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How to Overcome Emotional Overload When You’re Highly Empathetic
Over time, I discovered four powerful ways to help manage emotional energy.
1. Practice awareness.
How to Overcome Emotional Overload When You’re Highly Empathetic
Over time, I discovered four powerful ways to help manage emotional energy.
1. Practice awareness.
I noticed that if I wasn’t aware of what I was feeling, either in response to an internal shift, such as a hormonal or mood change, or a reaction to another person’s strong emotion, I was much more likely to be reactive and act out in a way that wouldn’t feel good to me.
With awareness, I could consciously choose a response and an action that I could feel good about.
2. Understand the nature of energy.
With awareness, I could consciously choose a response and an action that I could feel good about.
2. Understand the nature of energy.
A big key to healing for me has been the understanding that my response to my environment also feeds the energy.
If my daughter comes home from a long day at school expressing negativity, if I feed on that, consciously or unconsciously, by being in any way critical, negative, or judgmental myself, I will only increase the dark energy that is now in the kitchen.
3. Don’t take anything personally.
I have learned to trust that other people, even those I love the most, need to learn life’s lessons through their own experiences and insights.
I’m not responsible for fixing the energy or the situation. My only responsibility was and is, how am I managing my own energy: am I adding goodness, love, and warmth to the space and people around me, or am I contributing to the creation of a frenetic and fearful environment?
4. Balance yourself.
The key to staying balanced for me is to continuously stay connected to my heart—my deeper, spiritual self—and when I stray from there by getting caught up in the voices in my head or the drama unfolding around me, to know the short-cut back to center.
For me, the most powerful way to do this is with a form of meditation that I call self-hypnosis.
This method helped me to heal so many aspects of my life, including my health, which had deteriorated at a young age, my weight, and food addiction issues as well as my relationships. Any type of meditation—and even just a few minutes of deep breathing—can help us center ourselves.
If my daughter comes home from a long day at school expressing negativity, if I feed on that, consciously or unconsciously, by being in any way critical, negative, or judgmental myself, I will only increase the dark energy that is now in the kitchen.
3. Don’t take anything personally.
I have learned to trust that other people, even those I love the most, need to learn life’s lessons through their own experiences and insights.
I’m not responsible for fixing the energy or the situation. My only responsibility was and is, how am I managing my own energy: am I adding goodness, love, and warmth to the space and people around me, or am I contributing to the creation of a frenetic and fearful environment?
4. Balance yourself.
The key to staying balanced for me is to continuously stay connected to my heart—my deeper, spiritual self—and when I stray from there by getting caught up in the voices in my head or the drama unfolding around me, to know the short-cut back to center.
For me, the most powerful way to do this is with a form of meditation that I call self-hypnosis.
This method helped me to heal so many aspects of my life, including my health, which had deteriorated at a young age, my weight, and food addiction issues as well as my relationships. Any type of meditation—and even just a few minutes of deep breathing—can help us center ourselves.
I used to think my only two choices were to react to negative energy with negativity or to withdraw and detach. Neither option was conducive to building strong, supportive relationships or to my own happiness.
I now know that when someone throws me a stone, I can throw back a flower (as a wise spiritual teacher once recommended), and I can feel great about it!
I now know that when someone throws me a stone, I can throw back a flower (as a wise spiritual teacher once recommended), and I can feel great about it!
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