Just Be Still

Wait in silence and just be still. The presence of the Divine Love will come to you.

Learn more about the ascension process in Shifting into Purer Consciousness ~ Integrating Spiritual Transformation with the Human Experience. Yvonne Perry is available as a spiritual coach. See http://weare1inspirit.com/coaching.htm for information about a free 10-minute evaluation to see if coaching is right for you.

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Yvonne Perry's New Book is Here!

And, now! The moment we've all been waiting for! My new book is now available on Amazon as a paperback and for the Kindle Reader! 

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Do you feel like a misfit in your own life and body? Maybe you awoke from a strange dream too vivid not to be real. Have you survived a near-death experience, had an out-of-body occurrence, or dissociative episode, or soul exchange? Others may have noticed the change and made comments like, “You act like a totally different person.” Inwardly, you may be confused, overly sensitive, or so anxious it feels as though your nervous system has been hooked to an electric power line.

Perhaps your soul has received a download from an ascended master, or your twin flame has merged with your energy. Might that explain the ascension symptoms and sudden changes?

Regardless of what has happened, you may need help integrating these higher frequencies that are now available to you. Shifting into Purer Consciousness can help you manage the physical and emotional symptoms associated with rapid spiritual progress.


You may be one of the millions of people who are spiritually growing faster than your body can tolerate. What you are experiencing is a normal response known as ascension symptoms. What if a multidimensional form of yourself—from a realm with a purer consciousness—has arrived to guide you through the challenging times we are facing?

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In Shifting into Purer Consciousness, Yvonne Perry will share her story about how she learned to integrate the accelerated energies of a more evolved version of her soul that merged with the soul that originally incarnated in her human body. Once she learned to manage the human experience of spiritual transformation, she became active in working to anchor her light body and help the earth and others ascend.

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While this book can benefit any spiritual seeker, it is intended to help those who are fearful of the future due to having been indoctrinated by fear-based religions that teach a dreadful end of time. So many of these dear ones are having experiences that do not align with their religious dogma and they are searching for answers. Shifting into Purer Consciousness provides support for those who want to take their spiritual path up an octave. This book will be filled with tips on how to make the ascension process easier and quicker.

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Shifting into Purer Consciousness ~ Integrating Spiritual Transformation with the Human Experience will be launched with a blog tour in June and an ascension training telesummit in July. Register for these events at http://integratingfrequencies.blogspot.com/p/ascension-training-telesummit.html.

Ways to Ground and Center Your Energy

A few months ago Sheryl Glick was my guest on We Are One in Spirit Podcast. She spoke about empaths managing energy. I’ll share a few highlights from that interview here and you may listen to the entire interview at http://dld.bz/bqFzj.

Sheryl: Before I go into any challenging situation, let’s say I’m going to a meeting where there is going to be some confrontation, I ground myself visualizing ropes from my feet and hips going down into the ground and anchoring myself. Then, breathing up the divine energy of the earth and bringing down energy from above, I closed my chakras so that I as a sensitive will not feel every bit of anger or discouragement from other people in the meeting.

Depending on how toxic the environment might be, I put armor. Think of Joan of Arc, a beautiful girl long ago who was so bold and beautiful. She listened to spirit to know what she had to do for her life pattern. She used armor across her chakras, across her chest, her heart, her solar plexus, and over her third eye. I ask my guides and other vibrational beings, loved ones, angels, whoever walks with me, to be around me and help me listen and give out whatever input necessary at the time, and to pay attention to any signs from people who need a little help. If I can be of help, I will certainly give it but my physical being is protected, my energy is strong, and no matter how toxic or what kind of energy I am safe. I’m not going to pick up energy from people who are very needy and don’t know how to get energy from above. Those who are not in alignment with Spirit think that they will feel better taking energy from someone else or upsetting someone else who has a strong sense of self. These are energy vampires. They want to feel good, healthy, happy, and strong like spiritually-minded people. They just don’t know how to do it yet. They are just functioning at a lower level and they need help to come up but you certainly can’t change them. They have to change themselves and they have to want to make the shift. But you can be an example to show them how to be strong and courageous and protect yourself.

Yvonne: I like to do a meditation as well as grounding and centering. Grounding and centering is of vital importance to those who are empaths. It’s a tool of standard equipment you must have.

Sheryl: You can put yourself in a cylinder of light. You can picture yourself in an elevator of Plexiglas. You can think of yourself washing out the toxins like being in a waterfall in nature and letting everything that does not pertain to your thoughts and other people’s behavior just float out of you. There are many different ways but they do work. I have learned how powerful these visualizations and concentrated thoughts for protecting yourself. You can be the healthy vibrant soul that you’re going to be and the other influences will not influence you so much.

Yvonne: Exactly. Instead of putting up walls, you’re just setting healthy energetic boundaries. The same you would do when you lock your doors at night before you go to bed. You put whatever measures in place you need to protect yourself.

