Being empathic or clairsentient can be wonderful and enjoyable, but this can also be overwhelming and exhausting. This is especially true when in crowded areas or areas of high emotions. While the ability should be appreciated, you may wonder how best to keep from feeling drained, but still enjoying life, events, and even movies.

Below are some real life tips to help empaths survive and thrive while still taking part in daily life events:

Deflect

Empaths somewhat absorb the emotions of others, which can be exhausting. Next time you are with someone giving off many emotions, imagine yourself surrounded by outward facing mirrors. This deflects the emotions back. This is especially helpful when you cannot walk away from a person.

Grounding

Being overwhelmed by energy is real and can hit quickly. One sad movie and everything seems overwhelming. Grounding can help keep things under control. This is a form of meditation and can include things like eating root veggies or chocolate, taking a bath, listening and dancing to your favorite song, or walking outdoors.

White or Pink Light

This is all about the mind. When you sense someone feeling anxious or upset around you, surround yourself with white light and extend some to them. This acknowledges  their feelings and sends well wishes.

Prayer

When you pass someone who is suffering, thank the universe for the opposite. This can be done for others or yourself. For example, if you feel sad, thank the universe for love and joy.

Perspective

This sounds easy, but too often we are not aware of our own perspective and need to be. Next time the emotional rabbit hole opens up, remind yourself that you are feeling emotions from spiritual beings that are growing just as we are. Your spiritual gifts are not a burden, but to enrich life. You control the gift or are learning to do so. This will shift perspective.

Law of Attraction

Remember the law of attraction is real and we may be attracting things we are not aware of. The universe delivers what we expect because we are conscious creators and attract stuff into our personal experience. This is often necessary for spiritual growth. Surround yourself with positive people to attract that type of energy.

Boundaries

Though you may not always have a choice of who you around, you do have a choice in what they take from you. If the person is permanent in life, learn their patterns and protect yourself. Set boundaries as needed and stick to them. If you are around an energy vampire, say a few positive things to keep your vibe up.

No News

The news today is always draining. While keeping up with current events is important, it is not worth the horrible feelings. Avoid news stories if they leave you feeling frazzled. If you do have something that sends you spiraling down, follow up with something that makes you laugh or smile. If you are feeling positive your aura will be bright, otherwise it will be dull. When feeling overwhelmed, take a deep breath and get a sense of your aura, then make changes if needed.

Time-Out

Even adults need the occasional breather. When you cannot take the stress another minute, take a break as a priority. Try a bubble bath, a walk, binging your favorite music, or eating ice cream.

Meditate

Meditation is an empath staple. Take time to practice it often so you can be pulled out of the moment and offer perspective.

Crystals

Crystals can help an empath. They are great for clearing negative energy, so keep them around the house or in your pocket. Black tourmaline is great, but so are black obsidian, amethyst, apache tears, and smoky quartz.

Wash Off Negative Energy

When your feeling drained or blah, freshen up, change clothes, wash off or shower, and really wash away the negative feelings. This will freshen up your energy.

Sage

Sage cleansing works well for empaths. When you need a pick me up, just spritz or burn a bit of sage. Its quick and easy.

Being an empath is a gift. Implementing these tips will help you realize that each day. The world needs more positive energy and that is what empaths can bring. Never give up on your gift.

Do you ever get a bad feeling about something you were going to do but ended up doing it anyways?  Did that turn out to be a bad choice?  Did you ever say, “I knew I shouldn’t have done that, but I did it anyways?”  Most people have done this.

Intuition is a gift from the spirit world that gives you a voice inside of your mind and soul that allows you to know what is going to happen without having any real information.

Here are some examples of your intuition and how it works:

• You think of someone and then they message you.
• You are about to cross traffic and you stop, and a car zooms out of nowhere.
• You feel that you should call your friend and then they tell you that they don’t feel good.

