Possible challenges or side effects:
- You may go into overwhelm often and quickly
- feelings of exhaustion
- The need for alone time to recharge
- Sensitivity to light, smell or noise
- An aversion to large groups
- You may take longer to ‘wind down’ and relax/rebalance again
- Easily becoming over stimulated
- Absorbing stress & negativity of others (this could be emotionally or physical pain)
- As you feel things intensely (you may also be unable to watch horror movies or violence etc)
- Having emotional & social hangovers when you’re with a large group of people for too long
- Feeling isolated or lonely
- Low self esteem
- Struggle with poor boundaries
Awesome skills and strengths of an empath
– Compassion – The ability to feel the emotions of others gives us an amazing ability to be truly honestly and authentically compassionate towards others. This enables us to have a greater ability to create truer, deeper and more heart centred relationships that are authentic.
Other Advantages :
– Highly intuitive
– Highly perceptive
– High levels of awareness
– Ability to read people very well
– Human lie detectors
– Very rich inner world
– Strong desire to help others
– Huge hearts & compassionate
– Highly passionate, deep & creative
– Ability to enjoy, sense & experience the world and nature on a deeper level
