Empathic Awareness, Protection and Understanding!

Empathy is a tricky thing. It is a champion skill to empathize with others and considered a great quality as a person. Woman are naturally empathic, they feel others very easily and why we raise children most often, a great skill of feminine nurturing. However, there are many who have such sensitivity and no boundaries with this gift and it can cause great havoc. I am one so learning to use it skillfully has great importance. Gifted healers have this as well and need to learn how to successfully manage it.

Very sensitive empaths have lived their whole life with this and had no understanding so awareness becomes very important. I have always been very sensitive to others feelings, taken them on, have been the one to call with a problem and considered it normal. Having studied so many veins of knowledge, I have found solutions to protect myself and understand it. 

 The problem is that you mix others feelings with your own without even knowing it, it just happens and probably has your whole life. The danger becomes that you have so many emotions, often negative emotions from others that you can no longer distinguish your own from others, maybe never could. When you get in proximity with others, you just blend energy fields, feel them so to speak even when their words say they are okay, you find that the emotions and words give a different story. When I was young, I was often confused in situations with the world hiding so much truth. I couldn't piece the world together clearly,  struggled to distinguish why I felt so good in the morning and after being around others find yourself exhausted or in a low mood. Quite puzzling a gift.

When we feel others emotions it comes in through the manipura chakra, where our digestion is located. Often times a thicker middle is a way our natural body will try to protect itself. It creates great digestive disorder on many levels because you struggle digesting emotions, often not yours and this can cause lots of ails since we can't necessarily do things with others emotions here. We can manage and digest our own, but others energy we are not meant to handle in the same way. It is a very important learning for all woman because we are generally more empathetic. It also causes great confusion on so many levels, mentally, emotionally, professionally, just wondering why we can't move. Confusion is how I can best describe it in my experience.

So often fear, sadness, anger, anxiety and grief from people around you are taken in naturally and with no awareness. Then we try to move these emotions considering they are ours and it just doesn't work. Mentally this can turn back in on you, creating many life problems physically, with decisions, what path to take, what goals and dreams are really yours. It completely drains your energy and the field about you and we wonder why. Then go about trying to fix ourselves on the physical level, seeing a doctor about digestion or a counselor or some sort of spiritual adviser. Even getting coaches in the mental field to help with focus and planning and we are barking up the wrong tree!

As I have uncovered all these wrong roads and learned about my gift, I have discovered many clues to help myself manage this. Awareness is so very important! Protection of your manipura chakra and understanding your energy field is critical. Consciously clearing your energy is vital. Noticing exactly whose thoughts are in your head. Often when an emotion comes up that just doesn't seem right to me, if I just ask whose it is, the answer  comes so swiftly and I can let it go through identifying who it belongs to. Being present and paying attention helps, making certain your manipura is protected and feeling others through the other chakras that have the power to transmute their energy goes toward much clearer understanding.  Aharaj Yoga has been instrumental in my learning how to use this gift for helping others and not at my expense. It is vital that you learn about your energy, your emotions, the way to transmute the feelings in this center and to protect yourself consciously.

As I have discovered, it is lovely just to be Lyn in her own feelings. The majority of my life I have been so confused and connected to others, often lost as to my own position. We often will negate our own position to blend and benefit others very well. Leaving ourselves out of the picture causes  problems and resentment later. Yet all along it was our responsibility to manage our own field, our own space and clearly have boundaries about us. Most especially those very sensitive to others need to get clued in and learn. It is so healthful, powerful to separate yourself from others then clearly use this gift as it was meant to help others. It is the gift of the great collaborators yet they often find their own needs not met without clear understanding of the empathic ability. Often many addictions are related to this gift, the negative energy gets so build up, no solutions are about so to escape in some way seems the simplest answer.

Do yourself a favor and learn more about this gift. You can contact me or come to an Aharaj yoga class to learn how to be clear between yourself and others. It is wonderful to feel the group, as in fact we are all one, but we are individual sparks. It is our own responsibility to own, protect and create our own space as we move towards our goals.