nature, and spiritual aspects such as meditation. All of these things help Empath process what’s going on in the mind.
When you meet others and start sharing pain or happy feelings, it can get heavy. This is why being free and enjoying life as it comes is such a welcome release from carrying such large amounts of energy from so many sources.
When you finally get to be single, you’ll also enjoy the freedom of just basking in the atmosphere and letting out feelings from everywhere.
- You are listening carefully
There are many people who talk away from everything, but empathetic people tend to listen a little more. If your friend needs someone who truly cares about their feelings and what they’re going through, you’ll listen intently and do everything you can to help you.
In fact, when they listen, you can see their true feelings, notice the truth behind their expressions and even share their pain. This means, instead of telling their problems to someone who just wants to gossip, they tell someone who really wants to help. And listening is what you do naturally.
- You just know stuff
You don’t know why you know, but you do. You can tell when someone is lying and you can tell when something is going on, maybe even from a distance.
With the emotional energy Empath receives from this knowledge also comes a head start on finding a solution. You don’t have to wait for everyone to talk about an event or problem, you’ll already know.
- The pain and grief are almost unbearable
Have you ever been home alone and started thinking about the past? Well, we might all have done this. An emotional empath would do that a lot, a lot, in fact. Because of the ability to feel emotions so strongly, thoughts of loved ones who have died will plague you.
Also, any kind of pain a friend feels will also make you sad. It will be difficult for you to watch shock, news and some TV shows without shedding tears.
- You can channel emotions
When I hear this indication, I think of those who transport the dead through a seance experience. However, this is a bit different. While emotional empathy may not guide the dead, they can feel what others are feeling, just like their own feelings.
From afar, you can feel the grief of a mother who has lost her child, or the anger of a man who has lost his job. You, as an empath, have an amazing ability to connect feelings and make connections that others can only dream of.
- I was daydreaming….a lot
I remember daydreaming on the school bus every day on the way home. I often wondered how many other kids do this.
Well, empaths do this all the time. There is so much emotion flowing through it and so much information, that it is almost impossible not to daydream. If you find yourself drifting all the time in a fantasy world, you are probably a very emotional and creative person.
