A Universal Call To Balance

A Universal Call To Balance

The Creator Writings

By Jennifer Farley

Post on 11/04/2026

My dearest child, it may seem as if your world is becoming a horrible place to live. Wherever you turn, there is a negative story… death, violence, hate, disease… all around you. You must keep in mind that this is not what is truly happening.

The communications on your Earth plane have brought more of those negative things to the forefront; stories you may never have heard otherwise are moving at an alarming speed, gathering more fear with each person they touch.

Your assignment today is to look around you and see what is really going on. For every negative you see/hear, there are a multitude of beautiful things happening every day. This is not a call to ignore the negative, instead, it is a call to balance!

It may take some practice but, The Universe has infinite faith in you! 

The Creator

 

Jennifer Farley

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“How Old Are You?” “Well, I’m 103…

“How Old Are You?” “Well, I’m 103…

By Steve Beckow

Posted on May 30, 2025

How old are you? Well, I’m 103.

Very soon we’re going to have to start thinking about age. After my med-bed appointment, when I’m 28 again, can you imagine some of the … errrrr … unusual conversations?

“How old are you?”

“Twenty-seven. How old are you?”

“Well, I’m 103.”

Those who ascend are not going to die.  We’ll have to update the file. And I’m not sure how many situations will arise or what it’ll all look like!

Certainly I’m not planning to die. That doesn’t mean I don’t have a contingency plan – a will and plans to dispose of my books and papers – in case I’m wrong. I have been known to be wrong on occasion.

But I’m not planning to go.

I know that I’m not my body (1) and, if I were to die, Michael has said he will swoop down and carry me home:

Archangel Michael: The dying piece is neither here nor there. You know that I would lift you up very rapidly and take you home, joyously.  (2)

Alright!

What’s to fear?

He’ll come for you too, if you ask for it.

Archangel Michael: Are we [archangels] in partnership with every being on the planet? Yes. But it is difficult when you are in a partnership and the other person does not realize it.  (3)

He can be in a million places at once, apparently. And fully conscious in each!

Archangel Michael: We all do – I mean the mighty ones, the archangels – we have the capacity to bring the fullness of our energy to many, many, many, and yes, if you wish, millions—millions!—of places simultaneously. (4)

Meanwhile I have endless curiosity. I don’t get to do this very often!  (5)

Everything Michael and I have done together in what will have been my lifetime will have been to demonstrate what’s available from and with the Company of Heaven. (6)

When I asked him how I would announce to others at Michaelangelo & Partners that I (and we) work for an archangel, he replied that soon the idea of working with an archangel would be widely accepted:

AAM: As things are shifting, as the, shall we call it, new awareness, heightened awareness, interdimensional reality – because that is truly what we are talking about – as this truly anchors, not only in the heart, but in the thought patterns, the behaviour patterns of human beings, the idea of working with an Archangel is in fact going to be commonplace.

This sense of division is going to actually quite quickly disappear. The idea of a punishing deity that you need to earn favour with, curry favour with will change into the true knowing of what has always been the case, which is partnership. (7)

Oooo-kay! I look forward to that time. I’ll feel less exposed.

What a gas “getting to know you” will be after med beds.

“Yah, that’s me: triple bypass, prostate surgery, arthritis, back injury, etc.

“I know. I look young for my age.”

Footnotes

(1) See “The Disappearance of the Fear of Death,” November 14, 2023, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/11/14/349489/

(2) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Aug. 1, 2014. (Hereafter, AAM.)

(3) “Archangel Michael: A Global Reset of Values, Part 2/2, ” channeled by Linda Dillon, September 16, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/09/archangel-michael-a-global-reset-of-values-part-22/

(4) “Archangels Michael and Gabrielle on the Angelic Realm: Hour with an Angel Transcript, March 26, 2012,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/ascension-as-of-2012/what-role-are-the-angels-playing/archangels-michael-and-gabrielle-on-the-angelic-realm-hour-with-an-angel-transcript-march-26-2012/

(5) Apparently everyone who is here right now is angelic in origin. It isn’t usual for angels to incarnate on the 3rd/4th Dimension. That’d be like asking you to spend your life wading around in a bayou. It’s because of the importance of this Ascension to the multiverse that angels are here.