Sheryl: Yes, to be comfortable, so we’re at ease and there is no disease. Disease really is just discomfort in the body. It comes from thoughts and patterns in behavior that we learned from others that were not good for us so we have to let go of all that. We have got to return to our own destiny and our pattern of life and what we came here to do. To fill our promises to those in spirit and when we return to them and say we gave it our all that’s all we really need to do and give it a good shot.

Yvonne: Thank you so much for sharing with us today, Sheryl. It’s such a wonderful insight. Thank you all for participating in this call and Sheryl for answering questions and giving us some interesting food for thought.

Sheryl: Let’s all be grateful for the life we have and the people we have in our life. Instead of concentrating on our challenges, let’s look for the positive. Let’s look for the good in people. Let’s look for the good in ourselves, and love ourselves so we know we’re doing the best we can and accentuate the positive. This message came from my mom this week. What you put your energy into what you put your thoughts. This manifests quickly so we don’t want to accentuate anything that we don’t feel will be best for ourselves and for others.

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How to Tell the Difference Between Fear and Intuition

Adapted from Dr. Judith Orloff’s new book “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life” (Three Rivers Press, 2011)

In "Emotional Freedom" my approach to transforming fear has two stages. First, take stock of what makes you afraid and distinguish irrational fears from legitimate intuitions. Second, take appropriate steps to heed protective fears and transform the others with courage. At times you may foresee real danger, but more frequently unproductive fears clobber you. Therefore as a general rule, train yourself to question fears tied to low self-esteem; we’re all worthy of what’s extraordinary. For example, it’s right to question the fear that you’re too emotionally damaged to love; even the severely wounded can have their hearts opened again. True intuitions will never put you down or support destructive attitudes or behavior. Here are some guidelines for distinguishing legitimate fears from irrational ones:

How To Tell Fear From Intuition

Signs of a Reliable Intuition

• Conveys information neutrally, unemotionally  
• Feels right in your gut
• Has a compassionate, affirming tone
• Gives crisp, clear impressions that are “seen” first, then felt
• Conveys a detached sensation, like you’re in a theater watching a movie

Signs of an Irrational Fear

• Highly emotionally charged
• Has cruel, demeaning, or delusional content
• Conveys no gut-centered confirmation or on-target feeling
• Reflects past psychological wounds
• Diminishes centeredness and perspective

For comparison’s sake, I’ll share radically different examples of how I use the above criteria. One morning I got two calls from frightened patients who both claimed to be hearing voices. Truly a typical day in my office! The first came from Bill, a schizophrenic who’d been skimping on his meds. Bill’s inner “voice” kept haranguing him, insisting he was a bad person, that his food was poisoned, that his son was being raped again by the grandmotherly babysitter. Believing these “delusions” (false beliefs unsubstantiated by fact), he was absolutely unhinged. So Bill kept calling the cops, who sent a squad car out twice, but found no threat. Tolerant but tiring of this, the officers warned that if he contacted them again, they’d haul him off to a psychiatric hospital. My other patient, Jean, had been coping with despair about her brother suffering from end-stage AIDS. Jean’s inner “voice” said to immediately fly to New York to join him, though he’d recently been stable. True of authentic intuitions, it came through clear-as-a-bell, oddly matter-of-fact and followed the typical progression of being “seen first,” then felt.

Both patients asked me, “What should I do?’ I urged Bill to take his meds and offered reassurance about his safety, a tack that had lessened his fear many times in our decade of working together. Jean, however, I supported in buying a plane ticket because her intuition felt so imminent, so right. Fortunately, she did, despite the expense and inconvenience to her job. That week her brother took a sudden turn for the worse, slipped into a coma and died within hours. Heart-breaking as witnessing his death was for Jean, she was able to be at her brother’s side in those precious last moments.

Try to separate unhealthy fears from intuition. Though Bill’s case was extreme, you may also have some fears that belittle you or cause you to misinterpret danger. Perhaps in a fit of anger your ex-wife called you “useless” and you believed it. This is not intuition. Nor is being frightened of having cancer whenever a brown spot appears on your skin. Also, be skeptical of long-standing fears, say of heights; these are typically not premonitions.

If you’re en emotional empath, it can be especially tricky to ascertain which fears are authentic, helpful intuitions. Because you tend to absorb other people’s emotions, you may pick up their fear and think it’s your own. To avoid this, always ask yourself, “Is the fear mine or someone else’s?” One dependable way to find out is to distance yourself from the source. Move at least twenty feet away. If you experience relief, it’s likely you’re perceiving another’s fear. Although it’s fine to absorb courage and all positive emotions from others because they’ll strengthen you, you don’t want to absorb negativity. Move away, and keep releasing extraneous fear by exhaling it until the feeling passes.

While some apprehensions may be empathically linked to another’s feelings or, like Jean’s, are distinct intuitive warnings, the more garden variety ones reflect ingrained negative psychological patterns. To resolve these, you must know where they come from and do what’s necessary to loosen their hold.



