Empath

[wolfsbane00010]

For a while I have been able to read other peoples emotion to a fault. I can tell how they are feeling about something or if something is wrong with them. It helps alot for when my friends are in pain (which happens alot)but when there is alot of negative emotions(alot of girls fouling out of a basketball game ) It is the worst thing imaginable. Once I broke into tears in the middle of recess for no reason. I have no clue what to do! I tried to ignore it, just cut off my feelings. I got a headache and couldn't breath . I have no clue what is going on. Help?

[watershield]

Could be over load.

You need to learn to ground yourself and just let all the surplus emotion/energy flow into the earth.

Stand or sit with your eyes closed. See yourself in a field. See and feel roots grow from you into the ground. Now feel the wind blowing on your face. Feel it flow into you, down your body into your roots and out into the earth. As it goes through you allow it to carry away any dust, dirt, sand, or anything that you don't need.
When you feel "calmed", let the wind die down. Withdraw your roots and clear your mind.

[mollimizz]

In case of emergency excuse yourself and and go put your hands under cool running water. This breaks the connection to their emotions you're picking up on. No one's the wiser, you're just washing your hands !
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[Jen]

You might like to try carrying some Obsidian around in your pocket - or Jet, whichever you have. Both are great Stones for absorbing negative energies. They do need to be regularly cleansed though.

[shrine]

I carry Aventurine with me when i need to cut off my feelings. all stones have negative sides. Aventurine's is to disconnect from feelings. this may help you.

when your finished with the stone for the day, just run it under a cold tap for few minutes.

I Hope that helps.

[bluemoon]

I have a theory that true empathy as described by Wolfsbane is the last of the old survival gifts that most of us still have to a greater or lesser degree. Along with ESP and the like I have an idea that most became redundant or even a liability once we began to live in cities, but empathy is still useful, so remains to most of us. What wolfsbane is experiencing is probably at the intensity of how it was for all of us once. Imagine that, along with understanding another's thoughts, natural dowsing abilities, psychometry..........the list is endless, but you begin to see what a different world our ancestors must have inhabited..........I'm not putting this well, am I?

[PaganOne]

I think you're putting it very well. I often wonder about what it was like for our ancestors to live in such close contact with their world. They weren't separate from their world but one with it.

[vampire]

I have a friend who is a powerfull empath...
She gets along with a "psychic shield" so to speak, I tell her not to use them as they also cuts her magic off, she can't focus and her spells are sloppy.
This is also incase of emotional breakdown.

But if you find you can't control it are your sure you are the one for this gift?

[muladzh]

I have empathy with everything - all my family does, and we cannot travel in cities for that reason - When the emotions of others get too hard to handle, which is often, I ground and shield - this cuts off the immediate grasping emotions, but does NOT cut anything from my ability to exert influence on anything. In other words, I have no difficulty with spells, incantations, influences or protections by doing that. The ground and shield that I use is immediate, and terminal to energies intruding upon me. Because it only works for an instant, I occasionally need to do it more than once to break a particularly difficult influence.

For many years, I assumed that everyone had the empathic nature within them. I could not understand why people would lie, or deceive, because it shows so very clearly on them. Only when I was older, did I understand that Empathic Awareness is unusual, and the liars could not tell that I knew of their lies. I cannot begin to comprehend how it must be for the person who cannot see the truth of something, or the emotion that caused it. I can only liken it to a type of blindness, that is completely debilitating. I cannot imagine my life, without the gift of Empathy. Gift, it most certainly is - the ability to sense danger from whatever source, so accurately as to make it easy to avoid, is something everyone should have; to be able to tell if the person trying to sell you something is being truthful is also something everyone should have. Sensing the person approaching you is armed and intent to harm you, is very much something everyone should have. All these things are part of the Empath's gift. If I knew how to start that gift within others I would shout it loudly from the rooftops, because without it, people are handicapped.

[Butterfly]

Well put muladzh...
Great advice WS

[jadaja]

not only do empath need to ground, but to shield as well. shields act as a filtration system. they can filter and slow stuff down. you can program them in anyway you want, shape, type of filtering, reflecting, deflecting, transmuting, even grounding out emotions. picture you body being surrounded by energy, ( many people say white light)