This Week's Psychic Energy is Overwhelming. How to Shut it Down

If you're a sensitive soul, you may want to lower the dial temporarily. Here's how to do it.

You don’t have to be psychic to feel the tension, anxiety and heightened emotions that are prevalent right now. But if your intuition is strong all of this energy, particularly this week, may be a little too much.

The world just feels heavy, and when you’re sensitive to energy or if you’re an empath, there are times when you need to shut your psychic senses down. (Or at least limit them a little so you’re not being hit with stray emotions and psychic attacks.) For some of you, this may be one of those times.

How you might be feeling

There are a number of ways that recent events could be affecting you.

If you’re an empath, the viral murder video (NO, that’s not a link to that video) could be causing you physical pain in the neck area. It could also be causing you emotional trauma, as well.

You may feel a connection to what’s currently going on in the Afterlife. I read a fascinating conversation on Threads among people with mediumship capabiliteis who describe the shock and confusion that the soul of the deceased individual is experiencing.

You could be picking up on the grief and sadness of those who are mourning.

You could be picking up on the confusion or mixed feelings of those who aren’t sad about the incident.

You could be feeling angrier than normal. Anger is a really easy emotion to pick up on. If you’re angry, are you sure that anger is even yours? Or maybe some of it is yours but you’re attracting the anger of others as well.

There is also plenty of fear that you could be picking up on. Feeling that fear and having no where to channel it can create a backdrop of anxiety.

Your dreams could be more vivid than usual. Or you may remember more than you usually remember.

You may feel a sense of dread if you’re picking up on events that have yet to happen particularly if those events could be traumatic or painful.

Signs the energy is too much

Now some of you may have read that and thought, of course I feel those things. You may even be thriving or spending more time doing your own tarot readings about current and future events. If you’re feeling ok right now, keep everything business as usual. But here are signs that you may need to scale your psychic energy back.

You’re unusually tired or listless. Psychic energy is real. Just as you would likely feel tired after consuming a lot of energy exercising or working, you’re consuming a lot of energy when you’re interacting with the energy of the world around you. When there is an emotional component, the energy drain is even larger.

You’re eating more junk. It might not be obvious that your eating habits can be connected to psychic activity but they very well can be. When you’re using a lot of psychic energy, you may have a subconscious desire to ground yourself. Dense, carb-heavy foods tend to make us feel more grounded (that’s why we think of them as comfort foods). They give us a false sense of safety because they cause us to focus back on our bodies rather than all of the energy swirling around us.

Your moods are constantly changing. Maybe you are having mixed reactions to everything that is going on. But another possibility is that you’re picking up on different people’s emotions and you’re taking those emotions on mistakenly believing them to be your own.

One of my favorite psychic activities is to sit in a coffee shop and notice how I feel as different people walk in. I’ll often feel the shift in energy with the shift in customers. The same thing happens every day when you’re around people. You will feel their emotions and if you’re not good at grounding yourself, you may believe those shifting emotions are your own.

You’re having premonitions that scare you. A lot of people are picking up A LOT of intuitive information about what’s to come in the near future. And a lot of people are sharing that the information they’re picking up on is not all pleasant. If you’re just starting to explore your psychic abilities you can easily become fearful of dreams you have or information you’re intuiting.

First, take a breath and understand that it’s totally normal to feel anxious about a potentially unpleasant future. But also remember that you’re interpreting psychic messages through your rational mind so there’s a chance that your interpretation is more worrisome than the situation will actually turn out. Now, if your worry is getting in the way of other areas of your life, or stealing your joy, you can shut the premonitions down (more on how to do that below).

You’re feeling helpless. When you pick up on information through your psychic senses and it actually happens, it’s easy to feel like everything is predestined and there’s nothing you can do about what is to come. While I do believe some things are meant to happen for the greater good, there is a lot that we can change individually and collectively with our thoughts, beliefs and actions. But if you’re having trouble remembering that right now, reach out for emotional support either from a loved one or a professional and take a step back energetically.

How to shut your psychic senses down

So now you’ve determined that the current events are too much. The good news is you can conserve your energy and retreat for a while. Here are some ways to do that.