Hi Star2Snow. I agree with all the wise replies you have received so far and would add the following point:
If you raise your own vibrations you will find that you tune into more uplifting vibrations in those around you. It's a bit like being a radio receiver: you effectively scan the airwaves and pick up the stations that you choose.
You can raise your own vibrations through positive daily affirmations and positive visualisation, as well as simply treating yourself well. Becoming more filled with light in this way is the best protection there is from negative energy.
Also, being part of a supportive group such as Healthypages is clearly very helpful.
You will still pick up the sad stuff - it's just that you don't have to do it all the time, nor so strongly.
When you do pick up the sad vibes, you can deal with them as appropriate: fill the situation or person with light in whichever ways feel right for you, and then let go and move on. Remember it's not your stuff.
In time this will all become easier, and it is truly worth it. Being sensitive, intuitive, or psychic, call it what you will, is a wonderful thing to be.
Strange how times have changed... I was told many moons ago - to always protect yourselve againist negative energies and hence I have always carried Haematite( My choice) To accept these energies is ok, but there are some who may have problems getting rid of them... I always know when someone is feeling ill as I seem to get the basic symptons and it can prove a little embarrassing to have to ask if anyone is feeling poorly( normally the symptons go away after someone has confirmed them)
I often think I would be weighed down with if I carried a crystal for every type senario lol lol 😀
Very and most enlightening answers which I will very much take also on board.
:):):):):):)
CS
Another point of view is that these emotions affect you because there is space in you that allows them in.
A person who is full of their own power and soul will only feel other's emotions when they need/want to.
Hi my lovely,
You have empathy, theres so many people that have it. I too have empathy, pick up others feelings, emotions, illness and so on. Don't ignore and switch it off, embrace it. Also when we have contact with another person, un-knowing to them we pick up there stuff, and it sticks to our Aura.
Have you heard of grounding and protecting? This helps you not to pick up the rubbish.
Grounding - Place your feet flat on the floor indoors or out, then imagine you have large roots coming out of your feet, all the way down to the centre of Mother Earth and hook them.
Protecting - Imagine you are surrounded in a big white bubble that only allows positivity in and negative bounce straight off.
I do that a few times a day, it helps I no longer pick peoples energies up when out shopping, lol.
Also at the end of each day, I imagine I have these hook attached to my aura, I un-hook them, as they stand for every person you have met that day.
It will get better, it a fab gift to have, as you know how people are feeling and can help or understand.
I feel that most of the responses here missed the mark.
Really missed the mark.
Imagine standing in a store with a wall of TVs all on and all on a different chanel. Embrace that madness.
Have a little empathy for the empath. They suffer until they understand their gift and even then they suffer to control it. They have to have solitude to recharge.
Imagine that you have a severe alergy to animals. Every time you are near an animal or a person that has animal all over them; you feel itchy, runny nose and have to clear your throat. Now embrace that!
Don't think. Its not the same. Go stand in a store with all the tvs on. If the sound is off; turn the sound up a little on each one. Embrace that. Now turn the sound up only on the ones with violent tones. Feel it. Embrace it.
Now you have empathy for the empath.