Empathy is the gift of being able to put yourselves in someone else’s shoes and feel things as if you were them. However, there are several different types of empaths, each of which has a different set of empathetic abilities.
The 6 main types of empaths are:
The emotional empath is one of the most common types of empaths. If you are this type, you will easily pick up the emotions of others around you and feel the effects of those emotions as if they were yours.
The emotional empath will deeply experience the feelings of others in their own emotional body. For example, an emotional empath can become deeply sad around another individual who is experiencing sadness.
For emotional empaths, it is important to learn to differentiate between your own emotions and those of others. In this way, you can use your ability to help others without becoming drained.
Those with this type of empathy can pick up on the energy of other people’s bodies. They intuitively know what ails another person. Many people with this type of empathy become healers either in the conventional medical professions or in alternative ones.
Physical empaths may ‘feel’ an awareness in their physical body when treating someone. They may also ‘see’ blockages in a person’s energy field that they sense need treating.
If you are a medical empath, you may pick up on symptoms from others and feel them in your own body. Taking on the physical symptoms of others may lead to health problems.
Some people with chronic illnesses such as fibromyalgia or autoimmune diseases might find it helps to strengthen their own energetic field so that they can turn this ability off when necessary. Taking some training in a form of healing can also help to hone this ability.
Geomantic empathy is sometimes called place or environmental empathy. Those with this ability have a fine attunement to the physical landscape. If you find yourself uncomfortable, or really happy in certain environments or situations, for no apparent reason, you may be a geomantic empath.
If you are a geomantic empath, you will feel a deep connection to certain places. You may be drawn to sacred stones, groves, churches or other places of sacred power. You may also be sensitive to the history of a place and be able to pick up on sadness, fear or joy that have occurred in locations.
Place empaths are highly attuned to the natural world and grieve for any damage to it. They watch with horror when trees are cut down or landscapes destroyed.
If you are this type of empath, you will probably need to spend time in nature to recharge. You may also find helping in an environmental project very healing for you.
It is also important for you to make your everyday surroundings as harmonious and beautiful as you can. You may feel happier if you fill your house with plants and natural scents. You might also like to choose natural materials such as wood and linen for your clothing and furniture.
If you are a plant empath, you intuitively sense what plants need. You will be green-fingered and have a true gift for placing the right plant in the right place in your garden or home. Many plant empaths choose to work in parks, gardens or wild landscapes where they can put their gifts to good use.
In fact, if you have chosen an occupation that involves plants, then you are probably a plant empath. Some people with this gift actually receive guidance from trees or plants directly by hearing it within the mind.
If you are this kind of empath, you will already know that you need a lot of contact with trees and plants. You might like to strengthen this bond by sitting quietly by a special tree or plant and attuning more closely to its needs and guidance.
Many empaths have a strong connection with animals. However, an animal empath will probably devote their lives to working for the care of our animal friends. Those with this gift will know what an animal needs and may be able to telepathically communicate with the creature.
If you are an animal empath, you probably already spend as much time with animals as you can. You may find that studying the biology or psychology of animals helps you to refine your gift.
You could also consider training as an animal healer as your special talent can enable you to find out what is wrong with an animal and treat it accordingly.
If you are a claircognizant or intuitive empath, you will pick up information from other people simply by being around them. One glance at someone can give you all kinds of insight into that person. You will immediately know if someone is lying to you because you can sense the intentions behind their words.
Those with this gift resonate with others’ energetic fields and read the energy of others very easily. This is closely related to the telepathic empath who can read another person’s thoughts.
If you have this ability, you need to surround yourself with people who you feel aligned with. With this gift, you may need to strengthen your energetic field so that you are not constantly bombarded with the thoughts and emotions of others.
Being an empath is not easy. You may find it confusing, disorientating and exhausting. However, understanding which of the types of empath you are can help you to use your gifts and abilities to help yourself and those around you.
Sharing our experiences of being an empath can increase our understanding. If you relate to any of these types of empaths, please share your experiences with us.
