Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

by Dave Markowitz

Before entering a room or situation where you’re likely to be drained, feel, visualize, or imagine your heart chakra opening. Then, like a keyhole in a door that lets a person see through and to the other side, feel, visualize, or imagine the front and back of your heart chakra open enough that if someone were looking at you from the front, they could see what’s behind you through this opening. It can be open to the width of a grapefruit for more potentially difficult situations or people. It can be smaller, too. Make it the size of a raisin for what you may perceive as less emotionally painful situations. Then invite whatever negativity is coming toward you to go right through you and out the back. Do not let it hit the sides of the ”tunnel,” rather sense it entering the center space and flowing on through! You might feel the flow of energy as wind or you can imagine light, color, sound,