Your internal feelings and gut feelings give you a purpose in life and this is something that everyone is born in.  You have a purpose and you can reach the higher good in life and everyone has these inner feelings but not everyone has them developed.

Psychic abilities are able to help you to level up and can help you to develop your life.  If you imagine that you are listening to what your intuition is telling you then you will make less bad choices and you will avoid bad decisions.

If you have learned to develop your intuitive gifts, then you will be able to make a decision that is soul based in your life.

There are ways that you can build up your gifts and this is an important step in your life.

Intuition and Psychic

There is a difference between being an intuitive and being a psychic.  An intuitive person is not always psychic, but a psychic is always intuitive.

There are different stigmas attached to being a psychic and this is because society feels that there is something negative attached to the word.  Society sees them as tricksters and sometimes they are more accepting of intuitive than of psychics.

Intuition is an inner sense of knowing something.  Being a psychic means that you are developing your intuition through different spiritual practices and you can use this to enhance your other psychic abilities.

That means instead of having a feeling that you should call someone, you will have the thought of “they are sick,” come into your mind.  This means that you can use your abilities as an extra-sensory perception, and it can allow you to get images and feelings that come out of nowhere.

This helps you to have information and if you are a visual person then you will rely on your gut for this type of information.  There are different strengths that you will have, and your spirit guides will send you information and help you to understand what your abilities are.

Intuitive Types

There are four different types of intuitive that are the main types, and these include:

• Clairvoyance
• Clairaudient
• Clairsentient
• Claircognizant

Clairvoyant

Someone that is clairvoyant can have clear seeing and this means that they see things in the spirit world.  The clairvoyant can see things that their spirit guides show them, and they are able to see things in vivid dreams.  Visual learners are often times clairvoyant.

Clairaudience

Clairaudience means hearing in the spirit and this means that you will get sounds and feelings in your mind.  These can be phrases and music.

A clairaudient will hear what the spirit guides are telling them, and they will hear music and be able to listen to explanations in their mind.

Clairsentient

A person that is clairsentient is someone that has feelings inside of their spirit.  They have a feeling that is like a gut feeling and they just know something without having any real information why.  They can make decisions based on how they feel and most of the time be right.

Claircognizant

Someone that is claircognizant has a sense of knowing.  This person tends to know things without there being an explanation for it.  They can get information that helps them to see into the future.

A claircognizant is able to get insight that comes out of nowhere and can solve problems and figure things out without much help.

More Intuition

There are other intuitions that are not part of the main ones and these include:

• Clairalience-smelling in the spirit.
• Clairtangency-feeling things through objects.
• Clairempathy-having the ability to sense other people’s emotions.
• Clairgustance-tasting things without having anything in their mouth.

Personal Intuition

When you are trying to figure out what kind of intuition gifts you have, here are some ways you can do it:

• Figure out what style fits you best.
• Figure out how you make decisions.
• What are you attracted to?

When you think about a time in your life that you received information form the universe, how did this come?

• With images?
• With a thought?
• With words?
• With symbols?
• With special feelings?
• You just knew?

Developing Intuition

If you want to develop your intuition, you can do this by doing the following things:

• Use quiet time to center yourself.
• Deep breathe.
• Imagine that you are in an elevator and you are in control of it with your mind.
• Use the dial to raise the frequency in the elevator and put it to max.
• Go higher into the space. Imagine a stop light is there.
• Ask a question and see if the light is red for no or green for yes or yellow for maybe.
• Don’t debate just accept the answer.
• Journal all of the things that you experienced.

Exercise 2

Another way that you can work on this is to guess things.  Guess things that you are able to find out if you were right or not.  Here are some things you can guess:

• If there will be a lot of traffic.
• If your mom will be in a good mood.
• If the meeting will go well.
• If the color of the next car will be red or blue?
• If there will be a lot of phone calls from a certain person.

Take a few minutes to center yourself and to make a few guesses.  Compare what happened with what you guessed and see if you were right.

