For the unfamiliar, empaths are people who take their high-level sensitivities to a profoundly deeper level. Typically, their sensitive nature causes them to prefer solitude over the company of larger groups. It also requires the need for essential downtime to allow recovery from over-stimulating noise, light, and energies.

However, these very same high sensitivities also enable them to absorb and process more information than most.

Most people who understand and are familiar with empaths are often highly sensitive persons, if not empaths themselves. Many of their type have provided us with more insight into their nature, giving more people a glimpse of their inner world. Continue reading →

Most empaths have a strong sense of intuition. Along with the ability to feel more for others and along with their high-level sensitivity, most empaths are already open conduits and can access non-linear knowledge more easily in the form of gut feelings, dreams, and visions.

However, not all empaths seem able to manage their intuition well. There could be times when empaths sense strong emotions and energies from other people around them, but that doesn’t always convey their truth. As an empath without a strongly developed sense of intuition, you run the risk of being overwhelmed and overcome by all the energies and emotions surrounding you, and not be able to distinguish them from your own. Continue reading →