Emotional Intelligence & Empath : Boost Your EQ, and Improve Your Social Skills while Overcoming Anxiety and Fears with Empathy Effects!

By John Heffner and Suzanne Orloff

Have you ever felt like you have to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders?

Do you live at the mercy of other people emotions crashing into you?

Would you like to master your emotions effectively?

 

Ever felt angry or frustrated at someone - and snapped? Taken your own insecurities and emotive worries out on someone else to make yourself feel better? Knowing how to control these feelings and your reactions to them is known as "emotional intelligence."

We are getting richer, but less and less happy. Depression, suicide, relationship breakdowns, loneliness by choice, fear of closeness, addictions—these are clear evidence that we are getting increasingly worse when it comes to dealing with our emotions.

 

Often, an Empaths who is new to the understanding of this gift, find it difficult to control the sources of overwhelming feelings. Being an empath it can be often challenging: Between the constant barrage of emotional stimulus from dealing with people in real life, narcissism and social media, it's easy to become inundated with the energy that people put into the world.

The truth is, not many people realize what EQ is really all about - or what causes its popularity to grow constantly.

 

Mastering our emotional intelligence should be high on the scale of our personal development skills but, all too often, we neglect it.

Imagine being able to gain back control of your life. Imagine living a happy life with confidence.

Emotional Intelligence is a skill and can be learned through constant practice and training.

 

 

You will discover the right techniques to develop your emotional intelligence and embrace the many blessings of mastering your emotions while opening new doors of opportunity for you to live your life abundantly.

All those strategies have been designed specifically for you, to be extremely easy to understand and implement on a daily basis. Once you set up a healing routine using the secret methods described in this book, you will start experiencing a radical shift in your energy and emotional control

 

A new Emotional Intelligence journey is about to start:

Stop being a victim of narcissists and energy vampires, get your copy today to Turn your emotional sensitivity into your greatest strength!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrea Astemio
• Release date: Jun 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393942696

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Emotional Intelligence & Empath

Boost Your EQ, and Improve Your Social Skills while Overcoming Anxiety and Fears with Empathy Effects!

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John Heffner & Suzanne Orloff

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Are You An Empath?

Types of Empaths

The Empath Phenomenon

Learning To Control Your Energy

Embracing The Empath Experience

How to Thrive in the World of Work as an Empath

Setting Energetic Boundaries

Grounding and Coping Techniques

Dietary Habits & Lifestyle Changes For Empaths

Defenses Of An Empath

Using Mindful Meditation

The Magic Of The Empath

Possible Alternative Methods Of Healing For Empaths

How to Rise Above and Beyond Your Imagination

Common Pitfalls

Become an Empath

Understand Emotional Intelligent

What is Emotional Intelligence?

Difference between IQ and EQ

Benefits of Emotional Intelligence

How to Improve Your Social Skills

What Makes EQ Special?

How to Improve Yourself

Reading Body Language

How to Really Tell if You’re Lacking in Emotional Intelligence & What To Do About It

10 Signs that you have Low Emotional Intelligence Without Even Realizing

Learn from the Habits of Emotionally Intelligent People

Managing Other People’s Emotions for Building Fulfilling Social Relationships

Here are a few power-packed tips for increasing your assertiveness

The Threat of Multitasking on EQ (and How to Stop It)

The Hidden Dangers of Emotional Intelligence

Being a Catalyst For Change

Common Questions to Ask Oneself When Gauging One’s Emotional Intelligence

Conclusion

Introduction

The journey to realizing your full potential as an empath can be riddled with challenges and hardships. You may be confused at first, but you will greatly appreciate your gift once you learn more about it. Even Albert Einstein was a great believe in the power of intuition. The imagination and creativity in listening to one’s intuition leads to new discoveries.

Once you have mastered your capabilities as an empath, you can become a channel of good energies to those around you. You will be able to effectively protect yourself and other people with your empathic abilities. Your life can be filled with the joy of appreciating the world and having a raised level of awareness.

If you experienced trauma and addiction as an empath, you can turn your life around and become a healthy empath. When you heal others, you are also healing yourself.

You can harness this inner power and transform it to help you become successful in fulfilling your destiny. It can help you to lead other people, whether this means spiritual leadership or a leader in the workplace.

You must have a strong commitment to nurture your empathic abilities. You must allow yourself to learn—-accept that there is so much to know about this blessing from nature. Only if you open your mind to the exponential possibilities of your empathic power can you make it grow and not cause it to be an issue in your life.

I hope this book serves as an informative and interesting read to you!

Are You An Empath?

