Empathy Triggers

I’ve had a long standing question that I’ve posed to the angels more than once. I’ve been confused about something. It’s something I think I knew deep down inside, but I wasn’t sure. I allowed my doubt to cloud my hearing. I do it all the time. But just a little bit ago I finally got the answer. The answer to what?

Empathy triggers. How to tell when something you’ve picked up isn’t yours. I’m very sensitive to the world around me, and I haven’t quite learned yet how to close myself off. The more open I get, the more I tend to absorb and the stronger I feel the emotions. I think often I’m open because I want to be. The truth is, shutting myself isn’t an easy process, because I don’t like it. I feel the most at open when I’m open, when I can send my senses out into my surroundings. But it's also just a part of who I am. I can't send healing out to someone if I don't know they're hurting. So, I'm naturally open to the world around me. 

Which means I’m very easily triggered by things I see on the internet or the people I interact with. I’ve found the strongest negative emotions tend to hit me the hardest. The angels often tell me those who need me the most are the ones who find me or the ones whom I find.

So, often, what happens is I run across someone, whether by reading a post on Facebook or even as simple as feeling them thinking about me. It happened this morning. I thought about someone I interact with on a semi regular basis. Usually when I’m thinking of them, it means they’re thinking of me, and I’ve learned this is true, because usually after they cross my mind, I find myself looking them up, pondering how they’re doing, etc. Very soon after, I tend to hear from them. 

Sound familiar? Always wonder why you do that? That’s why. If someone crosses your thoughts out of nowhere and you can’t stop thinking about them, more often than not, it’s because they’re thinking about you and you’ve picked up on the energy.

This morning, however, this also came with my heart chakra opening. Warmth settled into my chest. That was my first clue that something wasn’t quite right. Then my emotions took a nose dive and I became very depressed. Sadly, it seems whenever my heart chakra opens, the emotion I tend to have picked up is depression. And there are several people around me who are depressed.

The confusion begins for me because often times the emotion I’m picking up in someone else pings off something I myself have felt. It’s that old saying you can’t truly know how a person feels until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes? For me, what I feel is often ten times stronger when it’s something I’ve gone through.

I usually wallow for a while, wondering why it is I’m feeling this way. I often ask myself, “is this mine?” Because it’s so close to something I’ve experienced, I often have trouble telling. Michael often reminds me of how to tell when it’s not mine. The signs are really easy.

The biggest and easiest: did your heart open? Is the center of your chest warm? If your chest is warm, then your heart chakra is open, and if it opened spontaneously, chances are, something opened it.

The second easiest way to tell: did the emotion come over you suddenly? One minute you’re fine, the next you’re fuming mad or so depressed you want to go take a nap.

This will often be accompanied by the feeling of surprise. Are you sitting there wondering why you’re feeling that way?

The last sign: does it go away when you ask it to?

Which is also how to release what you pick. Simply let it go. Things stick when we hold on to them. So let them go. Recognize that it isn’t yours and release it. Sometimes, if I’m having trouble releasing, I’ll ask Archangel Michael for help. I’ll ask him to clear my body and my aura of everything that isn’t mine.

How to stay clear: be aware of yourself. I spend a minute here and there returning to center. I sit and breathe, or I’ll fold my hands together, as if in prayer, holding them over my heart chakra, close my eyes and take a couple of deep breaths, focusing on my breathing, the in and out movement of the air through my body.

Don’t forget to ground. Visualize your root going down into the earth and rooting itself to the Earth’s core.

I thought if I had trouble knowing this, then perhaps others have as well. I was surprised at how easy it is to recognize and how easy it is to doubt. The energy is subtle and you can convince yourself you’re wrong. The key is to trust yourself, trust your gut. My clue? A telltale sign from Michael that I’ve learned to recognize. If you feel a nudge in your gut, you’re likely getting a nudge from an angel.

Namaste.