{"id":17282,"date":"2021-05-19T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=17282"},"modified":"2021-05-19T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:12:05","slug":"10-questions-with-wendy-de-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=17282","title":{"rendered":"10 Questions with Wendy De Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wendy De Rosa’s latest book is “Becoming an Empowered Empath: How to Clear Energy, Set Boundaries & Embody Your Intuition.” Today she answers 10 questions about all things intuitive.<\/em><\/p>\n

1. First things first, what is an empath? How can you tell if you\u2019re one?<\/strong>
\nAn energetic empath is someone who feels the energy of others, the energy in the environment, and energy in the collective. Empaths will often unknowingly take this energy on or absorb it into their own energy field and body. As a result, they experience physical symptoms, illness, fatigue, emotional overwhelm, and more. Learning how to clear other people\u2019s energy from their body and strengthen the energetic center helps energetic empaths hold emotional and energetic boundaries and evolve from being over empathic to an empowered empath.<\/p>\n

Here are ways you can tell if you are an empath: You sense other people\u2019s emotions or feel you have absorbed other people\u2019s energy when you enter a room. You pick up on the energy around you, how people are feeling, or what might be happening around you. In a conversation with someone they over share and walk away feeling great, while you end up feeling like you took on their issues. You get tired easily being around people. You may be vulnerable to illness, feel nauseated, or get headaches and other physical symptoms when around other people\u2019s energy. You need introverted time to replenish. You keep the peace in a dynamic by taking on emotions of others so they don\u2019t have to feel or express their feelings. The list can go on, but essentially, you know you are an empath when you feel the energy of others around you.<\/p>\n

2. In your book \u201cBecoming an Empowered Empath\u201d you describe four aspects of intuition. What are they?<\/strong>
\nThe seeing sense is called clairvoyance, which relates to intuitively seeing images or having a higher knowing and heightened perception. Clairaudience is the sense of hearing intuitively. Some people relate to that sense as receiving Divine messages, higher guidance, and mediumship. Claircognizance is the sense of knowing. People who relate to this sense will say \u201cI know because I know, because I know, and I can\u2019t tell you why I know, I just know<\/em>\u201c. Clairsentience is the power of feeling energy through the sentient body. This is ultimately the empathic sense.<\/p>\n

3. You discuss the importance of the Root Chakra. Why is it important in relation to empaths?<\/strong>
\nThe Root Chakra is located at the tail bone region of our spine and is our power center for safety, trust, belonging, survival, and attachment here on this physical plane and physical experience of life. It\u2019s the power center that connects us to the earth\u2019s frequency. When we\u2019ve been raised in environments where safety has been compromised because there was trauma or fear in the family system, we will develop an insecure attachment to feeling safe in this human experience. That is often an underlying pattern for empathic and sensitive beings raised in environments that didn\u2019t know how to nurture an empath. The root chakra can close down and contract when there is a feeling of not belonging or feeling unsafe. As a result, the second chakra which is the empathic power center in the body, opens up and becomes hyper vigilant. It senses and feels everything around us, and takes care of that energy in order to feel a sense of belonging, attachment and safety. Essentially it is doing the job of the root chakra. When an empath has a contracted Root Chakra and a hyper vigilant Second chakra, the pattern of managing external energy repeats itself over and over again throughout life. In order for empaths to stop taking on the energy of other people and managing so much energy externally, they have to build a relationship to the Root Chakra specifically to re-build a sense of safety, trust in self, security, and belonging.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ 4. In discussing chakras, you say there are upper-body intuitives and lower-body intuitives. What does that mean and what are the differences?<\/strong>
\nUpper body intuition relates to the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh charkras (and beyond!). Psychic intuition, mediumship, higher guidance, clairvoyance and channeling are aspects of upper body intuition. Lower body intuition is claircognizance, the sense of knowing and the empathic sense of feeling. These clairs relate to the first, second, third and sometimes fourth chakras. Empaths tend to be lower chakra intuitives. However, lower body intuitives can have upper body intuitive skills and vice versa. So, an empath can also be clairvoyant, and a medium can also be an empath. The primary difference is that either upper body or lower body intuition is dominant early in life. Intuitive skills can change based on one\u2019s childhood or if they experience trauma. One\u2019s healing process and to what extent their chakras are healing and evolving determines their access to their intuitive gifts. Some people can come into this world with both upper chakra and lower chakra intuition very activated.<\/p>\n

5. In \u201cBecoming an Empowered Empath\u201d you say that empaths experience their world through intuition. Can you explain what this looks like?<\/strong>
\nEmpaths experience the world through their \u201cfelt\u201d sense. They feel when something isn\u2019t right. They feel the emotions of other people, or the energy in a space. From an intuitive perspective, this means that they often know what another person needs and can offer acts of kindness, empathy, or connection to help the person rise up. Empathic intuition is the power of trusting your gut instinct and what\u2019s felt beneath the surface. When empaths learn to trust their gut instincts, they make effective and trustworthy leaders because they can identify the shadow and clear the air when something does not feel right.<\/p>\n