See:

• An Explosion in the Meaning of Humanness at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/An-Explosion-in-the-Meaning-of-Humanness-13.pdf
• Gateway to Higher Dimensionality Vol. 1: Introduction to Ascension at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Gateway-to-Higher-Dimensionality-V1-R9.pdf
• Grandeur Beyond Grandeur:
 Toward a Cross-Cultural Spirituality Vol. 2: What is the Divine Plan? at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Grandeur-Beyond-Grandeur-V2-Divine-Plan-R7.pdf

I have been to Earth apparently eight times:

Archangel Michael: You have had, I was going to say seven and a half, but you have had eight lifetimes on Earth so you are what we would think of as a very rare visitor. (AAM, Apr. 26, 2011.)

(6) See Grandeur Beyond Grandeur: 
Toward a Cross-Cultural Spirituality Vol. 6: Our Enlightenment and Co-Creative Partnership at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Grandeur-Beyond-Grandeur-Enlightenment-and-Co-Creative-Partnership-6-4.pdf

(7)  AAM, May 13, 2020.

Filed Under: Ascension, Ascension Itself, Death, Decision to Ascend Collectively, Life After Death, NDE - near death experience, Our Ascension is New and Unique, Time of Separation

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/

Beyond the Comfort Zone

Beyond the Comfort Zone

The Angels

Channel: Ann Albers

Posted on January 27, 2025

My dear friends, we love you so very much,

There are many times in life when you will be outside of your comfort zone. Sometimes, you step out of it voluntarily in your quest to expand and grow. Other times, through death, disaster, or the unforeseen, you are catapulted out of your comfort zone and into a reality you did not ask for in the 3D human sense.  It can be terrifying and upsetting. Still, no matter how difficult or unthinkable these experiences are, the Presence and power of love are within you, guiding you.

We often talk about how you create your personal reality. You don’t create the reality of other people. You aren’t solely responsible for the creations of the mass consciousness. Nor are you responsible for the choices, vibrations, and creations of other individuals. Your vibration will, however, define your experience of the external reality around you and what is allowed to flow into your life in the future.

You can, however, regularly tune into good-feeling vibrations. In so doing, you will be guided around the creations of the mass consciousness and into kinder realities. No matter what anyone around you chooses—consciously or otherwise—you can tap into what feels good and what you can appreciate now. In so doing, you rise above the discomfort and back into a state of flow.

For example, the smoldering anger and flaming passion for various beliefs on your planet may be reflected in fires, but in a higher vibe you are guided to safety. Even if all you own is destroyed, you will be assisted in resurrecting your life with grace, in love, and in a way that gives you an even better reality than the one left behind.

If you can find the frequency and feeling of love even when you are far outside your comfort zone, you will be guided into an even more beautiful reality.

We know this is hard to even imagine in tough circumstances. When you lose a loved one, you did not create their transition from the earth, and yet it affects you deeply. Yet, even under these circumstances, there is an opportunity for forward motion. Even in the face of unthinkable loss, your dear ones beckon you forward on your eternal journey with them. They have expanded into unimaginable love and want to share their newfound bliss. As you allow yourself to feel, heal, and reach beyond your previous comfort zone, and as you allow yourself to imagine a life in partnership with their magnificent spirit, you will gradually begin to have that experience. You and they, together, will become like two ends of a bridge between heaven and earth and in this space, so much more becomes available to you.

When you venture outside your comfort zone by choice, you will enjoy new opportunities and new experiences.  When you find yourself catapulted outside of your comfort zone, take a moment to acknowledge your feelings and grieve, cry, rage, or do whatever you need to do at the human level to release your shock. And then, dear ones, when you are able, imagine a life resurrected. Imagine more than you had before. Imagine more love, more grace, more ease, more flow. Give thanks for what you can. Enjoy what small things you can. Set your sights on the reality you wish to see arising from the ashes, the divorce, or the sudden loss. Imagine a better future. Surrender to the moment, time and again, trusting the Divine to guide you step-by-step into a better reality.

Beyond the comfort zone there is always a grander reality. Beyond the loss is expansion. Beyond the death is new life. Beyond your fears of being hurt, there is love. Beyond your sense of inadequacy, you will find your magnificence. Beyond your feelings of lack, there is a reality where what you want will flow straight to you. Beyond your discomfort of being alone lies a sense of connection that is so amazing the love will elevate you in ways you never dreamed.