Judith Orloff MD, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and intuition expert, is author of the New York Times Bestseller Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life (Three Rivers Press, 2011) Her other bestsellers are Positive Energy, Intuitive Healing, and Second Sight. Dr. Orloff synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition and energy medicine. She passionately believes that the future of medicine involves integrating all this wisdom to achieve emotional freedom and total wellness. www.drjudithorloff.com

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Empaths and the Right Use of Energy

Training or draining. That’s the difference. An empath being drained can become an empowered empath through training to work with energy.

The right use of energy is all about cooperating with the law of attraction. We attract by default whether we intend to or not. We attract by our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, emotions, and words. The energetic frequency we’re sending to the universe says, “I want more of this: _______.”

So if you are worrying, you’re going to attract things that are a product of worry. If you are joyful you will attract more joy. If you are in a state of retaliation, then you’re going to attract more skirmishes. It’s when you get back into your heart center—that space where divine loves abides within you, that there’s no conflict. It’s all peace, love, light, health, joy, wealth, and prosperity. Everything begins to flow easily because you’re working with rather than against the universal laws of God. These apply to everyone regardless of background or religious beliefs, whether or not people recognize or notice the effects. The law of sowing and reaping is an energetic universal law. You get it back what you put out. So anytime you have something in your life that you don’t want, look at what you’re putting out. Energetically. What are you generating with your thoughts? What are you affirming with your beliefs? Those are the things that you are going to get back. If you are in that heart place center and you just send beams of love and light, guess what comes back to you? Beams of love and light!

Living in the joy of the now moment is really not as hard as we make it out to be. We say but there’s this problem or there’s that person in the way. No that’s a lie you are fabricating to keep from taking personal responsibility for your own behavior—including what you entertain in your mind and the limiting fear-based beliefs that are ruling your life. Those things are fabricated by our thoughts and beliefs, attitudes and feelings—by our domestication as Don Miguel Ruiz says in The Four Agreements.

Well we’re all in process; we’re all learning. Whatever we can do to share love and help one another, that’s what we want to do. Even though it may seem that I am preaching at you, I’m really trying to help you see that you are not a victim destined to a negative outcome. You have the power to change your own life. Once you learn to go within and commune with the divine wisdom available in the sacred heart, you can let that powerful energy flow from the highest source (your divine connection) and enjoy life. Then, you’ll have fewer problems as an empath.

Guard your heart, thoughts, and attitudes diligently. As the angels to help you change your detrimental beliefs and habits. It’s time for you to become an empowered person in control of your own destiny.

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Empaths Learning to Manage Energy

A few months ago Sheryl Glick was my guest on We Are One in Spirit Podcast. She spoke about empaths managing energy. I’ll share a few highlights from that interview here and you may listen to the entire interview at http://dld.bz/bqFzj.

Sheryl: There’s so much interest now in nutrition and exercise, walking, being in nature, listening to music, eliminating stress. These are all beginning awarenesses to understanding that we are energy beings having a physical life. We need to find ways to make ourselves thrive. The definition of healing is a multi-dimensional process. We work with spirit for our healing. We’re not just working with medical people, medicines, and surgeries to heal our physical body. We’re working with people in the spirit realm who are helping us learn more about ourselves through our strengths and our possibilities for growth on all levels. It’s not just about ridding the body of disease symptoms; it’s about incorporating all aspects of our physical and spiritual needs and embracing all situations, no matter how difficult. They come to us as an opportunity to grow our levels of courage, honesty, integrity, and love. Our level of loving is an indicator of true healing. That’s when the mind body and spirit cooperate.

Yvonne: Healing is not just the absence of symptoms, it’s the whole body well-being. The mind-body-spirit well-being, which means having peace no matter what the circumstances we are in.

Sheryl: Right, and allowing and accepting any challenge that comes without saying, “Why me?” and blaming other people. It’s about going beyond judgment to say, “This is my journey and if Spirit has given me this—whatever event we are involved in—there is a reason for it and I’m going to do the best I can to make choices to help myself and help others.” That’s healing. That’s being confident in who you are, loving your life, loving people in spirit, loving people here and not being afraid to lose anything. You never really lose anything. Every loss or when a person leaves your life is another opportunity for you to experience new people and new understandings and to grow, expand, and evolve. That’s what we’re here in this life to do.

Yvonne: Sheryl you mentioned that you’ve learned as an empath how to protect yourself. If you could share a tip or two on how you protect yourself when you are in a public place where there is a lot of energy brewing about around you. That means staying in integrity during trials.

Carol (a listener calling in): Look at the ugliness with the banking fraud going on globally right now and corruption in general. No matter what it looks like we have to keep our integrity, our connection to spirit, our sense of love and what’s right.

