Your body tells you when something is wrong with it, right? Empaths become conditioned to feeling so much through the body that often we learn to disassociate from our pain. Alternately, we feel all of the pain in the people or the world through our body, and our body holds these secrets too.
Your body – hell bent on self-preservation – is like a stubbornly independent child. It wants to keep playing as blood clots in an open wound, digesting regardless of stomach pain, pushing through a headache to stick with your plans or altering the spine to accommodate a twisted ankle.
It finds workarounds to its limitations. It cushions its wounds. It sends healing cells to the traumatized areas. It gives you a shot of adrenaline. And it avoids sending you signals of its pain, if it believes those signals pose a greater risk to your survival.
As energy sensitives, feeling energy can be traumatic at the cellular level. The body knows that it needs to protect you from overload. A common survival technique for empath’s is...
