Empathy

[cainam_nazier]

Empathy and telepathy are fun.  Although at times it can be a burden.

So were you born with this or did you have to work at it? Did you know what it was when it started?  How long did it take you to realize that not everyone functions at that level?

[Nick]

Hi Lickerish,

Welcome to the Astral Pulse! [] There are loads of topics and members to trade information with. It seems that the topic of empathy might be better suited to our Welcome to General Metaphysics forum so that's where you now see it. If you disagree please pm me and we'll work something out.

Very best,

[Tenacious]

Emapthy CAN be fun, however, it's not all it's worked up to be

For example, when someone is near me and they are mad, i get mad.  If someone is sad, I get sad.  That's about all .  Good luck!

[TheSeeker]

Same thing happens to me Tenacious but I can hold off it a lot easier since I found out what it was.

[cainam_nazier]

I would have to agree with TheSeeker.  Once you know what the problem is it is easier to deal with.  It's all a matter of acknowladging that certain emotional content or thoughts are not "yours".  Once you can seperate "you" from the extra information you can start ignoring the things you don't want.

[Tenacious]

Hum, I'll have to further develop that  I love when people are happy, thats why I always like making people laugh, it makes me feel ten times happier than those around me.  Sometimes I even get "happy-hyper"  It's quite amazing.    Thanks for th tips!

[babiebella]

I empathize with people around me.  If I am in a down mood and someone around is cutting and having fun I usually feel better and vice versa, if I am in a great mood and someone is all bummed out I tend to get bummed out too.  But the strangest thing is when I am around people drinking alcohol (which I don't drink because it cause me to have anxiety attacts) I tend to get drunk along with them.  Does this happen to anyone?  Or am I just out there by myself.

[Lickerish]

Hmmm, I don't know about feeling drunk along with drunken people but they do feel rather strange when I sense them.
Whenever someone is drunk they always have this funny fuzzy vague feeling about them like their really out of it and out of focus.
It makes them a bit harder for me to read them when their in this state because of the blurriness of their emotions and such.

[Nayru]

Hi there. ^.^

Good to see another natural Empath around. ^.^ Empathy is not to be be called a 'power', it's a skill, that very few naturals can or can learn to appreciate. I'm very glad you seem so happy with Empathy, it's killing to see Empaths being unhappy because of their born skill. Just a note to all natural Empaths here: If you dislike it, learn to accept it. Makes matters much easier to handle, even overloads.

[cainam_nazier]

I think its fun to be around drunk people.  Thier thoughts flow and they are extreamly easy to read because they don't have thier normal consious guards.  Plus they are usually happy or at least funny.

[Nayru]

Personally, I find drunk people highly annoying. They have no idea of the actions they undertake, which brings them in nasty situations, and for some reason or another I always end up being involved in those nasty situations.

[babiebella]

Well I did not mean drunk in the since that you are talking about.   I mean I start talking like them and acting goofy you know the time of being tipsy but not tetotally drunk.  Now after I am no longer around them I start talking and acting like myself.  I do not have many friends that drink so this does not happen often.

[Lickerish]

Well I don't know if anyone else does this but I have shared close intimate empathic experiences with other people.
I have sat together with people and through quiet mediation and palm joining have sensed their emotions and very essences.
Its a bit one sided when the other person isnt empathic as well.
Once I had an experience with a male friend of mine who shared the same ability and it was incredible!
We could sense each other, our essences joined in a almost spiritual union and it was so intense!
Since then I haven't been able to find another empath to share with.

[Mustardseed]

I experience this frequently. It is not allways pleasent though. I often feel the pain others go through. What I do with it determines the extent of its affect on me. I would be interested in comparing notes

[Nayru]

I have never been drunk and I don't plan to become it too. I don't like alcohol anyway, so fat chance you'll ever see me drunk.


Everyone is in some way empathic. Empaths are just people who strongly feel the emotions, and are often able to find out which emotions are theirs and which aren't. They have overloads and are able to exactly find out what a persons feel. Non empats do receive emotions too but will never know that the emotions they have are perhaps not theirs. I can give a simple example to back this up. I'm sure you have heard of stories of houses where someone has been murdered. Each time someone went in that house or bought the house, it felt horrible bad to them, and they often leave as soon as possible. To me there's only one way to explain this, and that are strong emotions of the murder still hanging in the air. No sane person is happy when getting killed, which is why the house feels so bad. Right? If you don't agree please do reply. ^.^

I don't know if any of you has ever visited an arena, where gladiators used to fight. I went there a couple of times and it had a very strong effect on me. I knew exactly how it used to be there, how the people acted and how the reacted.. And that all because of those emotions in the air. Happy emotions, but mostly fear, pain and excitement. My father was as affected as I was. My sister who has absolutely no empathic gift or whatsoever and is as non empath as possible just found it boring, and could not understand why my father and I loved to be there and wanted to stay as long as possible. She just thought of it as a pile of rocks. My mother on the contrary, who is also non empathic but not as 'bad' as my sister, was affected as well, although less than my father and I were. She, as a nonempath, only picked up the strongest emotions, which were in this case excitement and fear, which is not a nice combination. She wanted to leave as soon as possible, she told my father she felt weird, that she felt good but also bad and that she did not understand and wished to leave the place and get a drink somewhere.

