🌿Signs you have absorbed someone else’s energy (And how to cleanse it fully)
Are sudden mood swings a sign of energy absorption?
Yes, they are. But most people never realise it. They blame themselves, label it as “moodiness,” or worse—carry shame for emotions that were never theirs to begin with.
Let me tell you about Aarti, a client I once worked with. She would wake up full of joy. Then, a 10-minute phone call with her mother-in-law, and she’d spiral—anxiety, tears, anger. She thought she was unstable. But what she was actually doing was holding someone else’s emotional weight, every day, without boundaries.
Have you ever:
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Felt peaceful… until you were around someone sad, and then couldn’t shake the heaviness for hours?
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Been in a great mood, but after talking to a friend who’s always in crisis, suddenly felt drained or depressed?
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Found yourself restless, angry, or foggy after a simple social gathering?
This is not coincidence. It’s not personality. It’s energy absorption.
Especially for empaths and sensitive souls, the body becomes a sponge. The nervous system, so attuned to others, cannot tell where “they” end and “you” begin. It’s a spiritual erosion. One that happens slowly—until you're exhausted, irritable, and no longer recognise yourself.
☁️ Here are deeper signs you’ve absorbed someone else’s energy:
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Emotional confusion that doesn’t match your circumstances.
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Dreams that feel like other people’s memories.
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Digestive issues after visiting certain homes or people.
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Sudden loss of motivation or joy after interactions.
You are not “too sensitive.” You’re intuitive. But no one ever taught you to differentiate empathy from enmeshment.
🪶 So let me whisper this into your soul:
“Not everything you feel is yours. You’re allowed to return it.”
Can salt water Baths and Clove Smudging Actually Cleanse Energy?
Let’s get real—sometimes a shower doesn’t wash away what life throws at you. Because the grime isn’t on your skin—it’s in your aura.
I’ve seen it in the eyes of mothers after a long day of caretaking. In the stiff bodies of young people who carry their families' dreams and traumas. In lovers whose hearts are heavy with unsaid goodbyes.
They don’t need another productivity hack. They need ritual.
📜 How to do it:
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Use Epsom salt, pink Himalayan, or even simple sea salt.
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Add a handful into warm bath water.
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Optional: a few cloves, drops of lavender oil, or lemon peels.
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Soak for 15-20 minutes. Cry if you must.
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As you drain the water, say: “I release what’s not mine. I reclaim what is.”
🕯️ Clove Cleansing Ritual:
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Take a few whole cloves and burn them on a charcoal disc or small clay dish.
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Let the smoke drift into corners of your room, your bed, your body.
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Say: “I clear the stuck, the sad, the silent.”
There’s something profoundly healing about smoke. It moves where we cannot go. It reaches what we dare not name.
📌 Bonus: Cleanse your kitchen too—where energies of conflict or poverty often hide. Visit Vastu Tips for Kitchens to purify your home from its energetic roots.
This is your sanctuary. Smoke it. Soak it. Speak to it. Heal it.
What is the “Return to Sender” ritual and how does it work?
This ritual isn’t revenge. It’s release. And oh, how necessary that is when your heart is full of what was never yours.
Too many of us are carrying burdens gifted by guilt. Grief that never belonged to us. Expectations etched into our souls by lovers, parents, bosses.
Here’s how the “Return to Sender” meditation works—it re-establishes boundaries energetically and ethically.
🌕 Guided ritual (Do this after salt bath or smudging):
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Sit in silence. Place both hands over your heart.
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Breathe in deeply and recall the feelings or energy that feels foreign—heaviness, sorrow, anger.
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Say softly:
“With love and light, I return this energy to its source.It is not mine to hold.I honour the journey, but I release the weight.” -
Visualise the energy lifting off you—like mist rising off water—and drifting gently back to where it came from.
☀️ You are not punishing anyone. You’re simply remembering sovereignty.
It’s the energetic version of saying: “I will not carry what you won’t heal.”
Why walking barefoot can ground your energy daily?
This one’s for the overthinkers. The hyper-empaths. The anxious. The ones who spend all day in their heads, but forget to come home to their bodies.
Walking barefoot—on grass, on soil, on sand—is not just nature therapy. It’s Earth Medicine.
🌍 Earthing is backed by real science:
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Walking barefoot reduces inflammation in the body.
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It lowers cortisol (stress hormone).
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It regulates circadian rhythm, helping you sleep better.
But more than that—it reconnects your energy to something ancient. The Earth is a living organism, pulsing with frequencies of calm, safety, and truth. When your bare feet touch her skin, she grounds your nervous system. She absorbs the chaos. She offers stillness.
