Lee Harris Understanding the Empath

energy, empathy and transformation

WE TALK TO LEE HARRIS.

by Aisling Cronin | Interviewer: Paul Congdon

Lee Harris is a globally acclaimed energy intuitive, transformational teacher and musician. In recent years, he has become well known for his popular monthly Energy Update videos, but he has been in the spiritual field for a long time. Lee first began to perform intuitive readings in his England home in 2004. From there, he gradually built his company, Lee Harris Energy (LHE), into the multi-media worldwide event company and production house it is today. Lee now lives in California and heads a thirteen-member international team, all of whom are passionate about grounding creative spirituality into these challenging times. Lee offers practical teachings that focus on helping conscious, intuitive, and sensitive people to heal and thrive. He is also determined to see people experience impactful and abundant lives, while supporting each other through community. He is a musician and artist who believes deeply in the power of creativity for healing: his acclaimed album AWAKEN (produced with Davor Bozic) became a bestseller in November 2020. Lee’s aforementioned monthly Energy Updates have gained great popularity because they offer practical guidance for navigating daily life, and are imbued with clarity, empowerment, and optimism. These qualities are abundant within the man himself, as we learned when we interviewed him for a recent Positive Nights event. Paul: Can you tell us how your journey

“The seeds of what we end up doing in life can show up in our childhood, in the things we naturally love.”

first began? Were you always interested in metaphysical topics?

Lee: Like a lot of people who are sensitive and intuitive, I think I was just seen as an average weird guy! Something felt off to me as a kid, and because I had no understanding of what that was, that feeling just turned into self-blame. ‘I’m too emotional. I feel too much.’ There was no one on hand to say to me, ‘you might be a highly sensitive person, and this is what that can look like.’ My one refuge was creativity. From a very young age, I was wired to pursue anything creative, or anything to do with communication. I often think that the seeds of what we end up doing in life can show up in our childhood, in the things we naturally love and gravitate towards. Now, my life is all about creativity and communication, as well as healing. I moved towards healing and metaphysics at the age of sixteen, when I was experiencing some difficulties in my life. I can’t remember who exactly set me on that path – I credit Oprah Winfrey and her show, in part! But I began to seek out spiritual books and other material that helped me dive into the spiritual dimension of life. My big Bible at that time was The Four Agreements (by Don Miguel Ruiz). I strongly felt the truth and purity of it.

Paul: I would love to ask more about the entities you channel, called the Z’s. I believe you’ve said there are eighty-eight of them in total, and the first one that came through for you was named Zachary. Has the quality and coherence of their messages increased over time?

Lee: The weirdest thing about channelling the Z’s – and the reason it took me so long to believe it had actually happened to me – is that it was so easy then, and it’s still so easy now. The coherence, from day one, was just there. Whenever they speak through me, for the first twenty or thirty seconds, I feel as though I’m repeating sentences I can feel just above my head … but after that point, I’m no longer even aware of there being a point above my head. The information all melds into one continuous flow. I’m not unconscious – it’s more like I’m just sitting behind that flow of information, and I get to hear it. But I tend to forget 95% of what I channel shortly after it’s come through. The coherence has always been there, but definitely, the level of information I can tune into has grown as I’ve grown, and as the world has changed. With any channeller, there is a limit to how much any of us can access, depending on our own personal human limits … or depending on what we’re not supposed to know. I remember once having a conversation with a friend who’s also in the spiritual field, and she was asking questions of the Z’s. In response to one of her questions, the Z’s said, ‘We can’t talk about that, because that would take Lee completely off his path and distract him from the role he is here to serve. If we talk about that now, it will not be the right time for him.’ I did get the information two or three years later, and the Z’s said if they had given it to me any earlier, it would have freaked me out! There will always be things you don’t know and things you’re not supposed to know. I also believe that there’s always a certain level of correlation between a channel and the beings they channel – for example, someone who channels highly scientific information tends to come

“If you are an empath, your superpower is going to involve assisting with the energies and emotions of the world.”

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from a scientific background themselves, so they are able to understand the very technical information being conveyed. In my connection with the Z’s, I notice

that the primary kind of information they channel through me is related to how we’re feeling and what we’re experiencing as we navigate through world changes. They actively hold a space for that. They say that they use my level of empathy and sensory ability, when I’m channelling for a person or a group, to monitor the volume of what they’re communicating. At the end of the day, they only want to give us information that we can successfully alchemise: information we can use to help ourselves.