You might not always be right but keep practicing and you will get better.

Exercise 3

Choose a tarot card out of a deck and see if you can guess which card that you picked.  People can connect with the spirit world through tarot cards.

• Get a tarot deck
• Shuffle the cards.
• Pick out a card.
• Journal what card you got.
• See how your day goes.
• See if your card matched how your day went.
• Write this down.
• At the end of the month look back to see how many times this was right for you.

After you practice, you will see that you can begin to get things right more often. This takes time and practice and you must be patient.

Decision Making

When we get caught up in our lives, we forget to take time to meditate and concentrate on what is going on.  We have to get past things that happen to us or things that get us down and use our intuition to guide us.

When you figure out what you are supposed to do, know that your spirit guides will be there to help you and you will reach to a higher source to listen to the voice and then you will be happier and more confident about what you choose to do in life.

When you are faced with hard decisions, let the spirit guides give you intuition and guide you through your life.  Let them show you signs and know if you are hearing what they say.  If you see animals, butterflies or repeated numbers, this can be a sign.

Keep working on practicing your intuition until you are making the best decisions in your life.

Most of the time when people look for the meaning of a black aura, they automatically think it will be something evil.  There are possibilities that a black aura could mean evil, but this is not usually the true case.  This can happen if there is a lot of troubled emotions in their life or if they are being attacked psychically.  In some cases, a black aura can mean that a spirit has attached itself to the person and once you understand what a black aura is, you will be able to find out what kind of remedy you need to fix it.

Meanings

There are different meanings when someone has a black aura.  This can be trauma, emotional pain or other causes:

• Can be a sign that a person has negative emotions.
• The chi could be blocked.
• This could be negative thoughts and feelings.
• Anger.
• Hatred.
• Unforgiveness.
• Diseases in the body.

Spirits

A spirit can interfere with the color of your aura.  You might have a spirit that is attached to you if you have these things:

• Spirit with negative energy can be afraid to move on its own and will need to attach to you causing a black aura.
• The black aura can come if you are addicted to something. This can cause spirits to attach to you.
• When you practice black arts, it can open up your aura to negative spirits and make your aura black.

Gray

When you have a black aura, note what kind of black.  Lighter auras can look like they are gray and different shades can have different types of meanings:

• Grey can happen when you have a blocked chakra or blocked energies. There are many other causes for a dark aura around your life.  This can be a situation that comes just for a moment or it can be a situation that lasts for a while or has come from a deeper place.
• Light gray can happen when you are worried or stressed. This can mean that you do not trust people and that you are having a hard time in your situation in the present.
• Dark gray or charcoal colored aura can happen if you have a chakra that is unbalanced. This can cause your health to be depleted and cause you to get a sickness.

Fixing a Black Aura

If you want to change the color of your aura and get natural energy flow back, you can do this

• Cleanse your chakra. Do this by meditating, tapping and yoga.  Having a clear chakra can cause you to have a different color aura and can make you healthy in your body.
• Forgiving can also bring you a different colored aura. When you have unforgiveness and hate, it can cause you to destroy your aura.  You need to repair this by forgiving, even though it is not easy.  Get rid of those negative emotions.
• Illnesses can cause a black aura. If you have a black aura, go to the doctor to make sure that your body is healthy.  You may find that you have a sickness that needs to be fixed.
• Spirit’s can attach to you and cause your aura to be black. They can possess you but not all of them are demons.  Sometimes when a spirit attaches to you, you can free yourself by going to an aura cleaner, reiki master or another energy or psychic worker.  Let them do a reading for you and help you cleanse your aura.

Protection

There are things you can do to protect yourself from a spirit attaching to you:

• Put yourself in a bubble of white light. Do this by imagining it covering you all over your body.
• Meditate to keep your energies positive. Do this often, once a day.
• Use crystals of protection that can boost your defenses such as Black Tourmaline and amethyst.

