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How to Tell if You’re Feeling Your Energy or Someone Else’s

Heather Burket

In this video, I explain how to tell whether the emotion you’re feeling is your own or someone else’s energy — something many empaths experience. The full transcript is below.

Have you ever had an emotion that overcame you seemingly out of nowhere? If so, you may have been picking up on someone’s energy. So, in this video, I’m going to be talking about the different things that you may experience as you start to wake up and become more sensitive to energy.

So, this is something that happened to me and honestly it kind of scared me just how much I was impacted by this and if I was not aware enough of what was happening, I would have been you know making some bad decisions honestly in some points. So, I’m going to share a couple of examples of what happened to me so that you can understand and then we’ll talk about different ways to recognize this and prevent you from having these experiences.

So, the first example I’m going to share is when I was driving into work one day and all of a sudden I just had this overwhelming sense of “I can’t do this. I can’t do this. Oh my gosh.“ You know, just this over just crippling anxiety that just came out of nowhere. And I’m sitting here driving into work. I’ve taken the exit to, you know, the road that I need to get on. I’m driving there and I’m just like just frozen with this, you know, just horrible feeling. And I was like, I’m about to just turn around and go home. And so, then I caught myself and I said, “you know, wait a minute, you know, I was fine, and then all of a sudden these feelings and thoughts came out of nowhere ”. And so, once I recognized that and then realized, “you know what, this is not my energy,” I was able to let it go and continue going on to work. But I honestly was so overcome with this anxious feeling and just this, you know, frantic like “I can’t do this anymore, I need to go”  that I was about to not go into work that day.

So later on I was talking to a coworker, and I asked her, you know, I said, “Did anything happen to you this morning?” and she told me a story about what had happened to her and it was something that would have caused a lot of stress. But the only reason I knew to ask her was because I knew that she was somebody who was very energetically sensitive and was also prone to anxiety. And I think what ends up happening is a lot of times is people that are close to us that also have, you know, kind of anxiety, which is actually them picking up on energy, which is a psychic ability. I knew that I was close to her. And so, I thought, “you know what, I just ended up picking up her energy” and, you know, I was able to recognize it and to,  not alter my behavior based on that. I was able to identify it and stop that from me, you know, going back home. So that was one example.

Another example was when a co-worker  that had just started on our floor and this person was very I don’t want to say mentally maybe not 100% I don’t I’m not going to sit here and say what they were you know that’s not my place, or I wouldn’t say that but I would say that there were, you know, kind of uneven, unstable type of emotions. And it was it was the kind of energy where you felt like nervous, kind of like feeling like you’re walking on eggshells. Like it was that type of energy where you’re like, I don’t know exactly what this is, but it’s kind of making me kind of nervous. So, this person had started working on our floor, and you know, I didn’t think of it. I’m like, “Okay, you know, that’s how I feel when I’m around him.”

Well, I ended up, you know, at home and I just started having these frantic types of feelings where I was like, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t go into work. I can’t, I have to quit my job. You know, I mean, it was just, it was very bizarre. Now, it’s been several years since that happened. So, I can’t really put myself back into that place. All I know is that I remember, you know, at the time I was talking to my husband who was involved in the psychological world and he kind of helped me understand that I was probably picking up on somebody else’s energy. And when I realized that it made me mad. I was sitting here going, “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I let that person impact me that way.” And so, I was like, “You know what? You know this is done. I’m letting go of this energy.” Right?

So, he explained to me later and he said what’s going to happen is THAT energy is going to end up going to somebody else. And he was right. Now again I don’t understand some of this stuff that’s happening. I don’t know the psychological words of it. But what ended up happening was a coworker of mine actually ended up in the hospital and she was also like me. This is a different person (than the other coworker). She was also an empath. And when I found out she went into the hospital when she got back, you know, I asked her what happened. And she said, you know, I just started getting just, you know, these feelings of, you know, just anxiousness. And she said, I just kept on throwing up. And because she was throwing up, she was normally on a type of medication and she wasn’t able to take the medication. And so that’s why she went into the hospital. And I kind of explained to her, you know, this is what happened to me and I’m kind of wondering if this is maybe what ended up happening. And you know, so I shared that information with her.

