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[Elisa]

Empathic Perspectives: Where The Empathic Mind Expands
Blogspot of valuable information written by a "team" of empaths
* Empathic Perspectives


Resources created by Dr. Michael Smith:
Dr. Smith, a medium and empath himself, stresses a holistic approach to living with empathicness
* Are you an Empath? Quiz
* Empath Connection Newsletter - Sign up to receive this upbeat and informative monthly newsletter


Posts about empathicness by Everything Under the Moon (EUTM) members:
Read EUTM members' experiences with empathicness, what they've gone through, resources they've found helpful to them, etc. You're not alone, but in good company here.
* Read "being an empath is making me insane" post by "dandilion heart"
* Read other related posts by EUTM members


The Book of Storms (free lessons for empaths) created by psychologist Jadoa ("Jad") Tad Alexander:
The more you understand empathy, in yourself and in others, the better prepared you'll be to deal with it.
* The Book of Storms

Feel free to add to this thread any resources you've personally found helpful in your experience as an empath!






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With Love and Gratitude, Elisa

[izzybit]

These are all really cool and very helpful thank you. I found a neat empath blog like site through one of these links. Now I can talk to other peopl who have the gift and can now find some guiding words of wisdom. Thanks again!

[Elisa]

You're welcome. "Community" is empowering; hope you experience a lot of growth with that. Let us know what you discover.
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With Love and Gratitude, Elisa

[reikihealer83]

Hi everyone,

Elisa asked me to post my grounding technique for other empaths as we both know that we struggle so much with this so here it is. I hope this helps everyone!

When starting to ground close your eyes and feel your feet not just on the ground but within the ground itself. Once you have done that, visualze a grounding chord of pure light (this can be any color you like, I like white and silver) going from the crown of your head to the ground beneath you. From there, mentally lock the chord to the earth being careful to, at the same time allow your senses to not be hampered.

I want to add something about this particular technique and that is it can be tough if you are trying to actually read someone if they ask you to. This is usually not the case though. This technique will work well if you walk into a room or a party where there are a lot of people and you risk getting bombarded with emotions or, as some empaths have experienced physical empathy this technique can give you a strong base (no pun intended) to work from.

I truely hope this helps all empaths on this forum and remember this is NOT the only grounding technique out there and I encourge you to use what works well for you.

Brightest Blessings!
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Ignorance breeds fear and fear breeds more ignorance.

[Y0m]

I'm an empath and can feel people's emotions and thoughts. I feel stress very easily, and at parties I usually get a longing feeling. most people at parties or clubs are wanting love and affection or to feel apart and happy. It's hard to explain.

Anyway, living with people is difficult because I usually take on their emotions after a long stressful day at work, but I've learned that the more I grow spiritually, the better I can deal with this ability. I imagine a fire burning deep within myself, and the light growing, and I have to remind myself that these feelings aren't mine and send out loving peaceful energy to the people who need it. I have this gift for a reason, to help those in distress.. so I use it! I hope people with this ability will let down their sheild a little more and realize that they are here to help. So send out love and light!

Help those distressed souls who have lost their way. The rewards will come back 3-fold.

Much love,
Y0m
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with our love we could save the world
"I feel innocence in your eyes" -dynet
Aum Namah Shivaya

[Airlight]

Gosh I took that quiz, I remember taking it before and seeing that I was just a big mess of an empath...still a big mess.

[Elisa]

[ImperfectAngel]

Thank you so much for posting this!!!!!

And what's funny is I had asked about this a while back and everything you told me is what they said...Thanks again
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"Still I feel like a child as I look at the moon"...

[Elisa]

[cloud]

i took the quiz and it said i was

Shaman
95%
Healer
85%
Fallen Angel
80%
Artist
80%
Judge
75%
Traveler
65%
Precog
60%
Universal
55%

i dont quit understand does this mean i would be good at healing or something?
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yeah yeah yeah im a kid but arnt we all

[Elisa]

Hi cloud. I think the quiz is just meant to be fun and informative, for us to walk away with knowing there are different "energy types." The labels in the quiz are just rough categories, not absolutes. Most people have tendancies and abilities in several areas anyway, not just one. So, like knowing your horoscope sign, I don't think it is meant to be serious and definitive of who or what you are, just informative.

But if you are a natural healer, then you might have noticed many people come to you for advice, or other healing effects. Also, if you feel called to one day be in a healthcare profession, or in social work or counseling, something along those lines, it might be a clue you have healer tendancies.

My top three were:
Traveler
Universal
Precog

That felt about right to me, hehe.


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With Love and Gratitude, Elisa

[cloud]

lol the advice thing sounds about right

i thought it was just a quiz but u never know
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yeah yeah yeah im a kid but arnt we all