You need not be in severe discomfort to grow, although that certainly does catalyze growth. You need not push yourself too far outside your comfort zone to create what you desire. You simply need to “inch” yourself out of your comfort zone towards what you say you want.

Give up one complaint this week and replace it with one thought of appreciation. Give up one excuse for not doing something you truly want to do.  Take the smallest of steps towards something you want.  In this fashion, you can slowly but surely become more comfortable with the unknown or the unfamiliar. And if life has catapulted you into an extremely uncomfortable situation, take heart, feel your hearts, sit with your angels for comfort. Dare to dream of the expansion that your never-ending, eternal soul will guide you towards.

God Bless You! We love you so very much.

The Angels

Ann Albers

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Align with the Key Themes of 2025

Align with the Key Themes of 2025

By Sandra Walter

Posted on January 26, 2025

Blessings Beloves

This brilliant passage brings strong energy shifts, dramatic events, and activation of higher trajectories. All paths lead to Unity Consciousness, which is why alignment is so vital in this Now.

2025 Themes

Be aware of these key themes, and the major energy shifts (next LightLetter), to align with the profound upgrades available this year.

Acceleration of Coherence

Feel beyond the surface: Acceleration is not just the sensation of time speeding up or collapsing, or rapid-fire novelty events. There is a quickening of coherence, synchronicity, and plasma beyond the veil that affects our reality structures. True Unity Consciousness begins to physicalize.

Chaotic Dismantling

Dense and outdated structures unravel, appearing as chaos but paving the way for new creation. Realities that served their purpose now dissolve, as the primordial vibration of LoveLight increases.

Mother Plasma, Zero Point and Source Particles

This realm-shifting convergence of plasma, particles, and Zero Point energies produce the self-correcting mechanisms of Divine order.

Magnetic field fluctuations affect the collective ability to create density. Notice the presence of stillness in the field beyond the dismantling.

Transcendence

The truth of love as the ultimate power amplifies. This is supreme support for those choosing to transcend lower density versions of self.

Refinement & Divine Order

Collective higher trajectories amplify and refine our paths. Simplify as old beliefs, choices, and creations don’t ‘matter’ anymore.

Access Original Purity

A return to the unaltered essence of being, the original purity of our Divine presence. The ways we experience and interpret consciousness in form will shift dramatically.

Revelation & Gaia Wisdom

Greater clarity exposes uncomplimentary realities and fosters higher-perspective choices. Ascended Gaia emerges as a wise elder, revealing higher truths. Gaia has a new voice; listen to her often.

Freedom & Golden Race Kryst Codes

As limitations of the old illusion dissolve, higher trajectories become clearer, fostering liberation. Energy shifts awaken dormant codes within DNA, stimulating biophotonic transformation in aligned hearts.

Health & Death

Everyone is advised to take excellent care of the physical right now. Remember that a healthy nervous system enhances our ability to integrate higher frequencies and stay balanced. Many Souls will depart the physical vessel as the energies rise.

Presence Embodiment

Powerful influxes and energy shifts support those on the path to embodiment of the Divine Presence. This type of embodiment causes rapid shifts in the collective, the field, and our trajectories.

Sandra Walter

• http://sandrawalter.com/

The Transition

The Transition

The Elders

Channel: Robyn G Locke

Posted on January 22, 2025

What is death, and what does it mean to transition? Are these things synonymous? You see, there is much here, and we seek to share a bit more this day. Life has many occurrences, and do you recognize that maintaining a life for an indefinite period of time does have its limitations? It does have that which does minimize what might be accomplished. Let us say things change, and sometimes, going with the flow is easier when you are a youngster as opposed to being set in your ways.

Transition

Life is ever-changing. And so at the time of death, you do transition from here to there. You do not stay earthbound unless there is an election made to remain fixed here. But we will say, there is less of that than more. Those you experience here that often appear to be the one who has passed on, well, what you believe may not be so.

Unseen Entourage

Often, your unseen entourage utilizes this opportunity to provide direction and insights. More often than not, this is what is perceived rather than the loved one remaining in the way you might suppose. But you see, there are those that you cannot see, and so these others utilize a means of communication that did not exist before. Before, you were not searching and seeking. Now there is a greater means to communicate and provide direction.

