I frequently ask folks who identify as Empaths and Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) about what has been really hard for them in the last month. Here’s an issue I hear a lot, and my thoughts in response.
THE PROBLEM:
With the rancor occurring in our political systems (and not just in the U.S.), many of the empaths commented on feeling the confusing energies of what is fake and what is true, and how it seemed that fake seems to be the new “reality.”
When you are an Empath, you can FEEL/SENSE/INTUIT what is true and clear versus what is fake/misleading/coming from insecurity or anger or fear or any other kind of incoherence.
However, the rancor, disrespect, and deception going on can feel so sickening, maddening, and even overwhelming that you find your energy and discernment just shutting down.
When you are overwhelmed and shut down, you CANNOT discern what is true from what is false.
Instead, it just feels noisy, hopeless, and hope for truth and integrity starts fading out.
THE EMPATH’S CHALLENGE:
To allow yourself a break…
From the news, the conflict, whatever is overwhelming you.
If you don’t push your personal “pause” button soon enough, your body will turn your ability to be well and function…OFF. We are wired this way, and Empaths and HSPs are like finely-tuned instruments. When some aspect is off for us, our whole systems feel it.
Do you need more genuinely Quiet Time?
“Public” has gotten louder—noise-wise, EMF-wise, visually, and with stronger synthetic and industrial smells and pollution, 24-7 stimulation and activity…
And of course everyone is less coherent because we are all multi-tasking…on our phones AND computers AND eating AND driving AND talking to others…
All while cars are honking and rushing to and fro…
(Does this list send shivers…?)
We spend less time in nature, where noise involves owls hooting, wind blowing, water rushing, crickets rubbing their wings to create song…
IF we want to have even a chance at discerning deceit and degradation from all that is true and whole, we have to take good care of our empathic “equipment.”
So we come back around to the Basics…
and they don’t need to be long and involved…
How many times before we remember—
THE PRACTICE:
Quiet
Rest
Healthy Food
Healthy Home
Play
Intimacy
Time with Good People and Animals
Time with just YOU
‘Nuff said?
Dear Empath: Pick ONE and DO IT NOW.
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