Have you ever been described by your friends and family as being just too emotional or sensitive? Do you feel like you are over washed in emotions around certain people? Can you easily detect a lie from a mile away? Do you always feel uneasy around large crowds? Do you often find yourself feeling your friends' distress or pain? If you believe I have just described you in a few short sentences, then you belong to a very special group of people called Empaths.

Empaths are people with a very high level of emotional sensitivity. They are usually able to feel what others around them feel. Psychologists have described these people as being highly empathetic. This is because they are usually sensitive to other people's suffering, most often to the point of shouldering these people's pain at their own expense.

This book covers the following topics:

• What is empathy
  
• Empathy problem today
  
• Physical problems related to empathy
  
• How to learn empathy
  
• How to recognize if you are an empathic person
  
• Relationship between empathy and creativity
  
• To increase your energy
  
• How to deal with other people's emotions and feelings
  
• Empathy: gift or condemnation
  
• Hypersensitivity
  
• Empathy in the workplace
  
• The empath and energy vampires
  
• Empathic healing
  
• ...And much more
  

There are a lot of benefits to being an empath. On one hand, empaths are usually great friends and companions. They are good listeners, give good moral and emotional support, and are very kind and generous people. They also tend to be very emotionally intelligent and intuitive. However, some of these characteristics that make empaths such great friends and companions can be very difficult for them to deal with.

Why?

Because empaths actually feel what their friends or family feel, they are most times awash with overwhelming emotions such as pain, hurt or anger which leaves them feeling drained. Empaths more often than not are known to shoulder people's problems as their own. They usually find it very difficult to refuse people, even when too much is being asked of them. It is because of this that they do not know how to set boundaries for themselves.

There are a lot of limits that you won't go past when dealing with other people. Guess what? As an empath, you have those limits too! I'm talking about your boundaries. You deserve to have yours, and to have them respected. What they are is up to you, yet it's really, super important that you establish them, because that's the only way you can prevent the burnout that comes from absorbing and taking on everyone else's issues and emotions as though they were yours.

Why else should you set boundaries? While some people don't mean to drain you, there are others who take absolute pleasure in pushing all your buttons over and over and over again.

Another important thing to be aware of is what your triggers are. If other people are aware of your triggers, but you aren't, then it becomes that much easier for you to be manipulated and sucked dry by emotional vampires. Knowing your triggers is a great way to prevent that from happening, and prevent you from being taken in over and over again because of your natural generosity as an empath.