Common Signs Of Compassion Fatigue And Empathy Burnout
5 Signs Of Compassion Fatigue and Emotional Burn-Out. What does compassion fatigue look like and what can you do to reduce the risk of this type of emotional exhaustion, anxiety and stress with Empath and Stress Management Expert; Eileen Burns.
What is Compassion?
Compassion is an awareness and sensitivity to other people’s suffering. Which invokes concern and sympathy, it involves altruism and a wanting to take action to reduce the person’s pain. Now it is easy to get confused with compassion and empathy. Examples of compassion is offering to help out a friend, neighbour with something they find difficult. Being able to listen to someones recent challenges with patience and care.
What is Empathy?
Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone’s position and feel what someone else is feeling. Someone who is an empath will often actually feels the pain of others for example the physical, mental, emotional pain of others or the energy of a place. Examples of empathy being able to sense other people’s emotions and feelings, feel or see behind a mask. Absorbing other people’s energies, dramas, excitement.
What is Compassion Fatigue and Empathy Fatigue?
Compassion Fatigue
Compassion Fatigue is a form of burn-out a reduction in compassion and empathy that leads to a variety of symptoms that can make you feel frustrated, exhausted, detached, in a state of apathy.
It is caused by both secondary traumatic stress (common in empathy fatigue) which I talk about below and burnout. Often seen in prolonged long periods of over empathy and caregiving, periods of extreme trauma, stress or chronic stress.
Empathy Fatigue
Empathy fatigue is extremely common in empaths as empathy can be extremely overwhelming and very stimulating on the nervous system. It can involve a lot of over-identification of other people’s pain especially when the empath lacks healthy boundaries.
This happens when one’s own wounds are re-triggered by the pain or challenges of others, but feel unable, too detached or too overwhelmed to give the support.
Empathy Fatigue was coined by Professor Mark Stebnicki who documented the observations of “secondary traumatic stress” in what he classed as “high-touch therapists” for example counsellors, psychotherapists etc who in their work needed to have a strong emotional connection to their patients, therapists. They were presenting the same symptoms of their patients or clients anxiety and stress.
Are You At Risk Of Compassion Fatigue Or Empathy Burnout?
Empaths, healers, therapists, caregivers, coaches and counsellors are at a high-risk of compassion fatigue and empathy fatigue. Especially those that suffer or become distracted by other people’s pain.
5 Common Signs Of Compassion Fatigue and Empathy Fatigue
Below are common signs in empathy fatigue and compassion fatigue where there is an overlap in triggers and causes.
Apathy
Feelings of Apathy is a very common sign of compassion fatigue, feel as if you don’t care about anything anymore. Lack of concern, interest enthusiasm and motivation.
Anger and Irritability
Feeling anxious, angry and irritable are common compassion fatigue symptoms. It comes from being overwhelmed and having less tolerance.
Burnout And Exhaustion
A general feeling of burnout and overwhelming exhaustion that leaves you feeling unable to have the mental, emotional or physical resources to deal with or support someone else who is suffering.
Detached
Feeling very detached from your own emotions and emotions, suffering of others is a common example of compassion fatigue in healthcare and hospitals. This is very common in medical professionals, nurses, doctors, those who deal with traumatic experiences, all sorts of mental, emotional pain and suffering on a daily basis.
Emotional and Traumatic Recollections
Emotional and Traumatic Recollections where the client, patient or situation triggers certain memories associated with another client, patient or their own personal trauma. Especially those that are related to particularly traumatic, demanding or challenging situations.
Healing And Manging Compassion Fatigue and Empathy Fatigue
Healthy Boundaries
Healthy boundaries is so important to reduce both compassion fatigue and empathy fatigue especially in empaths who tend to struggle with boundaries and non-identification. As an unruly empath for most of my life, this has been something I have had to work on deeply.
Many empaths have to deeply understand the importance of boundaries, challenge their belief systems and habits around feeling responsible for other people’s pain and suffering. Unfortunately empaths tend to be more prone to attract those who want to stay in victimhood, narcissistic traits and behaviour patterns.
Healthy Lifestyle
A healthy lifestyle is an important aspects of preventing any sorts of mental, emotional fatigue and burnout. What we eat, what we consume mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually can fuel us, deplete or intoxicate us. That is why it is important to do what you can to consume a high vibrational life.
Sadly many medical professionals are some of the most unhealthiest eaters, have alcohol or other addictions. Suffer insomnia especially understandably those on unhealthy shift patterns. All of these things will lead to depletion and physical burnout which in turn reflects the amount of emotional and mental resources you have to support others.
Good Self Awareness
Good self awareness is key in helping us become aware of our needs, our own triggers, light and shadow traits. Our unconscious habits and beliefs that are keeping us stick. Many in the healing and therapy professionals are wounded healers, choosing careers in these areas because of their own past or present wounding.