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Whoa, Sean, good thing you unloaded here then. Beware of bitterness - it can also make you sick I am afraid. If it is of any comfort I spend most of my time alone, can't be around TV's or wi-fi (easier now after a discovered a trick with that), shrill voices, lying people etc, etc.
I recently learned a smart technique that is called EMO or previously EMO-Trance. It is very simple and what you do is the opposite of what is your instinct. Our pain comes mostly from trying to block out emotions - they clog up in our bodies. If we let the energies, emotions, things we dislike, run into us instead and think of them only as energy, they can start to run through our bodies and find their specific ways out, for instance running down and out of a leg or up and out of the top of our heads. it's a bit tricky to start with, especially if you have been traumatized as I have, but those who do this claim that after a relatively short time, the energy runs of itself, and it actually starts to feel good and energizing, even if it is a so called negative energy/emotion like anger or fear. I have read about South American shamanic traditions like the Incas, where this is/was a normal way of meeting life. I think it is a brilliant idea. And when you get good at it, you can actually thrive on any energy. On top of that, you get a lot of information as a bonus. You can do it on the sunrise, the ocean, a crowd of people, a harsh environment - anything. There is also a phenomenon called shields that most, probably all people create (especially abuse victims), that is put up to numb/protect us from certain info or energies or stuff we feel threatened by. Trouble is, they shut good stuff out as well like love. Shields is also dealt with using EMO.
I have tried for years to block both my own and other peoples emotions and the result was adrenal gland cancer. Don't do that. Do emo instead. Or invent some other smart method. I have found/made many life hacks to survive - some are really a great relief like knowing how to alter radiation fields/levels around high voltage lines or wifi for instance. I change every store and supermarket I visit so I am able to think clearly when I am there - peoples stuff comes on top as you know. I actually see the radiation as a grey, dense fog. Wireless is a crappy invention because the inventor was obviously not an empath and forgot to ask how this tech would affect living organisms. There you have another way to use your gift - to create inventions that does not harm ANYTHING it comes into contact with. I also have to do space clearing wherever I am to be able to thrive and not get sick, drained, depressed etc.
You say these abilities are useless - I disagree. If you chose to do what inspires you, you can use them there. You can heal, be a shrink, work with animals or disabled who cannot communicate verbally - anything where these superpowers can be utilized. The sky is the limit. As well as negativity that becomes a habit. Explore, enjoy, make life an adventure. Be the most brilliant you!
I wish you all the best!
I would love to learn more about this emo bc this would help me so much.
thanks for this amazing EMO and wireless info...and the positive viewpoint of how to turn anything in our amazing gifts and create technologies that do no harm. Aho!
I’ve always struggled to explain to people that I physically feel the emotions of, well, everything. People, animals, even nature. People don’t understand, they look at you like you have three heads or think you’re lying. It was difficult dealing with this when I was a kid. I’ve never heard of an empath until today, but I’ve been this way since I was a child. My grandmother had to carry me out of the theater after seeing E.T. when I was three and a half years old because I was crying so hard. She said parents and other kids were looking at me strangely. I still can’t watch that movie. I’ve only seen it twice in my life and both times, I cried for hours after. I thought I could handle it the second time when I was 27, but I couldn’t. I don’t go see certain movies anymore in public because I don’t want people to witness me going through this emotional rollercoaster. I wait for the dvd. Some movies I refuse to watch. I’ve never seen or read Marley and Me. I know what it will do to me. 8 Below tore me to pieces for days after. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Animals get to me worse than people. They are truly innocent and can’t help what goes on around and to them. I can’t watch the ASPCA commercials. It causes so much pain and hurt, and then really intense anger. It makes me want to cause the same pain to the people who hurt the animals. I struggle with it badly.
I learned several years ago that the label to go with my affliction as I call it...is empath.
while I don't have the tree or geo kind....not to the degree I have all the rest....I am not upset that I am missing a few of the options...because what I do have is enough to nearly kill me at times.
