Top 10 Practices on an Empath's Journey

According to Dr. Judith Orloff, "Empaths are highly sensitive, finely tuned instruments when it comes to emotions. They feel everything, sometimes to an extreme, and are less apt to intellectualize feelings. Intuition is the filter through which they experience the world. Empaths are naturally giving, spiritually attuned, and good listeners. If you want heart, empaths have got it. Through thick and thin, they’re there for you, world-class nurturers." (full article)

Many people are in the process of awakening to their "inner empath" and are longing for support and guidance. As someone who was born highly sensitive, I know all too well how overwhelming it can be to not be able to discern if what I am feeling is really me...or am I just picking up someone else's stuff? If that sounds like you, then keep reading.

To help you on your path, I give to you my top ten practices that will make the journey easier:

1. Meditate. Being able to enter the stillness and connect to peace is incredibly important. If you have a meditation practice already, focus on expanding it so that your life becomes your meditation practice. If you don't have a meditation practice...start one.
2. Journal. By putting your thoughts and emotions down on paper, you become aware of what is lurking below your level of consciousness. I suggest writing at least one full page (8x10) daily.
3. Nurture your body. Love it. Treat it like a sacred temple. Feed it healthy food, give it water, rest, exercise, and tender loving care.
4. Acknowledge and release emotion. Recognize what is present without judgement or attachment. Let all of your emotions flow by as if you are taking a simple inventory until you reach the place of contentment.
5. Learn lessons. Your life is happening for you to learn, grow, and become the highest and grandest version of yourself. If you look back over your life and have any regrets or resentments...then you haven't learned the lesson.
6. Choose joy. In other words, work towards creating the outcome you desire. Your fears are only there to tempt you into staying small. Ignore them! Listen to your dreams and let them call you forward to your destiny.
7. Express love. You are absolutely essential to God's plan, and the whole of humanity is counting on you to shine your light. Sparkle in your own beautiful, unique way that only you can shine!
8. A servant's heart. As Ghandi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world." Want a peaceful world? Be peaceful. Want a loving world? Be loving. Want a forgiven world? Be forgiving.
9. Embrace abundance. Know that the universe is here to provide you everything you could possibly ever need. Allow yourself to receive, and to share your abundance. 
10. Center yourself. You are the yin and the yang, the light and the dark, the good and the bad, the right and the wrong, the alpha and the omega...you are all of it. Learn to completely love and accept yourself. Not in spite of all you are, but because of all you are!

Starting in August I will be co-instructing an 18 Week course, The Empaths Journey with my dear friend from the personal growth and development industry and best selling author, Tina Crumpacker. If you are interested in joining us, please pre-register.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

With love & light,
Keli Ackroyd
www.KeliAckroyd.com

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