At the time one transitions, they do formulate and move to join with their Soul. Let us say there is a Soul integration. This integration allows what was formulated while here on Earth to become integrated and absorbed. The Soul, you see, utilizes the understandings that were gleaned while you are here. Your understanding is their means of better understanding what you had come to know.

In-Between Time

Might we also touch on the in-between time? It is the time after death as one moves to transition from here to there. It is a time in which much does occur and there is a pausing before the formulating for the next lifetime does occur. We will say that there is much that does occur in this time and it is a time when much moves into formation and flow.

There are many considerations and those considerations are such that foundational footing is sought so that the next lifetime might yield more. But you see the Soul relies on what is believed from the last most recent embodiment to formulate what is to be put into play. But when beliefs are not all they might be, then less rather than more becomes incorporated into the next round of embodiment.

Beliefs

This is why beliefs are so incredibly important. This is why what you think and believe must always be focused upon from the heart space to ask if that belief is factual and actual. If it is not, then move away from it and look for something more. But we will say now that it is much better to release beliefs for often there is a component within the mix that isn’t all it might be.

You see, you cannot know all here, but the mind will tell you that you know enough. We suggest that you may know less truth than more. Much is often not true and those fallacies and falsities are not as you might believe them to be.

Death

We saved this topic for last, for you already know what death means, but do you understand the finality it supposes? It is that often, there is a confusion about that in-between time, and so this will be covered here. You see, all is not as you might presume it to be, for how can one progress from here to there without some means of understanding? It is the understanding that will allow more to be. But if you adopt self-limiting beliefs, then at death, less will be. Less will become known for a faulty belief system does cause less to be. Know this. Make it your objective to release beliefs once again.

Robyn G Locke

• https://advancedenergetics.org/
  

Realizing a Greater Reality

Realizing a Greater Reality

By Kenneth Schmitt

Posted on December 10, 2024 

credits: frasesdelavida.com

Our reality can be known only in the depth of our own Being and beyond ego-consciousness. In the popular perspective of humanity, the ego does not have access to our infinite essence. The entire spectrum of vibrations that we consider reality is imaginary. Through the realization of our ego, we live in a trance of consciousness. In order to know the true expanse of our potential awareness, we must resolve our belief in aging, suffering and death. We must make the leap in consciousness to knowing our timeless presence of non-localized awareness. When our attention is completely focused on our physical presence, we are unaware of our essence beyond the body. This awareness is limited by our beliefs about ourselves, our true nature and our capabilities.

Our ego does not believe that we have an infallible intuition and an eternal awareness. When we limit ourselves to ego-consciousness in the empirical world of good and evil, the challenge is to find a hint of something greater and a way to open our awareness beyond our beliefs. The ego has a great resistance to this kind of unknown realm, which is why we resist death. When we leave the body, we naturally enter the non-localized essence of our true Being. In order to have a full human experience, we have had to make our limiting beliefs strong enough that we could not transcend them, until we are ready to return to our expanded Self-Realization. When we feel a strong attraction to knowing more of who we truly are, we can open our awareness to intuitive knowing in the heart of our Being.

Self-Realization comes when we release all of our desires and needs, and we allow ourselves to realize that we are infinitely powerful creators. This is our potential, and it becomes our experience when we realize what it is and how it feels. It means completely immersing ourselves in a new way of living. It is a new role in our play of consciousness. We become the intentional directors of our human experiences by how we use our attention and power of realization.

If we could read our energy signature, we would understand how we attract the qualities of experiences that we do. It depends upon our polarity and the interaction of positive and negative feelings and thoughts. If we are not completely positive, we have doubts about ourselves and fears about suffering and termination. These disable our ability to create what we want. To gain awareness of our intuition and be able to rely on it, we can move ourselves beyond thought to just being a presence of awareness.

As we adjust our awareness to just being present, we can direct our attention to the radiance of our heart. This is the aspect of ourselves that lives to enhance our life, regardless of what we do to it. When we align with our heart-consciousness we are in resonance with the consciousness that creates everything. Although it is everything, and it is nothing, it can be known from within. Its quality is life-enhancing in every way, and it is the energy that we can realize in gratitude as unconditional love and joy, and as the basis of all life. It manifests in every aspect of life, and it allows us to live in the energetic dimension that we choose to identify with.