Sheryl: We’re all very concerned about the changes coming now in 2012. There’s a big shift in people’s DNA. Originally, we had 12 spirals to our DNA when life was more peaceful before all this technological input, before people became so greedy, corrupt, and we had all these scandals in all areas of life: educational, financial, religious. We’re riddled with scandal and corruption right now. There is going to be a return; there’s a change going on and physical life is shifting into a spiritual higher consciousness. It’s happening now. We must be aware of what we know to be correct in order to be conscious citizens to the universe—not just of our little home or town or country—but to the world. And beyond this world but universally, as there are dimensions beyond Earth life. Some people understand energy and understand life after death and understand the progression of the evolution of humanity. Science and spirituality are merging. One is no better than the other; they are equally looking for an answer to who we are, what life is all about, and where we return upon dying.

I was told by my mother in spirit through a medium years ago. She said to me, you have honesty and you have integrity, so stop thinking with your mind. Use your heart and you will be a medium. When she was alive my mother would not have said anything like that or even understood it, but now she’s giving me permission through spirit to go ahead and develop a talent that I didn’t even know I had. It gave me permission to use it to help other people understand more about themselves.

People are awakening to their own energy as a soul being and know that we’re connected to each other. Yes, everyone is connected in the universe. We are in this oneness, like the name of this show says We Are One in Spirit, and one in humanity. We need to treat each other cooperatively instead of through competition and divisiveness. We need to come together in love and harmony. There are a lot of people now finding this path and I trust it will make the shift necessary to change these institutions that have lost their way.

There is nothing to worry about. There is enough of us awakening to the light and vibration of higher energy to get things back on track, and that’s just what we’re doing by talking today.

Yvonne: I’m writing a book called Shifting into Purer Consciousness. It’s all about the 2012 shift and how it’s affecting empaths and people known as walk-ins or those who have received a download of their higher self. When faster-vibrating cosmic energy comes into the Earth plane, as it has been for several years now, it sometimes upsets our entire apple cart until we learn how to integrate those higher vibrations. These energies are being sent to us and we are to employ them to help make the shift in human consciousness happen.

Sheryl: Also my book, Whispers from Spirit, is also a way for people to see that they need to align to higher energy for all positive interactions with other people and to stop taking energy from others because it never works that way. You cannot take what is not yours. The law of attraction says that what you give out is what you receive. To allow the energy to download from Spirit to us we can have an abundant life. We can a healthy vibrant and joyful experience, but too many people live in fear of not having enough in this physical world. So, they are busy blaming, judging others, and taking from others. This is what has caused all these institutions to flounder. So we are here to help people return to their connection to divine energy, which will ultimately clear out a lot of this negative input and vibration. We can’t be with people who are vibrating at a low level or acting at that level. We need to be with people who are more in line with Spirit so we can create this higher vibration and make the changes that are necessary right now at this time.

Yvonne: Right! We’re shifting from a male dominant viewpoint, which is consumerism, greed, competition in a “gimmie gimmie’ mindset, and we’re moving more into a matriarchal divine mother energy that is nurturing, cooperative, and community oriented where everyone is respected and treated equal.

Sheryl: Yes we’re going from a self-absorption ego-minded and dominating energy to a more cooperative, compassionate, loving, and nurturing energy. This goes for men too. Men are going to have a little bit of a harder time because they don’t have the same essence of spiritual energy but they are going to do it too. Not all of them of course.

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10 Signs of a Spiritual Awakening

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How to Go Within

You’ve probably heard it mentioned many times that we need to look within ourselves for the answers to life’s questions. But how do you go within? That puzzled me for a long time and now I have discovered a method that works for me. I’d like to share it today.
The heart center, the heart chakra is a very strong and powerful. It’s probably the most powerful chakra is our entire body and one of the most important organs in our physical body. Just focusing our energy on our heart center allows us to go within. When I do a heart-centered meditation, I see a ball of beautiful light, all different colors of light within my chest. I place my hand on my chest and focus on that light and see it and expanding into my aura. Immediately I begin to relax and get into the now moment, into that place of quietness. Next, I begin to notice my breath and consciously control the rhythm so I take five breaths per minute. That means six slow counts on the inhale, and six counts on the exhale. In less than three minutes I begin to feel grounded and centered and my mind slows down so I can receive a message from Spirit about what I need to do next. 
There is a site, http://doasone.org that has thirteen rooms that you can visit to breathe in synchronicity with other people. You can change the color, change the sounds, and watch sacred geometry unfold before your eyes. There’s even a room where you can chant om. It’s a beautiful place to meditate, practice your breathing with people who want world peace. We want people to stop suffering. We want to see the new heaven and the new Earth ushered in. This new kingdom within us and what it can manifest externally.

Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now, comes to mind because he talks about how in the now moment, there is nothing troubling me. There are no problems of any kind. It’s when I think of the future or allow my mind to go backwards in time that I have problems. When I see outside of myself, I have problems; but when I’m in this now moment centered in sacred heart knowledge of the divine and bathing in unconditional love there are no problems. When you operate from this place within as Jesus did, you don’t take on the other stuff. Oh, you’re aware of it and you know when somebody is trying to tap into your energy field, but you don’t allow it. 

