5 Signs You’re An Empath
What does it mean to be an empath? Empathy is the art of being able to witness and feel someone else’s emotions and energy. When you can empathize with someone else’s situation it’s about understanding their feelings and experience to the best of your ability.
As a Spiritual Mentor & Intuitive Guide my purpose is focused on supporting and guiding empaths, sensitive souls, people pleasers and intuitives. Both in my membership community and with my 1:1 clients, I help individuals to better understand their energy & emotions so they can live in alignment with their soul purpose.
A lot of people I connect with often wonder if they are an empath, and even after I describe the signs of an empath they still aren’t completely sure if it applies to them. To be emotionally aware means that you can witness when someone else is feeling happy, sad, angry, frustrated, or stressed. Most empaths are emotionally aware and yet they don’t even realize that they are empathic.
In this blog I will share 5 signs to tell if you are an empath.
Sign #1 that You’re An Empath
Feeling Someone’s Emotions
When you are in a conversation with someone and they are sharing their frustrations about a situation they are experiencing, you will feel the emotions & energy of their frustration. Oftentimes you can even feel the emotion attaching onto you and hearing the story immediately makes you frustrated.
When you watch a situation unfold in front of you, even if you have nothing to do with the situation, you can sense the emotions of the people involved. For instance, if you are at the grocery story and you watch a mother trying to calm her young child after an emotional breakdown, you can feel for the mother and/or the child. Another example would be if you are watching a movie and you always cry during the sad scenes, you are empathizing with the characters.
Feeling someone’s emotions can happen in many different ways, and yet it’s always the same, you pick up on the pain, sadness, anger, joy, or peace of another person.
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Sign #2 that You’re An Empath
Feeling Emotionally Drained in Certain Environments
Physical environments tend to carry the energy of the people in that environment until the energy attaches onto someone else or is properly cleansed. This means you can walk into your office building and immediately feel stressed, overwhelmed, or drained. The energy could be coming from other people, or it could be coming from a past version of you.
As an empath you are feeling the emotions and energy in the space that surrounds you. A lot of empaths tend to feel overwhelmed when they walk into a hospital, not because they are seeing a specific situation unfold, but instead because the environment carries a heavy energy of sadness, illness, and a need for compassion.
Different environments can trigger different emotions within you, and this is a tell tale sign that you are an empath.
Sign #3 that You’re An Empath
You can sense someone else’s gifts
As an empath you not only pick up on the heavy, harsh emotions & energy of other people, you can also sense what their gifts/strengths are more than they can. This is because you are able to feel their emotions when they are lit up and excited about something. You immediately pick up on this energy as their passions and you can see how they are really gifted at sharing their passions.
It’s hard for us to acknowledge our own gifts because many of us carry self-doubt and insecurities that block us from truly seeing our gifts. Being empathic means you have a beautiful gift of being able to witness someone else’s gifts and then remind them of how talented they are at something.
Sign #4 that You’re An Empath
You know when someone is lying
As an empath you are really good at picking up on the emotion and energy they carry, when their words say something different you know what their true emotions are saying. Energy doesn’t lie and yet people tend to try to cover up their real emotions for many different reasons.
Learning to trust the energy and emotions you pick up on in a situation rather than trust the person's words can be extremely beneficial in life.
Sign #5 that You’re An Empath
People often share their problems with you
Empaths are known to be compassionate people because we tend to honour another person in the emotions they are feeling. What often happens in these situations is that you take on the person's heavy, harsh emotions/energy and they walk away taking your compassionate, uplifting emotions/energy.
What does this mean? People in your life start to associate you with making them feel better when they are experiencing a difficulty in life. They come to you to share their frustrations, their venting, their complaining, their anger, their sadness, and through you being yourself as an empath, you share kindness, support and love to help them feel better.
If you notice people always come to you with their problems whether they ask for advice or not, this is a tell tale sign you are an empath.
The most important thing to remember as an empath is that it’s actually NOT your job to take on the pain and emotion/energy of someone else. Learning to be empathic in a healthy manner means that you can offer compassion to the other person, and you can understand their experience, and yet you are not walking away from the situation carrying their emotions.
You can not uplift others if you yourself are not uplifted.
As an empath you need to learn to guard and protect your energy so you can have emotional awareness, share compassion and support, hold space and at the same time, stay in your uplifted and aligned state.
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I hope this blog has helped you better understand if you are an empath.
Until next time, sending love & light on your spiritual journey,
Sydney Smith
Spiritual Mentor
Founder of Adventuring with Poseidon Wellness
