Energy Medicine
You feel sadness, fear, or heaviness — and you do not know where it comes from. You search in your history, in your thoughts, in what happened today. And you find nothing. That can be a sign that these emotions do not belong to you.
Not all emotions you feel are yours. That is not a spiritual thesis — it is something many people experience without having a word for it. ## How Emotions Transmit In the Andean tradition we call this Kawsay — the life energy that flows through everything. Over this connection, what others feel also transmits. Emotions someone cannot express or does not process seek a way out.
Sometimes they land with someone who is close and open enough to take them in. That happens unconsciously. The other does not notice it. And you often do not notice it either — because the feeling feels from the inside like yours. ## How Do You Recognize That an Emotion Is Not Yours?
There are a few patterns that point to it. The feeling appears without a clear trigger. No situation, no thought, no experience that explains it. It comes suddenly — and feels oversized in relation to what is happening right now.
Or: you were in a certain state before a conversation, afterward in a completely different one. The change has no reason in the content. The conversation was not heavy, you heard nothing burdensome — but afterward there is this weight. Or: in certain rooms, after certain meetings, with certain people — always the same.
The same exhaustion, the same heaviness, the same emptiness. The pattern is the signal. ## Why Highly Sensitive People Experience This More Often Whoever perceives finely receives more. That is not a burden in itself. It is a capacity that in many cultures is regarded as a gift.
But a capacity needs handling. Without it, receiving becomes absorbing — and absorbing becomes a chronic load. Highly sensitive people often report that they need days to recover after social situations. That can change — not through less contact, but through more awareness of what happens in contact. ## Giving Back — With Compassion When you notice that you are carrying something that does not belong to you, the first task is not boundary-setting.
Boundary-setting without recognition is tension. The first step is: naming it. This is not mine. This thought alone creates distance.
Not cold distance — but clarity. You remain in contact with the person. You do not close yourself off. But you stop building the feeling into your own story.
Then you can give it back. With compassion, not with rejection. In breath work it goes like this: a long exhale, with the intention — I give back what does not belong to me. The hands on the earth help with this.
The earth can take it in and transform it. ## What Changes When You Begin to Distinguish People who learn not to treat all emotions as their own usually experience the following: they do not become less empathic — they become clearer. Their own feelings become more distinct, because they no longer get lost in the noise of the foreign ones. Relationships change too. Whoever carries less reacts less reactively.
More inner space remains — for one's own perception, for one's own response, for one's own life. ## Energy Hygiene Is Not Esotericism It is a skill that can be developed. That is the difference between receiving and absorbing. Between compassion and self-loss. If you wish to go deeper into this work, look at the one-on-one session.
There we work directly with what has accumulated — and with the ability to distinguish again clearly what belongs to you and what does not.