The past doesn’t exist nor does the future. If we stay connected to our experience right now, then we’re not giving ourselves away to the past nor dragged into the stress that’s caused by looking at possible future events that may or may not ever come to pass. You are using your energy in a wrong way. The correct use of energy is live in the present moment. Energy follows thought so if we are thinking future tense or if we are thinking past tense we are sending our energy out and away from us rather than using it to be present in this moment. When we are in that “now moment” we are collecting energy and bringing it into ourselves. There’s so much power in group thought. That’s why I think it’s so important for us to pray for one another or come together in sacred circles to meditate. Meditation brings us into purer thoughts of the divine mind and heart; it brings us to the now moment where we can find the strength. When we channel group thought from this place, we can affect positive change in the world.

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Being Empathic As a Child

Are you an empath? Do you feel other people’s emotions and their pain? On a more positive note, you may also feel their great joy when your heart opens up to someone next to you. Helping other people realize they have similar empathic experiences and how to use it to their benefit is very rewarding.

When Sheryl Glick was my guest on We Are One in Spirit Podcast, she spoke about empaths and spiritual gifts. I’ll share a few highlights from that interview here and you may listen to the entire interview at http://dld.bz/bqFzj.

Yvonne: Sheryl was an empath as a child, but was not aware of it. Her father, who is a doctor, was not aware of the depth of Sheryl’s sensitivity and neither were the teachers and medical people who dealt with her. So they only considered her to be a bright sensitive child. They thought she would outgrow the stomachaches, the anxious frightened feelings that she expressed to them on a regular basis. This discomfort she often experienced was not her own discomfort. She was very sensitive to the energy around her and to other people. Now that she knows how to work with it she helps herself and other people to be healthy, vibrant, and to use this as a spiritual gift to make people more comfortable with who they are. This great talent.

Sheryl: It’s a great gift from spirit. Some people will say it’s not because they don’t want to feel uncomfortable. But it’s a great way to learn about the world and yourself through having heightened senses and feelings. We’re here on this earth to have an emotional experience and to learn more about ourselves. We can’t always just feel the good feelings; sometimes we have to feel challenging experiences and energies so we can learn how to balance those energies and balance our physical life with it. Our soul and spiritual life become mature—we are both physical beings and spiritual beings.

Yvonne: Whether we realize it or not, we are constantly working with energy. If you are an empath, you are energy sensitive. The reason this is so draining and you feel so much discomfort is because you have not learned how to work with energy. Perhaps you’ve not learned how to use your upper chakras, like the six chakra (the third eye) or seventh chakra (cosmic input), to receive a picture rather than receiving sensory input in your body. Once you learn how to work with your upper chakras, you will not take so much into your second (sacral) and third (emotional) energy centers. You will be using your upper chakras and the information will be coming from source rather than from the person who is leaking or siphoning energy.

Sheryl: Let me give a little example about working with the lower chakras. When I was in college I went to the San Gennaro Fair in New York City. At this Italian festival there were so many people. All of a sudden my heart started to palpitate. I felt anxious in my stomach. I felt heavy in my legs. I felt pressure on my head. I said “What is this? Why am I feeling like this? This is a wonderful place.”

There was so many people, so many emotions—some happy, some angry, some fearful, some straining to buy something, someone making decisions—and it was just too much energy coming in for me at that point because I had no protection. I now know how to protect myself and help others to protect themselves in any situation. I could now go to that place without having a negative impact again because I know how to handle my own energy and the energy of other people. At that time I didn’t know what that was all about.

I’m sure there are many people listening today who have these sensitivities and think they are a hypochondriac perhaps, or they think there is something wrong with them. There’s nothing wrong with them. They are just very gifted people. Sensitives who have the need to develop this connection from Spirit can develop on all levels. Perhaps they can go from being an empath to an intuitive to a healer to a psychic and a medium because all these spiritual gifts are available to all of us. If we work and grow ourselves instead of blaming others and focusing on what other people are doing. We concentrate on learning more about what makes us vibrant and happy and fulfilled in this life.

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Do You Let People Drain Your Energy?

I was one who was an intercessor in the church and you can imagine the stuff I picked up praying for people. It almost killed me before I realized what was happening. If you are walking through the supermarket when all of a sudden you start feeling really sad or angry that’s not your stuff. You don’t have to carry that. You can simply visualize a hose sucking that detrimental energy out of you and your aura into a ball. Then imagine you are tossing that ball into the air while asking Saint Germaine to transmute it with the violent flame. It’s that simple and it happens immediately.