🪨 Daily grounding walk practice:
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Find a safe patch of grass or soil. Even your terrace garden will do.
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Take off your shoes. Walk slowly for 5-10 minutes.
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As your feet touch the ground, whisper: “I am here. I am safe. I am held.”
Notice the shift. Your breath slows. Your thoughts pause. You feel… more you.
🌿 This is your portable sanctuary. Available daily. No membership required. Just your presence, and the planet.
🕊️ That completes Part 2 (Headings 6-9) of this emotional healing journey. You are not too sensitive. You are sacred. You don’t need fixing. You need cleansing. And you don’t need a guru—you need remembrance.
Your energy is your home. Treat it like a temple.
🔋Your Energy Audit—What’s Draining You (And What’s Been waiting to empower you)?
H10: What Are Energy Leaks and How Do They Affect Your Life?
Let’s get brutally honest. We all have leaks. Unseen places where our energy quietly trickles out—until one day we wonder why we feel so… empty.
Let me describe a scene. You wake up tired. Not physically, but like your spirit hit a wall. You try to focus, but your thoughts scatter. You feel like you’re carrying invisible bags—each one filled with obligations, unsaid resentments, people-pleasing wounds, unresolved tasks.
That? That is the cost of energy leaks.
They’re not always dramatic. Often, they’re deceptively ordinary:
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That friend who “just needs to vent” every night.
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That WhatsApp group you’re in out of guilt.
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The clothes in your closet from a past life you no longer live.
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The job you’ve outgrown but can’t quit because “what will people say?”
These small, quiet compromises drain your life force.
🧃 Energy leaks are often born from:
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Unspoken boundaries
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Lingering decisions
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Emotional entanglements
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Physical clutter or blocked spaces
And they manifest as:
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Fatigue without medical cause
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Chronic procrastination
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Emotional numbness
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Feeling "off" in your own skin
This is why I teach energy audits. Not because I want to add to your to-do list—but because you deserve your power back.
✨ Energy isn’t just about motivation—it’s your soul currency. Every leak is money slipping out of your spiritual bank account.
And here’s the thing: Healing doesn’t begin with adding. It begins with subtracting.
How can You Begin a Self-Audit With These Simple questions?
Let’s not complicate this. You don’t need a guru. You need better questions.
Sit with a journal or your thoughts and ask:
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“What am I tolerating?”
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That relationship?
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That outdated commitment?
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That mess in your cupboard?
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“What no longer feels aligned?”
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Your morning routine?
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Your social media feed?
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The stories you still tell about yourself?
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These two questions are lightning rods. They break denial. They stir clarity. And sometimes, they stir tears. Let them. Your truth is rising. Don’t silence it.
🧠 Bonus Prompts for Deeper Insight:
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Who drains me—even subtly?
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What have I outgrown but keep out of fear?
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Where do I feel most alive? How often do I go there?
This isn’t about instant answers. It’s about tuning your inner compass. And once you ask these questions, patterns will start appearing everywhere—like threads pulling loose from a sweater.
🧭 Energy Audit Practice:
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Pick one leak per week.
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Close it: say the thing, quit the group, clean the drawer, speak your no.
Small repairs. Big returns.
And yes, even your home could be leaking energy. Doors, especially. Read Is Your Main Door Blocking Your Destiny? to fix energetic bottlenecks from your literal threshold.
What are the types of energy leaks You Must Watch For?
There’s a sacred trifecta every energy guide knows: Energetic, Emotional, Environmental. Miss one, and you’ll always feel like something’s off.
Let’s explore each deeply.
🌀 1. Energetic Leaks (The Invisible Drains)
These are your unspoken agreements. The “yes” when you meant “no.” The way your energy attaches to people you can’t stop thinking about—exes, enemies, expectations.
💔 Examples:
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Being overly available
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Obsessing over others’ opinions
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Attaching your self-worth to external validation
🧩 Fix:
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Daily cord-cutting visualisation
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Energetic boundaries: “This is not mine”
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Letting go rituals
💓 2. Emotional Leaks (The Wounds We Carry Silently)
These show up in the pauses. The tears that never came. The rage we swallow. The grief we perform politeness over.
💔 Examples:
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People-pleasing rooted in childhood abandonment
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Saying “I’m fine” when you’re not
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Avoiding conflict at your own expense
🧩 Fix:
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Voice notes to self (“How do I really feel?”)
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Screaming into a pillow (it works)
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Emotional release journaling
🏡 3. Environmental Leaks (The Chaos in Your Corners)
Your home holds your patterns. A cluttered drawer is never just clutter—it’s a metaphor.
