Shielding also protects others from personal energy

[Raintreewolf]

It seems to me that most everyone in here or everyone in here is pretty calm and gentle people as empaths.

I'm just wondering if any of you find your shielding will aide in protecting you from others?
I feel like it helps me in dealing with people. My shield is there also to help protect others from my intense energies. I half to be careful because energies just roll off me like water off a duck's back but not everyone is as non offended or non hurt as I feel I can be, if that makes sense. There are many sensitive people out there and it is not just in an empathic way either.

As an empath do you feel you can project your energy as well as precieve someone elses energies? Is this an empathic thing or is it something else?

This has taken me years to realise that I was one of those intense effecting type people and not everyone was as resilient as I am.

I do not feel that an empath is always particularly patient and calm. I run with a firey passion, still precieve or intuit others ( though I tend not to act very often on what I intuit.)

Is intuition the same as empathy?

[Pesha]

I have to be careful becasue I can really broadcast my emotions over a wide area. If I am in a bad mood or feel less than great, I usually stay away from people. I have on occassion flowed warm and calm feelings into room that had anger coming from them.

I have very good intuition. I do not know frankly if it is because I am an empath. I would imagin however that it may be so.

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[Greenbell]

Although I'm not completely sure I'm an empath, because I've only had a few people say some of my traits sound like empathy, I do remember times at school where I've gotten very angry. After cooling off, it seemed like everyone who entered, or even went BY, that room also became angry. But, of course, by then I was as cool as a cucumber and happy again. Oops! ^_^'

[Bethra]

Hmm most interesting questions here. I'd have to say that being empathic has made me much more consious of the energies I project to others. I tend to keep my person out going emotions as even and calm as I possibly can because I'm so aware how easily others can be effected by such things. Particularly when I'm in the company of others who are known to me as empathic I try to soften the jagged edges and give as much of a nutural energy out as I possibly can.

I have a distinct dislike personaly for the colour pink but I try to make my energy field pinkish most of the time so that it is gentle and hopefully relaxing for those around me. In general this seems to work quite well, with some people though this can also have a negative effect since they can become too sedative in my soperific atmospher. It's a hard balancing act but I tend to lean more towards the relaxing vibes since most people who pass through my doors are stressed.

I watch them come in all frazzled with stress and they are fidgeting and babbling and wound up like clocks and then I turn up the relfaxing rays and bathe them in pink and you can watch them slowly unwind. Eventualy they just let out this big sigh and I can see them visably relax before my eyes.

In the other extream when I'm stressed out I can see the effect it has on those around me also so I have to try to eather thicken the shield or make myself relax and de-stress. Nine times out of ten the whole household ends up yelling at eachother and then laughing because it's so silly to shout at eachother when we don't know why we are doing it :lol:

[MoonDust]

I'm just wondering if any of you find your shielding will aide in protecting you from others?
Sometimes I feel like that is the case. I think that because I can feel emotions so intently it also makes me able to project them just as much.
But as far as my shielding protecting others from it… the answer would be no.
I use it as protection for me. Its purpose is very specific as is the grounding I do and the “unloading of energy” I do every so often.
I am aware that the way I react or behave will have an effect on how the people around me will behave so I try to stay calm, let things “bounce” off me, & keep some sort of control over my emotions.
I do feel my emotions –no matter what or how …unpleasant they may be- are valid and have every right to flow through me. I let them run their course, but never run away from me.

As an empath do you feel you can project your energy as well as precieve someone elses energies? Is this an empathic thing or is it something else?
Now this… I don’t know. I’ve sent off healing energies to people both in front of me and over large distances. Don’t know if it has to do with empathy though. I have (on the very rare occasion) placed my hands over someone and tried to absorb the negative energies overtaking that person so that they may have some sort of relief. I make sure I’m grounded when I do it and am braced for it though. Also, I following by a very thorough cleansing.

Is intuition the same as empathy?
To a degree it may be. But I feel intuition is more an instinct as the ability to feel what others do.
You can be an empath and have amazing intuition, but just because you have great intuition doesn’t mean you’re an empath

[Raintreewolf]

Very cool, thank you everyone here who responded to these questions. I did not think anyone had responded...LOL...I must not have checked the little box for instant notification of replys...Do'h.


Yes, this is exacelty what I'm talking about, everyone answered very well...and I'm glad to see there are people conscious of this, as I think it is important to be so.

I feel there is a little more responsibility when we recognise that we are empathic...at least it has been for me, an eye opener on this level.

Sometimes when I get into a really pouty or funky mood it is hard to just turn the intincity off because somehwere in me I recognise that I'm perhaps enjoying the turbulant upheavle...LOL but i do not like to see my pets or other people become effected by this piculiarity I find with-in myself. I have noticed that shielding myself does help protect others from my tumultuos steam ( I sometimes notice I use anger as a motivator for myself but once again I do not want to damage someone else with it.)

When I was in my teens and early adulthood, I remember being and feeling very manipulated and edgy about or around others projecting anger energy, even if they did not talk about it and it actually made me feel emotianal and in a wierd state of pain and agony. Luckily it does not effect me like that now, perhaps because I understand my own anger issues better...

I know it has been awhile since this thread was started and sorry to get back to it so late in time but thank you all very much for responding with such honesty. I appreciate it.