The 8 Best Recharging Strategies for Empaths
Refresh your spirit and revitalize your energy with these eight simple recharging strategies for highly sensitive people.
The world needs healthy empaths.
As a highly sensitive person, you can improve the vibration in a room, enhance the harmony in a group, and soothe the heartache of a friend…But only when you’ve taken care of yourself sufficiently.
Because there is so much in the world that can drain you (from seeing violence in the news to witnessing the swatting of a fly), you absolutely must take time and space to recharge.
When you’re charged up and glowing with radiant energy, you can appreciate all the blessings of being an empath. You can expand into the joy of an open heart and tap right into a deep current of joy and belonging. And you can do so without getting knocked down by all the pain and challenges in the world.
While you can still feel subtle currents of emotion, you become a fountain of healing. You counterbalance the world’s suffering rather than letting it overwhelm you and drain you of your gifts.
That’s why I’m pleased to present my eight best recharging strategies for empaths.
Empath Recharging Strategy #1: A Sea Salt Bath
Just a couple of handfuls of sea salt dissolved in a warm bath will help clear and recharge your energy field.
Soak for at least 30 minutes by candlelight, but be sure to say a quick blessing over the water before you get in.
Keep a generous supply of drinking water on hand as well, and bless that too!
You might direct your palms toward the bath water and say, “Divine Presence, thank you for filling this water with vibrations of healing, purification, and love.” Then, repeat with the drinking water.
Empath Recharging Strategy #2: Eat (or Drink) Your Greens
A healthy heart chakra – a vital power center for empaths – vibrates at the frequency of a lush emerald green.
Consuming foods and beverages densely packed with chlorophyll – i.e. green veggies and green veggie juice – brings this vibration into our field and recharges the heart with precisely the energy it needs.
Green fruits, like kiwis and avocados, can be great for the purpose too.
Empath Recharging Strategy #3: Work with Crystals
Crystals are like little energy batteries.
Carrying, wearing, or sleeping near a crystal can help restore and recalibrate your energy field, especially when you choose a crystal that feels particularly healing and balancing to you.
There are countless crystals that could be employed for this purpose, but a few that come to mind include tourmaline, aventurine,, amethyst, rose quartz, kunzite, fluorite, and clear quartz.
Make sure to cleanse your crystals regularly in sunlight, sea salt, or running water.
Here’s a post about how to work with crystals.
Empath Recharging Strategy #4: Spend Time in Nature
Spending time in nature is a particular necessity for empaths.
There’s nothing like nature to instantly balance and recharge us.
Extra credit if you walk barefoot: it’s a panacea for all forms of energetic burnout.
Empath Recharging Strategy #5: Spend Time Alone
My dear empath, you must have regular doses of alone time.
You can shield yourself in light and carry crystals all day long, but when there’s another human around, you will not fail to be influenced by his or her vibrations.
When you never have a moment to be solely present with your own personal vibrations, that poses a problem.
So carve out time to be alone.
Empath Recharging Strategy #6: Laugh Deeply
Laugh with family or friends, go to a comedy show, or revisit a movie or clip that reliably makes you laugh.
Laughing transmutes stuck pain into flowing joy. It also breaks down the unhealthy defenses that you may sometimes erect as a survival strategy, so you can once again connect with yourself and the world in a way that feels nourishing to you.
Go out of your way to laugh. Set the intention every day. Don’t force it, but look for opportunities.
Empath Recharging Strategy #7: Spend Time with Flowers
Spending time with flowers or bringing fresh flowers into your space will provide an instant refresh.
Flowers have the added benefit of working on the level of the emotions to repair and reboot.
Empath Recharging Strategy #8: Breathe Deeply
All you need to do is take a few deep, conscious breaths.
Or, you could notice your breathing exactly as it is and pay attention to it as it naturally begins to deepen.
Truly, any kind of breathing exercise will help recharge you.
Old feelings can become lodged in your body and energetic field. Deep and/or conscious breathing can help you dislodge these feelings and move them out.
Take good care of your energy. That way your empathy will be a super power, not a challenge.
Here’s a free guided meditation for clearing and shielding your energy daily.
Did you try one or more of these recharging strategies? How did it go? Please share in the comments.
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You’re good at what you do Tess because as is often the case I get less than a paragraph into your post and have an insight or realization that has probably been looking for a way out for quite a while. I’m about to check out the 8 recharging methods, I’m sure they will be solid but I crashed face first into this on my way in: “As a highly sensitive person, you can improve the vibration in a room, enhance the harmony in a group, and soothe the heartache of a friend.”
Now, I wonder how in the world I managed to forget this little detail in my travels? I mean forget, like GONE not even a thought or an afterthought for I’m gonna say years now. CRAZY!
What am I babbling about? For a long time now when I think of being an empath, when it comes up in mind,, convo, an article, etc. my focus is usually on how it kind of sucks to be overloaded with other people’s feeling states and how there is so much hurt in the world it can be unbearable, yadda yadda.
