The Gift of
Being an Empath
With Contributions by Archangel Michael
Written by Shanaya Bevelle
Energies of people
I have always been able to feel other people. This is what gives me the powerful ability to do the energy healing work I do. As an empath, with my field arranged to take on other people’s energy, as well as process it as if it were my own, I took in the energies of others around me, regularly and continually. When I was young, I lived in fear much of the time, and I never understood why. There was not always something to be fearful of. I thought there was something wrong with me, that I had an anxiety disorder. I would be having a good day, enjoying myself, yet I felt anxiety or fear under the enjoyment. It never made sense. I didn’t know where the fear and anxiety was coming from. Interestingly, nothing that usually resolved stress worked on this anxiety…because it wasn’t mine! Recently I realized my father carried much fear of being in this world, and he transferred all of that fear energy to me.
When I learned a few years ago that there was such a thing as an Empath, so many confounding things from my life suddenly made so much sense. The reason why I felt extreme anxiety being in a room or auditorium of people; the more people, the more anxiety. If it was a performance, the anxiety was heightened by the performers stress, and I would start to shake.
I remember attending a dance recital for young teens several years ago. My friend was the mom of a performer, and I was sitting next to her most of the time, and part of the time, the dancer herself sat on my other side. Within 15 minutes I started to notice the anxiety, getting jittery, feeling fear in my center. By the time I left an hour later, my voice shook so much, I could barely talk, and my hands were shaking so much, I couldn’t zip my jacket. The shaking abated somewhat as soon as I exited the room, though it took about two hours to resolve completely. At the time, I knew I was “feeling” the dancers anxiety, but I didn’t understand why or how.
Interestingly, while I feel the overarching emotion and energy of the people or space, such as excitement, happiness, or fear, my field is also overlaid with a feeling of anxiety. The anxiety, which I felt as my overall energy signature for much of my lifetime, I now realize was my field being “ irritated” by the energy of others that didn’t at all match or resonate with my frequency. An event I attended is a good example of this phenomenon. This event was a crowded music concert in a large stadium. This energy felt different there because everyone was excited. I felt the excitement, but also an underlying fission of anxiety. I knew large groups of people tended to make me anxious, though I didn’t know why, so I thought it was from that. I now know my field was reading the crowds energies as not resonant with my field, and was showing as “irritation” or anxiety in my field. When I moved from my floor seat up into a higher seat where there weren’t so many people, I felt less anxious and more able to enjoy myself.
Energy of place
Energy of place shows to me in the energy I feel from what has happened there before. It is an energy the place has taken on. This is usually related to people, but not always. In the area of Virginia where I live, near the former Confederate capitol of Richmond, there are many Civil War battlefields. When entering a battlefield or any space where fighting took place, I can feel the fear, the anxiety, and the hopelessness. Interestingly, the hopelessness from the end of the war, when it became increasingly apparent the South would not win, is predominantly the energy that is held in these places. The more hopeful, righteous energy from the beginning of the war is often absent. There were battles that happened in a place more than once, so while it is possible to parse out the hopeful righteousness from the beginning of the war, the lower vibration energies of hopelessness predominate.
Energy of people and beings in Spirit
Empaths can often feel or communicate with people and beings in Spirit. I feel this energy in my field as if the person were standing beside me. In Richmond, VA, the capitol building has tunnels beneath it that go to other buildings in the area. These were originally built as part of the capitol complex, and some of the buildings farther afield would afford the governor or other officials a way out of capitol square in the event of insurrection or other issue. I once had a tour of these tunnels, and on coming up the stairs into a building that at the former time was used as a hospital, I felt a presence in the stairwell. It was a male, and the energy of his brain was highlighted. He communicated that he had been taken against his will for an experimental brain procedure that was supposed to make him “smart”, (his understanding of the procedure). However, he did not survive the procedure, and his spirit remained in the stairwell where his soul had left his body, as well as in the hall outside the operating theatre. He functioned as a welcoming committee, but his energy felt like it didn’t want to be there anymore, and was ready to move on.
In another instance, many years ago, I visited a Civil War battlefield with my infant son to walk the trail through the site, which happened to go down into a ravine that had seen the worst of the fighting and bloodshed. in 1865, the Confederate army had received advanced word that the Union was on their way, and arrived 2 or 3 days ahead of the Union, having ample time to dig trenches and set up defenses against the attack. The day I walked the trail, I felt the men sitting in the recently finished trenches, felt their eyes on me as I walked through, felt their fear and hopelessness pouring over the terrain into the ravine. The farther down into the ravine I walked, the more heavy and potent the fear became. By the half way point, I started to pick up my pace, and soon I was almost running for the exit to the woods, being careful to run so as not to disturb the sleep of my son in the carrier on my chest. I could feel their eyes on me, and the fear was so incredibly strong, I just needed to escape!
