Is this heavy energy mine or someone else's? The unrecognized energetic influence of others By Denise Linn

Have you ever noticed that your energy drops when you are with a certain person or in a certain location? “Then there is a good chance that it is not your energy that you are feeling,” says energy expert Denise Linn, author of Energy Cords. In this article, she explains the symptoms of this unnoticed, energetic transfer and how it works.

Your energy field is influenced by other people

Whenever we are with other people, our energy field is influenced. Sometimes our energy increases, sometimes it decreases and sometimes it is neutral. However, it is often difficult to distinguish which energy is yours and which is someone else's.

If you felt wonderful and then, after standing close to someone, your energy collapsed, that could be an indication that you picked up on his or her deeper feelings. If you leave that person and your energy improves, that is also a kind of confirmation that you have been influenced by him or her. (Please remember that this does not mean that that person is bad. He or she just does not have the same frequency as you at that moment. Someone else could be near the same person and feel his or her energy overflowing with joy.)

This is how someone can influence your feelings

In my younger years, I was a skilled shiatsu therapist. Sometimes I would feel fine prior to a session, but then, when I put my hands on my client, I would notice a complete change in my state of mind. I could sometimes go from joy to fear, despondency or anger... in the blink of an eye.

When I first started doing bodywork, I thought that everything I felt was mine and I found reasons in my life that could explain these emotions. Saul came to my shiatsu studio for a session on a gentle spring morning. When he arrived, I was overflowing with joy at the daffodils that had just blossomed outside the window. When I placed my hands on Saul's back, I suddenly fell like a brick into a dark depression. It felt like I was in a bright room and someone had suddenly turned off the light. I examined my life to see what had caused this depression. I thought that things were going well in my relationship with my husband, but maybe there were issues that I was not aware of. I thought about problems from my childhood and wondered if the depression had something to do with that.However, when I took my hands off Saul's back, the emotion disappeared. After his session, I spoke to Saul and he told me that he had just lost his job and was extremely depressed and upset about it. Eventually I began to understand that these sudden changes in emotion that I felt were my client's emotions, not mine. To confirm this, I asked the client how they felt and they almost always recognized the emotions I was experiencing.

Do you recognize this?

Feeling the emotions and thoughts of others is not uncommon. If you notice that your energy drops when you are with a certain person or in a certain location, there is a good chance that it is not your energy that you feel. You have absorbed some of that person's energy.

Have you ever ...

• walked around a busy shopping center and then felt exhausted?

• worked all day with a few difficult colleagues and felt exhausted by the end of the day?

• listened to someone's problems and felt exhausted afterwards?

• stood next to a stranger, perhaps in a queue in a shop, and felt irritable afterwards?

• had a sudden stabbing pain in your stomach, seemingly out of the blue?

• Visited a nursing home or prison and felt drained of energy?

• Sat close to someone in a waiting room, in a meeting or in a restaurant, and had unexplained emotions? (It is even possible to pick up the emotions of the person who prepared the food you ate in a restaurant.)

• the feeling as if a heavy blanket had been thrown over you?

• noticed that, after you had a few drinks at a party, various people seemed to be trying to destabilize your energy field?

• had the feeling of suffocating around a friend, acquaintance or family member when that person was talking to you?

These symptoms are often a sign that you are picking up energy from others in a way that is not beneficial to you.

Subconscious influence of energy on you

Sometimes there are influences that you cannot see, but that do affect your energy. Some places have energy left over from past events that you can absorb.

Have you ever walked into a room after a fight and felt the room weigh down on you? That is residual energy. There are also locations with predecessor energy from people who lived there (or died there, such as a spirit attached to the earth), which can also lower your energy.There are countless visible or invisible forces that can throw your energy off balance. Protection can be a good idea when the energy you are absorbing is not beneficial. Excerpt from: Energy Cords

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