Paul: You’ve spoken in the past about how we can hold onto our centres, no matter what’s going on out in the world. Can you offer some advice for people who are struggling to remain at ease right now?

Lee: We’re human. Even if we are tuned into spirituality – even if we have one foot in the world of energy and other dimensional realities – we must remember that the other foot is in the everyday human world. We all find things difficult, from time to time. Right now, we’re seeing a lot of division that has been seeded by fear. What I would suggest is – without being combative or seeking to change someone else’s truth – just be honest about what you’re noticing and feeling these days. It’s important that we develop an ability to be multidimensional, in the sense of respecting all truths and understanding where others are coming from.

Even if you are experiencing conflict with some people, know that things can be repaired in that relationship. Don’t get too wrapped up in the division energy. You can’t be destroyed by anything that’s now going on, provided you stay in your heart energy as a human being. This is not about spiritual bypassing or acting as though everything is love and light. It’s simply about choosing to come back to the heart, again and again. Find a meditation or healing practice that helps you to ‘reset’ on any given day, even if you sometimes get knocked off centre.

Paul: I would love to ask you about empathy. I saw you interviewed Anita Moorjani recently – as did I – and I love her work on empaths. I think a lot of people are attuned to a level of sensitivity. Would you consider yourself an empath, and have you got any advice or tips you can give to other people who are empathic?

Lee: I do feel I am an empath … but one thing I also feel is that not every empath is the same. We can get very linear and one-dimensional with this at times: thinking that an empath must tick certain boxes or must feel a certain way in certain situations. I think it depends on the empath! How were they raised? How are they wired? I experience myself as an energetic empath, so the energy of people is the predominant thing I tune into when I’m around them. An emotional empath, however, might be much more emotionally entangled with those around them. I was lucky enough to be having dinner with Anita three years ago when she told me the title of her new book, ‘Sensitive is the New Strong.’ The book was eighteen months away from being published at that point, but as soon as she told me the title, I got full body tingles. I knew it would be great. So often, we look at sensitives as ‘cursed’ in some way, or as having to struggle through life. But the truth is, sensitivity is a superpower. If you are an empath, your superpower is going to involve assisting with the energies and emotions of the world, but you will find your own unique way of doing that. For one empath, the answer might be that they are an extroverted healer. For another, they might be an introverted writer. It doesn’t have to look the same for everybody, but that aspect of being connected to our feelings: that is really important. On a broader human level, our consciousness around feelings is very basic. We’re still babies when it comes to understanding the inclusion, the acknowledgement and the expression of our feelings. The better we become at that, the less we will want to fight each other.

“Find a meditation or healing practice that helps you to ‘reset’ on any given day, even if you sometimes get knocked off centre.”

During the event, an attendee asked a brilliant question: how can we minimise the divide in society, while still honouring our truth and values?

Lee: The first thing I will say is this. For me, there is one non-negotiable for me at this time: I am not willing to be attacked by anybody for having a different belief to them. If they do attack me, or are aggressive with their viewpoint, I will tell them that it can’t happen again, or we will be unable to be around each other. You have to have a non-negotiable around simple respect, especially if you yourself strive to respect those around you. A heated discussion is of no value to me unless it is transformational in nature – not just a fight for fighting’s sake. Simply acknowledging disagreement and asking whether the subject can be changed is enough to recognise the conflict energy, without becoming embroiled in it. Find a phrase that works for you, such as ‘I don’t like to fight with you – can we move on?’ Whenever someone moves out of our life for any reason, it’s important to honour our grief around that. Write down on a piece of paper – in your own words – something like ‘I invite resonant, lovable and enjoyable new friends into my life.’ Then stick it on a wall. You might see it some time later and realise you want to add a few more words. It’s very important to craft our futures in that way, knowing that we do have the ability to find our tribes and create lives that bring us joy.

Our full interview with Lee is on our YouTube channel – just search ‘Positive Life Magazine’ to find us. Learn more about Lee’s work and teachings through his site:

leeharrisenergy.com