We have two perspectives to live with. One is localized in the body, in order for us to be human. The other is beyond the imagination of the ego. Both have always been present for us, whenever we focus our attention on them. For this, we must transform our attachments into the greatest love for the incredible consciousness that we exist within, and which is always supporting us as much as we allow. There is no innate limitation in this life-enhancing energy. Its essence is radiant with infinite love and abundance. When we have everything, there’s the option to realize infinite love and joy in every moment. It happens when we are deeply attracted to these energetics, drawing them into our experience in the present moment always. There is nothing to be attached to beyond memory. Even recognizing this, we must make the transition beyond the ego and pay attention to our non-localized presence of awareness in clarity and deepest love. In our essence, we are always with whomever we focus on, and we can communicate telepathically, provided we are emotionally and psychically clear. Attachments yield limitations to keep our experiences within the parameters of our preferences and fears. Instead of attachment in any relationship, we can have trust in our ability to know everything in the essence of a person whom we focus deeply on. We can develop intimate relationships beyond the physical, even when we have our bodies. This does not change from within to beyond the body. We have the same presence, emanating through the heart of our Being and shaped within the limiting beliefs that we harbor about ourselves. When we can finally free ourselves from the bonds of self-imposed limitations, we can realize our eternal, infinite essence and true Self, imbued with infinite creative power in unconditional love and life-enhancement in every way always. In this sense, we are Beings of Love for each other.

And so, we can be developing relationships of this kind. They don’t require physical presence. They require awareness of personal presence beyond the physical. We can help each other greatly to transform our attachments with this kind of awareness. There’s no possibility that we can be separated in our presence of awareness. It means aligning with the vibrations of our essence and focusing on each other with deep knowing and recognizing each other’s vibration when we feel it.

Kenneth Schmitt

• consciousexpansion.org/

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Becoming Aware of Our Awareness

Becoming Aware of Our Awareness

By Kenneth Schmitt

Posted on September 1, 2024 

credits: frasesdelavida.com

The ultimate goal of our incarnation in this lifetime is to regain conscious awareness of our essence of Being, our true Self, apart from our localized consciousness in the empirical world that includes the imaginary reality of intimidation and death. Because the universe is designed to enhance and expand all life, negative energy can be real only in our own beliefs. By our belief in it, we align with it and create its reality in our experience. By believing in its reality, we limit our free will, because how many of us want to grow feeble and die? If we did not believe in its inevitability, what would happen, if we resolved and transcended this belief? How could we even do this, when it’s such a strong element in human consciousness? The solution is in opening our awareness to realization of our presence of awareness beyond spacetime.

We actually have the choice to free ourselves from the belief in demise and death by focusing on, and aligning with, its opposite, vitality and eternal life. When we have awareness of our conscious life-force, we can begin aligning with our actual presence of awareness. We can either diminish or enhance ourselves in our awareness through our alignment with negative or positive vibrations.

In the game of realities, we can choose our energetic state of being in every moment. This determines the quality of our life experiences. We never have to react in vibrational alignment to an encounter or event. We can always create our own scenario of any flavor or emotion. By staying in gratitude and acceptance, we become exempt from negative incursions into our personal space.

Every electromagnetic wave pattern has negative and positive polarities in both their electric and their magnetic aspects. In our world of human consciousness, both aspects are part of our experience, and there is another available expansion in conscious awareness. It is a wave pattern exactly opposite both the electric and magnetic patterns of negativity. Both have the same frequency and amplitude. On one side is all aspects of fear, and on the other, only gratitude and love. In the world beyond polarity in our non-localized greater Being, there is only life-enhancing energy on all levels. These vibratory patterns are like separate dimensions, because their wave patterns never intersect or interact, since they are all the same expanded pattern. In alignment with our subconscious, we can realize the necessary opposite polarity and move in resonance within human consciousness without encountering negative energy.

This happens naturally when we continuously pay attention to gratitude and life-enhancement for all. To achieve this, we must use our imagination and ability to believe anything. By learning to pay attention to the subtle energy in our life-force, we can be guided in every moment to everything we need to realize on every level. Once we learn to control and direct our attention in ways that create greater joy and compassion, we begin to resonate with our greater Self beyond spacetime.