This can provide greater compassion for others but can also lead to a variety of challenges if the inner child trauma or inner child wounding is not healed. Especially when there is saviour, healer or rescuer traits which can create all forms of co-dependency issues in the patients and clients.
Self Care and Self Compassion
Self Care and Self Compassion is a vital component to the prevention and reduction of compassion fatigue and empath burnout. This is so important in caregivers and empaths who are naturally altruistic and motivated in life by service to others. And who struggle to identify their own needs, wants often due to a childhood knee deep in supporting, helping, rescuing others. Especially self care that helps us keep an open and expansive heart.
Trauma Support
Support with your own personal trauma is so important, we all carry trauma from our childhood and adulthood that shapes our beliefs, behaviours and reactions on a daily basis. Trauma comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, it impacts us all in different ways in our life, relationships, health and wellbeing.
As someone who has tried out, studied and practices wide range of therapeutic approaches to help clients with trauma for over 20 years. I would always support a holistic approach, a multi-faceted approach for the best results. I personally use a combination of therapeutic archetypal and inner child coaching, healing and therapy with my own clients.
Get More Grounded
A big cause of compassion fatigue and empathy fatigue in empaths, sensitives, healers, in-fact many people today involves an element of being ungrounded. When we are so much in our head, so stimulated and disconnected from our true nature and mother nature, we get ungrounded and eventually burnt-out. Check out my Grounding Toolkit For Empaths and Healers or the Empaths Toolkit below which contains the grounding tools.
How To Feed Your Soul, nurture a deeper connection with your heart and soul. Raise your soul’s vibration to experience more spiritual joy and spiritual wealth in your daily life.
The more we nurture and feed our soul on a daily basis, the more we give ourselves spiritual sustenance and spiritual strength. The more mental, physical, emotional and spiritual resources we have to deal with life’s difficulties and challenges.
10 Ways To Feed Your Soul Today
Simple and easy ways to nourish your heart and soul on a daily basis.
Quiet Time To Connect With Your Soul
One of the most important things that we can all do to feed our soul is actually schedule out quiet time throughout our day to be still, to meditate, pray and connect with our soul. It is so important to take the time to be quite enough, still enough to hear our soul, hear god, hear our soul’s wisdom.
Get Soul Aligned
Getting soul-aligned in your life, purpose and business helps feed our soul. Making a conscious decision in our life, work and business to listen to what our soul is guiding is to do than the ego is pushing is to do. Helps to feed our soul with more spiritual strength, courage and discernment.
Singing Is A Great Way To Feed Your Soul
Signing to your favourite song is a great way to nourish and feed your heart and soul. Playing your favourite music and singing to songs that open your heart and soul will raise your vibration and outlook. One of the songs that really feeds my soul is Bliss’s – A Hundred Thousand Angels
Spend Time With Children
Spending time with children is one of the most heart-warming ways to nurture our soul, take us back to our own innocence, purity and magical elements.Young children particularly can help us be fully in the moment, experience more joy by doing what their heart and soul is guiding them too do.
Spend Time In Nature
Spend time in nature in the countryside, near mountains, near water, lakes, rivers, the sea. All so deeply soothing for the soul. Another way to bring nature into your life is filling your office and home with house plants. Use flower essences and essential oils.
Look At Beautiful Art
Visit a local gallery or art exhibition or local craft store, be inspired by creative souls that share their soul-aligned gifts. Support these heart-based artists and creatives who bring uniqueness and joy into people’s lives by sharing their beautiful gifts and dedication.Like my old friend Gail Stirling Robertson who creates some of the most quirky art, prints and other types of commissions.
Eat High Vibrational Food
Eating clean high vibrational food that is organic not genetically modified or contaminated with toxic pesticides will help raise your vibration and feed your soul. Especially food that is still fresh or recently picked as it still contains a certain amount of life force.Make a list of healthy foods you actually love to eat, fresh strawberries, juicy plump tomatoes, a refreshing melon, an apple straight from the tree, herbs from your window sill.
Do Something Your Heart & Soul Loves
Do something every day that feeds your heart and soul, choose something each day that your inner child would love to do. Make a list of all the things that give you joy that raises your vibration, raises your mood that will help feed your soul. Be You.
What core wound is sabotaging your success in business, life, and health? Exploring the 4 common core wounds behind so many of the challenges we can have in achieving business, financial, relationship, and health success.
What is a Core Wound?
A core wound is a deep psychological wound that makes a large imprint on our psyche. Core wounds leave very distorted limiting beliefs in our unconscious. Many deep core wounds form before 7 years of age, an important time in a child’s development when we form certain narratives, patterns, and behaviours.
