Avoiding Picking Up The Thoughts and Emotions of Others as an HSP

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HSP’s and empaths both can have this problem: we pick up on the thoughts and emotions of others. These end up influencing our internal state. This dynamic drags us down, and it can be quite frustrating to navigate the world in this state. I finally figured out how to avoid picking up thoughts and emotions of others as an HSP and want to share it with you:

The trick is to stay in your own bandwidth. What do I mean by bandwidth? Bandwidth is essentially your aura, and it is synonymous with a radio frequency that is unique to you, as an individual. If you stray from your bandwidth, you will pick up signals from others. If you commit to staying in your bandwidth, you will not.

How do you stay in your bandwidth? Start with whatever sense is primary to you: are you a visual person, a physical person, or someone who most responds to sound, for example? Use that sense to discern your aura. I am a visual person, so I can get myself to see my aura with a little help from my imagination. I then focus on my aura. If you are not a visual person, you may sense your aura through other means — you might imagine pick up on your bandwidth’s vibrations as sound, for example.

Practice this whenever you feel you are being influenced by the thoughts and emotions of others. If you feel someone has actively entered into your aura, gently guide them by the hand out of it until they “disappear” from your sensory experience within your aura.

A major additional benefit of staying in your aura is that you can draw energy from the universe through your aura. This is a good meditation practice you can do to recharge when you are feeling worn out. So long as you are in your aura, the energy you breathe into your aura stays with you. If you are wandering all over the place outside of your aura, your attempts to draw in energy will not recharge you, because you are moving energy into somewhere other than your own intimate space.