The Difference Between Introverted And Extroverted Empaths
Empaths are individuals who sense energy, picking up on both the conscious and unconscious emotions of others. Oftentimes, even if they don't know they're empaths, they feel the innate urge to use these abilities in order to help people through any negative feelings they're having.
Whether an empath is introverted or extroverted, how they perceive their empathic senses and the choices they make in regard to them can have an impact on their developing practice. As such, it can be beneficial to understand how an empath's natural energy, along with their introversion or extroversion, can influence their practice of understanding emotions.
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The Flow Of Feelings
Empaths are individuals with the power to sense, interpret and feel the emotions of those around them. This intense gift can be a great tool, allowing the empath to help others by understanding their emotions and offering helpful advice. Empaths can use their abilities to create a more harmonious and positive atmosphere for those around them. As powerful healers, empaths can also focus their power on areas of tension and conflict, helping to soothe and relax a stressful environment.
Their capacity for deep connection and understanding can be incredibly comforting and calming to those in need. Empaths also often have a unique gift for connecting and communicating with those who do not feel able to express themselves, allowing them to build trust and draw out people's true selves, making them a valuable source of support for those in need.
An Outward Manifestation
However, not all empaths are created equally, and those with different attributes bring different insights to the table when it comes to helping others.
A number of personality aspects can affect and alter the way empath abilities manifest in a certain person, with one of these aspects being their levels of either introversion or extroversion.
That's right, something as simple as preferring to be alone can have a great impact on how an empath interprets the world around them and how those interpretations can be used to aid their loved ones.
Alone Together
Just as a refresher, here's what differentiates an introvert from an extrovert.
At its core, being introverted or extroverted has to do with one's internal reactions to social interaction. Introverts feel drained after being around people for too long, they'll need plenty of time alone for their social batteries to recharge, so to speak. It's not that they don't like people (though there are certainly some who would say that); they just need to space out their outings so they don't get burned out.
Extroverts are the opposite. Being with people is what recharges their batteries, and they often feel drained if they have to spend excessive time on their own. They're more likely to be the ones planning gatherings or can be seen going out on their own in busy places. So long as they're surrounded by the hustle and bustle of humanity, they feel right at home.
Introvert Empaths
Now, how do these designations affect empath abilities?
Introverts are more of a quiet observer. They're able to absorb all that's happening around them and think critically before deciding which emotional outputs they want to engage in. They're usually better at telling when they're close to empathy burnout too, as they spend plenty of time with themselves learning about their limits.
With that said, they also tend to be more concerned with appearances. Even if they know they're beyond their empathetic threshold, they'll still stick around in a group or conversation just to seem polite. Then they become stressed, wired, or frustrated, and that can be taken out on either themselves or those around them if they aren't careful.
Their help comes in the form of calm, collected, direct advice and making plans for the future.
Extrovert Empaths
As for extrovert empaths, they're not only happy to but want to jump on any distressing output they come across. If they sense one of their friends is feeling down, they'll want to do anything and everything they can to brighten their spirits and deflect those negative vibes. They're outgoing and tend to bring a general good nature with them everywhere they go.
Though this is all perfectly good, their overeagerness can sometimes develop into being overbearing, and though your friends appreciate their help when needed, trying to force a solution whenever something arises is less constructive. Also, because of their innate urge to be of service, they can stretch themselves out too thin and wind up crashing before they even realize they've burned themselves out.
Their help comes in the form of distraction, taking someone who may be upset out of their usual environment to take their mind off things, and direct support through struggle.
A Third Option
There's more than just these two types, though. There are also ambivert empaths.
Being an ambivert means you have elements of both introversion and extroversion. What that balance looks like depends on the ambivert themselves, but if they're aware of their duality and are able to harness both sides of it, they can develop great power.
This is both in general and when it comes to empathic ability, as someone able to clue into introvert empath and extrovert empath function can then use those skills to help even more people should they choose.
Ambivert Empaths
Ambivert empaths are extremely adaptable, flexible, and ever-changing. They can shift their mindset in an instant, and are experts at instinctually knowing what style to drum in any given situation.
They're not always able to predict what their tolerance for social interaction will be before heading out, though. They could feel energetic the entire time, or they could feel ready to go home after an hour, but that's a gamble they're willing (and needing) to take.
They're good at diffusing situations before they get too heated and are master problem solvers, but they can sometimes lose themselves in other peoples' problems and need to pull themselves back down to Earth to recollect themselves.
Their form of help can appear as many different things, including a unique mixture of introvert and extrovert approaches.
For Every Type
Empaths of all kinds have the unique ability to connect with, relate to, and understand the feelings of many people at once. This makes them very valuable friends with kind hearts who are always wanting to help where they can, and their ability to deeply relate to whatever you're feeling means they'll also know how just how to pick you back up when you're down.
However, it is important for these empaths to remember to take time for themselves and to rest, as they can easily become overwhelmed if they overextend themselves. Everyone needs time to recharge their batteries, especially those with such an active capacity for understanding the feelings of others. Giving oneself the space needed to recuperate is absolutely necessary for these empaths to continue doing the good work they're so well-suited for, no matter if they're more introverted, extroverted, or both!
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