Empaths

🥰Are You An Empath?🥰

Understanding and being able to relate to the feelings of others is a prerequisite for empathy. When you’re highly attuned to this form of perception, you may be what’s referred to as an empath.

Being able to understand why someone feels the way they feel, and to know what it’s like to feel that way yourself, is what it means to have empathy.

Those who are extremely perceptive to other people's affective, or emotional, states are known as empaths.

🥰Signs of an empath🥰

Despite the lack of a clinically accepted set of criteria to identify empaths, individuals with high empathy may:

😫Feel drained when exposed to intense emotions

📖 Avoid emotionally-impactful media

🗣️Naturally be the person everyone confides in

be compelled to practice compassion in everyday life

🤔Have strong, often correct, intuition

😖Dislike crowds

🫣Regularly feel burned out

🥺Experience emotions without knowing why

😭Express deep emotion, like tears, in response to someone else’s story

Although empaths are sensitive to emotions and moods, they can also experience other types of enhanced perception in tandem with their empathy.

For example, having sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) makes you a highly sensitive person (HSP) who is very perceptive to social and environmental cues, including emotions.

In this sense, not all empaths are HSPs, but an HSP can be an empath.

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