When These Feelings Hit… Are They Even Mine?

 

by Julie Telgenhoff

There’s a moment you recognize it—the feeling isn’t yours.

Elke Neher released Stop Absorbing Other People’s Energies – Stop Taking On The Energy of Other People back in November 2017, and it became something I leaned on more than I expected. Not just a song, but a reset button. A way to come back to myself.

There were times I’d feel heavy for no clear reason. Anxiety, sadness, that low hum in the background would come upon me and instead of reacting, I started questioning it. Is this mine? Or am I picking up on something else… something circulating out there? In a world saturated with noise, fear cycles, and emotional overload, it’s easy to absorb what doesn’t belong to you and carry it like it does.

This track gave me space to separate. To sit with the feeling without claiming it. To let it pass instead of letting it root.

During the chaos of the COVID period, when fear seemed to move faster than truth, this became part of how I stayed grounded. Not by avoiding emotion—but by recognizing it, feeling it briefly, and then returning to center.

That’s where the real power is.

In Hermeticism, the principle of polarity teaches that everything exists on a spectrum. Not meant to trap us at extremes, but to remind us we can move. Balance isn’t passive, it’s a choice. A constant return to the middle ground which is key to living a successful life. 

That’s the practice. Not denying what you feel. Not clinging to it either.

Just coming back to your center. 

In Elke Neher’s introduction to the video, she describes it simply that this isn’t just music, it’s a clearing.

The music is designed to help you stop taking on what isn’t yours, it works on both the mind and body to release what’s been unconsciously carried. There’s an embedded energy transmission layered into the sound, along with subtle affirmations meant to gently reprogram and support whatever shifts need to happen.

All you really have to do is sit with it, let it move through you, and allow your system to reset—while staying hydrated so your body can process the release.

A quiet note. When this song first came out, I’d catch myself humming along without even thinking. There’s something about the simplicity of the sound that invites it. I didn’t understand why at the time, only that it felt grounding… like my body was finding its own way back to center. Later, I learned there’s a real reason for that. I’ll get into the deeper benefits of humming in the next article.