Now if you get a bad hit, say from somebody who is trying to drain your energy, you may suddenly start feeling sick, depressed, or angry. You don’t have to take that kind of abuse. If somebody was trying to break into your house you wouldn’t just stand there and open the door for them. You would barricade it, call the cops, or do whatever you needed to keep out the intruder. When you say NO to psychic vampires who are leeching off your energy, you are setting a boundary and saying, “This is my space, my stuff, and you stay out of it.” If people are trying to leech off your energy or trying to drain you or toss their sickness onto you, it’s just as rude as them coughing on you intentionally while knowing they have a virus. So you would stop that, wouldn’t you? Well, you can do the same thing energetically when somebody is trying to siphon from you. Talk to them and their guides spirit to spirit by imagining them sitting in front of you. Or write a letter and then burn it without giving it to them. This sets an energetic boundary and is very effective because we are one in spirit and we can speak to one another without having a conflict in person (or by phone, email, etc.) Everything is energy and what we’re learning is the right use of energy. Incorrect use of energy would be allowing it to drain you.

Many empaths go into the health care industry or are caregivers, who are among the sick and suffering all the time. Without proper education on how to manage energy, these precious souls would burn out quickly; it would be extremely draining. How did Jesus, as an empath, manage to stay strong while in the midst of the sick and the outcast of society? How can you control how much of your energy you give away in these kinds of situations?

What was Jesus doing when he was not with his disciples or when he wasn’t with the crowds or teaching? The Bible says over and over again that he was praying. There’s the key, the spiritual connection. Jesus knew that he was one with God—a divine individuation of God, just as we are. Even though he knew this, he also realized he had to maintain his connection in the midst of all the distractions and the sickness and suffering around him. He knew that his success was in his spiritual purification processes and his prayer effort that enhanced his divine connection. He had to keep that line open at all times in order to know the will of God in each situation. That’s his example to us; it’s a gift. Anytime we are feeling out of sync or feeling drained it’s an indication or a message that we need to pray or do some deep breathing, go for a walk in nature, or do something to pull away from the crowd and connect with Spirit.

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When Compassion Becomes Toxic

When understanding and caring for others goes overboard, it can violate the energetic boundaries of others; then it is unhealthy because we become enmeshed with that person and we no longer see the situation with clarity. We can get dragged down with the mental and emotional energy and forget to care for our own spirit and body. This is known as codependency.

It's much better to transmute the suffering of others than to become entangled in it. The way to do this is to focus on the God-Light within you rather than seeing the person as pitiful or the situation as impossible. Everything we see in our outer world is a reflection of what is going on in our inner world (thoughts and emotions). We create our own drama for a reason and as long as it serves us to indulge in harmful behaviors, we will continue to do so. This is why so many people come to a "dark night of the soul." The God-consciousness within will either leave us to our own destructive devices or create a difficult situation in order to draw our attention to what needs to be changed in the mind and emotions.

Many people say that empaths can't help from picking up energy. That is a false assumption held in position by the lower self, which wants to keep us in bondage to fear. Empaths can't help from recognizing and sensing energy, but we can and MUST stop allowing detrimental thoughts and discordant emotions to rule us if we are ever going to master our body and ascend into purer consciousness.

I've written a book for empaths: Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You (http://whosestuffisthis.blogspot.com/p/purchase-book.html). Chapter 10 teaches highly-sensitive people how to set boundaries with people who want to siphon energy from others. Becoming mature as an empath means learning to wisely manage energy and nip discord in the bud without allowing it to grow from the first emotional impression or mental thought that is stimulated when you encounter negativity.

I am about to release another book on managing emotional energy: Shifting into Purer Consciousness ~ Integrating Spiritual Transformation with the Human Experience. (http://shiftingintopurerconsciousness.com). In this book about the end of the age of Pisces, I talk about how to transmute suffering while denying discordant thoughts and negative emotions the right to infiltrate our inner world. While you wait for my book to be published (in May 2012), you might enjoy reading Unveiled Mysteries by Godfré Ray King.

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Are You Addicted to Fear? Learn How Not To Be!

Adapted from Dr. Judith Orloff’s new book “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life” (Three Rivers Press, 2011)

If you don't make it your business to overcome fear, you better believe it'll try to overcome you. Most people are subservient to this emotion though they may not know it. I define fear as the emotional response to danger, perceived or real. What underscores fear in all its permutations is the feeling that you won't be all right.

Emotional Action Step from "Emotional Freedom". Harness Your Biology to Quiet Fear.
To short-circuit fear and turn off your flight-or-flight response, you'll need to train your brain to send chemicals to counteract them. Otherwise, fear and its hormones will make you crazed. In contrast, with a calm biology it's easier to find courage by practicing the combined techniques below to quiet your system.

To achieve immediate and longer term results:

• Eliminate caffeine, sugar, and other stimulants--these fuel the fight-or-flight response.
• Avoid people who reinforce your fear--they are biological irritants; stick close to emotional nurturers.
• Stay away from violent newscasts, traffic jams, arguments, or other stress inducers.

When you're in the grip of a fear-driven adrenaline rush, try these quick solutions.

