Empaths

What Are Energy Vampires & How To Deal With Them

Have you ever dealt with a person who sucks the life out of you? Who seems to make the air heavy around themselves? Who takes much more than they would ever give?

This is what we might call an ‘energy vampire’.

The term energy vampire is often thrown around, ans overused, but generally speaking describes someone who consciously or unconsciously drains other people of energy.

In today’s post I wanted to go over some of the ways to deal with energetic vampires in day to day life, but also shine some light on why people might become energy drainers. Much of the time, energetic vampires are a lot more disempowered than we think they are!

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Can Empaths Lose Their Sensitivity?

I’ve talked about empaths a lot on this blog, and I realize that one assumption people might have is that empaths are empathetic all of the time.

I think the label can sometimes get in the way of the experience or way of being that we are trying to portray with this word.

I think it’s important when we talk about empaths to know that we’re talking about a specific type of experience, a specific path one takes through their sensitivity. This is to better understand ourselves or make sense of our experiences, but these labels can become unhelpful.

Going back to the first point, it’s not the case that empaths are empathetic all of the time. When we use the term empath it is to describe someone who can/does take on other people’s emotions as if they were their own – like a sponge.

There can be a higher level of sensitivity present naturally, but this sensitivity is also influenced and amplified by our environments.

It’s very possible for empaths to lose their sensitivity or even become cold, because empaths just like everyone else, go through ups and downs. Empath is not a stagnant state, and many people outgrow or decide to drop that label eventually.

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5 Types of Empaths in Relationships

Navigating being an empath is difficult enough on its own, let alone bringing that heightened sensitivity into relationships – specifically romantic ones. If you’re an empath and find maintaining relationships draining or difficult, this is the post for you.

Today I want to talk about the different types of empaths in relationships, the pluses and minuses of each, and the specific blockages that show up for us time and time again.

Being an empath can be a difficult thing to navigate because it is often triggered by negative circumstances in our childhood. Our empathy becomes like a defense mechanism which we use to read our environment and interact with the people around us.

When we go into a relationship we have to be aware of how our heightened sensitivity can be both a positive or negative addition to a relationship. We can either be so ungrounded in our gifts that the cause problems for the other person, or take on too much and burnout.

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How To Thrive As An Empath

Reading what it’s like to be an empath can lead us to believe that being an empath is all about feeling drained, being constantly triggered and living according to the emotional whims of others.

While a lot of this can be true, there is also a flip side to being an empath that should be discussed just as much – how to thrive. Being an empath can either be extremely draining or extremely uplifting, it depends on how we manage and develop our sensitivity.

At a basic level sensitivity is not a bad thing, it means we are open to the great pleasures of life: love, friendships, and helping others. It also means we are open to the dark side of life: the pain, the deep lows, the emotional wounds of others.

By bringing consciousness to our sensitivity we can be open to both the light and dark without losing ourselves. We can tune into our own emotional needs and better meet them. We can avoid allowing our empathy to lead us into manipulation and abuse. This is what thriving as an empath looks like.

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How to Develop Your Clairsentient Abilities

Are you the type of person who can look at someone who is smiling, laughing and appearing happy to everyone else but instantly notice the sadness in their eyes?

Can you enter a room and feel the interactions that took place before you entered? Can you go to the grocery store and just feel what sort of day each person you pass has had? You may be a natural clairsentient!

Clairsentience is the physic sense of feeling translated as “clear-feeling”, also referred to as “clear-sensing”, it is the ability to feel beyond someone’s words and actions and see their true motivations. This is a psychic sense that goes beyond rational thought, physical senses and explanation.

Of course we all possess this type of sense to some extent whether we wish to use the label clairsentient or not, however for some people this is a large part of how they navigate the world. They pick up on emotions and energy with such shocking accuracy that even they become overwhelmed by it sometimes.

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The Empath Mirror Effect: Why Some People Avoid You

Living an an empath is a tricky thing to navigate: you might feel the emotions of others but are often left out in the cold or seen as an easy target. For empaths who are just coming to terms with their sensitivity these two situations will pop up constantly.

You meet someone and they instantly take a disliking to you, for seemingly no reason. You might enter a relationship only to find your partner starts to lash out or manipulate you, getting angry when you do not respond the way they want.

This is what I like to refer to as the empath mirror effect. For a lot of people meeting an empath is incredibly unsettling; they do not know how to navigate a relationship with you just as you may find it difficult to navigate your own empathy.

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