Although core wounds can develop later in life most deeper wounding is formed in these early years. It is often the deeper wounding, the deeper layer of pain behind many unhealthy patterns and traits that sabotage different areas of our lives.
How Core Wounds Begin
Core wounds begin when one moves from a state of authentic freedom and the receiver of unconditional love, into different states of mental, emotional, physical, or even spiritual wounding and pain. That is formed from judgment rejection, and punishment from others when we don’t conform to certain behaviours, and ideologies of those around us.
On a spiritual level, it is when the soul feels disconnected from love in many ways at an unconscious level the soul feels disconnected from god.
Core Wounds And Unconscious Sabotaging Beliefs
Core wounds are interrelated to a variety of unconscious sabotaging beliefs and archetypal traits that keep us stuck in unhealthy self-sabotaging beliefs, patterns, attractions, and manifestations.
4 Core Wounds That May Be Sabotaging Your Success
Guilt Wound
Guilt wounding can keep us small, and keep us stuck in archetypal patterns where we get embroiled in others’ emotional pain and suffering. Become the caregiver, helper, servant, rescuer, hero, and warrior in its shadow form.
The Inner child feels guilty for things they are not responsible for, guilty for the suffering and pain of those around them and in the collective. Struggles to set boundaries and struggles to ask for help or receive it in life. Tend to attract people who will use all sorts of manipulation tactics to get them to feel sorry for them, do things for them, and get their attention.
You see this in a lot of empaths and those brought up in a highly strict religious background where guilt was used to manipulate and control.
Displaced guilt can trigger all sorts of unhealthy patterns and behaviors such as overgiving and under receiving in business. Constantly attract those who don’t want to pay or appreciate your value, such as those stuck in their victim archetype or eternal archetype who don’t want to take self-responsibility for their challenges.
Abandonment Wound
Abandonment wounding can stop us make true genuine deep connections in business with our ideal audience and business connections.The abandoned inner child always feels left out and can unintentionally keep themself on the sidelines by their thoughts and behaviours. They struggle to be alone, left out, or appear different. Tend to create co-dependent relationships and co-dependent issues in situations. Tend to attract partners, friends, and other relationships with those who are emotionally unavailable.
In the spiritual business, this can show up as the business that wants to try and serve everyone and is so focused on not leaving anyone out. So busy trying to cater to anyone or everyone their messaging speaks to no one or very few. That is why they can struggle to make deep connections or make any real impact. Their deep desire to be accepted, and belong can make it difficult for their ideal audience to get to know them at a deeper authentic soul level.
Trust Wound
Trust wounding can create all sorts of chaos in business and success. The problem with this major core wound in business is their lack of trust in themselves which shows up in lack of trust in all areas of their life.
Those with trust wounds are so insecure and so afraid to be hurt, that they can be very suspicious, and look for reasons not to trust others. Some tend to be more loners or attract others who don’t feel safe and are also insecure, so there are a lot of trust issues in these relationships.
In any business, trust in your gifts, skills, expertise, your business, and your offerings is paramount. You also have to trust the people you work with, and the clients you serve if you don’t you will attract all sorts of unhealthy situations that reinforce further lack of trust.
Neglect Wound
Neglecting wounding where someone has very low self-worth often attracts all sorts of challenges that reflect that unworthiness. Such as struggling to attract clients, co-partners, and relationships that don’t value, appreciate, or see them no matter how skilled, gifted, or experienced they are they can feel invisible, feel taken for granted, and be undervalued.
Neglect wounding is a core wound that can show up in a lot of repressed emotions, and a struggle to be vulnerable. Wounding that can cause a lot of empaths to become so focused on others they don’t care for themselves and suffer empathic burnout.
Awakening – What does to awaken mean? What’s the main difference between societal and spiritual awakening?
Awakening
In its simplest form awakening means to wake up from some sort of sleeping state or unconsciousness. It refers to the idea that those who wake up, become more aware and conscious of something they were previously oblivious and unaware of before.
What is Spiritual Awakening?
Spiritual awakening is a word that is referred to a lot in certain teachings of spirituality. But like lots of things in the world we all can have different interpretations of what spirituality truly means.
For most spiritual awakenings refer to a powerful spiritual experience that awakens them up a deeper level of spiritual connectedness to god, divinity, and their spiritual being.
Something that can shift you so deeply at your very core, it helps you make huge spiritual changes and transformations in how you view life, the world, god, and spirituality.
In many ways an open door to something much bigger and magnificent than you ever experienced. Spiritual experiences that help you unlock or tap into something beyond the 3d human experience. Often more access to higher dimensions of love, god, the divine you, the authentic you.
Each Level Of Spiritual Awakening
Each level of Spiritual Awakening helps us grow and evolve in different ways. It can help us see beyond the physical realm, and live our life from a much deeper spiritual perspective.
