#empaths theme

Names:  Emotional, Emotionally Receptive Empath

Meaning: 

 An Emotionally Receptive Empath is said to be the most common type of empath. They can pick up on the emotions of others and feel them as their own. For example, if someone near them (or physically far away, but close to them) is sad, then an Emotionally Receptive Empath would feel sad themselves.

Abilities and how to improve them:

They are very caring individuals and do a lot of good in the world. It is also very hard to deceive them or lie to them simply because they can sense emotions like guilt or nervousness. They are also able to help people by using their abilities to heal others. These types of empaths can keep themselves and others out of danger easily too by feeling the real intentions of someone.

To strengthen this ability, you can use standard meditation and focus to try to feel the emotions of those around you. You can make it more challenging by being in a different room or even a longer distance away from the person you are trying to sense. Use grounding crystals to stabilize and give good footing when practicing. Use crystals and things that correspond to the root and heart chakras, improving psychic abilities and healing. Study psychology - you can also just simply try to listen and understand people better. 

Weaknesses and how to deal with them:

These types of empaths are susceptible to; Negativity in general, emotionally distressing or violent news/TV Shows/movies, large crowds, and emotional vampires (plus other emotionally draining entities). Since these empaths are so caring, they can also become trapped in toxic environments or attract people that need healing. It can also be hard to sense the difference between their own emotions and those of others.

Constantly feeling and knowing how others feel is incredibly draining, especially since most others can’t do the same. So, oftentimes, others needs are being met, but yours are not. It may feel like you cannot do things for yourself since you have a “duty” or “responsibility” to others. It can also be very heartbreaking if you constantly know that people are deceiving you or feel certain ways about things that are important to you.

One thing that can be very hard to deal with is other people’s hardships, mental illnesses, or substance abuse problems.

The first thing to do as an emotional empath is learn how to protect yourself from everything listed above. Use energy shields, wards, sigils, grounding techniques, and spell jars. Put protective spells on jewelry and crystals so you can have something with you at all times. One thing to do is use mirrors to reflect away negativity and emotions or make decoys to attract those things as well.

Cleansing and clearing away negativity is important because it can affect your day-to-day life. Cleanse using bath and shower spells, herbs, crystals. You can also use crystals or objects to absorb or even store negativity and unwanted emotions.

The next thing to do is learn how to differentiate between your own emotions and others by asking yourself questions about the ones you are feeling. Do they make sense? Do they manifest in different ways than usual? Sometimes using spells or renewing wards can help you tell the difference, since emotions that don’t belong to you tend to go away with them.

Find a good support as well to help you when you do feel overwhelming/bad emotions because they can affect your own, even if you are very aware of them belonging to someone else. You can also make sure you are surrounded by people you trust and aren’t toxic. It’s very hard to push people away who need your help, especially when you can sense their emotions, but you cannot help everyone and they’ll only get better when they want to and with professional help.

Names: Physical, Physically receptive, Medical, Energy, Healing Empath

Meaning:

I put these two Empaths together, since many of their abilities go hand-in-hand. These Empaths can feel physical and energetic ailments in the body- sometimes they are only aware of them, sometimes they can physically feel them as their own. 

Abilities and how to improve them:

These empaths can do all of the above, but some are able to fix or heal ailments. Most of them can only heal energetic ailments, like energy blockages or damaged auras, instead of physical ailments, but they can also have the knowledge of what needs to be done to help alleviate pain. Some Empaths like these may also have the ability to see things like energy or where physical ailments are located.

To improve these abilities you should practice sensing and seeing energy- even if you are only on the physical side of things. Study things like medicine and health-related things (Do not try to be a doctor if you don’t have a degree) just become more knowledgeable about things related to illnesses. Pursue a career in medicine.

Become aware of your own body, meditate and learn its natural rhythms. Use tools that will help with psychic abilities like dark blue, purple and white crystals. If you work with chakras, focus on the 3rd eye and crown to hone psychic abilities, focus on the root to ground and Sacral be in tune with your own body, and study all of them to learn more about other people’s bodies and energy. Study auras, energy reading and cleansing techniques to learn how to cleanse other’s energies.

The last thing is to connect with people- get to know them and it will be easier to read them and feel their energies. 

Weaknesses and how to deal with them:

The main weakness with these Empaths is that they can feel ailments as their own, so the pain from a sore back or broken leg can be felt in that person’s body. In some cases, they can share an illness with someone close to them. They are also affected by things like alcohol or other substances and can react to them as if they had it themselves. They are also susceptible to things and entities that drain energy- like parasites. 

Use protection tools and things related to the earth to shield your body from outside things like pain. Make sure to use spells to protect your energy from entities, especially when doing healing or energy work. Casting circles, warding, and other safeguards are good.

Ground, not just in nature, but your own body. Make rituals out of physical self care like moisturizing or exercising. Get things that are good for your body- make sure your body is healthy. 

Names: Geomantic, Earth, Geo-Evolutionary, Environmental Empath

Meaning:

A Geomantic Empath is an Empath that is connected emotionally to the Earth.

Abilities and how to improve them:

Geomantic Empaths have many abilities related to the Earth. They thrive in nature and gain energy from it. They can feel the effects of climate change, pollution and other things that destroy the Earth much more than regular people. They are sometimes able to predict natural disasters and feel them coming. They can also predict the weather and feel the energy of storms and other natural phenomenon.

