Empaths are known for their innate ability to feel the emotions around them. This includes the energy of people, animals and plants which they can absorb. Also they are taking that energy on as their own. Somehow, empaths can completely understand and relate to them without even having experienced the emotions themselves.
In addition to the six main types, some people believe that there are even more types, although this is disputed.
Emotional Empath
The most common type of empath is the emotional one. It means, they easily pick up others’ emotional energy. But it doesn’t end with just “picking it up” – for an emotional empath, it means to deeply experiencing others’ feelings in their own emotional body. They are capable of putting themselves into others shoes – both emotionally and physically.
Picking up others’ emotions and absorbing so many of them at a time can cause getting drained.
An emotional empath is capable of reading these emotions without even trying to do so, unlike the Highly Sensitive People.
Physical/Medical Empath
The Physical/Medical type of empath can read the body energy that oozes out of people. By sensing the energy, they are capable of figuring out what is wrong with somebody.
Physical/Medical Empaths, also known as “healers”, using their abilities to help cure other’s bodies. Most of the time, they know a solution to others’ pains and illnesses. A rare ability is to intuitively sense and feel the physical pain of others.
Geomantic Empath
Geomantic Empaths, also known as “place or environmental empaths”, are familiar with certain environments or places, even if they have no connection to these or might have never been there before.
This type of empath picks up the energy from places what leads into feeling happy or comfortable in certain places for no plain reason.
They are also very drawn to the natural world and communicating to their subconscious.
Plant Empath
A Plant Empath can instinctively sense what plants need without studying agriculture or having experiences with those types of plants.
They are attracted to greens and might even take on an occupation that involves growing or taking care of plants.
From sitting beside or under a tree or in a garden, they gain a certain satisfaction. Also they clearly hearing the plants in their minds and receiving guidance from nature through this ability.
Animal Empath
An empath who is strongly connected with animals is also known as “whisperers”. They understand what animals need. An Animal Empath can sense their emotions and moods.
Even if they are not theirs, they feel drawn to these animals and might communicate with them in a way they understand telepathically.
Claircognizant/Intuitive Empath
If a Claircognizant/Intuitive Empath is surrounded of other people, they can easily pick up information of them. This takes only a glance at someone else to gain much insight about the other person, which is unlike sensing emotional energies.
Meeting someone new for non-Claircognizant/Intuitive Empaths can be difficult because people often put up facades to create a pleasant first impression. An empath of this type can easily see beyond that which makes their ability comes in handy when trying to understand someone you just met.
Also they are great counselors and advisers.
Other types
Telepathic Empaths are able to reading people’s thoughts correctly.
A Medium Empath can connect to the souls of departed people.
By touching physical objects, Psychometric Empaths can gain information about people.
Before an event occurs, Precognitive Empaths are able to feel or experience it.
