You can vision, breathing in good and breathing out the bad. You can also visually take your hands and think you are wiping them off and out of your body. I like to be in my garden and work with plants and soil, very grounding and is like a poultice drawing out poison from the body.

I also like my Celtic music, also also some CDs from American and other native indigenous peoples in the world. Anyway I take a nap to them, and when I wake up, much of or all of the negative energy is gone. I find music really does calm the soul, but one has to find what one does that, it is a cultural personal thing.

Also prayer and meditation works, many times I have done so, and had my pains and burdens lightened or taken away.
Do you have a shaman who can cast evil energy and spirits away, if nothing else works. I use the Priesthood of God I have, or call upon others who have it, if it every becomes too bad, but that has not been too many times in my life.

I understanding picking up negative vibes online, I get them on Indigo Society site, a real worldly place, not managed too well, too many dark workers there, and many who do not really know what they are into or doing. But there are many good and enlightened people there too, and I go to learn and to be enlightened as well and support the effort to spread light against the darkness.

I find I have grown since going to the IS site, I have learned to protect myself, and built up a heavier defense system, I guess like getting tougher skin, from working. Now those same dark ones don't bother me like they did before, and I sluff off their bad energy. But I do limit my time there, so I do not take on too much and get pulled down, and off of my path.

I find we should only run as fast as we are able and feel comfortable with, but at the same time, we cannot give up, and hide too long, or they win.

Interesting that you are talking about being too open and needing to hide. I just responded to a similar post on another empath tribe with someone having the same challenges. I just ended a one week withdrawal from the world for the same reason and a friend in Germany just emailed me to tell me she now understand why people need to do that and she is stepping away from people for a week. Maybe there is a planetary thing going on calling us to return to grounding/center.

When I start getting overcharged like this there are two main reasons, for me:

1. The inner-self is calling me back to myself and there often needs to be a withdrawing of the senses in order to align and hear my inner guidance/spirit more clearly. Usually this happens if I've been around people too much and/or haven't had enough down/alone time.

2. It sometimes means I've stepped too far away from my center due to being afraid to look at something within myself or an issue at hand and I project that fear and sensitivity outward (thus drawing it back in to me).

Either way if I make myself stay home alone (or in my bedroom) for a day, allowing myself anything I could want (including sleep, reading, food, munchies etc) then suddenly the reason for the vulnerable feeling will pop up, often in three hours.

I don't know if any of this relates to what you are feeling but I understand how overwhelming it can be when you are running wide open likethis. Hope you feel the healing, concern and light from me and the many other wonderful empaths on these empath tribes.

I use meditation, and mind-body exercise to clear out negative vibes and to make me able to handle intense and difficult emotions. All forms of meditation and mind-body exercise involves a focus on breathing. In order to get into the altered state that helps one connect with ones inner being and be able to draw more strength from it one has to use controlled hyperventilation or breath more than is required while doing mind-body exercise. Meditation always involves controlled hyperventilation. When one breaths more than is required the body takes in more oxygen and gets rid of more carbon dioxide from the blood in the form of carbonic acid which makes the blood more alkaline, which has a relaxing afect on the body and puts one into an altered state.

The way I meditate, is to get in a relaxed position, shut my eyes, breath deeply, tensing my stomach muscles when I breath in, relaxing my stomach muscles when I breath out. I focus on any uncomfortable emotions I have when doing this. I also squeeze my hands and move my feet both alternately in rhythm with my breathing. This puts more of my body and whole being into the meditation and give me more of a feeling of oneness. This also makes the meditation more intense.

I do a meditative walk by moving with short quick steps while breathing in with one step and breathing out with the next step. I move my body a little from side to side which helps ones feet to touch the ground more quickly. I do this while focusing again on what difficult emotions I want to become more comfortable with and be able to handle better. I focus on my stomach while doing this exercise and on using the muscles that move the leg forward.

Just to keep yourself aware and conscious of your hiding will help. I get mired down in that sulky isolation and it goe on for months sometimes. Best if you can just notice what you're doing so you have a choice as to whether you want to continue to hide or not.