11/16/2006 - On Being an Empath

I know it can be very confussing, frustrating and emtionally, even mentally draining at times to be an empath, particuarly if you are just waking up to the ability and do not understand what is going on, and do not yet have the ability to try and control it or direct it better, and even when you do gain more famillairty and understanding with it, it can be difficult at times.

First of all some of you might be wondering, just what is an empath anyway? An empath is a person who has the ability to physicaly feel the emotions of those that are around them, they can feel the sadness, pain, anger, or joy and happiness, of people they are with, as if those were thier very own emotions, and particuarly senstive empaths can pick up the feelings of others from a distance, for example if you are on the internet you can feel the emotions of those whom you are speaking to online. You can imagine how frustrating and exhausting this can be at times.

Now you might wonder at first, how would you recgonize if you were an empth of not? Well it is hard to say exzactly it is just something one has to come to thier own awarness of, but one thing you might want to look out for to try and determine, is if you find yourself when you are either with other people, or on the internet, experince emotions that do not make sense, or come on suddenly without any cause or reason you can deciper, or if you start to notice if you are with someone who is in a high state of anger, saddnes, etc.. you suddenly start to feel angery or sad even if thier feelings are not directed tword you. Or if you start to know how other people are feeling before they say or do anything which might give it away.

The first step to coping with being an empath is understanding just what you are experince, and being able to reason out why you might be having these sudden strange changes in emotion, when you recogonize that you are picking them up from other people around you it will then become easier for you to start to develop a filtering system if you will so you have control over your empathy.

Though I cannot give you a step by step on how to filter, being able to do so is part of understainding your own energy, but if you are new to it and just figuring things out, then it can help to use some of the shilding methods I have discussed in orther to try to block out unwanted emotions that might be causing you harm.