• Use this Progressive Relaxation Technique: In a comfortable position, sitting or lying down, take a few deep breaths while letting your body go as limp as possible. When you're ready, begin by tightening the muscles in your toes...hold to a count of ten... then relax. Enjoy the relief of tension melting. Do the same with flexing your foot muscles, and move slowly through your entire body: calves, legs, stomach, back, neck, jaw, face, contracting and releasing each area.
• Immerse yourself in hot water to relax muscular tension as soon as possible.

These practical changes, which allow you to take control of your body, can be tremendously effective in restoring calm.  You don’t have to be passive while battered by fear. The victim mentality takes many forms. It requires courage to assume control, to say, “I’m going to be responsible for my biological self-care.” Educating your body how to respond makes you emotionally freer.


Judith Orloff MD, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and intuition expert, is author of the New York Times Bestseller Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life (Three Rivers Press, 2011) Her other bestsellers are Positive Energy, Intuitive Healing, and Second Sight. Dr. Orloff synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition and energy medicine. She passionately believes that the future of medicine involves integrating all this wisdom to achieve emotional freedom and total wellness. www.drjudithorloff.com

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Empaths Becoming More Aware

One empath I spoke with said he is becoming more aware of the energy around him and the spiritual gifts he has. Yet at the same time he has been somewhat afraid of it. For him, this stems from religious philosophies, which told him that these are not gifts of God—that they are really from the devil. You may have been brought up to believe that these types of sensitivities are evil, but at the same time (even as a child) you’ve had awareness, sensations, feelings, or inner knowings. If so, you may be a little conflicted about how to approach their use. Perhaps you haven’t tried to develop these gifts because you are afraid you’ll go too far or don’t know what kind of boundaries you should set.

First let’s take a look at a beloved teacher, Jesus. Once he was in a crowd of people when a woman touched the hem of his garment. Instantly he knew virtue (healing energy) had gone out of him and he asked, “Who touched me?” He was that sensitive! He felt it when someone was tapping into his electromagnetic field even though she only touched his clothing! I remind you of the verse that tells us that every good and perfect gift, spiritual gifts, comes from God. There are many spiritual gifts listed in 1 Corinthians 13: the gift of prophecy, the gift of tongues, the gift of the interpretation of tongues, discerning of spirit, healing, working of miracles, etc. These are listed for our benefit so we understand that we have been gifted in some way. And there’s a responsibility to use those gifts with love. We weren’t given these gifts to hide them from the world or be afraid of them. They are tools to help us and others. When we have these intuitive gifts, it is very important to nurture our own spirit and set boundaries to keep from being bombarded by energy from everybody out there. We must love ourselves before we can love others or else there’s nothing to give. Spending time with God-Goddess is like refueling a car. You can’t run very long without more juice!

When Jesus was walking the Earth some people wanted to stone him some wanted to throne him. There was a vast difference in perspective and what people thought of him. We empaths have that same dilemma. Other people may not understand you. Maybe they are afraid of the gifts you have. Through our religious teachings we have been taught that the discerning of spirits or being able to communicate with those in the afterlife is of the devil. I’ve been called a necromancer by a close member of my family. Obviously, my gifts are not appreciated there. Does that stop me from using them? No, I use them because I have been given these gifts and I have a responsibility to use them wisely; and that’s what I intend to do. Do I flaunt them in front of my disapproving family members? No, that’s what the Bible refers to as casting your pearls before swine. I'm not calling anyone a pig. I'm saying that there’s no need in putting something so valuable out there and allowing your gifts and sensitivities to be trampled. You can decide who you reveal your gifts to and who you use them with. In fact I’ve made it a practice that unless I have permission to pray for someone I just don’t do it. You can easily get your energy tangled up in someone else’s by meddling energetically in another person’s stuff.

Some people have a great sensitivity to energy and they see things or get impressions. They may intuitively know what is going on in another person’s life. You are not obligated to help every person you encounter, but there is something you can do. Before you decide to get involved pray about it. Breathe deeply for a few minutes and ask yourself if you should do/say anything about what you have discovered. How do you feel when you think of saying something or offering to help? Does it feel right? Do you have pain anywhere in your body or emotions? If so, avoid getting involved on a human level. If a person has not asked you to help them, they may not want your help. Do you feel lighter, joyful, or happy when you think of helping this person or mentioning what you have discerned? If so, ask for wisdom about what to do and how to approach the person.

If you keep thinking of someone and sense they need help, you may or may not need to approach them on a human level. You can always send love and light to guide their way. Simply call upon the angels to help. Imagine a beautiful beam of light coming from the cosmos, maybe pink or green. Pink represents the heart or love; green represents healing. See this beam of light going toward and surrounding the person in need. This powerful energy is like a stem cell that has divine intelligence and knows where it is needed and what to do when it gets there. This not only gives them energy to work with, it gives them clarity so they can make good decisions. They may be able to feel that strength undergirding and supporting them. If something needs changing, they can apply that energy however they want to. If it’s healing, if it’s a relationship, if it’s emotional/mental issue, it doesn’t matter, the love and light is universal. Just send that energy and let them do with it what they want as spirit directs them. By sending love and light, you are not trying to manipulate any outcome or change anything in another person’s circumstances or life. You’re not violating their free will or “fixing” a situation their soul has created from which to learn its lesson. Sending positive energy to someone is like leaving a gift on their doorstep. It provides what they need but they never know who sent the gift and you won’t have to take on other people’s stuff. You will know who and when you need to help as well as how. If you follow your inner guidance, you’ll intuitively know how far you need to go with your help and what you need to do to strengthen your own boundaries.