6. What are inherited belief systems and how do they impact our lives?<\/strong>
\nInherited belief systems are beliefs that have come through our lineage or intergenerationally in order to help us survive in our society and family systems. Early in life, they are necessary and help us bond to the adults that are going to raise us and help us succeed in the world. Sometimes those inherited beliefs come from fear and a need to protect us from traumatic events happening to us. For example, if a parent was raised during the depression era, they may have a belief system that says, \u201csave all your money and don\u2019t trust anybody,\u201d which gets passed down to us. Being raised with this belief system, a child may grow up overriding their own needs or their own intuition and maybe even miss opportunities in their life because this now internalized belief caused them to hoard and stay safe. This particular belief system may be outdated and may not match current times or where an individual is in their life. It\u2019s important to recognize that belief systems help us survive and belong inside our family systems. As spiritually evolving souls, we can outgrow outdated beliefs systems and make conscious decisions about who we are and what we believe to be true now.<\/p>\n

7. How does trauma affect our energy fields?<\/strong>
\nTrauma essentially makes up a significant amount of energy stored in our energetic body. Whether it\u2019s personal trauma, collective trauma, or intergenerational trauma. Trauma is an experience that the cognitive mind and nervous system can\u2019t make sense of or process at the time and so it stores it in the energy body for a later time when it\u2019s safe to process that energy. In energy healing, there are several different terms that have been used over the decades that are synonyms to trauma. They include past life healing, karmic wounds, dark energy, shadow, or negative energy. Sometimes these words have been used to polarize people\u2019s experiences as good or bad, right or wrong, and light and dark. However, as the conversation of trauma of trauma healing has surfaced over the past 20 years, energy work now addresses trauma through mindful practices, and it\u2019s crucial for people to know that trauma is common, good people have trauma.<\/p>\n

8. If someone wants to stop taking on other people\u2019s energy, what do they need to know<\/strong>?
\nI think it\u2019s so important to know that if you are living a pattern of taking on energy of others, then you most likely have a gift underneath that needs to be seen, needs to be validated, need to be reparented, and it\u2019s probably been nudging you for a long time. The triggers that happen when you take on the energy of others are also a gift because they are pointing you in the direction of going deeper within you. That journey involves inner healing, understanding the energy you\u2019ve been carrying, healing your past traumas, and living your God-given gifts in this life. My guess is that they\u2019ve been squashed, and the body is acting out by having big reactions to other people\u2019s energy. \u201cBecoming an Empowered Empath\u201d will help you get underneath the layers, clear your energy, and allow more of your gifts to emerge.<\/p>\n

9. What\u2019s next? Do you have any upcoming projects are readers would be interested in?<\/strong>
\nI often have upcoming events listed on my websites: schoolofintuitivestudies.com<\/a> and wendyderosa.com<\/a>. Yet, every month I offer a guided healing live through my Divine Healing Inner Circle Monthly Membership. People from all over the world join in this powerful group healing and receive deep energy healing and higher guidance. I also take questions after the healing, and we have a mid-month Q&A call where I answer questions that come up for members as they\u2019ve been integrating the healing. I highly recommend this monthly membership if you are someone who is in need of ongoing energy clearing and support. All the details are on wendyderosa.com.<\/p>\n

10. Parting shot! Ask us at The Magical Buffet any one question.<\/strong>
\nWas there a time when you knew you should have listened to your intuition? And did trust in your intuition get stronger by knowing that you have inner knowing?<\/p>\n

I believe I\u2019m quite intuitive and try to listen to my intuition, but I do try to find a balance between the presented facts and realities of a given situation and my \u201cgut feelings.\u201d I know there have been times when I wish I had listened to my intuition, I think most people have had that experience, but a specific example doesn\u2019t come to mind.<\/em><\/p>\n

$\"\"$ About Wendy De Rosa:<\/strong>
\nWendy De Rosa is an international intuitive energy healer, speaker, teacher, and author. For the past two decades she has offered education and training programs for spiritual and personal growth to thousands of people wanting to develop their intuition and experience personal transformation.<\/p>\n

She is the founder of the School of Intuitive Studies and the Intuitive Healer Training Program & Certification. Wendy is an esteemed teacher who leads workshops and trainings globally, including programs for Mindvalley\u2019s Soulvana channel and as a top faculty member at The Shift Network.<\/p>\n

Wendy is a contributing writer in the bestselling book \u201cBouncing Back: Thriving in Changing Times\u201d with Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy, John Assaraf, and other leaders in personal growth. Her book \u201cExpanding Your Heart: Awakening through Four Stages of a Spiritual Opening\u201d is an Amazon bestseller.<\/p>\n

Wendy lives in Longmont, Colorado, with her husband, daughter, and stepson.<\/p>\n

You can learn more here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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