I was always able to “see” people on a deeper level. But I didn’t know I was doing it and I didn’t know how to interpret what I was feeling. When I mean seeing, I mean feeling, knowing, and having an awareness of a person on a deeper level.  

Is this you?

I am an energy interpreter and I excel at it at this point having honed the skill to see, feel, and know clearly and bring that into conscious awareness with clarity and translate it into words and understanding.

What I really want to talk about is how it was for me prior to being able to do this with skill as it might resonate really deeply for you.

I remember one day when I was in elementary school and I was just staring at some kids. I would do that. I was always an observer and shy as a kid. Well, this group of girls said to me in a very cranky way “What are you looking at?” I looked away in embarrassment.

I honestly had no idea I was staring. I just wanted to see people. I was intrigued. As an Empath, I would also be energetically connected on a deeper level but didn’t have the self-awareness of what I was doing.

What a small moment in time, but also what a moment to take in the truth that it wasn’t ok to look. That the connection I would create with another by seeing and feeling wasn’t ok.

An Empath is someone who takes on other’s energy, emotions, physical symptoms or thoughts as their own. Meaning they experience it as if it is their own sadness, fear, or pain for example. Also, it can be experienced as a mixture of others’ stuff and an Empaths’ own stuff which in turn can feel overwhelming, foggy, unclear, heavy and draining. It is not the same as having empathy for other humans, which is a beautiful thing.

Many times I have had to turn my eyes away from people, instead of them thinking I was staring at them. Of course, as an adult, I smile and observe for a “healthy” amount of time, but my intrigue for what makes other humans tick has not diminished. In fact, it has only become more interesting to me.

Over time I learned not to be so empathic and get all mixed up with other people’s energy. To be more of an observer vibrationally as opposed to feeling others’ stuff as my own. It is much easier and feels freeing to read and know another person through a sense of feel without the empathic connection.

Empaths are being asked to free themselves from this role and step into who they are as a powerful intuitive being and not be taken asunder by the intensity of other people’s stuff, the collective shifts, and the karmic clearings that are occurring right now.

Currently, some days I go out into the world and I am in my own bubble and have little desire to “view” people in the way that comes naturally to me. Some days I can’t help but look, observe and wonder how a person is feeling about themselves, their life, and their inner state. I wonder what other human beings truly care about and how self-aware they are.

And even though I could tune into these people deeper to find out the answers to my questions and go down the rabbit hole to the infinite degree, I don’t. I save that for deep conversations, clients, the ones I am closest to, and of course, just when I feel called to.

Recently, I went to lunch with my 4-year-old daughter. A grandma behind us in line was angry and sad. I saw her granddaughter who also felt heavy energetically. I looked away as to not delve deeper.

There were also several other people there, all of which I got a baseline read on because that is just how I am. No, I don’t hang around with it. I don’t dive deeper into it. I don’t hold onto it. That is just how I view human beings.

There are many who are exactly like me, whether they have little self-awareness in how they observe other humans, complete clarity, or somewhere in between. Are you one of them?

There are a lot of people who have no clue how much I see them. I feel honored to be able to see, and at the same time to be seen right back from a few, is truly a gift.

What I really want to drive home is:

If this is you, please don’t dim this aspect of yourself!

Can you imagine a world where more people were able to see each other deeply? How much would that change things?

It is not perfect and your abilities might need some tweaking, empowerment, and boundaries but it is a skill that the world needs now. Don’t you think?