Hey you empaths, mind your own chakras

If you are an empath or a highly sensitive person you can likely feel a lot about everyone you encounter. You may even be able to feel more about people’s inner world than they can. For your physical health and for the benefit of healthy relationships, please learn to tune this seeing out.

It’s hard to do when you are open and perceptive. At one point the state of somebody’s chakras was as obvious to me as the colour of shirt he/she was wearing. I asked my mentor, “How can I selectively choose not to see something as obvious as the colour of somebody’s clothes?” She talked to me about learning to engage a veil to protect me from information overload and to protect people’s privacy. People can feel uncomfortable when they are seen too deeply, outside a therapeutic context.

These nebulous shifts are hard to quantify. It’s something I’ve been working on but not focusing on consciously every day. Recently somebody asked me how I felt about the state of his chakras. He wasn’t a patient of mine and I paused and happily reported that I didn’t know because I hadn’t been looking at him that way.

Looking back I felt quite pleased. I hadn’t realized that my boundaries are stronger and I haven’t been inundated with as much information as I used to absorb. That influx of information is exhausting and it’s actually quite a relief to learn how to turn down the dial.

I think some empaths get caught in the belief that their vision or sensing is their gift so they don’t want to push it away. True, it can be a gift but it can also be a tremendous liability. Sensitive sight is a wonderful skill that’s even better when you know how to use it when it’s most appropriate.