Ok bassicaly I'm wondering if any 1 a.) belives in emapthy or even better b.) has it
I personally belive I have empathy though lately its developed so i pick up emotions of places as well as people. If you've go tnay questions you'd liek to aks me abou it al please do and if you've go tnaythign to add equaly please do
I think that most of us here have empathy to some degree or another. I know that Cyne has had some real problems with it when it gets really strong and so have I.
There was a time when I was afraid to go outside the front door beacause I was bombarded with everyone elses feelings, dreams, emotions; I learned really quickly how to shield and I have been hiding behind the shield ever since;
That is not to say that I have escaped from the empathy completely just shut of most of it. Only the really strong emotions come through now so funerals are a problem for example.
Funnily enough I now pick up emotions far more strongly at a distance, through letters, emails etc.
i believe in it for i have it. I created an unconscious barrier when i was very young. it helped keep out things i didn't want to acknowledge. now its so strong that the barriers i didn't really know i had aren't enough to really stop it. because of that strong emotions or emotions from people i'm connected to envelope me and i cant distinguish me from them at times. so now i'm trying to understand true barriers and learn how to use them and all.
if you read empathy in the dictionary it will just say that empathy is "Empathy (from the Greek εμπάθεια, "to make suffer") is commonly defined as one's ability to recognize, perceive and directly experientially feel the emotion of another. As the states of mind, beliefs, and desires of others are intertwined with their emotions, one with empathy for another may often be able to more effectively define another's modes of thought and mood. (wipedia online)"
for the ability that we mean it is similar but not exactly.
empathy is the ability to pick up emotions from other people. everyone sends off waves of their emotions. everyone can pick up the 'feeling' of a room. but empaths just need to sit next to someone and they can feel what that person is feeling as if it was their own. it's like you're a filter and everyone's waves go through you and you keep the emotions and let the rest of their wave continue. some people feed off of them, other people just experience them. the only problem is that you don't get to choose to have it or not. the only way to save a strong empath from going mad is for them to learn shielding. without the shield you begin to lose yourself amongst the continual bombardment of other peoples emotions.
so basically that was a really long way of saying that empaths feel other peoples emotions and desires whether they want to or not.
If you see each person as a glowing orb of light threads you can withdraw your own orb enough to avoid touching on theirs.
You can also then, with practice,recognise different people by their orb and also extend your own to only touch the person you want to communicate with or to join with several at once as you would to create a cone of power.
If you extend the threads too far then you link into that persons emotions and fall prey to their inability to control what they are giving out,their lack of emotional control.
If you extend your touch to enter their orb you are invading their privacy so you really should have their permission.
Not controlling your own threads or allowing someone elses threads to enter your orb is not only dangerous but is also a form of invading their privacy.
They are not empaths ...you are.
So unfortunately you are the one who has to do the work to protect yourself from their emotional junk.
People with messy Auras and Orbs drive me up the wall but I still have to dodge their dross and let it bypass me.That way I am not bombarded with useless junk all the time.It is not their fault they can't control it.
I intend to have my own thoughts all the time.I am not prepared to let some one else's mess, junk out my personal space.
Equally blocking everything out can leave you vulnerable to other things so why not try dodging for a while..you can get used to it.
Zygo
I will try that. Thank you Zygo
That sounds liek a cool idea
. I dont really knwo how i dela with my emapthy its always been there. When i ave times were it becomes real sesnative though i do find it helps jsut to sit bakc one day somewher epublic and seperate you a sin your emotions formthose aroudn you. Aftr that im usualy goo d but i still soemtiems get drawn into extreme feelings...such as my exmas in th enext few weeks
. Ithink dealing with empathy is quite a personal thing to so just experimena tit all abotu you and no one knwos u better thna yourself