Protecting Your Energy
Over the course of time I’ve really had to learn how to manage and protect my energy. This is a very important part and aspect of wellness that you might not be thinking about but that can really impact your ability to feel well.
First things first, I know that there are a lot of empaths out in the world and I am definitely an empath. We are people who are very prone to absorbing and picking up on other people’s energy. Over the course of time I’ve really had to learn how to manage and protect my energy. This is a very important part and aspect of wellness that you might not be thinking about but that can really impact your ability to feel well.
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So, I have some tips for y’all:
1. Study one’s self. The more that you can have awareness of yourself, the better equipped you are to know what situations to avoid or embrace. If you know that being around large groups of people is something that can feel overwhelming for you, then going to a concert is maybe not the best idea for you, you know what I’m sayin’? if you’ve noticed that when you’re around a certain person that your energy just feels drained, that is a cue, right? Your body and your nervous system and your emotional state is telling you something.
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2. Choose wisely the things that you participate in, the foods that you consume, the places you go, the people you spend time with. Sometimes identifying the things you want to avoid lead into number three, which is having tough conversations.
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3. Tough conversations. It’s important that the people who are in your life and close to you have an understanding of those energetic parameters or energetic boundaries. They should understand the things that may be triggers for you and it can be really powerful to communicate those things because then you allow other people to show up and support you in those ways. I can help myself by allowing other people to help me.
Another area where this may come up is that there may be some people in your life that are bringing about a certain negative energy that don’t feel good for you. If these are people you really love and care about then it’s important to be able to have those tough conversations and say “hey, when this happened I felt this way…it hurt my feelings…it made me uncomfortable.” Instead of stuffing it down and keeping it inside and allowing it to bubble up later when someone puts a dish in the wrong place and you go off the handle about it. You know it’s not about the dish, it’s all of the stuff you’ve been suppressing that you haven’t communicated.
Those negative thought and negative emotions we’re holding internally are like rotting and putrefying inside of our system and that is not good for you. That’s what causes disease. My spiritual teacher always said dis-ease = disease. We want to be able to vocalize how we’re feeling and maybe this begins by journaling or talking to a close friend or going to therapy to unpack it.
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4. Pursue spiritual practices. Meditation, therapy, yoga, all of those things are key in helping you maintain your spiritual hygiene, your emotional hygiene, your general wellbeing.
We have to be able to manage our emotions because as my friend Nicole Carter would say, emotions are energy in-motion. In order to really be able to protect our energy we have to know firstly what impacts our energy, we have to study ourselves. Then we have to be able to address the things that are impacting our energy negatively, whether that be through tough conversations or informing our friends about things that are triggers for us or just not putting ourselves in certain situations. Then we need to lean into the types of spiritual practices, therapy, whatever are the supportive things that are going to help us preserve and protect our energy.