All empaths- please read

I've recently discovered that in my spiritual mentoring practice as well as interactions with friends and loved ones, issues seem to come in waves. I am noticing that the same issues seem to come up with a few people at the same time. I also notice that after I notice this-- I find it's time for a blog about it as I'm sure there are more that are feeling the same and that those I've talked to are just a representative population.

So here's the latest issue I'm finding.

EXTREMELY  gifted EXTREMELY  empathic people who's brilliance is being clouded by all the other people's 'stuff' they are continually absorbing.

And I've only been dealing with the ones who are above it enough to not have allowed themselves addictive behaviors in order to numb the chaos in their heads!  My heart goes out to all those who have no idea what gifts they contain and who have been so dis-empowered by society that they self-medicate with addictive behaviors to allow themselves some relief.

Before I offer some tools for relief, I'd like to touch on why so many have no idea what is truly ailing them.

Because our society is one of dis-empowerment rather than empowerment, so many people have no idea what we on this site know about simple matters of energy and chakras.  It's really basic stuff.  It's really not metaphysically weird or new agey.  It's as simple as this- if someone walks up quietly behind you, you can 'feel' them there becuase they have entered your energy field.  If someone plays "I'm not touching you" you can still feel their finger inches from your body.  Yet our schools, healthcare system, psychiatric system, and government, do not teach this as something basic we should all pay attention to.  The fact that if it is so easy to feel another's physical body in our energy fields, it is also just as normal to feel their psychic and emotional energy in our fields. 

When we are sad, cranky, restless, sexually excited, or exciteable  for ' no reason', than what we are feeling is not ours.  We are picking up on others' feelings that are being absorbed by our energy fields.  Feel cranky every time you go grocery shopping?  Maybe it's not just the store or the food prices that are bothering you.  Maybe, and almost assuredly, it's got NOTHING to do with you, and EVERYTHING to do with everyone else at the store.  

When people pick up on this and are extremely empathic, they may feel they can never sort out their true feelings, may become 'people pleasers' at their own expense and may not be able to say no or tell anyone else what it is THEY want or need.  Heck, they may not even know what they want or need, because somewhere in there, under everyone else's junk, is their stuff, just waiting to be discovered and worked with.  These people may wonder why they have 'so much more to work out ' than everyone else. They may wonder why other people seem to be making progress on their inner journeys and they are not.  They may feel so overwhelmed with all the 'work they need to do on themselves' that they can never seem to get ahead of, that they just fall into dispair.  And with society right there to offer disempowering labels like ADD, ADHD, Bipolar, and what have you, it's no wonder why many turn to addictive behaviors or drugs (legal or illegal) for relief.

If only these people could be empowered-- If only someone could tell them-- "Hey, there's nothing WRONG with you-- there's everything RIGHT with you . You have great gifts and just need to learn how to shield yourself from everyone else's junk so you can know what is yours and work on that."

They'd say---"Wow- how refreshing, how empowering!  I have gifts!  I am brilliant, I am intelligent, I have things to give the world.  And if I just learn how to shield myself from other's stuff, I can begin to sort out my own and propel myself on my inner journey.  I can actually use my empathic-ness later to HELP people once I know how to work with it.  AND--I can still get what I want and need and don't have to please everyone else first?!!!???"

WOAH.

So here's the deal.  If you aren't doing this every single day, it is IMPERATIVE that you start now. 

Ask your angels and guides EVERY morning to shield you.  And if things get to heavy for you throughout the day- ask for them to turn it up a notch.

Think of your angels like your parents or teachers.  They are there to help you and genuinely want to help you.  But it is YOUR responsibility to ASK if you are having trouble and need help.  Your parents didn't always know what you needed.  If you were cold and needed a blanket, they'd be glad to oblige but you needed to tell them that you were cold.  If your teacher was explaining a lesson that didn't make sense to you, you needed to ask them to explain it a different way if you weren't getting it, or they would assume you were. And if you couldn't hear your teacher- it was up to you to ask them to speak up.  If you can't hear your angels or the shield isn't strong enough, ASK them to bring it up a notch or they will think it is sufficient.

It is like going out for the day in inclement weather.  You may think an umbrella is good enough to shield you.  Then you go out and realize you will need a raincoat because it's raining way worse than you thought.  Then later you realize that you need to seek shelter because it's gotten even more chaotic.

Same with your angels.  When asked each morning for shielding, they give you an umbrella.  If the 'weather' out there gets stronger throughout the day, it is up to you to ask them for a raincoat too.  Then maybe for a complete rainsuit, and it it's just too much, for complete immunity to the weather, or to help you find shelter.

So here it is.  To me, it doesn't matter what the words are.  I'm personally not one for things needing to have exact wording.  As long as the intention is there, you ask for all the things you need, you do it wholeheartedly, and you practice gratitude, you're all good.

Ask your angels EVERY morning to shield you from any energies that are not for your highest good.  You can also throw in for good measure protecting you from any negative energy coming from people.  Then ask that they also shield you from anyone else's 'stuff' and that it bounce off of you like rubber so you do not absorb it.  Finally, ask to speak only to everyone's higher selves throughout the day.  Then be sure to thank them and add whatever closing you'd like (So be it, Namaste, Amen, whatever).

I'm finding the rules on earth are the same as those in heaven.  Need help?  You must ASK for it.  Your heavenly helpers are more than happy to oblige and they are there to help, but cannot interfere unless asked.  And do they want to be asked nicely just as we all do?  Of course.

Try it for 2 weeks consistently and I'm betting you start noticing yourself looking much clearer to yourself. 

Happy shielding!

Love and Aloha,

Amanda