The Difference Between an Aligned Empath & a Misaligned Empath
When alignment with well-being is your top priority, everything in your life shifts towards wellness, blessings, love and abundance. An aligned empath feels peaceful and empowered as they bring compassion and purpose into the world. A misaligned empath feels exhausted, overwhelmed, overly-sensitive to emotions and tries to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders.
As a Spiritual Mentor and Intuitive Guide, I work with people pleasers, sensitive souls and empaths so they can better understand their energy and emotions in order to live in alignment with their soul path. Most often, empaths don’t even realize they are living from a misaligned and disconnected space, they only know they are tired and drained all of the time.
In this blog I am going to share the clear differences between an aligned empath and a misaligned empath, and how you become misaligned.
Before you jump into this blog, you may be wondering how to know if you are an empath, if so then check out this blog where I share 5 signs you’re an empath.
The main difference between being aligned versus misaligned as an empath is how you feel on a regular basis. Here are some examples of both.
Misaligned Empath
An empath that feels exhausted at the end of each day and wakes up the next morning carrying the exhaustion, wondering how they will survive the day.
An empath who is overly-sensitive to everyone’s emotions, including their own, and finds themself crying on a regular basis.
An empath who feels inundated with jobs to complete, stressed out to the max, and feeling pressured to accomplish everything in an unattainable time frame.
An empath who feels lonely and unsupported, yet has started to isolate themselves from others because they are aware of how exhausting it is to be around so many people.
Aligned Empath
An empath that feels peace guiding them through life, no matter what challenges pop up.
An empath who feels supported and stable as they flow through their emotional waves.
An empath who feels empowered with the tasks they choose to work on, and they are satisfied no matter how many jobs are left on their to-do list.
An empath that allows love and compassion to guide them through life, knowing they are appreciated for who they are and how they choose to live.
Can you feel the difference between the two?
A lot of the 1:1 clients I work with want to know right from the start, how to live as an aligned empath because they desire to be the peaceful, empowered version of themselves. One of the lessons we start with in order to reach the transformation they desire, is not how to become aligned, but instead understanding how they become misaligned.
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When you understand where you fall off track or what it is that leads you towards misalignment, it becomes easier to shift yourself into alignment on a daily basis. Remember, as an empath you easily understand and feel the energy and emotions of the people around you. This means you are constantly being influenced by your energetic surroundings, which can be the main cause that’s leading you into misalignment.
Here are 3 ways you become misaligned as an empath.
People Pleasing Tendencies
When you were a child you were most likely conditioned to try and make your parents happy, or to please your parents. This is where your people pleasing tendencies originate from.
The reason why this behaviour leads you to misalignment as an empath is because you end up prioritizing everyone else’s emotions over your own emotions. You cannot control the way someone else feels, and so you can end up in a never ending cycle of trying to help someone reach happiness or peace and never feeling satisfied.
External Validation
When you were growing up you were most likely praised for a job well done and you became accustomed to feeling worthy and appreciated when you accomplished a task or achieved a certain outcome.
The reason why this behaviour leads you to misalignment as an empath is because you have placed your worthiness on the amount of work you do. You are also focused on receiving the affirmation or praise from someone else, and when you don’t receive it or the feeling doesn’t last, because praise can be fleeting, you feel exhausted jumping back into the cycle of overworking yourself to feel worthy.
Triggered Fear & Worry
Throughout your life experiences you have taken on different fears, worries and doubts, whether you were taught them as a young child from your guardians, or you had specific experiences that were emotionally painful and instilled the fears into your subconscious mind.
As an empath when you take on the stress, overwhelm, sadness, anger or frustration from someone else’s experience it can trigger your own fears and worries. Whether you listened to someone’s problems to offer them advice, you witnessed a challenging situation someone else was in, or you were surrounded by judgment and gossip, this energy is attaching onto you and triggering an emotional response.
By taking on the energy of your environment, you become triggered into a fear-induced state of mind which has you behave from a misaligned state.
In order to prioritize creating alignment with well-being as an empath, you need to be willing to understand where, when and how misalignment occurs for you. This is one of the ways I support my 1:1 mentoring clients so they are able to shift from a lifestyle of exhaustion to one of empowerment.
Misalignment is something that happens to everyone, but alignment is not something everyone prioritizes. The question comes down to whether or not you want to change your experience through life. You’ll know whether or not you want to make the necessary shifts to start feeling more empowered, peaceful and fulfilled in your daily life. If you do, then it’s time to fill out an application form for the Spirit of the Empath 1:1 Mentoring program.
Learn more about the 1:1 mentoring program here.
Fill out an application form now if you’re ready to start the transformation of becoming an aligned empath. I’ll let you know if you’re the right fit for the program.
Until next time, sending love & light on your spiritual journey,
Sydney Smith
Spiritual Mentor
Founder of Adventuring with Poseidon Wellness