I know liars....but not straight away...it takes getting to know someone to some degree...I mean ya sure I can tell certain lies right off....but the skilled liars such as a sociopath....it takes me a minute....literally getting to know them to have an idea of what I am getting into.
I can feel pain of others as well as the good things....but its the pain that hurts me most.
I can sense what to expect as I walk into a room.
I can tell when the joke is on me but not in the good way.
I can look at my dog or your dog or any dog and know what they want or if they are happy
I could go on and on and on...but this is where I will stop
I will say this is real.
I don't like it
I didn't ask for it and I get tired of being everyones comfort while I often fine none returned when I need it
I spend more time alone anymore because I suffocate from the anxiety and issues that comes from taking on literally the world
I freak out if its too hot too cold if clothes are too tight all kinds of weird crap
I can feel earth quakes when no one else feels a thing and told how crazy I am....that's of course until the paper or news reports slight tremors,
I often relate it to john coffey of the green mile.
I cant see what you did....but by god I can feel it as if it happens to me times a billion....you may not get mad but I sure will.
I will take care of others problems and care more than they do
and god help me if I have to go to court
last time I felt so bad for this dude I paid his fine
I felt his pain and although the fine wasn't his pain.,,,i knew paying that fine would take a load off.
it did.
too me its not a gift it is a curse.
I know what to do when to do it and how to do it
and know it all
and always right...
well being always right IS NOT A GOOD THING
it sucks
sometimes I wish I was wrong
ughhhhh good luck fellow empaths and I mean the true ones who know what I am saying and aren't just trying to be cool or like they know something about nothing
you that deal with life very much alone yet carrying the cross of everyone else....
the ones who are told they are crazy and aren't understood because others usually cant
to you
I wish you all the luck and best of everything you do
Being an Empath isn’t easy, especially when influenced by everything or everyone around you. When overwhelmed, YOU MUST GROUND YOURSELF OFTEN!
Knowledge is Power, learn about your gift and practice protecting yourself from negative influences. The Earth is a grounder that can help revitalize your spirit, absorbing the negativity and in exchange releasing positive in return. A quick and wonderful way to dissolve stress and empathic pains is to immerse yourself in water. (Epsom salt baths are divine and also provide magnesium, which is calming.)
I work with the public daily and can still be overwhelmed at times, finding a quiet place full of trees makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. I guess I’m truly a “Tree Hugger” 🙂
Please never be afraid or ashamed of being an Empath. We bring harmony to the chaos around us.
Blessings to All
Found out today I am an empath how do you ground yourself.
I am so floored right now.
Everything makes sense.
Took me 58 years to figure out!
Thanks if you can help.
Elaine
So, for years I have been wondering how I know things about people without any explanation. In recent years, this has gotten a whole lot worse, it's to the point now that can walk into a room and know info about someone before they even speak. This has def gain an understand that I am claircognizant. I also have foreboding dreams that always come to pass. I wonder what this could be....
Does anyone else experience vivid dreams that create de javu
It happens to me all the time Emily. I am new into learning about empaths and all that goes with it. I have de ja vu several times a year. I also have communication with those that have passed on from this life. I thought I was losing my mind for a while. Now i am exploring it all and getting a bether hand let on it. It's really energizing.
Yes I’ve had many in my life. But not for a while now, I think it’s because I changed my future several years ago, after a conversation with my deceased mother, where I was told about my future. She told me some things were blurry to her because they weren’t certain. I was told my brother would be dead most likely. I had dreadlocks at the time, which I now believe increased my powers and made the whole conversation possible. I asked her what I looked like in this future. She said I still had the same hair. So the next day I shaved my head because I didn’t want my brother to die. A lot of the things she said were very strangely similar to what actually ended happening. Including the name of my fiancé, who appearently i’ve Been destined to be with my entire life.
The dreams about the future are sometimes gibberish until the very intense moment when I’m living the thing I dreamt about. I am just now accepting the fact I am an empath. I look forward to learning more about our kind and hope that by making these important changes in my life, I can finally find some peace, purpose and understanding. Good luck on your own path