Empaths make the world around them a better place with their deep understanding and easy connection with others. With a strong emotional intuition, empaths have the inborn ability to know when someone needs their help and to actually feel what another person is experiencing emotionally. While empaths are lovely people, they can be hard to spot. Listed below are ten secret ways you can tell someone is an empath.
1. Hiding Their Own Feelings
When someone is an empath, they carry the emotional weight of those they love. When someone is hurting, they hurt right along with them. Since empaths recognize how heavy emotions can be, they work hard to hide their own feelings. Empaths don’t want to hurt others with their feelings and they also want to be a source of strength for those whom they care about.
2. Absorbs the Emotions of Others
Empaths connect with others on a very personal level. Far beyond sympathy, an empath actually feels what those they care about are experiencing. If someone you know seems to actually feel the pain of their loved ones, they might be an empath.
3. Empaths Tend to be Introverts
While most people consider a party or get-together as a great way to have fun, it’s a totally different experience for an empath. Rather than enjoying themselves in crowds, empaths are often weighed down by the secret pain others are enduring. In an effort to catch a break, empaths often retreat to stay by themselves and are generally considered introverts.
4. Empaths Love Nature
Being outside naturally releases a sense of well-being and peace. As people who feel emotions more intensely than others, empaths are also able to better appreciate the great outdoors. If you know someone who loves to spend time outside, they may be an empath.
5. Easily Spots Lies
Since empaths can feel the emotions of others, they are often able to get a true sense of a person’s character. When someone tries to hide behind a front or a lie, empaths can spot their deception a mile away.
6. Extremely Giving
When empaths see another person in need, they do whatever it takes to help them…even if it means hurting themselves in the process. Empaths can be overly giving with their time, money, and personal space. While generosity is great, an empath may end up harming themselves in their attempts to help others since they may subconsciously view taking care of themselves as being selfish.
7. Empaths Trust their Gut Feelings
When people make decisions, they usually weigh the pros and cons of each option; however, empaths step outside of the norm and generally just trust their gut feeling. Empaths are very in-tune with their own feelings and rely on them heavily to guide them in the right direction.
8. Deals with a Lot of Stress
While empaths are great people, they can become easily overwhelmed by their extreme emotions. The deep-rooted understanding of others can be hard to manage on top of the empath’s own struggles and life issues.
9. Easy to Manipulate
Although empaths are able to spot many hidden thoughts and feelings of others, they have a weakness – empaths are easily manipulated. When someone controlling recognizes an empath, they are quick to take advantage of them and take charge of their lives.
10. Extremely Loving
Empaths have love that runs deep and strong, not just for their partner but also for family and friends. Empaths work to show people in their lives that they are cared about and do special things to prove their affection.
You can take this fun quiz to find out if you are actually an empath!
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