Energy Vampires

The term energy vampire is a metaphor used to refer to negative people, who intentionally or not, absorb your positive vibrations and leave you feeling stressed, frustrated or worried with no reason.

Why refer these negative people as vampires?
First, like vampires, they are incapable of generating positive energy. Hence they feed off the energy of others.

Second, vampires convert living beings into their kind because they feel lonely living in solitude. Similarly, negative people tend to drag people down into negativity as their Misery loves company.

Energy vampires prey on others because they are in pain. As a result of the pain or insecurity they feel inside, they are addicted to preying on the vitality of others as an attempt to heal their inner suffering. They believe that they must take everything they can get from others...that giving anything will deprive them of essential resources.

They have the sense that the whole world revolves around them. They lack empathy, sensitivity, and emotional maturity. They are almost incapable of seeing things from another person’s perspective.

Life can only originate inside oneself. However, energy vampires have consciously and subconsciously fallen for the false premise that draining others’ energy is easier than generating their own. 

They think it empowers them, but others’ energy is never enough. It never fills them up or sustains them, it never brings them back to life.  Stealing it from anyone else  dis-empowers them every time. They become the undead, addicted to a false sense of power.

They never find lasting peace, yet don’t know how to quit robbing others of life and choose a better path. While it’s easy to feel resentful towards energy vampires, it important to remember that they haven’t developed the capacity to deal with their own issues yet. 

However you aren't responsible for resolving their issues. They are. It’s vital that you learn how to “draw the line” and set boundaries around these types of people. They never find lasting peace, yet don’t know how to quit robbing others of life and choose a better path.