Being an Emotional Empath is a Rare Gift even a Superpower

Published on November 09, 2021

Being an emotional Empath is a gift! It may not always feel like it, but learning how to manage this gift can change your life!

Do your emotions feel like a crazy rollercoaster?

Person standing at the start of an emotional rollercoaster path

What are the signs you’re an empath?

Are you sometimes concerned that perhaps you’re just a bit crazy because you are so much more sensitive to energy than your friends or co-workers?

Do you have unexplained mood swings, strange health issues, feelings of overwhelm, and exhaustion that don’t seem to have an explanation?

Do you often feel another person’s feelings, thoughts, emotions, or even physical pain as if they are your own?

We may have some good news for you. You may not be crazy after all. You are likely either an emotional Empath or a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), and we have some tools to share with you.

Being an Emotional Empath or Highly Sensitive Person, HSP can be your Superpower.

These days, the terms “ Empath “ and “ Highly Sensitive Person “ are often used interchangeably, but this is not technically correct.

What is the difference between an Emotional Empath and a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)?

Visual comparison of Empath and HSP energy fields

HSPs are estimated to comprise about 20% of the population today, but only 5% are considered Empaths. All Empaths are highly Sensitive Persons, but not all Highly Sensitive Persons are Empaths.

Empaths – You experience what it’s like to be the other person and sometimes can’t tell the difference between your feelings and someone else’s. The type of empath we’re talking about here is the emotional empath.

Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) – You can sense these things, but know they’re not You. They can still affect your mood and well-being, but you’re not trying to process an emotion that isn’t yours.

Both can perceive another person’s feelings, emotions, and/or pain. The difference is in knowing whether it’s yours or someone else’s.

The emotional empath takes in the emotions and energy of other people, integrates them into their own energy field, and feels like it’s theirs. Some even transfer physical pain, suddenly experiencing a headache, backache, or other pain. Often, it’s someone they know, but at times, I can be near that woman in the subway who is in deep pain, and you sympathize with her, and Violla, you’ve got a backache, too.

There are challenges and gifts either way. In the rest of this article, I will discuss the challenges of being overwhelmingly sensitive to the world around you without constantly distinguishing between the two terms. All empaths are HSPs, but the reverse is not always true.

You can learn more about it and gain some tools and techniques to balance things out so you’re not riding such a huge, confusing rollercoaster of emotions. Once you gain some mastery and understanding, I am confident you will begin to be thankful that you have such a huge, wide-open, caring heart.

Why is Emotional Sensitivity a Gift?

If you’re like most of us, you likely haven’t always seen this as a gift. You’ve likely seen it as a curse.

Most of us have heard all too often: “You’re too sensitive.” “Wow, what a bleeding heart!” “Don’t take it all so personally.” You may have even been called “neurotic.” You may have felt slightly crazy and feel the world isn’t safe. Many of us spend many difficult years before we begin to understand what’s going on.

I’m happy you’re here at whatever point in your life.

Being an Emotional Empath in a world filled with fear, pain, and chaos can be difficult. You probably feel like you’re on a roller coaster as you pick up on the energies of the people around you, frequently experiencing myriad emotions within a short time. I’ve been there and can relate.

Why fixing yourself doesn’t work.

It’s not your fault. You have done nothing wrong. You don’t need fixing. It would be best if you had a little fine-tuning.

You have probably spent a fair amount of time trying to “fix” yourself. You experience other people’s emotions or pains like your own. Since you are unaware of this phenomenon, you try to figure out how to heal that emotion or pain.

The Empowerment of Differentiating Yours vs. Others

Woman in quiet reflection doing emotional self-check

I’ve found that simply taking a few quiet moments to ask myself a couple of questions puts things into perspective.

Does what I’m feeling/experiencing right now make sense in my life?

* Does it correlate with what’s happening now or even in my past?*

If the answer is NO, you are most likely picking up on outside energies, thoughts, feelings, emotions, or even fears that can be wide-ranging but feel like yours.

Acknowledge that this isn’t yours, take some deep breaths, and feel it leaving your body...

Your gifts as an emotional empath – some even call them unfair advantages.

Person glowing with empathic superpowers like intuition and clarity

You can help people – Feeling other people’s feelings as if they’re your own means you can help people because you understand them...
You’re Intensely Alive – You probably experience your feelings intensely because you’re more alive than ordinary people.
Truth Intuition – You have a built-in Lie Detector...
Clarity – Your thoughts become your own...
You know who your allies are – When someone has your back, you know it.
Freedom from HypE – You see behind the media’s hype and lies...