Empathically overloading a nonempath in a psionic spar will affect him and most likely take down all his/her defenses and cautioness because of the shock of all such different and strong emotions, of which he knows are not his. Which again proves that non empaths are very well able of receiving emotions. (for the interested, empathically overloading an empath on the contrary will not work that well, because an empath knows how it feels to be overloaded and is used to having such strong emotions. Which is why I always first find out if one is an Empath or not before beginning the spar. ^.^)

[aleshah]

Emphaty is looking for altruism []

[Lickerish]

Pain and sadness are highly unpleasant emotions to have to sense.
I have felt in others and other negative emotions by absorbing them into my system.
Then I would attempt to send out my healing, caring, energy to them to help correct the imbalance.
Once, someone very close to me was in a great amount of pain in the hospital and I genuinely wanted to help him.
'I took him by the hand, concentrated and almost immedately was overcome by a wave of nausea, misery, and pain.
I almost didn't want to have to accept this into my system but I allowed it to pass thru me and I was moved to tears to have to feel such horrible sensations.
Then I sent out my caring, heart felt, nuturing energy and passed it on to him.
Later he told me that whatever it was that I did that I had indeed taken much of the pain out of him so I think it worked.

[Michael_E]

quote:Originally posted by Lickerish

I have for years had the power of empathy( sense of others emotions and self).
I prefer it over the power of telepathy because I'd rather feel someone's energy and being than read their mind.
I wonder if anyone else out there has same power and would like to talk about it?

I guess you can say that empathy is a form of telepathy in that someone who is empathic is quick to understand anothers feelings or vibe by feeling it reciprocate in themself. Instead of the form of communication being percieved by means of clairaudiance(hearing) or (clairvoyance(sight) information is being "read" by your feelings(touch?).

[firetoice]

i get empathy occasinaly, but not that strongly. only if there has been a lot of emotion in one place

[James S]

Hi Michael E,

You're correct. Empathy in the form Lickerish experiences can also be described as empathic telepathy. Where telepathy is typically seen as the psychic transmitting and recieving of words or images as a form of communication, empathy is the transmitting and recieving of feelings and emotions.

As you've probably read so far, it is far more than just reading body language or picking up other subtle variances in speech or gestures. an empath can close their eyes or be in a completely different room to someone and still pick up what they are feeling, in fact this can sometimes make things easier because you're less likely to misinterpreting emotions percieved by the normal senses.

Regards,
James.

[harlequin_star]

im empathic, and sometimes its REALLY not fun. Like if you let your guard down or dont have a shield, then youre really open to a mass of emotions. At least that's what happens to me, cause I was born with it.It can be helpful at times though, like compassion or love, it feels ten times better when youre empathic. I guess you could also be in someones state of mind too, which would go along with comparing it to telepathy. I dont really know why anyone would WANT to learn empathy, but hats off to whoever is.

[xander]

quote:Originally posted by harlequin_star

im empathic, and sometimes its REALLY not fun. Like if you let your guard down or dont have a shield, then youre really open to a mass of emotions. At least that's what happens to me, cause I was born with it.It can be helpful at times though, like compassion or love, it feels ten times better when youre empathic. I guess you could also be in someones state of mind too, which would go along with comparing it to telepathy.

As far as empathy goes, one MUST learn to sheild, lest the energies you sense from others attaches itself to you and in a sense affect your life. A freind of mine was born empathic but his mother was a psychic vampire and wanted him to take her garbage upon himself. As a baby he obviously had no defense against his monster....err I mean mother. Now as an adult his sheilds are rigid and he can still feel his mothers "energy" coursing through his life and affecting him adverse ways.

Xander

[cailin]

All of this seems so familiar, when someone is upset I start to feel all these emotions, one time I was in a cafe with my friends when a man came in to drink some coffee, he was sitting across the cafe, I had never seen him before in my life but suddenly everything about him just hit me, it was very sad, he was feeling really desperate and scared, it was horrible. I felt he was somehow mentally disturbed and I was feeling it all.
I had to leave, I ran upstairs where the toilets were and I was hiding, not intentionally, but when I look back now, thats what I was doing, I was really upset and I seemed to express his feeelings.
I went back downstairs and left the cafe.
It took a few hours to get back to myself.
People are talking about thoughts not being their own, this happens to me too, it has only been recently that I have noticed, It seems like I'm constantly having to fight for my own thoughts to win.
I always said to myself that these usually negative thoughts were me, but I'm not so sure anymore, because the thoughts seem to be stronger than the thoughts I prefer to listen to, its like when i have a certain thought about absolutely anything I am regularly very surprised that I just had that thought.
Does this make any sense to anyone?
I have often gotten the face of a stranger flash before my mind before I fall asleep and it is normally very clear, I'm confused and surprised to find people describing the same thing, i thought i just had an over active imagination,
i have always believed in all of this but i am experiencing a different awareness in these last few months, I had put this side to sleep a few years ago because I got scared but now thats changing, and i am now reading about things that I already know inside, but not in words.
I feel that when a lot of people come together to try and share these experiences, each person is telling a bit of the bigger picture and then someone else comes along and tells another piece, it starts to add up, and its really good to know your not a freak. lol.
This site helps a lot.
thanks people.

[Slavo]

i am very emphatic
read my post in Psychic Self Defence - My third eye chakra opened....
- i am sure that empathy is connected with this part of us (3rd chakra)

[Lickerish]

I have for years had the power of empathy( sense of others emotions and self).
I prefer it over the power of telepathy because I'd rather feel someone's energy and being than read their mind.
I wonder if anyone else out there has same power and would like to talk about it?