One of the most difficult and debilitating things about being an empath is that you feel other's emotions as your own; it can be extremely difficult to be able to tell whether it's your emotion you're feeling or others emotions from around you.
You'll also notice that there are times when you wake up and just feel amped, worried, anxious, and on high alert. There won't be anything in your immediate world that's particularly disturbing, so it's hard to figure out why in the world you feel so "off."
Then, maybe a couple hours later, you find out that some major disaster or seriously stressful event has happened in the world. So, what you were feeling in the morning - without even knowing it - is the collective feeling of stress, sorrow, and fear that goes along with some trauma or tragedy on a large scale.
You didn't know, but you KNEW.
When you are an empath, you are a lot like a radio receiver.
You are unconsciously tuning in to all the waves of emotion, information, feeling, and experience in the whole world (or in the people right next to you) all the time.
And, when you are unaware that you are doing this, it can be BEYOND overwhelming and exhausting. Think of someone sticking you in a room with 400,000 speakers, all tuned to different kinds of stations - from political to rock to rap to country to EDM to whatever - and you can understand how quickly that would bring you to your knees and overwhelm your senses.
If you are an #empath, the EXACT same thing is happening to you every second of every day, even when you are asleep. If you don't learn how to turn it off sometimes and to manage how much to take in, you WILL burn out. (Believe me, I have been there!)
An easy way to learn how to control this is to check out my video "Becoming an Aware Empath: Learning to Trust (and Strengthen) Your Abilities" - https://youtu.be/kaevZVwKdGQ.
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