I somehow forgot the most important part or “better half” of the whole empath gig; we can help and heal and harmonize…Geez I have some makeup work to do and I’m going to prioritize remembering this daily starting 10 minutes ago!
Thank you I’m sorry that got long I don’t know how to write anything short. Like if this is ridiculous-long and you have to dump it no fee-feez hurt here the main thing is you saw my thank you note. 😉
Ash, I’m so glad this reminded you of something so important! Great to hear from you also. ❤️
I mistyped I meant I love vegetarian foods and taking care of animals!
I loved all the advice here. I do all these practices everyday. But life happens and sometimes I have sad memories, shadows that need healing, and dealing with loss of loved ones. I try my best to go forward and live life as magical as possibleand. I love my solitary walks in nature, meditation, flowers, crystals, aroma therapy, candles, salt baths, sage smudging, eating vegetarian foods, and animals. I don’t know if I am an empath but I am sensitive to energy and have visions at times. Again thank you 🙏🦄🌻
Yes, we all have sadness and the need for healing in this lifetime. Thanks for your sweet comment. Sending lots of love your way.
This information is so vital, especially in this moment in time.
My love and blessings to you, from a kindred spirit.
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Today I looked up your spell for finding lost objects. I did this on the advice of my empathic daughter. I d had lost two rings which had my birthstone. I did your spell and got in the lift and went a very very long way up and spoke to the tiny man and thanked him and gave him yellow flowers and went back down. While I was going down I was overcome by a very strong heat. I put everything out of my mind and got on with normal things. Later on I decided to look in my wardrobe. I pulled out all my handbags and the first one I looked in was one I only ever use if I am going on holiday. I thought I was wasting my time with that bag as there was only a blue pen in the middle section. I almost didn’t look in the little pocket but thankfully I did and there they were. I’ve made thanks and want to thank you for your spell. I’ve been searching for months and thanks to you I can now pass these rings onto my granddaughters. xx
Ryska, that’s wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this story.
Reading this i had alot of aha moments like why the angel cards always say spend time out side or meditate. I always try to relax spend the day on the couch after visiting family thats when i feel most drained. Thank you for your help
Happy to hear the post was helpful, Kristin! Thank you for reading.
Hello, three years ago my kitten died in a very difficult way it was very difficult for him to breathe and I was very frustrated and it was very painful to see him like that, two months later I suffered a very strong asthma crisis, and now I have a strong anxiety I have a hard time breathing , what can I do to free myself from that frustration and pain, because it has affected me a lot
This is great. Thanks!
I’ll keep these things in mind. We all need to recharge in this life.
You are absolutely right about all of these! I love laughter yoga, meditation with stones, sea salt baths, essential oils for emotional support along w crystals, grounding and time in nature, hugging trees, using a visualization of a bubble of white light around you. All of these have helped.
Jean, thanks for connecting and sharing what’s worked for you!
A wonderful list – thank you –
I would add one more thing – sacred sex
Good one!
I love this! Thank you ♡
You’re so welcome. Thank you for reading.
Thank you for the article. I also find interacting with animals helps me. I’ve found I can never be without an animal…..I so look forward to coming home to them and they completely ground me. The stress and voices/feelings from the day just wash away around them.
Yes, Katie! I agree. Thanks for chiming in. 🙂
I would add to that scents – be it essential lavender oil or the smell of freshly tilled earth filtering through your hands.
Hi Tess,
I just discovered that I am an empath. I recently went through divorce and I cannot stop thinking about him. I had a vision for our family, but he was not getting on board very well. Is there a way for me to attract my ex back into my life even if he is so completely closed off and wants nothing to do with me? Is there a way to clear all of my energy to clear my head, focus on work, school, and balance myself completely to remove all self limiting beliefs and start discovering who I truly am?
I would love to become an amazing mother some day and have an amazing relationship. Is there a way to heal my body, mind, soul, and start manifesting an incredible life? I am kind of having a hard time coming out of this…I haven’t been hung up on someone this much before and why doesn’t he feel the same way? He says I am ‘too emotional’ probably because I am an empath…any suggestions/guidance for me? Is there a way for me to attract an incredible life and feel a lot happier than I do now? I have tons of blessings, but I am getting dragged down by extremely negative thoughts and beliefs.
Hi there! I’m so sorry to hear about your heartbreak and other challenges. First, if you have any clutter anywhere, I recommend clearing it. I also recommend doing this meditation daily: https://tesswhitehurst.com/quick-thorough-aura-cleansing-meditation/. Here are two more blog posts I think might be beneficial for you right now: https://tesswhitehurst.com/5-spells-to-get-yourself-out-of-a-funk/ and https://tesswhitehurst.com/why-you-should-not-do-a-love-spell-on-a-specific-person/
So sorry you’re going through this. Love, relationships are so engrained in our psyche, our worth, our needs, that when they’re stripped from us, even if toxic they create a void. Often times your remnants of the good things are tied up in guilt, shame, anger and other emotions not able to be released. In many cases, when you haven’t created equal closure with your former partner, those unfinished feeling linger on, and on. For days, months and sometimes years.
