Sensitivity

In the course of my work, I meet many extremely sensitive people

They experience the world in a special way, far more sophisticated than the average.

They are the ones who, when they enter somewhere, immediately feel the vibes of the place or what happened there. If they look at someone, they know without question how that person feels. When someone reaches for something, they know exactly, what the other wants to get. They already know the end of the sentence at the beginning. They are extremely intuitive. They feel, they sense many things. They are human lie detectors who sense the disharmony between words and the real thoughts or intentions.

They have a special relationship with nature, the animal kingdom, beauty, and the arts. Noise, busy places, loud people, and bustling social life can be overwhelming for them. They are mostly feel comfortable in more personal and private relationships and situations. But not all of them are introverts.

They are the ones people instinctively gravitate to, feel safe around, and open up to. When talking to them, the other party feels really listened to. Those who turn to others with extremely deep interest, attention, and compassion.

They really sympathize. They literally feel, sense all feelings, thoughts, sensations of others.

The vast majority of people experience through their 5 senses and have natural filters that both separate and protect them from outside inputs.

These people have only partial or none of these natural defense systems. Not much separates them from the outside world, one could say they sense limitlessly. They are constantly exposed to the outer impressions and process a lot of information in every situation.

Imagine that when we hold something in our hands, we feel it with five fingers. Well. They feel it with fifty fingers.

This gift is exciting, precious, and wonderful. However, it can be scary, frightening, and a big burden if someone does not know how it works.

Not so obvious to know. And often they don’t know. Neither the people involved nor their environment.

Families don’t talk much about how to nurture, protect, or use these sensitivities, although in many cases they are passed down from generation to generation.

There is no any word in the curriculum in schools either, what to do if someone experiences the world differently than others. Anyway, how would one know it’s different? What and how we experience that is the natural for us.

Even adults find it difficult to put into words the complex experiences they go through. Well. How about the children?

Many people, even if they know about themselves that they are different, they feel weird, doubt, shame. And they often want to hide and suppress these abilities rather than discover them. Many times they try to numb these sensitivities by using alcohol, drug, food or with other addictions, in order to coop with the overwhelming experiences.

Most people involved have no idea that their sensitivity is a special value. And that they are not alone in these experiences. That they are empaths.

In my experience, it can cause a lot of difficulty for empaths if they are not aware of their situation. If they are not aware of reasons behind and the resulting natural needs.

Because their senses and the entire system are extremely sophisticated, everything affects an empath much more intensely than others. It can be the environmental impact, human influence, food or medicine.

Since in many cases empaths not only observe and sense things, but also absorb these effects like a sponge, they often suffer from various physical, emotional, or even mental symptoms. Sometimes from mysterious illnesses without logical causes.

Either they are thought to be hypochondriacs or they are misdiagnosed, because their condition cannot be interpreted without knowledge and understanding of this phenomenon.

Empathizing with other people’s feelings, taking on others’s stress so much that you end up not being able to tell them apart from your own – it sounds like a sci-fi teory to most of the people. But it’s reality for an empath. – That’s why so important to know how one’s sensitivity works, what particularly sensitive to, and how can protect and manage the abilities.

If you are widely open without limits, it is good to set your own boundaries in order to live and enjoy your abilities instead suffer from the side effects.

If you get to know how and why the world affects you the way it does, and discover how you affect others.

In this way, you can develop your capabilities, for your own pleasure and for the benefit of others.

A fully-developed, balanced, confident empath is a great gift to the world. He/She mere presence has a positive effect on those around them.

These special people carry on deep compassion, love, respect and humility towards all beings. The way they see the things, they see into the things.

Their intuition, the natural kindness, their honesty. Their strenght. They all lift up and support their family, friends, everything and everyone they are connected to.

To understand the values and the difficulties they live with can be a milestone for them – and for everyone they belong to.

Being an empath is a big challenge and great value. – let’s respect and take care of them.

Which also means: Dear Empaths value your sensitivity and enjoy your gifts!