The Empathic Soul - Part Two

Learning How To Protect Ourselves.

Empaths are souls who can literally feel or share in the emotions of others around them, being able to experience life by walking in someone elses shoes, whether we are aware of this gift or not. We have to learn to structure our abilities, and not allow these emotions and experiences to control us. It is amazing to be able to know when someone else is suffering and to be able to help them find peace, but it is not healthy for us to also suffer from their suffering to the point where we become frightened to go out of the house because of what we 'might' end up feeling during the day. Often times we become depressed because we do not know how to let go of all the emotions we 'collected' from other people, half the time we don’t even recognize that these emotions are not even our own.

The more out of balance we are physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally, the greater prone we become to being a psychic sponge, absorbing other people's negativity and becoming ill from it.