5 Tips For Feeling Overwhelmed When You Are An Empath
Updated 2024.12.06
What is empathic overwhelm? It is a clairsentient person who has allowed too much inflow to their energy field. The good news is, as an empath you can easily rebalance your energy field with the practical tips below.
Frenetic energy in the environment that is being sent your way can be felt and perceived by anyone, you don’t even have to identify as an empath or clairsentient. You also don’t have to own it as yours.
It is true that others feel the energy we send them, and sometimes this energy seems to come flooding in all at once, which can create a sense of overwhelm, throwing an empath or non-empath off spiritual balance.
This post is about returning to spiritual balance.
You can’t do much about the behavior of everyone else, but you can change your immediate inner world, to promote a sense of peace with all, which can simulate a feeling that the energy around you is slower and moving with you, rather than the feeling that you are always catching up with it.
Moving into a sense of peace can create the feeling of harmony and oneness, which to me, just feels better.
Visualizing yourself becoming one with your environment is one way to empathically feel in alignment with all that is, and not behind, or overwhelmed.
Below, I want to go over five more ways promote peace of mind when things feel fast or too much -
#1 Listen to calming music
Sometimes for this one, I just open the window and align with the energy of my environment and its music. Other times, I listen to inspirational songs from my college years, the type of music I listened to before I cared about anything.
Choose jazz, harp or any music that calms your energy. Personally, I like instrumental tracks on Youtube.
#2 Use calming skincare and wellness ingredients
If you look at the labels for skincare or foods marked as calming or peace-inducing, you do find commonalities - oatmeal, green tea, aloe, rose, lavender, chamomile and evergreen essences.
Incorporate these foods, fragrances, essences in your life and it can naturally promote a chill state of mind. I like to go with integrating one new ingredient a day, and then loading up on the ones that worked for me in the past, during the times of life when more self-nurturing is called for.
#3 Let go of others demands
Unless it’s legally mandated, a commitment of love, or requirement for your work or life purpose, it’s not necessary, you can probably cut it out. Other people’s demands are not personal nor implicitly related to you at all, so it can be okay to let some go.
Incoming demands can create a sense of overwhelm and thankfully, you can let go of demands in many ways.
One way I let go of demands on my energy, is to ask, does this/do they need my attention right now?
#4 Go inward
The news you read yesterday probably hasn’t changed much from the news you read today. So unless someone actually calls using a telephone or formal letter, it can help promote calm feelings to just go silent and go within for a while.
By going within and quieting your energy, your mind’s eye will often show you sources of overwhelm, so you can further create peace in your life.
#5 Accept welcoming options to be with others
Granted most of the time, you feel safe and comfortable. When you mark out time to be with others who love you and accept you as you when you feel this way, they naturally lift your energy and spread it out, promoting a feeling of togetherness and unity. This goes for both introverts and extroverts.
When you feel togetherness, the feeling of “I’m all alone in this” lifts, which is often the source feeling of overwhelm, and it can smooth the energy of overwhelm back to one of resonance and balance.
All of the above can promote a feeling of oneness and harmony with all that is, and a sense that you are in alignment with life. This is where overwhelm dissolves and an open heart, and feeling grounded and connected begins.
Once there you can access intuition, Divine Guidance and most importantly a sense of love and appreciation for the world around.
So try one of the above and start the journey back to harmony.
Each of these ideas has the potential to create space in your life, and thus create a feeling of pace, balance, and may even promote the “I can do this” words to enter your energy.
Once you have returned to balance, it is much easier to put Divine Ideas into action, because the energy is clear, focused, aligned, at one with all that is, and thus, supported by ambient energy.
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