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Am I Too Sensitive Or Just Wired to Feel More?

  • Aug 5, 2025
  • 4 min read

Updated: Aug 6, 2025

Janell Rae is a master energy coach and certified learning specialist who helps visionary leaders, healers, and neurodivergent learners unlock their purpose by aligning with their true energetic and cognitive design.

Executive Contributor Janell Warkentin

Have you ever wondered why you feel things so deeply? Why you walk into a room and sense the tension before a word is spoken? Why music, art, or even the land itself moves something in you that others seem to miss? If so, you’re not broken. You’re likely just reading a different layer of reality.


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These questions aren’t signs that something’s wrong. They’re signals that something’s waking up. Your system may be operating in a way that hasn’t been named, guided, or fully supported yet. In my work as a master energy coach and intuitive healer, I’ve found that these questions are often the first signs of an energetic gift coming online.


Let’s explore what might really be going on beneath the surface.


Why do I feel so different from the people around me?


When someone tells me they’ve always felt out of place, I don’t hear a social problem; I hear a frequency mismatch. Your field may be tuned to deeper coherence, while others are still running on distortion, fear, noise, surface-level survival.


You’re not here to blend in. You’re here to sense what’s true.


Animals show us this constantly. Horses, for example, will respond to subtle shifts in a human’s field before that human is even aware of the change. They don’t question their knowing. They trust it. So should you.


Energetic gift showing up here:


You may be reconnecting to your soul’s native frequency, a deeper sensitivity that was never meant to fit in. It was meant to lead.


Why do I pick up on other people’s emotions and feel drained after being around them?


Your nervous system doesn’t just observe emotion; it mirrors it. For many empaths and intuitive sensitives, the body acts like a translator, constantly scanning the environment for unspoken energy.


If you haven’t been shown how to hold your own field, you’ll end up absorbing what isn’t yours. This is especially true if you’ve grown up in chaotic systems where attunement was a survival strategy.


In nature, sensitive animals carry the stress of the herd until someone stronger clears it. You may be unconsciously doing the same thing.


Energetic gift showing up here:


You might be a transmuter or emotional interpreter, someone built to feel, translate, and bring energy into coherence. But until this is trained, it shows up as exhaustion.


Is it normal to “just know” things before they happen?


Yes, if you’re built for timeline perception.


Your energy field may be picking up on potential outcomes before they solidify. This isn’t guessing; it’s your internal guidance sensing how things are likely to move. We see this in nature, too: birds migrate before the weather changes. They don’t predict, they feel the shift.


Energetic gift showing up here:


This could be an early sign of claircognizance, a deep inner knowing linked to the heart, gut, and third eye. Or it might be your higher self sending through intuitive data before your conscious mind catches up.


Why do I feel so affected by places, people, or even music or art?


Because your body is wired to read harmonics, not just with your ears or eyes, but with your entire field.


Everything holds frequency. Land holds memory. Music carries emotion. Art transmits energy. When you feel it, you’re not being dramatic; you’re perceiving truth stored in non-verbal form.


Horses respond this way to barns, arenas, and trailers. They know when the energy in a space is off. So do you.


Energetic gift showing up here:


You may be a grid reader or a frequency empath, tuned into environmental resonance and emotional imprint. This is a rare and powerful gift when trained.


Am I imagining things or is something real going on?


You’re not imagining it. You’re perceiving what hasn’t been named.


Most people have been trained to filter out subtle energy. You haven’t. Or rather, you’ve begun to remember how to listen through your field. That doesn’t make you fragile. It makes you accurate.


Dogs bark before earthquakes. Bees leave the hive before storms. Your system is doing the same, just without confirmation from the outside world.


Energetic gift showing up here:


You may be stepping into multidimensional perception, tuning into layers of reality that most don’t have access to. Or you may be initiating a deeper connection with your guides or spiritual team.


Final truth


If you’ve asked any of these questions, what’s showing up isn’t confusion, it’s awakening.


Your body, your field, your emotional system, they’re not malfunctioning. They’re functioning beyond what the world has normalized.


These gifts are not here to overwhelm you. They’re here to lead you back to the truth of who you are and how you’re meant to move through the world.


The question isn’t “Am I too sensitive?”

The real question is, “What would happen if I stopped ignoring what I already know?”


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Janell Warkentin, Energetic Intelligence Mentor | Learning Specialist

Janell Rae is a master energy coach and certified learning specialist who sees what others miss—both in the field and in the classroom. With over 25 years of experience, she helps visionary leaders clear energetic interference and realign with their purpose, and guides neurodivergent learners to unlock the gifts inside their unique minds. Her work is grounded, intuitive, and results-driven—designed to bring clarity where there’s been confusion and real movement where people have felt stuck. Whether she’s working with a CEO or a child who’s lost their confidence, Janell brings the same clarity: You’re not broken. You’re built differently. And once you know how you work, everything changes.

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