If we can be aware of our awareness, we can make the leap to realizing our true essence and never having to go back to playing with negativity. With this realization, we transform our lives to experiencing the world we love. We become powerful creators in any ways we want to expand.

Kenneth Schmitt

• consciousexpansion.org/

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A World Without Death

A World Without Death

By Steve Beckow

Posted on June 2, 2024

 

As a means of us saying thanks to you, may I lay before you a consolidation and expansion of Nearer My God to Thee, an exploration of the afterlife and the higher dimensions.

I’d say it’s roughly twice the size of the earlier version. Afterlife and Ascension are both higher dimensions if you factor in the dense (carbon-based) physical body. … But I shouldn’t get started!

You support us financially so that we can produce and post literature you won’t find elsewhere, free to all. No need to have money to discover the purpose of life, what this Ascension means, who it is that’s here helping and observing, etc., etc., thanks to you.

It’s therefore with profound gratitude that we publish this return on your investment.

The Introduction follows and the download.

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Introduction

What’s to smile about around the subject of death?

Well, how about the fact that there is no death?

Or that there’s nothing to worry about? Our consciousness does not get extinguished. All we do is drop this clanking tank of a body for a new suit that’s softer than a feather’s down.

And how about the fact that the moment of our passing, no matter how painful it may look, is only painful to the body and not to the spirit who is taken out of the body before it? (1)

And what about the fact that immediately upon leaving the body, any lightworker will ascend? What’s not to like about that?

This book looks at two different afterlife worlds – the first is the planes of the afterlife as they existed to date and the second is the new, ascended world we’re going to, which will eventually impact all the planes and dimensions of existence, turning them into an interdimensional region of space. (2)

In all of this, I have the very pleasant task of helping to banish a false and insubstantial fear. That’s our fear of something that never happens to us – death – but just to our discarded bodies and yet something we fear above all else.

Welcome to a soon-to-be world without death, a benevolent, nourishing, and supportive world where love flows like a river and we have all we need. A world in which we never age and never fall sick. If we eat, it’s because we want to.

Finally, welcome to a soon-to-be world that works for everyone. Buckminster Fuller and Werner Erhard predicted such a world. And now everyone who can hold the light is destined to enter it.

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Footnotes

(1) The Divine Mother illustrates. After a shooting:

“Each of these angels – human, child, adult – have been welcomed into my arms prior to them being injured in any form.” (“Divine Mother: You are in the Process of Ascension,” December 15, 2012 at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/12/divine-mother-you-are-in-the-process-of-ascension/.)

Note that I’m referring to the moment of death and not the time before, dying. There is often pain involved in that.

(2) For more on the subject of our Ascension, see:

• Gateway to Higher Dimensionality Vol. 1: Introduction to Ascension at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Gateway-to-Higher-Dimensionality-V1-Introduction-R9.pdf
• Gateway to Higher Dimensionality Vol. 2: Mass, Physical Ascension into a 
Brand New Space at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Gateway-to-Higher-Dimensionality-V2-R3.pdf

Steve Beckow

• goldenageofgaia.com/

6 Triggers for Empaths and How to Protect Yourself

6 Triggers for Empaths and How to Protect Yourself

By Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)

Posted on January 7, 2024

 

 

Empaths are highly sensitive people who can tune into other people’s feelings. Often called emotional sponges, empaths feel another person’s distress as if it were their own. They can easily burn out, becoming overwhelmed as they soak up emotional baggage. But what triggers an empath? Are certain situations more likely to provoke a response than others? Here are 6 triggers for empaths.

6 Triggers for Empaths

1. Death

One of the biggest triggers for empaths is death. Losing a loved one is devastating for everyone, but death is a huge trigger for empaths, whether the empath is grieving for their own loss or supporting someone.

Some are afraid to grieve or acknowledge the loss because they fear falling into a deep depression. The worry for empaths is that they’ll tap into these all-consuming feelings of devastation and they won’t be able pull themselves out.

However, it is necessary for empaths to experience grief so they can process the feeling of loss.

2. Being misunderstood

Empaths are authentic, understanding people who value sincerity. They often open up and reveal their own vulnerabilities to help others.

Being misunderstood is triggering for empaths because they are so honest. They’re always genuine, so to be misunderstood is heartbreaking for them. They assume people know they are not putting on an act or presenting a false front.

