Have you ever walked into a room and felt the weight of someone else’s emotions?
Or been so in tune with someone else’s feelings that you can sense what they think before they even speak?
If so, these are signs that you may be a psychic empath.
But exactly what is a psychic empath? Let’s find out!
What is a Psychic Empath?
Psychic empaths are people who can feel the emotions of others as if they were their own. They are often called “emotional sponges” because they soak up the feelings and emotions of those around them.
This is a double-edged sword, depending on how you perceive it. Or, as some would say, a blessing and a curse at the same time, depending on how you choose to look at it.
On the one hand, psychic empaths can sense and understand the feelings of others better than most people. And this is precisely what makes them excellent friends and confidants.
On the other hand, they can sometimes find themselves overwhelmed by the negative emotions of others. So, if you are feeling stressed out or down, chances are a psychic empath will feel it too.
Moreover, empaths are often natural healers, and many find themselves drawn to helping professions such as medicine, therapy, or teaching. Because of the deep understanding of the human experience they possess and their compassionate nature, they often offer comfort and support to others.
If this sounds like you, then the chances are that you are one!
Types of Empaths
There are many different theories and segregations of empaths found on the Internet. However, three famous types of empaths are at the center of attention. Those are the following:
Physical Empath
Physical empaths experience other people’s physical pain, and they manifest external energies on themselves through physical sensations.
Therefore, when feeling someone else’s pain, like, let’s say, walking in a forest that has burned to the ground or walking among relics of war — this can bring severe physical aches to the empath’s body.
Emotional Empath
Emotional empaths can struggle with immense and sudden flows of depression, anxiety, inspiration, or overwhelming feelings that boil inside.
In fact, emotional empaths are often advised to find a way to express those feelings and get it out of them through a form of art, such as
- making collages,
- painting,
- or some other DIY hobbies.
You are likely to encounter emotional empaths in theaters too. That said, some of the most famous empaths in the movie industry and theaters are these next ones:
- Nicole Kidman,
- Cate Blanchett,
- Mel Gibson,
- and Natalie Portman.
To add to the topic, a scientific study named “Acting training, Theory of mind and empathy: Is there a relationship” has found that ‘actors possess significantly higher empathizing dimensions than non-actors.’
Intuitive Empath
Intuitive empaths can ‘sense’ certain emotions or events in the future. However, as dozens of different individuals explained, those intuitions always come in different types. For instance, some sense traumas, others sense bliss, some see the light, and others even see symbols or people in other forms.
We can further classify intuitive empaths into four different categories, depending on the medium they represent:
- Highly intuitive empath – Certain empaths can even develop extreme cases of smell or sense of motion as a part of being incredibly intuitive and with a tiny dose of psychic.
- Emotional intuitive empath – These individuals additionally struggle with emotions and intuition, which can cause serious damage if they don’t learn to protect themselves.
- Claircognizant empath – These people are walking ‘lie detectors.’ Besides having premonitions while being fully awake, they are the ones to adapt psychic abilities and even telepathy, i.e., the ability to communicate with thoughts and move objects.
- Plant and animal (nature intuitive) empath – People have been a part of nature since the birth of humanity. These kinds of natural empaths are old souls that haven’t lost the ability to communicate with flora and fauna around them.
It’s believed that mythological creatures like gnomes, satyrs, sphinxes, fairies, and giants have all rooted to be what they are explained in fairytales, over their natural intuitive psychic ability.
How Rare Are Empaths?
According to studies, a true empath is so rare that only between one and two percent of the entire world’s population can be classified as such. Additionally, clairvoyance, intuition, increased sense of smell, and perception – are what true empaths are distinct from those feeling empathy.
At the same time, around 10-15 percent of highly sensitive individuals (HSPS) don’t have all traits of psychic empaths around the globe.
Science and Empaths: Does science believe in empaths?
It’s worth mentioning that there’s no actual scientific evidence of empaths’ existence. According to science, the closest interpretation of empathic abilities is the emotions: ‘sympathy,’ ’empathy,’ or ‘intuition.’
However, from a scientific approach, it’s known that those individuals have ‘hyper-responsive mirror neurons.’ In other words, researchers confirm the existence of a distinct kind of brain cells that contribute to mirroring emotions.
This group of brain cells triggers deep feelings, such as compassion. Thus, these individuals can sense and respond to the electromagnetic field generated by another person’s brain and heart – often referred to as ‘aura reading.’ Consequently, this accounts for a solid explanation of why being in a crowd, a mass of furious people at a rave, or a concert can be deeply exhausting.
However, if you think about all the manifestations and characteristics explained by highly-intuitive individuals and empaths – those words are not even close to sublimating their entire experience.
Traits of an Empath
What can empaths do? What is so unique and different in their behavior and senses distinct from other overly-emotional types? There are ‘the empath’s powers’ and empathic abilities.
Here are some of the signs that indicate that you’re an empath:
- Highly sensitive – feeling other people’s emotions as if they were their own is one of the main characteristics of an empath.
