Hm...you don't "suffer" from two different kinds of empathy as far as I can tell. You just worded the situations differently. I don't claim to be an expert (in fact, far from it), but I've felt that I've had empathy for at least a few years now, and it's been intensifying rapidly recently.
I experience pretty much what you describe, in crowds I get overwhelmed with many emotions, washing over me and pretty much just consuming me. My best friend pulled alot of muscles while helping lift furniture into his house, pulled his pecs, arm, lower back, and I've felt it strongly. One day when it seemed practically everyone I knew had something wrong with them, it felt like my whole body was in pain.
I must admit though, you shouldn't say you suffer from it, or say it's a problem. Although it causes me pain or stress in general (I don't know about you, but when I get full of emotions that aren't mind, and the barrage keeps going, I get a mild burning sensation or weight upon my heart that's VERY uncomfortable), it still really is a blessing. Being able to truly feel compassion for people, and understand how they're feeling is a true asset. It also opens up the doorway to learn healing abilities, if you so desired (not saying it's easy, but it would be easier than if you had no clue what empathy was and were starting from scratch to open up).
If you need help coping, try taking long showers, or when you feel stressed and you can't do that, even just wash your hands. Water is a great emotional conductor and can help ground you and balance you out (it works for me at least). Also, try meditating, or even just closing your eyes and envisioning yourself in complete darkness (or light if that's your thing), and completely alone. Focus only on yourself, your energy, your breathing, your heartbeat, your physical attributes...just make sure no thoughts about anyone else, any situations, and anything about your environment come into your mind. These things usually help me try and sort myself out and calm down.
Oh and about aura vision, I've been experiencing that more intense lately as well. I've focused on an object and felt that everything was else was blurring and then fading out, and then colors...waves and waves and spirals and what not of different colors swirled around, and my body began to glow. I'm not sure about the pain, it might have to do something with you have sensitive eyes. Keep in mind, if you try and see auras vividly with color, you'll be looking through your own...if everything tints a certain color (I usually see everything as a pale yellow-green with purple swirls spinning by every now and then in random directions), then you're most likely seeing your own aura, and then anything else *through* your own.
Anyway, I know I didn't cover everything in this post. If ya have any questions feel free to ask me, or if you have AIM, my screen name is holy rellik.
I experience pretty much what you describe, in crowds I get overwhelmed with many emotions, washing over me and pretty much just consuming me. My best friend pulled alot of muscles while helping lift furniture into his house, pulled his pecs, arm, lower back, and I've felt it strongly. One day when it seemed practically everyone I knew had something wrong with them, it felt like my whole body was in pain.
I must admit though, you shouldn't say you suffer from it, or say it's a problem. Although it causes me pain or stress in general (I don't know about you, but when I get full of emotions that aren't mind, and the barrage keeps going, I get a mild burning sensation or weight upon my heart that's VERY uncomfortable), it still really is a blessing. Being able to truly feel compassion for people, and understand how they're feeling is a true asset. It also opens up the doorway to learn healing abilities, if you so desired (not saying it's easy, but it would be easier than if you had no clue what empathy was and were starting from scratch to open up).
If you need help coping, try taking long showers, or when you feel stressed and you can't do that, even just wash your hands. Water is a great emotional conductor and can help ground you and balance you out (it works for me at least). Also, try meditating, or even just closing your eyes and envisioning yourself in complete darkness (or light if that's your thing), and completely alone. Focus only on yourself, your energy, your breathing, your heartbeat, your physical attributes...just make sure no thoughts about anyone else, any situations, and anything about your environment come into your mind. These things usually help me try and sort myself out and calm down.
Oh and about aura vision, I've been experiencing that more intense lately as well. I've focused on an object and felt that everything was else was blurring and then fading out, and then colors...waves and waves and spirals and what not of different colors swirled around, and my body began to glow. I'm not sure about the pain, it might have to do something with you have sensitive eyes. Keep in mind, if you try and see auras vividly with color, you'll be looking through your own...if everything tints a certain color (I usually see everything as a pale yellow-green with purple swirls spinning by every now and then in random directions), then you're most likely seeing your own aura, and then anything else *through* your own.
Anyway, I know I didn't cover everything in this post. If ya have any questions feel free to ask me, or if you have AIM, my screen name is holy rellik.