If this is triggering for you, try re-framing the situation; for example, change the perspective of your relationship with others. Stop seeing one as the victim and the other as the villain. Once we change the energy around the situation, it allows healing to take place.

3. Fake people or situations

Another trigger for empaths is fake people. It’s why empathic people find small talk so challenging.

Empaths are self-aware and know their strengths and weaknesses. They never hide one or exaggerate the other. You rarely see empaths posting dozens of gurning selfies on social media because they don’t need to live up to the fake hype of a perfect life.

However, this expectation of presenting a false front is also triggering. There’s an unspoken pressure to conform and be inauthentic on stage. Empaths fall into this trap as they strive to fulfill others’ needs.

If you’re triggered by fake people or situations, give yourself permission to sit in the audience, quietly clapping but not being part of the performance. And don’t forget, you can leave.

4. Helplessness

Empaths have an ingrained sense of responsibility to help others; whether this is people, animals or situations. But of course, they can’t help everyone. Charity adverts asking for donations trigger empaths because they want to help end suffering. The world’s atrocities often go unnoticed by others, but not empaths.

You have finite resources and there’s only one of you. Learn to protect, develop, and use what energy you have in the right places. You do not have unlimited energy. Remember, step away when you need to.

Otherwise, you’ll burn out and be no use to anyone. I would also add, be wary of manipulators who are happy to lead a parasitic life with sensitive people like you.

5. Over-commitment/Letting people down

This trigger for empaths follows on from helplessness. In the quest to be whatever others need, empaths often over-commit and then feel a dreadful sense of guilt when they can’t deliver what they’ve promised.

Empaths will always say yes, to their own detriment. They can get lost in other people’s narratives and neglect their own needs. But empaths sometimes need help too. Likewise, an empath feels obliged to accept an invitation and hasn’t got the energy or inclination when the time comes.

This is a trigger for empaths, as they hate to disappoint people.

To overcome this, think of yourself as the protagonist in your own story, rather than a character in someone else’s. You are as valid as anyone else, and there will be times when you are the most important person and times when you take a backseat. You don’t always have to put your needs last.

6. Being called different

Many empaths are introverted, solitary people who need time and space alone to recharge their energy. They are not at their best in crowds (I mentioned small talk is difficult for them) so they’ll be reluctant to attend large gatherings. They think on a different level than everyone else.

We label people who are different weird and ostracize them. Empaths have a few close friends, rather than a wide circle of acquaintances. They are better at one-on-one conversations than flitting from person to person. It’s hard for empaths, after all, we’re all supposed to be social butterflies these days.

Perhaps you are the black sheep of your family and you’ve never understood why, but it is triggering for you. It is OK to be different. And you are not alone; there are many more people like you out there.

What to Do If Something Triggers You as an Empath?

Where does the trigger come from?

My favorite saying about empaths is ‘You can’t pour from an empty cup.’ It is important to recognize triggers for empaths and work through where they originate from. Perhaps something in your childhood makes you susceptible to certain situations, or maybe you have always been a people-pleaser?

Look after yourself

Acknowledge you feel others’ pain, and that is a wonderful gift. However, you must take time to recharge yourself. Accept there will be times you don’t have it in you to help, and you cannot help everyone, or please everyone.

What do people really want from you?

Frequently, people just want someone to listen to them. When you allow a person to verbalize their worries, they can work through them. Don’t feel you always have to come up with solutions. Appreciate that we are all on different journeys and it’s not up to you to figure out someone’s life.

If something triggers you, imagine observing at a distance and thinking objectively, rather than getting embroiled in other people’s problems.

Final Thoughts

There are many triggers for empaths, but remember, it is not your responsibility to make other people feel happy, relaxed, or comfortable. Empaths are acutely self-aware, so why not use your triggers to further your own self-development?

References:

• apa.org
• journals.sagepub.com
• wikihow.com

Janey Davies

 

 

Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)

Sub-editor & staff writer at Learning Mind

Janey Davies has been published online for over 10 years. She has suffered from a panic disorder for over 30 years, which prompted her to study and receive an Honours degree in Psychology with the Open University. Janey uses the experiences of her own anxiety to offer help and advice to others dealing with mental health issues.

 

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