Psychic hypersensitivity is also known as psychic overload or psychic stimulation. Lightworkers and holistic practitioners are especially susceptible to this because they are more open to spiritual and psychic energies and work with them on a daily basis with their clients. If you don’t take care of yourself, you will soon be unable to take care of your clients or loved ones because you won’t have the energy to do so.

Some symptoms of psychic hypersensitivity are:

– panic/anxiety attacks that can be caused by absorbing other people’s fears, or by old fears you’ve kept bottled up that are now coming to the surface because you’re more in tune with your subconscious

– supersensitivity to the emotional and psychological states of people around you; so much so that you are unable to differentiate your emotions from those of others

– chaotic thoughts or what I call “white noise” in your brain caused by too many psychic messages arriving at once, or telepathically picking up the thoughts of everyone around you

– exhaustion on all levels: mental, emotional, spiritual and physical

Once you feel yourself starting to get to that place of overstimulation, there are things you can do to resolve it and keep it from going any further. Daily self-care habits will help prevent hypersensitivity altogether. Here are some tips that have helped me get through periods of psychic overstimulation.

1) Ground the excess energy into the earth. You can do this by going outside and sitting against a tree or walking barefoot to get some physical contact with the earth. Let Nature absorb and dissipate all the extra psychic energy moving through your mind and body. If you are in an office and among clients, you can do the same by connecting with a houseplant or using a crystal to put the energy.

2) Do deep breathing exercises. Many people teach you to do deep breathing exercises by breathing from your diaphragm. This is fine, but if you want to go even deeper, try breathing from your navel. As you inhale, your belly should expand instead of your chest. You will be amazed at how much more air you can take in during one breath. Inhale Light, calming energy; exhale chaotic, excess energy.

3) Protect yourself. Visualize yourself in a sphere of pure white Light. This shield prevents any foreign energy from entering your space and causing psychic hypersensitivity. This is a technique to use any time you’re working with clients and need to stay open to messages. The messages will arrive, but the energy of the client will not.

4) Ask your guides or Higher Power for help. Ask them to remove all excess energy and fill you with calm and peace. If you are receiving a ton of spiritual messages at once, ask these spirits to speak to you one at a time.

These are just some of the things you can do to deal with episodes of psychic hypersensitivity. The best way to deal with this is to prevent it altogether by protecting yourself and grounding yourself between clients. Once you learn how to protect yourself from overload, you’ll find that you have much more energy and mental clarity to function at a higher level.