But I mean, if you just think about it, for those of us that are empaths, we are constantly, you know, picking up on other people’s energy potentially and not being aware of it and letting it affect us. Now, we’ve all heard of the terms of, you know, energy vampires and how people can be draining and that is something that empaths definitely have happen. But when it comes to some of these other, you know, types of emotions that are just very, very unhealthy and they are, you know, some that are actually making you change your behavior. Those are the ones where it’s like we really need to take note and understand that we are sensitive to energy and that we are picking up things and how you know do we identify when this is something that is somebody else’s and not ours?

So, I shared those two examples. And so, one of the ways that you can tell or try to understand if it is your energy or somebody else’s energy is you ask yourself, you know, what was I thinking before this? And you know, how was my emotional state right before? So, if it’s something that is taking you from one normal kind of emotion and then all of a sudden you’re feeling this something that just seems to come out of nowhere, that’s a real strong indicator that you need to kind of walk through and go back and understand like what was I just thinking or, you know, was I fine and then all of a sudden I’m in a panic. You know, those are a couple things to think about.

And the other one is you know if you are basically you know you have a normal range of emotion. So, I talked a little bit about this in one of my videos and I’ll link it down below, but it is in the book “Ask and It Is a Given” where it talks about your normal kind of emotional range and how it’s very good to understand what your kind of range is. And if you find yourself all of a sudden suddenly in a different range, then you know, you want to ask yourself, okay, wait a minute, this isn’t normally how I act or feel, so maybe there’s something else going on.

And one other example I will share is another time I had some individuals come over to my house because I was getting quotes for carpet. And this one person came over and as soon as I saw him, I just got this bad vibe. I was like, you know, I can tell you right now, I’m not going to buy anything from you. That’s what I was thinking in my mind. But I went ahead, let him in, let him do his spiel. And then afterwards, it was like a day later, I just ended up going into this complete like depressive state. And again, because I’m aware of myself, I ended up probably in that state for like two days where it’s like very bad, like why am I here kind of feelings. I mean, it was a very, very low state. And again, that is not normal for me. I do not normally go that way. So, I had to think and I’m like, wait a minute. You know, this person was over at my house. I probably ended up picking up on his energy. And so that’s another example. And another example where you may and again, for that type of example, you can ask yourself, “have I been in the company of someone new or has somebody entered my house?”

And then the last example I’ll share is a lot of times I will pick up on people’s anxiety and you know I can give one example in particular where I was on an airplane and there was a guy that I could tell was a little bit frazzled as we all do get when we’re traveling and he sat down beside me and I could feel my heart rate just going up like you know I’m sitting here like I’m I could just see sense myself like resonating with him and I was like, “Okay, I’m going to calm down. I’m going to get my energy centered.” And then I could see that he had also gotten centered, too. So, it’s kind of like this transmutation kind of energy exchange that a lot of empaths naturally do. If our vibration is high enough, you know, sometimes we end up taking on their anxiety and, you know, we incorporate it into ourselves. But eventually once you start recognizing it then you can kind of go okay, I see what’s happening and I’m going to you know be proactive and control my energy. And so, what I want to say about as far as what this is this is about knowing energetic boundaries and emotional boundaries. And a lot of times, especially when you’re going through awakening most of us don’t know about this stuff. And so, as we become more self-aware and as we become aware of energy and energy exchanges, it’s very important for us to start, you know, practicing some energetic hygiene and establishing boundaries, emotional boundaries. And if you want to create just an energetic boundary, all you need to do is just imagine a bubble around you. And you can make it about like one foot wide. And I just kind of do that just automatically like I’m shielded. I’m not picking up on other people’s energy. The only energy that can come into my field is energy that is positive. And I will go into more of the actual techniques that I use um to do energy cleansing and protection on other videos. But that’s one simple way. But the other thing that really you need to be aware of is just to understand, become more aware of your own energy and your self-awareness so that you pay more attention to your emotional state. And when you are in an extreme you know, different state than you normally would be that’s when you really want to start thinking like “maybe this is not my energy.” So that’s it for today. So, stay tuned. If you like these types of videos, I will have more to share.

Thank you, Heather Burket

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