If you are an empath, you’ll experience a feeling of being overwhelmed each time you set foot in a crowded place like a market or a shopping mall. The only reason why you feel stressed, exhausted, and overwhelmed is because there is too much energy in the place, making you feel drained. Again, when you visit large offices or hospitals, you’ll notice a feeling of being tired and overwhelmed due to the large amount of energy vibrating in these spaces. As an empath, you must know as much as you can about energy, which can be used to increase your awareness, sensitivity, and intuition.

• Empaths are deeply sensitive.

By nature, empaths are good listeners. They are inherently generous and emotionally open. Their first instinct is to nurture those around them, no matter what is going on in their own lives. The dark side to this, though, is that empaths are often considered too sensitive. They often take things personally and may find themselves deeply hurt by the actions and words of others—even when those actions or words were not intended to hurt them.

• Empaths adopt the emotions of others.

Empaths feel everything. They have an inner antenna that allows them to tune into the moods of others—regardless of whether those moods are good or bad. They absorb positive emotions just as easily as they absorb negative emotions. As you would expect, absorbing negative emotions like anxiety or anger can be quite exhausting, both emotionally and physically. However, absorbing positive emotions like love or peace often allows them to flourish and blossom.

• Empaths are introverts.

Because of how sensitive and perceptive empaths are, they often find themselves completely exhausted by crowds. It is not that they do not like people or do not want to socialize—they are simply easily overwhelmed. Empaths tend to prefer one-on-one interactions or small groups, and they often need more alone time than most people. Alone time allows them to recharge and turn down the figurative noise.

• Empaths are incredibly intuitive.

You might be an empath if you frequently experience gut feelings that are usually accurate. That gut feeling is part of your intuition, and empaths use their intuition to experience and understand the world.

• Empaths need quiet time.

As we mentioned before, empaths usually find crowds overwhelming, and they need to take time for themselves in order to recharge and tune out the internal noise. Empaths are usually drained by spending time with others, not because they do not enjoy that time but because they spend time absorbing a wealth of energy and emotion. If you often find yourself craving alone time or feeling fatigued after social outings, you may understand this need. There is a constant need to recharge by dumping their emotions, and coming back rejuvenated.

• Empaths may find intimate relationships overwhelming.

Many empaths feel stifled or suffocated by intimate relationships because these tend to encroach on the alone time that empaths so desperately need. Empaths often worry that an intimate relationship might take over them and that they may lose themselves or their identity to that relationship. In order for an empath to be comfortable in a relationship, their partner must understand their needs, and the nature of the relationship must be redefined to suit those needs.

• Empaths may fall victim to energy vampires.

An energy vampire is someone who drains the physical and emotional energy of another person. These vampires are often narcissistic, self-centered, and melodramatic. They tend to play the victim or create drama, and they are often always in need of an empath’s support. Because these vampires are so high maintenance and the energy they emit is so overwhelming, they have a particular edge over an empath and can easily manipulate them into believing they are unworthy of happiness and/or love. Energy vampires can influence empaths in ways that you would expect an empath to be able to see, but empaths often struggle to recognize these vampires for what they are because of their drive to help.

• Empaths are often re-energized by nature.

Many empaths find balance by spending time in nature. Everyday life can become too busy, crowded, and cluttered for empaths, and the simplicity and harmony of nature can provide them with the peace they so desperately seek. Many empaths are drawn to the ocean or the mountains—any place that is quiet, wild, and protected from the negativity of mankind.

• Empaths possess very sensitive senses.

Many empaths are easily overwhelmed by excessive talking, loud noises or music, strong smells, and bright lights. That is because their senses are highly tuned. Using a classic scale of 1 to 10, what the average person hears at a level of 5, an empath may hear at a level of 9. In order to recharge, many empaths may retreat to a quiet, dark room, and they are likely to use aromatherapy to assist with calming their mind and their senses.

• Empaths are sometimes too loving.

Empaths are known to have big hearts and to love openly and without judgment. Their mission in life is to ease the pain of others—and these others could either be family, friends, or complete strangers. Empaths are so intent on easing the pain of others that they cannot simply stop themselves from helping. Instead, they are compelled to adopt that person’s pain as if it’s their own. As a result of constantly shouldering the burdens of others, empaths can easily become drained or heartsick.

Being an empath is often exhausting—both physically and emotionally. They must find ways to protect themselves and to prevent their senses from becoming overwhelmed. Empaths can do this by managing their time strictly, by setting and maintaining strong boundaries with the people in their lives, by practicing meditation, and by making self-care a priority. Being an empath may often feel like a burden, but if you can learn to take care of yourself and put your own needs first—or, at least, second—you will find that being an empath is truly a gift.

