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Empathy is a wonderful trait in a person. The ability to understand people and their emotions is a gift because it leads to compassion and it forms stronger bonds and connections. Empaths are people highly attuned to the emotions of others are full of empathy, but at times too much empathy at the wrong time can paralyze or distress a person greatly. During 9/11, several empaths were very affected by the tragedy, even if they did not know anyone personally injured or worse at ground zero. One empath could do nothing but cry for two days straight over the waves of grief.
Empathy is different from sympathy. Sympathy usually involves pity and compassion for someone else's bad event or loss. Empathy involves an understanding of a person's emotions and thought process to the point of being able to experience them.
At times, empaths that cannot control receiving these emotions call their empathy a curse because they naturally absorb the feelings of others. It also hinders their interactions; if they know that someone has a problem, it may take a lot of energy for an empath to even listen to the problem. The empath will either be too busy fighting off the negativity which they know does not belong to them or they will absorb it and feel the same way as the person who came to them.
However, empaths are afraid to sever or alter their connections to others because reading others is a great advantage in communication. Along with those emotions, they may pick up thoughts and images that lend them insight into a person or a situation. Empathy makes their bonds with others deeper and people are often afraid to lose this.
Empathy does not have to mean that a person is required to take the excessive bad feelings from others as part of their gift. By developing filters for their empathy, they can shield most unwanted emotions from others:
- While completely alone, visualize the extent of your aura. One can do this by pretending that your body extends one to three feet all around you. If visualizing an extended aura does not work, imagine that your personal space extends one to three feet all around you.
- At the end of your aura or personal space, visualize a wall made of light. Make it as thick as you can muster, knowing that anything that needs to be transmitted to you will be received. Anything else that is simply “white noise” will be blocked at the end of the “wall of light.”
- Stay there until you can visualize excess emotion (you can visualize it like white noise or trash or whatever is most suitable to you) staying outside of the wall of light and good energy is able to pass through the wall and reach you.
With this particular exercise, it is completely possible or even ideal to do this in the morning shower to prepare yourself for the day.
The key to empathy shielding is blocking all the excessive emotions that do not contribute to anyone's well-being. Unfortunately for some empaths, someone being angry for having a cheating lover and someone being angry for arriving to work 15 minutes due to bad traffic can read nearly the same emotionally. The latter clearly does not deserve any emotional investment by an empath because the event has already passed. The former only deserves the attention if it is a friend or someone you care about.
If you are an empath, everything can be fine and then someone's bad day can become your bad day. Blocking excess emotion is one factor to avoiding absorbing unwanted things, however, that is only one part. The other part is diligence to leave situations alone that should not use your energy. If you are feeling low energy, there is no reason for you to give your energy to someone else's plight when it should be used for your own well-being.
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