I recommend doing cleansing rituals. First you must make peace with him. If at all possible let him know you want him to be happy and hope for the best. Negative energy breeds negativity. If that isn’t possible know the universe is trying to put things in proper alignment, even if it doesn’t feel that way. Create healing rituals. A bath with a bees wax candles, and bath salts. Aromatherapy. Lavender is a great essential oil.Self love. Acceptance. Walks. Crystals. Massages. Healing. And getting your positive energy out in the universe. Be open to love. Not necessarily to romantic love right away. But love of animals, people, and the universe. Meditate. Walk. Look at the stars in the sky and know love will come again in time. Volunteer. Exercise. Make new friends. Accept the past and let it go. It may not be easy, but take baby steps.
I’m not sure if I’m a true empath. I’ve been told that I am a very powerful one, but my abilities manifest so rarely and on such a scale that I literally feel the emotions of others smothering my own that I find myself wondering if it’s all in my head. Any suggestions on what I should do? I want to access my empath abilities, if I really do have them, but I’m scared because of the rawness and strength of the power when it happens at random.
Hi Molly! It definitely sounds like you’re an empath. Do you regularly clear ands shield your energy? That should definitely help. Here’s a video post I did on the subject: http://tesswhitehurst.com/how-and-why-to-clear-and-shield-your-energy/. And here’s a guided meditation I recently published that also may help: http://tesswhitehurst.com/quick-thorough-aura-cleansing-meditation/
Being alone is essential. For me this is like a mandatory thing, being around groups of people no matter what types is draining for me. Solitude is like a deep connecting to an infinite power source. Also having orgonite and crystals around is very helpful as well. Changing the color of your clothes can help allot as well. Black color is absorbing so for an empath. Gray white or green work well.
Cool! Thanks for reading and sharing your recharging strategies, Erik!
This is very helpful, thank you!
I had never heard of being an empath until a few days ago, when I saw the title of your article I had to read it. It all fits so well, I just didn’t have a name for it. I have craved or even done some of the things you have suggested without quite knowing why, it simply felt right.
I am a few weeks away of becoming a child psychologist. While I have been carrying for others ever since I was a child, this is the way I have chosen to continue that work as I move forward. And just as I am about to embark fully on this journey, I also chose to to live in the magnificent Canadian rocky mountains. Nature has always been my refuge and source of inspiration and strength, and now I am surrounded by it. Although I still have to drive to the city to work regularly, I get to recharge my energy in nature everyday and bring that forward to those around me.
Oh the mountains! I moved to the Colorado Rocky Mountain region in August and I’m LOVING it. Glad the post was helpful – thank you for connecting. 🙂
Very helpful thank you, it’s definitely not easy at times being an empath. However I wouldn’t ever NOT want to be who and what I am. I am me, and I’m here for the world to see…
Hi Michael! Exactly. I feel the same way.
Thank you very much for this. I naturally do alot of these suggestions but I never knew why I craved salads or needed to walk in the woods alone. I’ve recently discovered that I was the one that my mother’s psychic kept telling her about many, many years ago. I’m still learning and will continue to learn and grow. Thank you again!
Love and Light,
Sherri
Awesome, Sherri! Great that you’ve been following your intuition about recharging. Thanks for reading!
Love this. Thank you
Happy to hear it, Heather! Thanks for reading. 🙂
Thank you for this post. It’s very timely for me. I don’t like to admit I ‘m an empath. It feels like a weakness. But all these things should help!
Hi Judy! Being an empath is a strength for sure! Glad to hear the suggestions are helpful. Thank you for reading and connecting.
Hi, I’m sorry but I can’t seem to get any of these. My chest starts to beat so fast and than like that I’m drained again. I’d say I probably have to recharge almost all day. And the worst is I’m depressed, do you know which one I should really stick to? Have you heard this before?
Ruben, that sounds very challenging! I suggest doing this meditation or one like it every day: https://tesswhitehurst.com/quick-thorough-aura-cleansing-meditation/
Thanks and I am I started getting crystals and doing more meditation like I said a minute ago I was doing these things since middle school and was belittled even by family bit now I’m grown I can do better for myself instead of trying to fit in and knowing I’m not yhe only one really helps and thank you again.
Henry, I’m so glad the post helped! Thank you for reading and connecting.
Hello I’ve been empathic since childhood and didn’t understand until I got older was called weird and even scared some people by accident and being honest as an African American in America lol, my peers didn’t understand and I was actually doing alot of these things to help myself and didn’t know why thanks for letting me know there are alot of people out there like me be blessed.