Tame Your Energy Sensitivity

A tiger named Tasha was taken from her mother as a cub and kept in captivity in a faraway land. Her life was miserable. The unnatural climate and concrete floor of her cage were hard on her skin, the confinement limited her muscle use, and she was fed so little her ribs were visible through her fur. All she knew was suffering until one day the people at the Wild Animal Sanctuary rescued her from near death and moved her to a nature reserve built specifically to rehabilitate animals like her. As Tasha adjusted to her new environment, she had to learn a new way of being. A story in the Wild Animal Sanctuary’s newsletter shared her caretaker's observation, that for Tasha, and many other misunderstood wildlife raised in captivity, “having to relearn trust is a life-altering experience.” Her sensitive caretakers knew that true healing for Tasha would allow her to “open her heart wider than it has ever opened before.” Tasha’s story is not so different from that of many energy sensitives. Energy sensitives, also known as empaths, often have navigated life not understanding their true nature. Empaths need to relearn how to trust their soul’s guidance. Many have heard the whispers of their inner guidance but don’t know how to translate it or what to do with the information. The messages from their body have long been disregarded, and they’ve often experienced intuitive hints as something “wrong” with them. Relearning trust for an empath means understanding that a knot in the stomach or anxiety for “no reason” is in fact an empathic sensitivity trying to get their attention. The seed of this confusion is usually planted when an empath is born in an environment that does not support their nature. Their soul suffers from malnourishment, no matter how loving their parents may have been. If the caretakers were not energy sensitives themselves or had been taught to “turn off” their sensitivity, they had no skills to pass along. Life as an empath is a sacred journey requiring divine guidance. Having heightened energy sensitivity is simply a sign that you are not so far removed from the nature of wholeness each human is born with. All human beings hold the potential for that sacred connection, but today many are conditioned by society, or trauma, or a million other little imprints, to disregard the ability to receive information from the world by sensing it. Like Tasha the tiger relearning the safety that comes with embracing her natural instincts, how can you relearn trust and open your heart as an empath? Is it really safe to open your heart wider than it has opened before? I believe it can be. But just as with Tasha, it won’t happen as long as you are stuck in the old, confined place. It will require a transformation, one that involves movement and courage. You will have to feed your spirit a different type of nourishment than you have been, and learn a new way of holding your energy field so it can rest more deeply. Then trust for your inner guidance will emerge. Unlike Tasha, you have free will. In this very moment you can choose to heal and break free of the limitations that you were born into. You have the power to align consciously with your soul’s essence. If you do, you will discover why and how it is a good thing to be sensitive to energy. The most profound transformation and inner power can be yours when you relearn how to trust your inner guidance, open your heart, and embrace connection without absorbing the suffering of others.