Black Auras

There are many reasons why your aura can be black and you need to determine what is causing your aura to be that color so you can fix it.

Human are blessed to not just enjoy an array of physical senses, but intuitive ones as well.  Clairvoyance is the gift of psychic sight, Clairaudience is the gift of psychic hearing, Clairgustience is the gift of psychic taste, Clairalliance is the gift of psychic smell, Clairsentience is the of psychic feeling, and Claircognizance is the gift of psychic thought.

Take a moment to think about what intuitive senses are most noticeable for you.  How are you currently using these talents in your daily life?

If you want to develop these skills try the following exercises:

Exercise 1:

Find a moment where you can be alone and quiet in a particular room.  Sit comfortably and focus your awareness.  Nonjudgmentally experience all the nuances and feelings in the room.  Slowly let your eyelids grow heavy and close.  Slow your breathing and draw deep cleansing breaths from your diaphragm.  Let your initial experiences with the room circle around in your mind.  Recall what particularly caught your attention.  Was it connected to sight, sound, smell, taste, feeling or thought?  Examine this experience a bit deeper to see if you can get any additional clarity on a message that might be trying to reach you.

Exercise 2:

Sit quietly with closed eyes.  Breathe slowly and deeply with even inhalation and exhalations.  Imagine an object as completely with as much detail as possible.  Sit with the image and play around with the angles you use to examine the minutiae of the object.  What facets stand out most to you.  Is it the smell, taste, texture, feeling or was it representative of something bigger? Does it bring up a memory connected to or deeper knowledge concerning the object?

Whichever of the clairsenses resonated most for you is your most dominant gift for you currently.  If the room exercise brought sensations of fresh baked cookies or you picture a wedge of lemon being squeezed that released a citrusy aroma, then clairalliance might be a special talent for you.  If you heard the creaking of the floor and the pop of a soda can, then clairaudience could be dominant for you.  If in both exercises a special memory resonated throughout your body, you might want to explore working with clairsentience to receive divine knowledge.

Just because one clairsense seems more pronounced now doesn’t mean that other can’t develop over time.  By being mindful, and patient you can strengthen your other psychic abilities with hard work and practice.  You may find that another sense grows other abilities can be honed much more easily.  Let go of expectations and enjoy the journey.  Each of the clairsenses are a gift and can be useful to assist yourself or others during times of hardships or critical decisions.  In all things, give thanks to the Divine and use your gifts wisely.

You can learn to increase your psychic gifts and to become more clairvoyant.  Clairvoyance is when you can see things without actually seeing them.  It means you can look into the past and the present and the future and see your own or others.

Everyone has the same powers, and no one is born with special powers, it is just up to us how we choose to use them or not use them.  You can learn to increase your clairvoyance and open the power in your daily life.

You can learn to open your third eye and you can do this with a few steps.  This can help you to be able to see into the future.

Unblock

You want to unblock your vision and do not accept things in your life that stop you from seeing things.  Give yourself permission to be able to see things in the future and release the feelings that say that you cannot do this.  Relax and practice positive affirmations to yourself.  Release your third eye to be open.

Concentrate

Learn to release your fears and then concentrate on your third eye.  This will be located in between your eyes.  Do not force your third eye to open, you need to practice till this happens on its own.  If you feel that your third eye is partially opened, ask it to open the rest of the way so you can see.

Pay Attention

Look around you and see if you see images come to you.  This can mean that your third eye is open.  You will see things in full color just like you are watching a movie.

Watching

Pay attention to what you are seeing.  If it is fuzzy, keep working on it, it will get better and bigger as time goes on.  Tell it to be clear and do this with power.  Images will get bigger and you will be able to know what your third eye is telling you.

Interpretation

When you are able to see the images, you want to know what they mean and to understand them.

If you can’t understand what your third eye is trying to tell you, ask your spirit guides to come and help you to understand what is going on with you.  Ask them what the pictures mean and what they are trying to tell you.

