When Overwhelm Takes Over… 💙 Overwhelm is something I know very well; it has been one of my greatest challenges to learn to manage. It can begin with one small thing… then another… and before you know it, your mind is trying to process everything at once. For us empaths, it is not always just our own thoughts and emotions we are carrying either. We can be feeling the energy around us, worrying about other people, thinking about everything that needs done, while still trying to hold ourselves together... And when we reach that point, we often make the mistake of trying even harder; that was always my error! But my greatest realisation was that: overwhelm is not always asking you to push through... Sometimes it is simply asking you to pause. To stop trying to solve everything at once, to bring yourself back into this moment and ask: What is the one thing I need right now? Not tomorrow or next week, and not everything on the list, just one thing! Today, give yourself permission to slow down, breathe, and take life one small step at a time. You are not failing. Your nervous system may simply be asking for a little safety, space and kindness. 💙 What usually helps you when you feel overwhelmed? xx This post today was from the highest poll option: Which of these do you struggle with the most right now? The top poll option was: 🌊 Feeling Overwhelmed And tomorrow, we have 🌿 Staying Grounded Gordon xx

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Why is stress exercise, such as peopling, important to the health of the empath? Well, in my opinion, stress exercise is important because the more you avoid stimulation, the more arousing the remaining stimulation becomes. If we retreat from contact with people, but remain active online, then in time even going online can become stressful and over-arousing in itself. Anxiety from interacting on social media, messaging platforms, and even opening our email program can become stressful in itself. Then the next problem begins. Answering the door or the phone can also become anxiety-provoking. The more you do something, the less stressful it becomes to repeat. This is called habituation. I advise anyone who has retreated from the world, and now finds it hard, draining, or overwhelming to return, to take baby steps. First, go for a walk and briefly interact with people. Next, go into a shop. Then, when you feel ready, go into town and do what I call peopling. The empath can learn to tolerate people, remain present in the world, and use their gift while being around others. Unempowered empaths often find it difficult to interact with people, tolerate their energy, and use their gifts in the way they were intended. Empaths have been born with a unique gift and purpose: to help heal others and raise the collective frequency at this important time. Yet unempowered empaths often struggle with the very people they feel called to serve. This is the duality many empaths experience. So remember, stress exercise is just as important as physical exercise. Ironically, when you go peopling, you are usually doing both at the same time. The result is a happier, healthier empath. 🙏 Gordon xx

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Non-empaths have all the filters that empaths don't possess. Sometimes I used to feel energetically naked... Have you ever felt like this? I see it like this; the soul needed protecting by filters when it was first placed into this challenging, yet interesting, matrix. To operate inside this matrix, I believe you either need advanced wisdom and experience, or something to protect your soul whilst travelling through the human being vehicle. But what about the next stage of the human being operating within the matrix? What comes next? If I were the Creator of this reality, I would be asking exactly this. For me, the next stage would be telepathy and a much less-filtered (essentially less-protected) human being. A being who is highly sensitive and a master at working with energy. A fully operational co-creator. A being so deeply in touch with humanity that it feels as though he or she has walked the lives of the people they interact with. The empath quickly understands what another person is about. Sometimes, and this can be one of the empath's greatest gifts, they can understand someone who doesn't yet understand themselves. Like I always say, empaths aren't better than non-empaths. For me, it's the soul that feels more advanced, not better... simply more advanced within this reality. So, if you feel energetically naked, how do you function? I used to feel energetically naked...Then I discovered grounding. Grounding allowed me to immerse myself in a protective golden light, and that protective light became, for me, the closest thing to the protective filters I imagine non-empaths naturally have. Whether that's literally what's happening or simply how I experience it, I don't know. What I do know is that grounding changed everything for me. Would I choose to be a non-empath? Hell no. How many lives have I perhaps already lived as a non-empath? No... no thank you, no more as the non-empath for me! Being an empowered empath, to me, has to be one of the greatest experiences there is.