Aaron Doughty explains how empaths shift their energy upward as children to survive, gaining the ability to feel others' emotions but losing touch with their own needs. This heightened sensitivity becomes both a superpower and a curse, driving them to seek constant validation from people around them.
So empaths, people that can feel other people's energy. This is both a superpower and sometimes a curse on the other side of the spectrum because you gain out of survival this amazing ability to tune to everybody else. You know, when you walk into a room, how people feel about you, you know how the friends in your life feel when you say you don't want to do something. If you were to say no to something to do with a family member or something, there's an expectation there and you can feel that. And when you feel that, it doesn't even feel like it's their energy. It feels like it's your energy. So what happens is, as this survival mechanism that we had as a kid, what we did when we were younger, normally before 5 years old, is we move the energy from the bottom 3 chakras of the root, sacral, and solar plexus. We move it up into this amazing ability to perceive of what everyone else is thinking and feeling. And then what happens is we start modifying ourselves so that we can then act according to what will get that validation and approval.