You will get these answers in your thoughts and you will be learning to increase your psychic abilities.  You will get answers in ways that you will understand them.

Believe

The biggest step to opening your third eye is to believe.  Believe that you are able to see this and imagine that your images are real and trust them.

Write it Down

Write down what you see and always journal when you see images.  If you want to know what something means, you have to be able to remember it.  You have to have the abilities to know what you are seeing and what the images mean to you.

If you know what you want to see, ask the spirit guides and be very specific.  Don’t ask questions that are not specific and expect the universe to give you what you want.  Ask exactly what you want to know and do not hold anything back from the universe.  You will get the answers that you seek.

Think about being in a room that is full of stinky and heavy air.  Imagine that it is hard to breathe and that it is upsetting and nasty.  Did you know that this can happen both physically and on a psychic level?  When there is negative energy that is inside of you, this energy sometimes has a hard time of getting out and can cause your positive energy to not be able to circulate or help you.  This is pollution in your spirit.

Negative energy can get stuck inside of you and can bring about anger and resentment.  IT can cause you not to be able to forgive and cause you to be afraid of things.  When there are issues in your life that you don’t take care of, you are trapping in this negative energy.

Nasty Energy

Nasty energy can bring about bad thoughts.  It can cause you to have strong emotions that are negative and painful.  This can cause your body to get clogged and your chakras to become blocked.  Sooner or later you will experience the following things:

• Stronger negative energy.
• Energy gets blocked and cannot flow.
• Clogged thoughts.
• Negative energies increase.
• Negativity will bring more negativity.
• Spiritual health becomes dull.
• Relationships become strained.
• Your psychic energy will overheat and will make you become detached in life.
• You will be angry and emotional.
• You will have a bad outlook on life.
• Your thoughts and emotions will always be negative.
• You will get physically sick.

Strong Energies

When your energy cannot flow around inside of you, it becomes stuck and will eventually build up and cause negative things to happen to you.  Soon you will find that you are having feelings you aren’t used to such as anger or jealousy.  You will never admit there is a problem because you will not understand that this is your negative energies that are blocking your happiness.

When you learn to take care of your problems and learn to let go of bad things, you will see that your life can be happy, and you can get your negative energies out.

When you choose to take your negativity out on other people and you are rude or hateful, you will see bad things happen to you.  You are continuing to gather more negative energy inside of your body.

Getting Rid of Negative Energy

If you want to be happy and live a good life, you have to get rid of the energy inside of you and allow it to flow.  You have to get rid of whatever is causing your chakra to be blocked.

In order to do this, you might need to meditate.  Here is how you do it:

• Go to a quiet place and take a writing pen with you.
• Ask your spirit guides to help you.
• Relax and take deep breathes. Write things down that bother you and have caused you to be upset.  Write down things form your childhood that have caused you to feel ugly or take harbor negative feelings.  Write down anyone who has rejected you and whenever love has not worked out.
• Don’t edit your paper or leave anything out, even if it is ugly. Allow yourself to keep writing down everything.  This is releasing you.  Write what is on your mind and even if you are scribbling, get it on the paper so you can get rid of it.
• When you have written down all of your feelings, ask the guides to help you let them go. Close your eyes and talk to your spirit guides.
• Put the paper in something and burn it.
• Watch it turn to ashes and feel the negative energies burning away.
• When the paper is all burned up, gather the ashes and scatter them in the wind and let yourself be free.
• Thank the spirit guides for helping you.

If you have done this and you find that some of your issues are not solvable, go to a psychic and ask them to help you.  See what they can do and see if they can look in your past life to see why you can’t let go of some of the emotions.

A good psychic should be able to look at your system and see what is blocked in your chakra and why.

Negative energy is unhealthy, and it will leave you feeling useless and drained.  Do not let your body keep this negative energy in because it will cause you to be mentally and physically ill.