Empathy enables us
to FEEL others’ experiences in our own body.
Teachers, psychologists and healers all take advantage of this in their
work. Mothers are natural empaths. Christ
was the ultimate empath.
Most people aren’t aware of how much heavy
emotion the Empath in them picks up each day.
When the Empath is
healed, we will find love pouring out of us all the time, which doesn’t involve
a loss of self.
We start to get a
Feeling of who needs a phone call; what books we should read; who is
trustworthy; how available someone is for an intimate relationship.
Our Feeling reception area is at front of the
body from the top of the diaphragm to just below the navel--often called solar
plexus ( "gut feelings", Solar Chakra). This is often accompanied by physical
sensations, such as butterflies or knots in stomach.
We must
protect ourselves against onslaught of negative feelings from others--tension,
depression, anxiety. They may not be ours,
but we pick them up from others. Eastern
beliefs hold that the solar plexus is where the spiritual and physical worlds
join. No wonder it's a key reception center.
When
accessing feelings ask: Where are the
feelings coming from? Don't force, just
be open and aware. Note the impressions. Refer to the post on Feelings and
Impressions. We often are given
information in the form of Feelings and Impressions.
Molecules carrying emotional information are not only
generated by the brain, but by sites throughout the body, most dramatically in
the heart and gut. When people have
"gut feelings", they're not speaking metaphorically.
There are Highly
sensitive people (HSP) in about 20% of the population. It also survives in horses about 15-20%
because it's useful to have a few around who are always watching for subtle
signs…danger, new foods, etc. I had a
"highly sensitive" horse once, but had to find her a new home because
she was so much on the look out for the predator, it made her unsafe for a
senior citizen like me.
The Empath does not act in a healthy
manner until the grip of restricting
family relationships is released. Most
people are still living in the past, working overtime for other people.
Some feelings our soul sends us are as
fine as silk, a nudging, a caress, a whisper.
Others tear into us with the intensity of Beethoven, pushing us in a new
direction like wave crashing against a boat.
There are some exercises that help engage
the Empath in us.
o Practice going to a location (room) and
sensing the feeling of that area. Can scan with the hand to make direct
contact. Vibrations can travel through
the hand to the abdomen where they are amplified. Practice sensing on jewelry or objects.
Practice next time you buy something whether it be the ripest cantaloupe or the
object that will last the longest.
o
Hold
heart, feel pulse for 2-3 minutes.
Visualize yourself as a child between ages 5 – 10, sitting in one room
of the house you grew up in. Hold an
“interview” with each of your parents, one by one. Be aware of the different sensations in your
body. Evaluate whether either of them
was attached to your empathic senses in a controlling way and made you feel
responsible for their happiness. If so, tell them that you wish to be free of
that influence and you are ready to walk forward as an independent being. There may be others that may have manipulated
you.
o
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Determine
who, in your childhood, gave you the most space to be yourself, to express your
feelings and desires without shame. When
you find that person, focus your attention on that warmth between you. Recognize this as a healthy expression of the
Empath—of intimacy in which you are able to remain connected to yourself and be
physically aware of another person’s emotional needs.
o
o
Stay
in this loving frequency as long as you want.
Journal about it. What images and
colors came to mind? What relationships
still need healing? Go back to this
meditation at least 3 or 4 times. You
can yell, scream, curse, write letters then burn them, whatever you want.
o
Give
Love where it is needed either to you or another person. If you find it difficult to do that, give
Love and Gratitude to your higher power.
o
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When
you meet people, allow yourself to perceive all of them. Reach out to people in
love. Open yourself to the intelligence
of plants and animals.
o
o Journal
Writing is one of the best
ways to develop intimacy with feelings.
It’s not about self evaluation; it’s about getting blood moving,
stepping into a world of no shame, fear or criticism. If you want a question
answered, just ask it. The subconscious
loves to answer questions, (including negative ones ).
o
o Breathing:
breath and feeling are interconnected.
When we change our breath, we change our awareness. Whenever you want to be more intuitive in a situation—,
why someone is angry, when you should speak in a conversation—just breathe
more. Take relaxed inhalations and
monitor all information that passes through you. What is subtle with scattered breath becomes
obvious with calm breath. Breath not
only enhances intuition, but protects us, creates a boundary that edits harmful
energies. This reminds me of Mark Rashid,
a renowned horse trainer…just breathe.
In teaching how to become in tune with the horse.
o
Avail
yourself of various methods of healing: massage, acupressure, not baths, sauna,
Quantum Touch, EFT, Heart Point, Rapid Eye.
Spend one morning or afternoon on a
weekday BY YOURSELF visiting the following in order: courthouse, hospital, arboretum or park--30
minutes to an hour in each place, but not over an hour. Turn off cell phone, no music. Take a pad of paper and pen.
1. Courthouse: focus on the energy as you
approach it. Do NOT focus on a
particular person. Walk around the halls
and spend a few minutes in the open courtroom if possible. What does the energy
feel like? Record how it feels and if
there is any energetic effect on you.
Just experience and record.
2. Next, go to the
hospital. Notice how you feel as you
approach it. Go to energy intense
locations such as the emergency room, post-op waiting and chemotherapy
waiting. How does it energetically
feel? If you feel a fear, Where does
your body feel it? Sick to your stomach?
Chills? Record.
3. Once you leave the hospital, travel to an
arboretum or park. Record how you
energetically feel. Do not think about the prior two places.
There is nothing
"wrong" with being empathetic or developing this gift.
I was going to
quote heavily from Doug Mendenhall's posts on Empathic Healing, but decided just to give the link(s)
because the information is so good. Actual quotes from those with powerful
empathetic gifts. People of the Heart.
When our Savior was in the
Garden of Gethsemane, we read that He suffered for the sins of the world and
that so great was His pain that He bled from every pore. (Mosiah 2:7, D&C
19:18-19) Can you imagine! He took upon Himself, Empathically, not only the conditions of mortality, our sins and
iniquities, but our transgressions which defined is our actions of evil
wrongdoing. And every sorrow and sadness of everyone involved in our lives,
because for everything which we do surely effects our loved ones as well . The
aches and pains we physically feel when we suffer from sickness and
infirmities, He took and takes! His suffering was certainly equal and exceeded
any of the depths of our guilt, our grief, all of these negative attributes
that keep us from experiencing peace.
Yes, Christ IS the ultimate Empath!
Partial List of references:
Candace
Pert, Molecules of Emotion
Pete A Sanders, You
Are Psychic
Teresa
Brady, Ignite Your Psychic Intuition
Andrei Ridgeway, Psychic Living
Linda Kohanov, Riding Between the Worlds
Douglas
Mendenhall, Conquering Spiritual Evil
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