Empath Protection from Negative Energy

Hey Folks, Wow!! Has this been a interesting month of happenings... Lot's of letting go of old ways,  opening to a whole new world of possibility. Beautiful and Perfect! I am soooo Grateful!!!

Well, Let's get to it. This months topic is Protection, protection from negative energy. As an empath, in my experience, we feel other peoples energy regardless of whether it is negative or positive, especially when in a public place. For our purposes here let's focus on the negative, simply because if you are going to protect yourself you need to understand what the negative energy is so that you can recognize it.

What is Negative Energy? Negative energy is fear, stress, grief, worry, hate, shame, guilt, anger, etc... As empaths we feel these emotions radiating from other people around us, sometimes to the point of literally becoming the emotion we are are feeling, therefore losing ourselves and becoming a person we are not. This energy you are picking up on is not yours and you can protect yourself from it. The trick is to "Not Attach to IT" Acknowledge it and recognize it, just don't attach, it is Not yours. "Let others own their own feelings". There are a couple ways that I like to use to prevent attachment to an others energy.

The first is what I call "volume knobs" - I love this one and it works great for me. Imagine everyone including yourself has a volume knob on their chest. What you do is when you feel their energy "turn them down". Never turn yours down, simply put you don't want to shut yourself off this would take away your ability to notice if your are being affected by someone and it would shut down your energy flow and that is not good for you. On the flip side, turning someone else down doesn't hurt them.

The second way I use is to surround myself with a golden ball. I have found in my experience that golden light protects me well from others energy especially in places where there are a lot of people and I can't "turn everyone down". You can use different colors as well, some use violet or electric violet, and that works well for them. There is no one better color, there is only what works for you. I recommend experimenting with different colors till you find the one that works best. How I surround myself. I start with a small ball around my heart and place the intention I want it to carry and then consciously grow it until it surrounds me. I like to think of it as protecting my personal space which is about 3 ft around me.
Sometimes I even use them both in conjunction with each other to get a real powerful effect.

Namaste'

Hope these help, Love, Light and Blessings to All

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Distant Love

Loving You from afar,
finally with understanding of who we are.
Life's bumpy roads are not enough,
to take away hearts.
Today is special.
Today is bright.
I can see you shining in the light.
Stop a moment and meet my eyes,
for that is where my Love resides. 
I Love You.

~LEC

What Is an Empath? - My Experience

What is an empath? To have empathic ability, What does that mean?
Trying to find a definition was not easy,  most were for empathy or empathic. I found one that best describes what an Empath is and what it means to have empathic ability, here it is.
Empath - A person capable of psychically reading the emotions of others - this came from wiktionary.org
Here is another great explanation or definition from the "Book of Storms" by Jad Alexander
An Empath is a type of "psychic", but instead of reading the "future" or viewing remote objects, the Empath specializes in reading people. Here is the link - http://mysilentecho.com/dreamtongue1.htm

I like this one too, it's a little more descriptive, however in my experience I have found that I can see the future and the past as well and remotely view both. This happens when I am facilitating a healing with a client. Other types of experiences that I have had as an empath have to do with sensing the energy of a person or group of people when I come into contact with them. This has been the hardest thing for me to deal with. There was a big learning curve. I went out and found a lot of different ways to protect myself from other peoples energy. All the ways I found worked, however not all the time and sometimes not at all. There was a lot of trial and error.
Over time as well, as I developed my empathic ability through meditation and by performing healings on clients, which for me acts as a form of meditation. I found that I was becoming more and more sensitive to other people, especially if they were really hurting. This was great for my ability to help people in a controlled setting. However in public people were attaching to me and draining my energy left and right. I was almost always in a state of fatigue. Trying to live life that way is no fun. Imagine being conscious enough to know that if you go to a public place that you will feel sick, tired, unsettled, helpless, hurt, the list could go on. All the feelings of the others around you. This is what an empath experiences. Once you realize that it's not you, your journey begins.
Next time I will talk about some of the ways that I found help with protecting yourself from what has become commonly known in empathic language as an "energy vampire". There is one super powerful way that has never failed me... Stay tuned...
~ Love & Light
~ L.E.C.

I'm Out and In the Open

I am finding myself falling into my old patterns of neglect for self and depression.
I wonder what the connection is for me to victim and blame energy that unconsciously allows me to fall back into this space? I am wondering if I have not fully accepted myself and therefore am not accepting of how I live. Wow that just rang a bell about how my sister feels she was treated by our mother, where how she chose to live is unacceptable and that she should clean up her life. Is this the same for me? Even though I have always seemed to go the other direction in life. Amazing... Here’s my hallucination - Here I am in life being looked at by my family as a rouge, a free thinker, a rebel someone who goes against what is considered normal to them. Meanwhile inside, I’m hurting and unconsciously sabotaging myself due to the programming I have from my childhood. I am sensing that I have been hiding the real from myself and the world and that is my truth. What I feel I need to do is open myself and express to the world who I am and not hide anymore. Like I wrote yesterday, No more half-assed living life. What I do I enjoy, the only secrets I have are the ones people don’t ask me about. In other words NONE. I get asked I tell, No Holds Barred. I take responsibility for myself and no one else. I have lived a life of fear and secrecy far to long and need to be expressive and loving and take hold of my truth which is that I am who I am no matter what I was taught and what anyone says to me. I show up with integrity and truth from my heart space.

Here’s what I actually wrote yesterday.

No more half-assed living, I pledge to myself to show up for myself and be there for myself with impeccable integrity for myself with impeccable communication, empathy and reflection - to show up BIG with My Feet Firmly Planted in The Garden Of Love. All this for Myself So that I Show Up Gigantic For Everyone Else!!!!!! Love To You All!!!!!