Even though I have had a variety of what could be regarded as different spiritual awakenings over the 35 years. I think the most profound for me was an experience I had while in an induced coma just over 10 years ago.
This experience shifted my views and something inside on so many levels. Not just my beliefs and my identity on some level. But it pushed me to a new level on my path within my healing and therapy journey that I never imagined I would ever go down.
A quest seeking even more answers than I ever had before. Different experiences made me realise even more at a human level how little we know. And on another level how spiritually connected we are to so many things we could ever imagine.
It is also taught me the more we surrender to miracles, god, and the divine we are even more spiritually guided.
Your Spiritual Awakening
Each level of our awakening is personal to us, it can involve all sorts of bizarre, surprising, and extremely challenging experiences designed to wake us up. All divinely created to help us experience all sorts of life lessons, meet all sorts of people and teachers that are an important part of our journey and mission, to wake us up some more.
These situations in many ways forced me to go inward and develop a deeper spiritual openness that helped detach me from many of the distractions and superficialities that entrap most people today. And to build deeper trust in my own inner guidance, intuition, and synchronicities.
Societal Awakening
Societal awakening is another form of awakening and unveiling where individuals and society as a whole begin to awaken to what has been hidden or unseen.
It also can refer to aspects in our lives of our society we chose to ignore, that are now so obvious we can no longer hide our heads in the sand about.
An unveiling that in many ways has all sorts of different mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual impacts at the individual and collective levels.
We just need to look at the massive awakening that the last 4 years have brought to the surface. The domino effect that this event had on so many people lives, for them to begin to question the narratives.
Start to see through the evil, the veil of lies, games, inversion and manipulation of power, gaslighting by political and world agendas. And censorship and control are being hammered down on a whole new level, in desperation by those with too much to hide. Which often creates fear, apathy and confusion.
As millions of souls are waking up to the darker new world agendas, this is skyrocketing so many souls to phenomenal levels of spiritual awakening.
The Unconscious Aspect Of Societal Awakening
One of the things that begin with different levels of societal awakening is the human psyche and personal identity is pushed out of its comfort zone.
One example is where at the unconscious level, one starts to recognize and face the archetypal abuse by those whom we trusted in position and power.
In many ways the father and mother archetype neglect, abuse, and gaslighting by those who were there to protect us and guide us.
Spiritually Growing Up
We begin to spiritually grow up as we start to come to terms with the important areas of our life and society where we have abdicated self-responsibility and handed over our power and sovereignty.
For some people, there is an initial fast and almost furious type of societal awakening into reality. For many others, there is a lot of denial, resistance, fear, and trauma. Especially in those already mentally, emotionally, or even physically or spiritually vulnerable.
Spiritual Awakenings Are Not Just Love And Light
Spiritual awakening and societal awakening are not all light and love. They are painful, confusing, messy, and often very lonely as each soul has to go through its dark night of the soul. In many ways, for us all, they are spiritual initiations and opportunities for growth.
Societal unveiling as big as they have been over the last few years, are helping fuel massive spiritual awakenings and spiritual transformation.
Despite the mass amount of censorship and control, people are seeking new media platforms and connections to access deeper and wider truths.
Humanity as a whole is making great leaps in their consciousness awareness in very short periods. Even though there are still many souls deeply unconscious.
Creating which is referred to as the bifurcation and trifurcation, a splitting or more than one splitting of different levels of awakening in society. One of the reasons so many early awakened souls felt so disconnected and alone from their loved ones. Because of the significant difference in resonance.
But the good news is the masses are arising, all at different rates and stages but they are awakening on both a societal and spiritual level. So many are accessing great spiritual power and strength. And are being soul-led towards their life and soul mission with great clarity and power.
Top Tips Through Spiritual Awakening And Societal Awakening
Authenticity:
Authenticity in your awakening has so much power and strength, your vulnerability, your passion, and your motivation to help others from a place of imperfection help others recognise that we are all perfect in our imperfections.
Compassion:
Awakening at all levels takes a lot of love and self-compassion for ourselves and others, which isn’t always easy as many empaths and healers can suffer compassion fatigue.
Especially for those so trapped in their soundings, ignorance, and ego, that have caused you harm or slights. It is important to have enough self-compassion and self-forgiveness for ourselves and to get the support and help we need.
Courage and Strength:
Courage and strength are something we all need a lot of at this time, especially through some of the darkest aspects of societal shifts. The more you work on your spiritual connection the more courage and strength will flow.
The more you can increase your soul power, the more you will easily step into your soul power be who you are here to be, and do what you are here to do.
Patience:
We will all have times during awakening when we need to be more patient and gentle with ourselves and others. I know this isn’t always easy that is why self-compassion and self-love are so important. It is important to remember to not compare yourself to others.
