An Empath’s Healing Gifts | Soul Purpose
As an empath your greatest gift is your ability to feel. Your sensitivities are not a weakness, you simply need to learn how to use these healing gifts to your advantage rather than allowing the pains of the world to be a detriment to you.
As a Spiritual Mentor and Intuitive Guide I work directly with empaths, people pleasers and sensitive souls to help them better understand their energy and emotions. The clients I work with in my 1:1 mentoring program have become exhausted and feel overly emotional because of their ungrounded, unprotected empathic energy. It is through our work together that they are able to live an empowered life while leading themselves with peace and stability in their energy and emotions.
All empaths have specific healing gifts they bring to the world, but oftentimes it’s our people pleasing tendencies that lead us to try to help others from a misaligned and disconnected energy. In this blog I will share the three main healing gifts of an empath along with what you need to stop doing as an empath.
When you use your healing gifts in an aligned and empowered way you are able to bring more love, light, support and uplifting energy into your life and the lives of those around you.
When you act from your misaligned people pleasing tendencies when trying to heal, support or help others, as an empath, you end up exhausting yourself, eventually leading to a state of burnout.
Let’s jump into what are an empath’s healing gifts.
#1 Transmuting Energy for Yourself
What does this mean and how is it a healing gift?
Transmuting or alchemizing energy is the ability to change and shift the vibration of different energy. Meaning if you are carrying a low vibrational energy, like anger or frustration, you have the ability to change the vibration of this energy into something that is a higher vibration, like relief or peace.
The key to remember is that as an empath your greatest gift is your ability to FEEL. This means you are able to easily recognize when you are carrying a low vibrational energy or emotion because you can feel the heaviness of that energy.
Transmuting energy is not about thinking your way to a solution, it’s about feeling your way to a better feeling.
In our logic driven world we have prioritized the process of needing a solution or answer when faced with a problem or difficulty in order to feel better. This means that our minds can easily fill with worry, doubt and fear when a challenge arises on our path and the energy behind this worry will stay stagnant in our bodies until we find a solution to solve the problem.
Meanwhile, as empaths, if we all knew how to transmute our energy in the moment when the problem arises, we could lead ourselves from a space of inner peace which will allow the solution to find us much quicker. This is what the Law of Attraction states, that whatever energy you carry is what you attract back to you.
Personally, I would rather feel at peace and not have a solution, then be filled with worry and fear and still not have a solution. I’ve experienced both, and I know that inner peace is always the path to clarity.
Transmuting energy is about shifting the way you feel, from overwhelm, anger, frustration, stress, worry, etc. into an energy that feels uplifting and aligned with how you want to feel.
This is one of your healing gifts because it means you are able to shift and change the energy/emotion you feel immediately, rather than holding yourself in the space of feeling low, lost, confused, overwhelmed or pressured.
Learning how to transmute your energy comes down to awareness and allowing your breath to help you create the internal shift in energy. The moment I acknowledge that my mind is filled with worry over a situation I begin to speak to myself in a different energy. I will say something like this, “I can see that I am worried. I know that I won’t find a solution while staying in this energy. I choose to breathe through this and let the energy of worry flow out of my body. I am asking my Divine Team to take the worry from me and bring love into my body. I breathe in love. I breathe out worry.”
Through this process I continue breathing and repeating the last two sentences until I feel my energy shift. It may seem simple and although it is, it takes time to integrate this process to become a natural habit that you remember to do in the moment. This is a process I support all of my 1:1 clients with so they can fully embody their gift of transmuting energy.
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#2 Holding Space for Others
It’s one of our jobs as empaths to hold space for others while they process their own emotions.
Being an empath means you easily understand and feel the emotions and energy of another person. The healing gift in this aspect is not about fixing someone else’s emotions or taking on their pain. You cannot remove someone else’s pain, for that energy will stay stagnant in their body until they properly heal it.
How does someone else heal their emotions? First they need to feel safe and supported in their process of feeling those emotions and that’s where you come in as an empath. Your ability to hold space for someone else allows them to feel safe in expressing their emotions. It’s not to say that someone will be fully healed after expressing their emotions once, it is to say that by holding space they are able to begin the process of transmuting their own emotions and energy.
Your healing gift as an empath is to be able to create a safe and supportive atmosphere for someone else in their most vulnerable moments. Rather than sit and judge them for how they feel or tell them how they should feel, you simply empathize with them and let them know they are safe in feeling their emotions. This is a gift you offer to others as an empath.
You can learn more about holding space for others in this blog post.
#3 Compassion as a Cleansing Tool
In our world fear and pain are the most common energies that weigh us all down and lead us from a misaligned and disconnected state.
Compassion is the key to connection and connection is the key to living in alignment.
As an empath one of your greatest healing gifts is the compassion you naturally carry. When you learn to share compassion with yourself and those around you, you are able to cleanse the energy of fear and pain from any and all situations. Compassion is what dissipates the fire of fear and when you offer compassion in the situation everyone is able to feel a sense of relief.
Learning how to lead yourself from a state of compassion in all situations can be the greatest guiding force you carry as an empath.
Knowing these empathic healing gifts and embodying them are two very different things. Before you jump ahead and start trying to share your healing gifts as an empath, you first need to make sure you aren’t acting from a misaligned energy.
This is a list of things you need to STOP doing as an empath because these actions aren’t helping anyone.
1 Trying to help everyone.
You are overburdening yourself, leading to your own exhaustion and by constantly trying to help you are not allowing others to learn vital life lessons for themselves. I know you are coming from a good intention, but you are having the wrong impact in this action. Knowing when to help and when not to help is very important.
2 Avoiding processing your emotions.
By numbing yourself and ignoring the worry and fear that pops up in your life you end up carrying this stagnant energy, leading you to feel low. Is it challenging at times to feel through your emotions? Certainly. At the same time when you numb the difficult emotions you also numb the uplifting emotions. Let yourself feel so you can heal.
3 Trying to protect others from experiencing heavy emotions.
Everyone needs to feel the full spectrum of emotions in order to create their own joyous life. When you are trying to protect others from difficult situations so they don’t have to feel anger, sadness, stress etc. you are causing more stress for yourself, and you are blocking your ability to share compassion with the world.
4 Taking on the emotional pain of everyone around you.
You need to learn how to create boundaries for yourself because it’s not your job to carry someone else’s pain. If you yourself are not uplifted, then how can you ever help to uplift others. The people pleaser in you feels guilty for not being able to help, so you think it’s your job to carry the pain they have experienced. You haven’t taken their pain away, you have simply transmuted your own energy into one that is a lower vibration, adding to the pain that is already experienced.
As an empath your greatest gift is your ability to feel. I know I’ve repeated this several times now, but I’m really trying to drive it home so you understand it. Knowing how to protect your energy so you aren’t taking on the energy and emotions of those around you is extremely important because it’s the difference between living constantly exhausted versus feeling empowered.
Your energy is important and it’s time you start lifting yourself up, rather than allowing the energy of your environment to constantly drag you down. The Spirit of the Empath 1:1 Mentoring program is the space where you will learn how to master your energy as an empath so you can live from a peaceful and empowered state. Learn more about the program if you are ready to take the step in owning your healing gifts as an empath!
Until next time, sending love & light on your spiritual journey,
Sydney Smith
Spiritual Mentor
Founder of Adventuring with Poseidon Wellness