Energy of plants and trees
Some Empaths can feel the energy of plants and trees, knowing if a plant or tree is healthy, unhappy, or in pain. When I ask, the plants that need water will be pointed out to me energetically, and if I ask if there’s more they need, I can energetically feel if a change in light or fertilizer is needed. With trees, I can feel their “heart” energy, as well as feel the connections they have to one another and the Earth. When a neighbor had an almost 200 year old tree cut down, I heard the tree screaming for hours, “ No, Stop! You’re hurting me!” It was very traumatic for both of us! I reassured the tree that it had beautifully served the earth for many years, and we were all very thankful for his presence, and that now, he would be going back to the earth from whence he had come. After I thought to tell him this, he calmed down, and became stoic, but still sad and angry. He didn’t understand why he was being cut down when he had always done his best to look beautiful and healthy. I agreed with him. I loved that tree and told him so! This traumatic event happened before I had done such extensive work on my field that now allows me to regulate what I choose to tune in to, and what I don’t.
Energy of the Earth
The energy of the Earth shows itself in different ways, often colored by human activities that are not positive. The energy at a place where I previously worked in the city was overwhelmed by a series of low vibration energies that took me a few months to work through so that I wasn’t detrimentally affected. There existed several energetic anomalies that changed the frequency of the Earth at that location, including high voltage power lines, a cell phone tower, an interstate highway, and turmoil and strife leftover from when it was a segregated building. This left the Earth in this location rather low in vibration. I did much energy work there in my first few months of employment to mitigate these energies, and bring in higher vibration “donations” of Light.
The Earth is also affected by human suffering and can hold these energies for decades. In the northwestern part of Virginia, there is a national park called Shenandoah. It is quite beautiful, and nicely maintained, with many hiking trails and a scenic road through the mountains. The land, however, is filled with human suffering, from the days when this land was taken from the land owners by the government in order to create the park. Much the same way the indigenous people were forced from the land when the white people arrived to claim it. So there exists within the land much suffering, desolation, loss, death, and many other low vibration energies. I have done much energy clearing on my visits there.
Compare these low vibration energies to the high vibration energy at a place like Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. The energy there is clear and filled with high frequency energy. Partially because not many people go there, and so have not affected the energy there as much, and partly because most of the people who do go there rise to the challenge of climbing the mountain and succeed. So between the lack of human impact, and the high vibration most of the people who go there bring, the place caries and maintains a very high vibration.
Repairing the Energy Field
There was a point at which I realized being an empath was negotiable. Not something I could eliminate, but something I could adjust so that I didn’t feel continually under siege from outside energies. This realization came about when I realized most of the challenges with my field at that time were related to damage to my field during a surgery I had had many years before. So if the field was damaged, and most of the issues resulted from that damage, could I fix the damage and eliminate the issues? Yes, I could. The holes and tears from the surgery could indeed be repaired or removed, and over time, I found my field was a much more resilient place.
During this time I became very skilled at reading the energy field. I was now able to locate tears and holes in the energy field, and discovered ways to repair or remove them with Light. I also learned what energy infiltration looked and felt like in the field, and discovered ways to remove that as well. As I progressed on this path, my field became much more clear, and I didn’t always feel agitated from outside energies in or on my field. It can be done, I just needed to figure out how.
Removing Outside Energies, Openings, and “CHA’s”
Another thing I learned during this time was that “openings” can exist in the field. These can be in the form of cords, hooks, attachments, associations, connections, overlays, emeshments, and miasms, what I call CHA’s. These can bring in outside energies, such as energy from your mother, or even energy from your dog. These can be set up during this lifetime, or other lifetimes, and can change your energy frequency, as you have the influence of this outside energy affecting you. They usually carry a low vibration, as the high vibration connections would not be bothering you. They too, can be easily removed, usually severing them is necessary, then removal to Source Energy. They are often layered, and can be multitudinous, especially if there is a complicated or controlling relationship with the person affecting you. It took me quite some time to move the CHA’s of my parents from my field. The effect of removing their energies from my field has been tremendous.
The removal of CHA’s in general has allowed me to stay grounded to the Earth and connected to Source Creator, where before I regularly came ungrounded or unSourced due to the distortion and interruptions in my energy field. This regular disconnection would cause me to trip or fall, walk into walls, or drop things. I have not had to reconnect to ground or Source in quite some time because I’m no longer having interruptions in my field that cause me to lose my connection. Having a strong, solid, and clear energy field is “The precursor to greatness!” (Archangel Michael).
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