- Emotional Sponges – or absorbers of energy — that is why they can heal others while inflicting much pain on themselves.
- Introverts – though not all empaths are introverts, it’s most common.
- Incredibly intuitive – empaths can translate the world’s energy, such as vibration and magnetic fields, into intuition and feelings. The natural law of events runs in their blood. This is why they can’t tolerate injustice and have a strong sense of natural values of what’s wrong and right.
- Connected with nature – nature is their biggest recharger and helps them focus and classify what’s not important and needs to be processed out of their system. Empaths can do stupid things in a crowd out of their blurry inability to interpret their actions in moments of overwhelmed feelings, so nature is the place for them to sit and set things straight.
- Feeling that you don’t belong – social circles are a big bite for an empath, especially that’s felt during their teenage years. It’s okay not to fit in, and adapting to situations is even more challenging for an empath because of their strict moral rules. Sure, teenagers are odd, but empaths are even odder.
How To Develop Your Psychic Abilities
Only people that can connect to themselves can connect to the spirit realm and extract deep secrets from the Universe.
You can look upon this also as a manner of time traveling, or better yet, reaching out for ancient and universal truths and secrets from your own time.
Remember that your intuition is a muscle of your subconscious, and here’s how to train it:
- Connecting to your Spirit – Many people in the 21st century are materialists and oriented only to the outside world of necessities. And to be able to reach on the inside instead of the outside is your first step toward developing psychic abilities.
- Profound meditations – The first obstacle between you and your ability is the inner connection. This can be established with the practice of meditation.
Also, crystals, essential oils, and deep mantras can fasten the connection.
- Practice with other people – Interpreting their lifestyle, age, needs, energies must start somewhere. But don’t mistake judging by sense; it’s an entirely different practice.
- Imagine what places would look like – Imagine a building, someone’s home, their bedroom. Imagine what the place of your next trip would look like before actually seeing it.
This practice can help reduce expectations and face reality, which is necessary to predict correctly instead of simply assuming.
- Be open to new experiences – You’re entering a territory you’ve never been on before, one connected with many superstitions and false myths; it can be rather tempting to test your own beliefs.
Let go of beliefs and expectations and practice all sorts of things – from dancing, sport, meditation to music combined with other activities.
Become your activity instead of minding your moves and see where that would lead you.
How To Control Psychic Empathy
Being fragile porcelain among people made out of iron and steel needs care and protection. Besides being cautious and protective, you also need to learn to control your empathy, so you don’t become hurt and self-destructive.
Here are some tips for psychic self-defense:
- Set your boundaries – you’re no different from other people, and saying NO won’t destroy anyone more than it will destroy yourself.
- Be mindful and self-aware – ‘spoiling’ yourself and listening to your inner voice isn’t selfish. It’s self-care.
- Be picky of the people in your surroundings – empaths are drained by narcissists, ‘drama-queens,’ and victims. Yet, at the same time, these people are urged to find an empath to survive social situations. So, be careful and trust your gut.
- Sport and exercise – since empaths are easy to be drained out – they have immense energy capacities. Sometimes, panicking and anxiety are the empath’s immense energy that’s not being appropriately channeled. Aside from meditating, find other more inactive sports to channel this excessive energy.
- Find your crystal – gemstones are often considered ‘shields of the spirit,’ and finding the one that suits your character and needs can be an additional shield for ‘energy vampires.’
What Triggers an Empath?
Aside from being constantly hurt and prone to narcissists and emotionally needy people who usually play the victims, specific patterns could be spotted as triggers for empaths.
Here are some of them:
- Feeling like a failure for not being able to help someone out.
- Common feelings of unworthiness and failure in life since empaths are NOT compassionate for themselves as they are to others.
- Problems with saying ‘no’ and setting their boundaries.
- Too much touching, hugging, and physical attraction in a new relationship.
- Conflicts with relatives.
These triggers cause emotional distress that can be manifested in different case scenarios, depending on the empath’s personality – introvert or extrovert:
- food cravings,
- urge for sex,
- panic attacks,
- chronic fatigue,
- depression and anxiety,
- self-destructive urges, etc.
Psychic vs. Empath: Is There A Difference?
We’re all psychics and empaths to a certain level since we’re emotional and spiritual beings. But only a rare portion of highly sensitive, intuitive, and emotional beings are empaths, while others are just empathetic.
Being a psychic means receiving more information from the spirit realm of both spirits on Earth and outside. After all, psychics are mediums between worlds.
Another characteristic that distinguishes psychics from empaths is that psychics sense while empaths observe and reflect.
At the same time, empaths receive feelings and emotions from people around them, and they are channels of their energy rather than their spirit. An empathy can manifest and completely copy another person’s emotional state, while a psychic can interpret their destiny and dreams.
Finishing Thoughts
So, have we answered what is a psychic empath?
As you can see, being an empath and being empathetic are very distinctive. Feeling for other people’s misery or happiness may bring tears to many people’s eyes, but they’re not necessarily empaths.
A gift and a burden at the same time — dealing with being an empath can be overwhelming.
