Empowered by sensitivity? It sounds strange, doesn’t it? Sort of ironic, contradictory, even mutually exclusive.
How can you be empowered by something so soft, subtle and delicate, in a world full of hard, overpowering and loud people? Indeed, many of us Empaths get trampled, used, thrown around, and taken advantage of. But we have a secret.
Deep down inside, beyond the veil of our superficial appearances, we harbor something quiet, but powerful. Our gifts don’t dominate, tyrannize or overthrow people, but that doesn’t detract from their strength, or usefulness. If anything, our powerful but subtle gifts benefit us more in the long term, allowing us to gather emotional, psychological and physical information from our surroundings that is often inaccessible and undisclosed to the average, unreceptive mind.
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While we can’t bully, back-stab or use brute force, we can heal, guide, protect and deeply understand the lives of the people around us. In essence, we can gather immense amounts of knowledge. And knowledge, as they say, is power.
If you would like to discover whether you are an empath, take our empath test. Also, if you would like to discover what type of Empath you are, you will discover the 10 types at the end of this article.
Are You An Empath?
If you are an Empath, you will experience a combination of some or all of the following symptoms:
- You absorb other people’s emotions like a sponge, carrying them as your own.
- When someone close to you is physically ill, you can feel this as physical pains in your body.
- You often suffer from physical or mental fatigue and tiredness.
- You find Solitude immensely refreshing, and you require it to “recharge”.
- You often experience many mood swings or emotional states throughout the day.
- Witnessing violence or cruelty is unbearable to you.
- You are a very good listener.
- People often come to you with their problems.
- Animals and children are attracted to you.
- You are caring and nurturing by nature.
- You are hyper-aware of the physical environment, e.g. to smell, taste, sight, touch, hearing, etc.
- You can’t stand interpersonal conflict.
- Crowded places are very overwhelming and draining to you.
10 Types Of Empaths
While being an Empath can have its many positives and benefits, it can also weigh us down heavily with confusion, disorientation and anxiety. That is why it’s important to put a name to what we individually experience to better understand ourselves, and identify others who share the same abilities as us.
For this reason, I have included below a list, and small description, of each type of Empath. By understanding who you are, what gifts you possess and where you stand in life, you will be able to begin working with your soul. I elaborate on these types in our awakened empath book.
Claircognizant Empath
This is usually defined by the ability to simply know something needs to be done, or is true or misleading, without having any basis in logic or reason. Often this type of Empath will just “know” when something is right to do, or not, or when someone is lying or hiding something.
Emotionally Receptive Empath
Most Empaths are emotionally receptive, and can physically and emotionally feel the emotions from other people before they are even expressed.
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Physically Receptive Empath
Many Empaths are also physically receptive to other people’s illnesses and bodily pains. This often manifests itself in the Empath’s own body, and can be an especially useful skill in healing.
Fauna Empath
This type of Empath can hear, feel and interact with animals.
Flora Empath
This type of Empath can communicate with plants, being able to receive physical and emotional signals.
Geomantic Empath
The Geomantic Empath can read the energy and signals transmitted by the earth. Many are able to feel/predict natural disasters before they occur.
Medium Empath
This type of Empath can either see, hear, feel (or a combination of these elements) spirits, usually from deceased individuals.
Psychometric Empath
This manifests itself as the ability to receive information, energy and impressions from physical objects, e.g. photographs, clothing, jewelry, utensils, etc.
Precognitive Empath
This type of Empath can feel the occurrence of an event or situation before it actually happens. This is usually manifested in dreams, or as physical/emotional sensations, for instance: dread, anxiety, or excitement.
Telepathic Empath
The ability to accurately read a person’s unexpressed thoughts is the main defining feature of the Telepathic Empath.
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Being an Empath can be difficult and confusing, but with awareness of your gifts and abilities, you can refine them and use them to guide, heal and protect yourself and the people you love.
My hopes are that the information within this article can continue to make ripples within your life. Please share with me any stories or experiences you have below. This will help all of us broaden our knowledge and understanding of what it is to be an Empath!
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Can you be all of them? I feel like I fit I all the categories.
I got through this and thought:’em what? Everything said could be said about me but there’s so much more I can feel about myself’
I am an empath and also was diagnosed with ptsd a few years ago. It seems that all of my abilities are strengthening as I get older. I’m to a point I feel I’m going crazy and can’t cope at all. Can anyone pls help me?
This really clarified my problem, many thanks!
I believe people considered broken by substantial and damaging circumstances have used particular instincts and tapped into parts of our abilities as higher beings that werent necessary for survival for many others. A side effect of this can sometimes mean we have certain afflictions that Have been strengthened under pressure due to a particular circumstance. Nothing gory means no glory is a fat statement, but true. To make a sword, you drown in extreme temperatures and beat the hell out of it to transform into something strong enough to protect your very life. It would make sense if someone has developed abilities from intense environments that were meant to break you but didn’t.
Hi I finally found a site that could understand me, been really conflicted lately, everyones emotions, thoughts, feelings, nature… it has been too loud, im finally giving in to my abilities, shutting it out gives me terrible migraines. is there any term given to someone who fills in all 9/10 categories? im everything except Geomantric, the weather etc. i did the empath test and that says im a medium type empath, but it only allowed me to select one option and i needed to select much more that im drawn to. being an empath is lonely, i attract energy vamps and narcississts …. because of my nature.
so yes is there a term for 9/10?
Me too. It’s very lonely. Loved ones don’t understand.
I used to think I was crazy . on the rare occasions that i told someone of this gift, it was not accepted readily. Thank you for having a place to learn and return the love. I fall into so many categories of empath.
I have all of them, and always have it and drives me nuts. I have enough problems on my own I don’t need to be feeling that the tree over there needs water. And I especially don’t need spirits going into my body telling me to tell this person this. I find it rather annoying and giving me problems. I can’t help everyone and a lot of times I have no control over those things and can’t change anything. Talking to a good talk therapist should help, it’s been helping me. Oh forgot to mention I also have photographic memory.
except for medium, precognitive, and telepathic..i have all the rest. is there a name for that?
I have almost all. Just not medium yet..
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Being an empath…. I do not date or have many relationships due to attrating liars and always busting them in their lies…. Friendships are hard too for I can always feel the real friends from the so called ones. The last couple of years I have been calling people out about it and you can imagine how well that has gone….. I do introvert alot and do get incredably lonely but it is better than the deep false feelings I pick up on so often. Also some people just zap the life right out of me with the constant negitivity in their lives which in turn comes out in me and I do not like that……………And yes I think I attract too many narrsitic people and people who see me as an easy target or someone of lesser value…………. I do so love aniamls and plants though and they never make me feel bad unless they are ill or something………..
I’m an Emotionally Receptive Empath.
I regularly get Barometric headaches. I often predict rain is coming better than meteorologists! I’ve heard “weather headaches” are quite common in Empaths. Anyone else heard that?
Animals (& babies) have always been drawn to me…& I to them…but I can’t feel/communicate with them. If only!
You communicate with them on a level that cannot be seen or heard. They recognize your pure soul.