BEING EMPATHIC COMES FROM THE HEART
Question: "Can you tell me the basics on training my empathic abilities?"
Psychic Advice: There are three major forms of psychic abilities: clairvoyance, which in French means "clear
seeing" and involves seeing psychic visions; clairaudience, which is hearing psychic messages; and clairsentience, or empathy, which is receiving
psychic feelings or impressions. Empathy is the easiest form of psychic information to receive, but it is the hardest to define, because you must be clear
about whether what you are feeling is yours, or if you are picking it up from someone, from someplace, or from something else.
People who are empathic are very sensitive to everything and everyone around them, and have often been told that they are "too sensitive",
particularly throughout their childhood. Empaths are heartful, caring, kind people who want to please and make other people happy, and often tend to do
volunteer work, or to work in service to others in some way. Empaths can have a tendency to be overweight, particularly in childhood, because they use their
weight as a type of shield to protect themselves from other people's energies.
Empathic people can be "psychic sponges", picking up and absorbing energy everywhere they go, which is why it is very important for empaths to have
strong boundaries of protection. It is absolutely essential for those who are empathic to envision a bubble of white light around them at all times as a
psychic shield.
For those who are extremely sensitive, it is even better to imagine layers of boundaries like a rainbow surrounding them, beginning with a layer of red
around the body, then a layer of orange surrounding that, then yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, and finally a thick layer of white light surrounding all
the layers. Those who can be highly emotional may also want to put these rainbow layers around their heart, because empaths tend to experience the world
through their heart, which can be challenging and painful.
Empathically sensitive people must be very diligent in cleansing themselves of other people's energies. One can release energy by using an affirmation
such as, "I am willing to work with all that is mine, and I release all that is not mine". It can also be helpful to affirm, "I am willing to
receive all that is for the highest good of all for me to know, and I am protected from all else". This will create a filter, so you will only receive
information that is important for you to know and act upon.
You can use meditation and visualization for cleansing yourself energetically. You can visualize the doorway to your home and office as a shower of light
that washes away all negative energy from all those who pass through it. You can also release negative energies by washing your hands in cold water up to
your elbow, or standing barefoot in the grass. Whenever you take a shower, you can envision all negative energy being cleansed from you.
Meditation can also be very helpful for getting centered within yourself and getting to know what is going on within you. The most challenging thing about
developing and honing empathic abilities is learning to discern between what feelings, sensations and emotions are yours, and what belongs to someone or
something else.
Before you leave your home, take a moment to check in with yourself to determine how you are feeling. Then get a sense of what you feel inside you as you
encounter different people and places throughout your day. If you meet a person or a group of people and find yourself feeling suddenly angry, depressed,
sad, or agitated, or even having a sudden headache, tension or other aches and pains, then you may be absorbing energy and emotions from others. Ask
yourself, "Is this mine?" to determine whether what you are feeling is yours or not.
Always watch out for sudden shifts in your mood or emotions. If you enter a place and suddenly feel tense, uneasy, gloomy, or even frightened, or if you get
physical sensations such as chills, gooseflesh, or dizziness, then you are picking up energies from what has transpired there. Places and things absorb
energy from the experiences they have "witnessed", and therefore hold a historic record of significant emotional events. Empaths especially need
protection in emotional places, like funerals, cemeteries, haunted buildings, crime scenes, etc. Empaths or clairvoyants can intuitively read the energetic
impressions that have embedded themselves in a particular place or thing using the psychic gift of psychometry, which is often employed by psychic
detectives.
One of the ways for an empath to read psychic energy is through the hands. Psychometry involves touching an object or photograph to pick up on psychic
impressions, which can come in the form of certain feelings, emotions, sensations, visions or quick flashes. Empathic people can also use their hands to read
energy from people, making them outstanding healers, nurses, doctors and massage therapists. Empaths can feel when and where energy is flowing harmoniously
or inharmoniously, and how to correct and balance it in people, and even in places. Empathic people are also excellent at real estate, interior design, and
Feng Shui, because they can pick up on what other people want and need, and what makes others happy or uncomfortable - so they are also ideal matchmakers!
Trust is always key to developing intuition. You must learn to pay attention to the feelings and impressions that you receive wherever you go. You may have a
feeling that you don't want to go into a certain place, or you don't want to connect with a certain person - always trust that those feelings are
there for a reason, whether it makes rational sense to you or not. Remember that intuition does not come from the rational side of the brain, it comes from a
place of higher knowing that is meant to guide you and keep you safe, so allow yourself to always trust what you feel.