Understanding the concept of energy is vital to being a healthy empath. When you know how to protect, preserve, and nurture your energy through several forms mentioned in this book, you’ll learn to make the most of your empathic life. We are all living beings that possess energy, which in turn has its own unique vibration. Every living being—and I’ll go a step further and say even objects—assimilate energy. Have you ever experienced this? You walk into someone’s home for the first time and suddenly feel a sense of coldness, stress, and tension. How can you explain feeling something like this when you haven’t visited the place previously? Then again, some places radiate a feeling of warmth and positivity. All of this is nothing but energy. When you walked into that space, you experienced its energy. As empaths, you are highly sensitive to and affected by the vibrations even of supposedly inanimate objects and spaces.

The Differences Between Being An Empath And A Highly Sensitive Person

Yes, there are plenty of similarities between empaths and highly sensitive people. Highly sensitive people are often referred to as empaths because they demonstrate a large number of the latter’s characteristics. Highly sensitive people and empaths have a reduced stimulation threshold and an intense sensitivity towards sensory experiences such as lights, smells, and sounds. They have a greater need for alone time and a general discomfort when in the midst of big groups. A highly sensitive person much like an empath will take time to refresh and unwind after a long day at work. However, while highly sensitive people demonstrate predominantly introverted traits, empaths can be both introverts and extroverts.

Though empaths share with highly sensitive people their fondness for nature, serene environments, and a deep desire to solve other people’s problems, empaths take these a step further. Unlike highly sensitive people, they end up absorbing the prana or energy of others into their body or being. Though highly sensitive people feel for other people on a much deeper level, they don’t end up absorbing the other person’s energies as their own. Empaths have great trouble differentiating between their own discomfort and that of other people’s. Unlike highly sensitive people as well, empaths may have intense psychic, spiritual, and intuitive experiences. Some empaths are known to possess gifts that allow them to communicate with inner guides and animals. This isn’t typical of highly sensitive people.

Note, however, that a person can be both. Several intensely sensitive folks also happen to be empaths, though the opposite isn’t always true. Think of it as two levels on an empathy spectrum where empaths can be found at the highest rung. The main difference between highly sensitive people and empaths is their degree of empathy.

Now that you have been introduced to empathy and have gotten a clearer idea of what it means to be an empath, we will discuss empathy vs. sympathy—how they are similar, how they differ, and which of the two emotions you typically experience. This will help you identify whether or not you are an empath.

Types of Empaths

Once you have figured out whether you are an empath, the next thing to know is what kind of empath you are. Empaths absorb the emotions of others, mixing it with their own. They literally feel what the other person is going through, both emotionally and physically. However, there are differences in what empaths respond the most to. Once you know what kind of empath you are, you can better enhance and control your abilities because it will be easier for you to understand your feelings and help others through it.

Physical Empath

A physical empath can either be physically intuitive or physically one with another, and sometimes even both. Physically intuitive empaths can understand when someone else is having a physical discomfort. Although they cannot feel the physical symptoms, they can feel the emotional unease caused by them. The physical oneness empath will feel the same symptoms as those of the person near them. In this case, you will get a headache or feel nauseous just like the other person. The latter type of empath ability is tricky because the empath won’t understand why they are suffering from unexplained aches and pains. Although it will be bothersome initially, honing this gift can allow the empath to help a lot of people.

Emotional Empath

Emotional empaths are also of two types – intuitive and possessing oneness. The former kind of empath knows what a person is feeling despite hearing contradictory words. For example, you will know if your friend is in low spirits even if they say they are fine. These empaths can work around the facades and denial, and get a person to open up. Empaths that possess emotional oneness can actually feel the emotions of another person. So, if your friend is feeling low and depressed, so will you. These empaths absorb the feelings of the other person and mix it with their own. This makes it difficult for them to differentiate their own feelings from the ones they are absorbing, which often leads to mood swings and depression.

Intellectual Empath

Intellectual empaths manage to merge their intellectual wavelength with that of the other person and accordingly alter the way they communicate. Hence, if they are talking to someone who doesn’t know English very well, they’ll automatically use simpler words, or if someone has a very refined language, then they will use longer words. Intellectual empaths have a very good knack for effective communication. They can alter the way the converse, both verbally and non-verbally, to put the other person at ease and communicate in the most efficient way possible. Intellectual empaths can be great speakers or performers in the fields of their choice because of their natural ability to be convincing in their communication.

Animal Empath

This one isn’t very hard to figure out. Animal empaths, or fauna empaths, feel a special connect towards animals. These people can often be found gravitating towards animals and even having long conversations with them. They