💔 Examples:
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Unfinished tasks visible every day
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Crowded wardrobes of past identities
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Rooms you avoid because they feel heavy
🧩 Fix:
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One shelf, one box, one corner at a time
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Sage or camphor cleansing post-decluttering
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Shift objects that trigger emotional memories
Each leak, when plugged, gives you a piece of yourself back.
How Can a Candle Ritual Help You Release Old Energy?
There’s something timeless about fire. It's primal. Sacred. It knows how to end and begin in the same breath.
Lighting a candle is not trivial. It’s a statement to the universe: “I’m ready to burn what no longer serves.”
🔥 The Five-Leak Fire Ritual:
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Sit in darkness with a single candle lit.
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Take a pen. Write down 5 leaks. Not goals. Leaks. Truths you’re done pretending about.
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“I’m tired of carrying guilt that’s not mine.”
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“I’m done trying to prove my worth.”
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“I no longer need that friendship to feel valid.”
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Read each line aloud. Feel it. Then fold the paper.
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Burn it in a fireproof bowl (safely). Watch it turn to ash.
Then whisper:
“I release these burdens. I reclaim this breath. I remember my light.”
⚠️ Emotions may rise. Let them. They’re the final goodbyes of stories that lived inside you too long.
You’re not being dramatic. You’re being devoted—to yourself.
Can an Energy Leak tracker really Transform You?
Absolutely. Healing is not just poetry. It’s pattern recognition. And nothing shows patterns like a tracker.
📘 Energy Leak Tracker Template:
Day | Mood Check | Drain of the Day | Boost of the Day | What I’m Letting Go |
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Mon | Low | Client call felt fake | Tea with friend | Saying yes out of fear |
Tue | Calm | Watching news too long | Yoga | Gossip thread |
Wed | Irritable | Instagram scrolling | Morning walk | Comparing online |
This is not busywork. This is soul-data.
🗓️ 3-Day Reset Challenge:
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Use the tracker for just 3 days.
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At the end, underline repeating leaks.
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Write one thing you’ll stop, shift, or surrender.
It’s simple. Not easy. But simple.
And if you’re ever unsure where to start? Start with the entrance. The literal and symbolic door of your home. Is Your Main Door Blocking Your Destiny? may surprise you.
Your energy is holy. Sacred. Limited only when you forget that it is your birthright to protect it.
🌕Truths to carry Home, rituals to stay awake
Are You Willing to Be Brutally Honest—What Have You Been Avoiding Feeling?
Let’s drop the masks.
Right now—pause. Sit back. And breathe.
Tell me:
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Who are you still trying to impress?
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What heartbreak are you spiritually bypassing with productivity?
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When did you stop dancing in your room for no reason?
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Who taught you that to be loved, you must be useful?
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What memory still haunts your silence?
You see, I’m not interested in your perfection. I’m interested in your pain—the real you, hidden under the polished responses and spiritual quotes.
This is where your healing begins—not with incense or crystals—but in owning the ache. In finally admitting:
“Yes, I am tired. And no, I don’t want to be strong today. I just want to be held.”
Your soul doesn’t need another tip. It needs permission—to weep, to scream, to purge, to rise.
And maybe tonight… you’ll open your old messages, those unsent goodbyes or love confessions never delivered. Visit Old SMS Messages. You’ll realise those echoes still live in your energy field. Cleanse them. Speak them aloud. Let your soul release what it never dared say.
Ask yourself:
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Who deserves to be energetically blocked in my life?
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What am I still mourning?
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Where did I stop trusting my own magic?
Feel it. Then free it.
🧘♂️Your Energy is Sacred—guard it like the temple it is
You’ve made it to the end. But maybe, just maybe… it’s the beginning of your real life.
Remember these truths:
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Protection isn’t selfish. It’s soul hygiene.
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Absorbing others’ emotions isn’t love. It’s a trauma response.
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Letting go isn’t betrayal. It’s coming home.
And above all:
“Their energy is not mine to hold.”
Now… will you let yourself be seen?
❓Soulful FAQs
🧑🏫 Author
Tushar Mangl is a counselor, vastu expert, and author of I Will Do It and Ardika. Blogging since 2006 at tusharmangl.com, he helps people design spiritually aligned homes, lives, and relationships. He believes that through ancient wisdom and grounded rituals, we can build a more vibrant, awakened world.
“I help unseen souls design lives, spaces, and relationships that heal and elevate—through ancient wisdom, energetic alignment, and grounded action.”
📺 Note: For more inspiring insights, subscribe to the YouTube Channel at Tushar Mangl or follow on Instagram at @TusharMangl
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