Remember this is a journey, not a race. At some levels of the awakened journey you will be able to make huge jumps in other areas you may need a little more time to adjust and embody. Most of us have been on this spiritual journey for decades.
Love:
Love and self-love are the core foundation of increasing your level of awakening. It requires working with our heart intelligence, healing our heart wounds, and our inner child trauma that is closing us off from being open and generous-hearted.
Conscious heart and soul work is the most powerful way to live and work from that place of love.
What Awakening Requires
Awakening requires a lot of courage, strength, patience, self-love, and self-compassion for ourselves and the souls around us.
It involves the ability to go inwards and develop more discernment by developing your intuition, inner guidance, and spiritual discernment.
The ability to let go of long-held beliefs that are no longer truth or serving or spiritual evolvement. It requires growing up and taking responsibility for the choices we have made in life and what we have attracted in our lives.
While at the same time helping us see the absolute power and beauty of the god spark within us and the potential we have to create a world we once never imagined.
To spiritually awaken involves us letting go and surrendering to the hero’s journey, a journey through different archetypal stages of our life.
Societal Awakening Versus Spiritual Awakening
Eileen Burns is a Soul Empowerment, Coach, Healer and Therapist who helps awakened healers, empaths and lightworkers step into their power, fully embrace their life purpose and soul’s mission.
She is a highly compassionate and generous healer, who brings a wealth of experience from the holistic, healing and spiritual field from over 30 years. For more information about Eileen’s experience, qualifications and training. CLICK HERE
Lemon Oil has a fresh and invigorating scent, it is extracted from lemon peel. The essential oil of lemon is said to have a frequency of 91 MHz.
Therapeutic Benefits Of Lemon Oil
Lemon Oil has extensive therapeutic properties for the mind, body, and emotions.
Mental Benefits Of Lemon Essential Oil
One of the things I found fascinating about the essential oil of lemon when I began studying aromatherapy 30 years ago was how Japan would diffuse lemon oil in their factories to boost work performance and productivity.
In one study of Inhalation Of Essential Oils we see how memory in work performance and word recall is improved with the inhalation of lemon oil compared to sandalwood and kusunoki oil.
Lemon essential oil has also been shown in medical studies to improve task performance in those with Alzheimer’s. It is a natural motivator and mood enhancer.
Lemon is a great clarifier that can help keep us focused and aligned with our self and purpose.
Physiological Benefits Of Lemon Oil
Lemon essential oil which is extracted from lemon peel is widely known as anti-bacterial, antiseptic, astringent, and antioxidant. Citrus lemon is used widely in many body care and body washes, as well as in many natural household cleaning products, as well as skincare products and perfumes.
Lemon helps boost and support the immune system and can act as an aid in balancing sugar levels in diabetics.
The essential oil of lemon is also a natural tonic and detoxifier, can help support the lymphatic system, used as an aid to help treat cellulitis.
Lemon oil can help treat warts and verrucas, dab a cotton bud of oil into the center of the wart or verruca (carefully avoiding the rest of the skin).
Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Use Of Lemon Oil
Pharmacological use of citrus lemon has included lemon’s links with being anti-oxidative, antiulcer, antihelmintic, insecticidal, anticancer, cytotoxic, and estrogenic activities.
Skincare And Body Care Products
Lemon and Coriander by NYR Organics
This natural deodorant is made from lemon, lime, grapefruit, coriander, clove, and lavender essential oils.
A gentle and effective natural deodorant spray for underams.
is a refreshing nourishing balm made of Orange, Lemon and Grapefruit Oil blended with avocado, blackcurrant seed, cocoa, and shea butter.
DIY Nail Varnish Remover
Dr Axe offers a simple natural toxic-free nail varnish remover recipe; which is a blend of apple cider vinegar, sweet orange, grapefruit and lemon oil.
Safe And Effective Use Of Lemon Essential Oil
It is important to use all essential oils safely and effectively, if you have any medical challenges always consult a qualified aromatherapist.
LEMON OIL CONTRAINDICATIONS:
Avoid using lemon on infants and babies.
Avoid applying to the skin before sun exposure, or sunbathing.
We become entangled and consumed by the chaos and confusion that is going around us.
Equally, if we hide our heads in the sand and try to convince ourselves everything in the world and even within us is not our problem.
We are in a state of disconnection or disbelief, believing we are powerless.
When the reality is we are all more powerful than we believe we truly are.
Sometimes We May Need
Sometimes we may need some rest, time out, healing, or space.
The mind, body, and emotions can become overwhelmed, and over-tired, and may need time to realign and recharge your batteries.
But you are not powerless.
But we are not powerless, you are not powerless.