To improve these abilities, you should spend lots of time in nature and live further away from cities. Have plants to take care of, grow your own herbs and eat fruits and vegetables more often than not- and ground often. Crystals are really good for Geomantics because they come from the Earth, but it may be better to get your own instead of buying from places that mine them. Grounding crystals- red, black, brown and grey- are the best. Anything corresponding to the root chakra and heart chakra is good too.  

Weaknesses and how to deal with them:

Geomantic Empaths are affected by things that destroy and hurt the Earth. They also may feel distraught by the fact that they can sense natural disasters, but they cannot do anything about them. They can feel negative emotions and even have health problems because of how badly the earth is treated, especially if they are near things like mines, where deforestation occurs, cities, and pollution in general. Try to live as far away from these as possible.

Happy Saturday everyone! I just wanted to say that the posts I will be posting today aren’t extensive and can be added to! They also are not universal, as abilities can manifest in many different ways, so feel free to add your own experiences to posts! 

Right now for the empaths theme, I'm posting more general knowledge since that's mostly what I can find, but I am currently working on researching for more specific posts on Friday/Saturday.

I want to provide more information than what I'm finding about empaths since I have so much experience with it and since people have showed interest in specific types of empaths that don't have a lot of info about them.

Names: Flora/Plant, Fauna/Animal Empath

Meaning:

A Flora Empath is an Empath that is connected to plants. A Fauna Empath is an Empath that is connected to animals.

Abilities and how to improve them:

Fauna Empaths many attract many different animals to them- and be that friend who can get your shy cat to somehow earn their trust. They may be able to even communicate with them and they instantly know what they need.

Study Veterinary Science and learn about animals to know more about them- the more you know, the better your intuition will be. Do things with your pets and use tools and crystals that will connect you with animals. If your pet is able to- meditate with them to increase your connection. Sit in nature and listen for animals sounds like rustling and birdcalls.

Flora Empaths are people who have a “green thumb” and can bring any plant back to life- and can grow them in almost any environment. They also may be able to communicate with plants and know exactly what they need at any given time.

Study horticulture and herbalism to increase your knowledge of plants. Sit in nature and feel all of the plants around you- feel grass on your feet. Connect to plants by feeling them and smelling them. (Be safe! There are many out there that are dangerous!)

If you are someone who is comfortable using plants in your spells, do so! Flowers have many different meanings to them and there are many resources for using plants that are not herbs in witchcraft. Use plants to decorate things and make things from them.

If you are someone who is not comfortable hurting plants or using them, then grow them! Create gardens and live close to nature- you can even care for plants in the wild and nurse plants back to health.

Weaknesses and how to deal with them:

Fauna Empaths are affected by animal cruelty and seeing strays out on the street. Many of them can even hoard animals because they care too much about them, and ultimately going into a spiral of not being able to part with them and also not being able to care for all of them.

To avoid things like this, protect yourself from negative feelings like guilt and do research on humane shelters and places where you can take them to instead of housing them yourself. 

You can pursue careers in Veterinary Science and volunteer at animal shelters and even foster animals until they can go to good homes so that you can help them.

Both Empaths are impacted by the affects of pollution and other things that damage the Earth. 

You can always join activist groups that help animals or the environment. 

Names: Claircognizant, Instinctive, Intuitive Empath

Meaning:

A Claircognizant Empath is very similar to an Emotional Empath, except they are someone who knows what others emotions are instead of feeling them. (Precognitive empaths are also in this category. A Precognitive empath is an empath that knows what will happen in the future) I put these two together, since the psychic ability of Claircognizance includes both, but it is possible to have one without the other.

Abilities and how to improve them:

They are able to tell if someone is lying and it is very hard to deceive them. They are always right about advice they give (simply because they know the right things to do for any given situation) and they can even predict the future when it comes to peoples emotions and actions. They are also very good at being able to keep themselves and others out of danger simply by knowing that certain paths or actions aren’t good. 

Doing things like paying more attention to people and your surroundings, playing guessing games, and studying psychology will improve these abilities. (When you are more knowledgeable of how people work and why they do things, knowing and understanding using your abilities becomes much easier.) Using spells, crystals and other tools that correspond to improving psychic abilities, the upper chakras (Heart, throat, third eye, and crown) and stabilizing emotions.   

Weaknesses and how to deal with them:

One of the most frustrating things about being a Claircognizant Empath is always being right. They know they are right, but others do not and sometimes, they have to sit back and watch things unfold simply because people will not listen to them. 

They do not feel others’ emotions, but they do have to deal with something similar- Knowing that someone is in pain can bring about their own feelings of hopelessness and other negative emotions.

Be sure to have a support group and people you trust around you- try to stay away from toxic people. It can be very difficult to push people away that you know need help, but the best thing you can do for them is to let them decide things on their own and get professional help.

Apologies for not posting my Empath posts! Instead of queuing them, I saved them to drafts!

Here they are (after this post), and a couple of them don’t have as much information as Emotional or Claircognizant Empaths because there’s not as much information out there. It’s mostly just repeated, so if anyone has more information on Geomantic (Earth) Empaths, Medical Empaths, and more specific things to help them, please share! You can send in asks that I can post or you can tag @thisisawitchgang  in them and I can reblog them. 

I also decided not to do a post on Psychometric and Medium Empaths, since they aren’t usually considered Empaths (even though they are in many lists online), but let me know if you want me to do posts on them!

One more thing- since I didn’t want these posts to be too long, I didn’t provide many examples of specific things like protection spells and crystals. I can definitely do a masterlist of crystals, herbs and other tools for all Empaths this week if you would like! I use many of them myself- there are a lot out there. Just let me know! I’ll provide as many as possible for you all!