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.
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.