We all are stronger than we know, we all have the ability and even resilience to create great change, be our own hero.
Especially when we can tap into our inner power, strength, and connection.
The problem is that connection and inner strength do not come from someone else, or something else.
Connection and strength do not come from having more financial security, a better home, a better job, or even trying to live the perfect life.
It comes from getting so calm, centered, and open-hearted within yourself, that you have the power and connection.
When You Are Soul Connected You Are Naturally Strong
When you are soul-connected it is much easier to build up your soul power.
You know your calling, you know what you can do each day to make that difference.
And you start tapping into and relying on your own inner resources, strength, and wisdom to be guided and led.
Than relying on other people’s fears, conditioning, distortions, and agendas.
7 Steps To Strength And Empowerment
How to stop feeling powerless and weak and start tapping into your inner strength and connection.
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1. Be Present:
Switch off the distractions and learn how to be in the moment. Be fully you in the moment.
2. STOP Leaking Energy:
Set healthy boundaries, stop giving away energy, and focus on the wrong things and wrong people ( like the wrong type of clients, those who choose to stay asleep)
3. Listen to your inner voice:
Deeply connect with your heart and soul, and take your meditation and spiritual practice to a much deeper level. Get more soul deep.
4. Face your fears head-on:
Nature’s essences such as Essential Oils and Flower essences can be very helpful for moving and supporting us through anxiety and fears. So is inner child healing and inner child therapy.
5. Take Daily Steps:
Take small conscious daily steps that are empowering, that help us move through our fears.
6. Acknowledge how far you have come:
Acknowledging your daily achievements, your strengths, and the things you have worked through stops you from being a victim to your distorted thoughts, fears and limitations. Look back in situations in your life where you have found deep courage and strength.
7. Find Inspiration and Motivation:
Read, Listen, And Absorb Inspiring Words, Inspiring People, and Inspiring passions to ignite and fan your inner power, strength, and desire to be the change. Nourish your soul, Invest in spiritual or soul empowerment coaching, healing or inner child therapy to heal what is blocking you.
Becoming Your Own Hero And Heroine
These steps can help take your strength and courage to a brand new level. Supporting you stand strong with those around you to be the change, than being in fear and being part of the problem.
If you would like to access more of your inner power, strength, and courage at this time, check out the free recording of my session Awakening Your Hero Within .
Empowerment Quotes to help inspire, empower, and motivate you to live a more soul-aligned life and purpose. Inspirational thoughts and ideas for an empowered life.
Empowerment Quotes For Life
Empowering quotes for life
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings
“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worth the trip.” — Glenn Beck
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”– Buddha
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Empowerment Quotes For Life Purpose And Soul Purpose
Empowering quotes to help you align with your life purpose and soul purpose.
“If you look to others for fulfilment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
Empowering Quotes For Business and Work
Empowerment Quotes for work and business.
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”— Alexander the Great
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit. John McAfee
“In a truly free society, individuals are granted responsibility for themselves. Freedom necessitates that we learn how to provide for ourselves, contributing value in whatever form, to generate personal income. We then decide how we wish to spend or save earned income; freedom is the reward for fulfilling personal responsibilities.” ― Candace Owens
What is Colour Therapy and Colour Healing? How can you use colour therapy and colour healing in your own life, in your healing or coaching practice?
Understanding Colour
In the 1660s Issac Newton “demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors”. Colour is different waves or frequencies of electromagnetic radiation visible to the human eye.
The colour of any object is defined and or described by its hue, lightness, and saturation. Colours require light to be visible to the naked eye. To understand color effectively you need to look at colour in relation to physics, physiology, and psychology.
The eye and brain together translate light into colour. Rods and Cones within the retina transmit different impulses and intensities which are transmitted into colour and sharpness. The colour processing centre in the human brain is believed to be in the ventral occipital lobe as part of the visual system. But different studies especially those using monkeys have demonstrated that colours activate different areas in the brain e.g. fusiform gyrus, and lingual gyrus. Areas involved in colour vision processing are together labeled visual area 4 (V4 ).
What Is Colour Therapy?
Colour Therapy (chromotherapy) and Colour Healing use the different spectrums of light and color for therapeutic use in supporting health and well-being.
The vibration and frequency of energy that related to each of the seven spectrum colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
NOTE: Some of the invisible spectrum ranges used in science and medicine can be harmful.
Psychological Impact Of Colour Therapy
Colour impacts us physiologically and psychologically.
Colour psychology is widely used in branding, marketing, media, and psychological treatments. As colour is one of the most powerful ways to trigger certain emotional, mental and physical reactions. That is why certain foods and brands use certain types of colours to increase sales. Certain colours are used to build trust, and to increase and reinforce certain actions and certain habits.
