7 Traits of a Highly Aware Empath

Añadido: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]In this video today, I'm going to talk to you about the seven traits of a highly aware empath. These are the things that bridge one from a wounded empath state to an empowered empath state. What's in the middle is awareness. Now, the first thing that I wrote down is that you would have a high level of self-compassion. There is a saying that goes around for empathic people. You've probably heard this.

[00:00:27]Observe, don't absorb.

[00:00:31]And I've been saying this for years.

[00:00:33]Observe, don't absorb. What great advice. But here's the thing is that it denies you your actual truth as as a deep feeling person, as an empathic person that you will absorb. You are an emotional sponge. It will happen. So observe.

[00:00:55]You are going to absorb and observe yourself now with compassion.

[00:01:02]And with compassion is what allows you to transmute what you have absorbed so that you can then release that back out into the universe with compassion. That is the biggest skill that an empath needs to have. If you understand the three levels of empathy, the first is a cognitive level of empathy where you just seem to know something in your head. You can cognitively understand how someone feels versus the emotional empathy where you feel what other people feel as if it's even your own. And the third level of empathy is the action of empathy which is compassion. So a highly aware empath is self-compassionate. What often ends up happening is that you're very compassionate to others but not yourself.

[00:01:58]So that's what's bridging the gap between being a wounded empath to an empowered empath is that awareness of self-compassion also needs to be there. Okay. The second one that I wrote down is high standards.

[00:02:13]Yes, a highly aware empath has very high standards for themsel i.e. healthy boundaries. This is one of the biggest gaps that empaths have to bridge on that path to empowerment is learning boundaries and having these set of standards. The things that you used to allow, the things that you used to permit or make excuses for or justify or rationalize, you don't do that anymore. You take things on face value. You receive the evidence that people give you as the information of who people really are.

[00:02:54]Believe people when they tell you who they are is one of those high standards that you set for yourself. Now, I could go on about boundaries, but that would be a completely separate video, and I have many videos on boundaries already. So, let's go to the third one that I wrote is highly aligned with solitude over superficial connection. Your alignment from from the wounded empath stage. Okay. Well, you would be connecting with all sorts of people.

[00:03:32]just trying to find any kind of connection that you could. But bridging over to becoming more empowered requires that middle state of awareness which is your alone time.

[00:03:44]How important that is, how valuable that is and that isolation is not the same as solitude.

[00:03:54]You have met yourself.

[00:03:57]If you are a highly aware empath, you are aware of how important solitude is, you also have come to a point where you know that just because you're alone doesn't mean you're lonely.

[00:04:13]And you don't have to be lonely because you have that first one that I talked about, that deep self-compassion for yourself. You're able to be there for yourself. You always have your own back even if no one else is there for you.

[00:04:30]And oftentimes that's the reality for the empath is they have very few people who have their back. So they have to have their own. And you're not chasing relationships just because you're lonely either. That now is no longer a factor, which goes along with your high standards. Okay. The fourth one is that you are highly discerning. Now, this is really important because you no longer confuse being an empath with a trauma response. And I've thought that before as well. You know, looking at being an empath means that yeah, well, a lot of us have experienced a history of trauma to one degree or another. But did that make us an empath or were we already?

[00:05:21]And I would say we were already, which is why we were more sensitive to the experiences that we went through that were traumatic for our systems. And so if you can read a room, what you're doing is you are recognizing the patterns that exist and you're also able to recognize the patterns in yourself.

[00:05:48]you're able to decipher between what is actually truth versus maybe projected fears. So that is the element of not associating your empathy with it being a trauma response. But you can catch the difference between the two. The mere fact of you being highly sensitive, of you being very empathic, your nature already primes you to be more sensitive to everything that's happening to you. Someone who is high on the empathy spectrum versus somebody who is not, they both have the same experience but respond completely different. Now you are able to use your discernment to recognize the difference to not pair one with the other to know that one influences the other but one is not.

[00:06:46]Therefore being an empath is not a trauma response.

[00:06:51]You are just more sensitive to experiences that may be traumatic.

[00:06:58]The highly aware empath with this discernment also has reduced their hypervigilance. They can decipher the truth between what is a projected fear, what or what is an actual fear. What is a perceived truth versus what is an actual truth. What you are picking up from the collective as grief might be your own grief. That is the discernment.

[00:07:22]Very important. As a highly aware empath, you know the difference. Now the fifth thing is that you are grounded in your heart energy. Grounded. Yes, you have a big heart. Yes, you are very caring and compassionate. You have a grounded heart in the sense that you know it's not your responsibility to rescue people, to swoop in and fix people. Just because you have this big heart doesn't mean it has this obligation to everyone to be there for everyone. You don't have to heal and fix everyone. It's not your responsibility.

[00:08:04]And a highly aware empath, they know that truth. The sixth point that I have here is that the highly aware empath is highly contained. So if you've heard me talk about containment before, think of yourself as a container essentially, but one that is very secure and stable and rooted.

[00:08:28]You're not leaky. Okay. Somebody who has containment is the opposite of someone who is very porous and leaky with their energy. And because you have containment, it means you don't have to explain yourself to people. You don't overshare personal information. You don't have to prove yourself to anyone.

[00:08:48]You don't have to overgive all the time.

[00:08:52]This is thanks to your very strong boundaries and your high standards that you have which allows you to have this sense of containment of wholeness.

[00:09:03]You're not giving too much of yourself away. You are able to maintain your energy levels to the level that is appropriate of the day. You're able to have energy reserves.

[00:09:18]You're able to build energy, maintain energy, and sustain your energy. The last one I wrote down here is that you are highly self-led.

[00:09:30]Yes, highly self-led. Hello, lone wolves. Lone wolf empaths. This is part of your path. You don't need permission from other people, from friends, from family, even from systems to do what you want to do to be able to move forward in your life to make your own choices because you are carving your own path. You are leading from your own lane regardless if people are following.

[00:09:55]You are not because you always have your own back. Some people might call you a rebel. Some might see you as avoidant, but you're not. You're none of that.

[00:10:07]You are self-d. You are self-contained.

[00:10:09]You are self- sustaining. You are self-compassionate.

[00:10:14]You are selfaware.

[00:10:16]You don't need anyone to prove anything to you. And you're not here to prove anything to anyone else. You know your own truth that you know very well. You know yourself very well. You know what you need and what you don't need. You don't need to conform to standards to be happy or to live a good life. You create your own standards. Remember, and that is what makes you so highly aware and empowered as an empath.