Even the colours we wear or choose in our home have an impact on our psychological, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Physiological Influence Of Colour Therapy
Colour can influence us physiologically, color can change our aura, our organs, and our chakras. Colour triggers certain responses through the way it stimulates the retina and brain.
Colour memories trigger certain emotional and physical responses. That is why colour can increase hunger, rage, and sex drive, help you feel more calm, and relaxed, boost your mood, and lower your mood.
In my early twenties, a friend of mine painted her very first home all in green. I mean we’re talking about green everywhere I told her at the time that maybe should compliment it with another more warming colour.
She had moved out of a very stressful environment and then found herself within weeks feeling very depressed and couldn’t understand why.
After a few suggestions that maybe the problem was the amount of green and tones of green in her home that may be contributing to her low mood. She decided to introduce some soft and warmer colours like pink, she started to feel so much more brighter and positive.
Colour Therapy In Guided Imagery and Guided Meditation
Colour therapy is widely used in guided meditation and creative imagery to invoke certain memories and emotions. That is why it is used in psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, healing, and in sports performance.
The key is choosing the right colour frequency for the specific challenge. Colour can be deeply healing, and extremely therapeutic it can also be harmful in the wrong hands.
The wrong colours can stimulate the wrong emotional or physical reaction. Like everything colour can not just be used to heal the wrong colours can harm, and increase all sorts of emotional, mental, and physiological changes to the body.
I have witnessed and been the victim of therapists and healers who don’t know how to use colour most effectively. One teacher told a group of us how she focused on just using red in a guided meditation on a child who was very highly sensitive and already extremely overstimulated.
Because she said she wanted to support his root chakra. It simply made the child even more overwhelmed and stimulated. .
The colour Red for many people who are already overstimulated, over stressed can be very traumatising. On someone with high blood pressure, this good be quite dangerous.
Colour Therapy In Art Therapy
The very act of putting colour into some sort of piece of art or self-expression is in itself very therapeutic and healing. Art therapy is widely used to encourage self-expression, empowerment, creativity, mindfulness, and relaxation. Colour is an innate aspect of art therapy that can help the individual express and heal emotions, release old trauma, and become more calm, relaxed, and free.
Colour Therapy Using Colour Light Lamps
I took a year’s course in colour healing using coloured light lamps in my twenties. It was such an interesting course around colour healing and colour therapy. And was one of the colour therapy courses that ignited my interest for color therapy, color healing color psychology, and later colour analysis.
Would you love to learn more about color therapy and color healing? If so check out my Colour Therapy In Guided Visualisation Course For Therapists, Healers, and Coaches below
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Self expression is the action of sharing one’s thoughts, feelings or ideas, through action, voice, the creative arts such as art, dance, music even innovation.
Problems With Authenticity And Self Expression
The problem today with authenticity and self expression. Is that many people today gets confused by narcistic attention seeking behaviour and authentic self expression.
Where the world is expected to bow down to other people’s narcissistic demands, gaslighting or ideology in away that threatens someone’s else’s authentic values and opinions.
When in reality true authentic self expression, comes from the confidence of truly understanding and expressing ourself in a deep and objective way without the need or expectation for other people’s approval or recognition.
Another personality trait that can seriously get in the way of being truly authentic in your life and business is neuroticism. Healers, therapists and coaches who procrastinate a lot in their business and who suffer for imposter syndrome can suffer from have a high level of neuroticism.
At their core they often don’t really know, love or trust themself. Suffer from deep rooted fear and wounding.
What Is Narcissism?
Narcissism is a self–centered personality trait where they tend to be obsessive around one’s self at the expense of other people.
Lack Empathy
Lack Introspection
Blame Others For Their Mistakes or Misfortune
Constantly Gaslight their victims
Deny Errors and Mistakes
Highly Impulsive
Anger Easily and Hold Grudges
Enjoy Revelling In Other People’s Pain
What is Neuroticism?
Neuroticism is regarded as a core personality trait that relates to someone’s mental and emotional stability and inability to self-regulate, it is associated with dissatisfaction and distress.
Find It Difficult To Make And Sustain Relationships
In reality those who are neurotic struggle to be truly authentic due to fear what others may think.
Recent Studies Around Authenticity
There is a variety of types of research in relation to authenticity.
According to SPANE assessment, people who are more authentic are far happier and healthier.
” Realness is a core feature of Authenticity” Scienedirect.com demonstrates “realness as the relatively stable tendency to act on the outside the way one feels on the inside, without regard for proximal personal or social consequences.”
So even though we know being authentic is part of integrity in many areas of our life and business, In some causes authenticity can be simply just self serving especially when we do no take into account the consequences of what we share. Though one study suggests people who tend to be more authentic tend to get less angry in situations that are unfair.
Top Tips How To Be More Authentic
Know You Are Enough
The more you know and feel you are enough, the more you understand how important it is to be yourself, the easier it is to be truly you.
Know Yourself Deeply Enough To
Know yourself deeply enough that you can be authentic, being authentic is banned about today by many who don’t know themself at all. Truly being authentic is about letting go of who we think we need, should or have been conditioned to be. And learn to unlock more of who we truly are.
Live Your Life By Your Core Values
The more you know yourself the easier it is to to know and live by your values. In a spiritual business your core values are often your biggest soul client attractor.
Identify Your Shadows And Masks
The digger you deep into truly getting to know yourself, observe yourself the easier it is to see the shadows and the masks we hide behind and get entangled in. Archetype work is a powerful way to identify your most dominant shadow traits and masks.
Learn To Communicate As Honesty As You Can
Honest sincere communication from the heart, is one of the most powerful ways to be authentic in your day to day life.
Get More Creative, Find Different Ways To Express Yourself
Creativity is a healthy way to express yourself, your joy, pain and emotions in a healthy way for all concerned. The Creative arts such as creative writing or creative play, can be a powerful form of self-healing for releasing trauma, healing the inner child and identity issues holding you back from being truly authentic.
Archetypal and Inner Child Work
Archetypal and inner child work hand and hand is a powerful way to help one move into alignment with your true essence. Heal the deepest shadows and masks that are keeping you small, stuck or lost in someone else’s identity or beliefs.
Why Sandalwood Oil is grounding and calming for the nervous system. Used widely for its therapeutic properties in ancient and traditional medicine such as ayurveda and Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Why sandalwood is mentioned in ancient scriptures for its spiritual uses and has a high vibrational frequency.
Learn some of the various ways you can use sandalwood essential oil at home for you and your family, your meditation practice, in your business, clinic or spa.
What is Sandalwood Oil?
Sandalwood oil has a woody and grounding scent and is extracted from the heartwood of the Sandalwood Tree. Also known as Genus Santalum which used to grow in southern India, the forests of Karnataka.
“Santalum genus belongs to the family of Santalaceae, widespread in India, Australia, Hawaii, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia, and valued as traditional medicine, rituals and modern bioactivities.” Santalum Genus: phytochemical constituents, biological activities and health promoting-effects From the journal Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
Commercially extracted Indian sandalwood oil can only be extracted when the tree is at least 15 years old though the highest grades are grown up to 80 years before extraction.
History Of Sandalwood Essential Oil
Sandalwood was traded as a rich commodity in the Indian sub continent by 700 BC. From early on it was widely used in Hindu Rituals, weddings and births valued for it’s meditative and grounding fragrance and as an insect repellent. The highest grade of sandalwood oil is Santalum album.
The sandalwood in herbal form has been used for centuries to improve qi in the Lung, Spleen and Stomach. It is regarded as having yang properties.
Sandalwood In Traditional Medicine
Sandalwood In TCM ( Traditional Chinese Medicine)- Sandalwood as a herb has been used for centuries to improve qi in the Heart, Stomach, Spleen and Lung. It is regarded as having yang warming properties aid to support those with too much cold in their system.
In Ayurvedic Medicinal system, Sandalwood is regarded as a very sacred herb and oil, which has many uses. Used to help treat Vatta and Pitta constitution imbalances. Sandalwood oil is widely used as as a diuretic, as an aid to treat coughs, cold, skin inflammation, fever remedy and so much more.
Medical and Therapeutic Properties Of Sandalwood Oil
Sandalwood Essential Oil is said to have a frequency of 98 mhz and has shown to have two main molecular components, known as alpha- and beta-santalol. Sandalwood Oil is one of the essential oils in research shown to demonstrate ” Inhibition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by essential oils”. Sandalwood oil is widely used to treat urinary infections. In various clinical research and studies it has demonstrated or suggested to be
Anti-aging
Anti-bacterial
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-microbial
Anti-oxidant
Anti-proliferative
Anti-Viral
Skincare Properties Of Sandalwood Oil
Sandalwood essential oil is widely used in the perfumery and skincare industry, sandalwood is widely used not just as an essential oil but also as a balm and incense. Sandalwood oil is widely used to help heal variety of skin conditions, such as eczema, psoriasis, one of the reasons sandalwood soap has been commercially so popular for over 100 years. Sandalwood was widely used in ancient traditions for embalming alongside frankincense and myrrh.
Sandalwood To Soothe The Nervous System
Sandalwood is widely used by aromatherapists and therapists to help calm and soothe nervous system. It can act as a sedative, a relaxant, to help with grounding or to support a trance or meditative state. One of the most effective ways to use sandalwood to calm the nervous system is by adding pure sandalwood essential oil to the bath or by blending a few drops to a massage carrier oil to apply to the body and face.
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