If someone asks you to pray for them, then you have a responsibility to use your gifts. But, rather than using your body or emotional center (third chakra) to feel and sense, use your sixth chakra, which is also called the third eye, to see or know where you need to direct energy. It’s when we try to operate out of our own emotions and our own physical strength that we are going to be drained. But when we operate from divine power, the place of the sacred heart, it’s not us doing the work; we’re simply being a conduit. We are able to be the light, and by being the light, we’re being God. And we don’t have to worry about backlash or be concerned about what other people think.

So if you are worried about what you have been taught regarding your intuitive gifts or concerned about what other people are saying, remember where the laws of God are written. The laws that the psalmist David was talking about are not written on tablets of stone or in a book, nor are they found in religion. They are written in your heart. If something doesn’t feel right, and you have conflict about it, always go with the truth your heart reveals to you.

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Feeling the Energy of Certain Places

Mt. Shasta, the Himalayas, Sedona, and other places around the world have a high vortex of extraordinary energy that you can feel when you are there. As empaths, we can feel energy anywhere—good, bad, or indifferent. We even feel the energy at the Wal-Mart! When some empaths walk into a shopping center they may suddenly get very sluggish because the energy is very heavy whenever people are making a lot of choices. Decisions about spending money, may generate a feeling of lack, anger, or fear. They see someone wearing a nice outfit and perhaps there is jealousy. There are a lot of negative or lower vibrations in public places—some tend to have more harmful or uncomfortable unpleasant energies than others. But, sensitive people can feel all of it.

It’s important to focus on the positive, uplifting energy of your own divinity within you whenever you are in public. Think of how you feel the wonderful divine energy when you are in the beauty of nature! Mentally go there to rejuvenate and renew yourself by feeling grateful, blessed, loved, and happy. By spending five minutes in your Sacred Heart Center before you leave home, you can carry this high-vibrational energetic signature with you all day. It will beam forth from your heart full of love. A cup that is overflowing cannot receive anything more, it must spill over. And, since your fullness is from an unlimited Source, you never have to run dry; you can continually be filled with Spirit.

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Let Your Yes Be Yes and Your No Be No

Say the word “yes” right now to yourself.  Yes.  That vibration is what we get when we are excited about helping people, or healing, which is what many would say we are born to do.  What happens is we get out of balance when we say yes too often or want to help too much. 

No is a very powerful tool in setting boundaries.  And, who doesn’t want better boundaries?  One of the ways to create this magical state is to learn to say “no.”  Think of the situations in your life right now where perhaps you’ve been saying yes too much.  This may give you a feeling in the pit of your stomach or a feeling in your gut that is asking you to do the opposite. This vibration may cause you to start thinking, “Hmmmm, maybe I should say no.” Maybe spirit or my highest self is asking you to say no for the sake of yourself and everyone else.

If we don’t have respect and boundaries for ourselves as empaths, we’re not going to be much help to others.  I encourage you to make a pledge to yourself that you are no longer going to do _____ (whatever your gut is saying you’re doing too much of).  For some if may be as simple as refusing to engage someone in a 5-minute conversation—maybe they are asking you for some kind of advice.  This is real common, we all have co-workers, loved ones, family, and friends who call upon us because we have healing ability.  People are for the most part naturally drawn to empaths. We’re magnetic and people want our energy or input.

It might be as simple as just saying “no” and walking away from a 2- to 5-minute conversation. You know that those 5-minute conversations can attack your nervous system. Many develop chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. These diseases in which are energetic origin and manifest in many empaths as the result of over engagement.  When we perpetually over engage, our nervous systems shut down over time. It tries to protect us by shutting the chakras or meridians so we don’t take on too much. It’s attempting to slow us down. It’s important that you listen to your gut and learn to say no.

To get the full transcript and listen to Michael’s entire presentation as well as the presentation given by Yvonne Perry, you may purchase the MP3 here: http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#YvonneMichael.

Dr. Michael Smith is a coach, licensed counselor, healing practitioner, spiritual medium, and self-help author. His book for empaths is Navigating 2012: Thriving in Earth's New Age.  Access Dr. Smith's free materials including his monthly newsletter on (http://www.Empathconnection.com).

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Is the Energy of Others Draining You?

Empaths are reporting that they can sense a deep emotional connection to other people. Sometimes it’s very draining and they are not sure how to deal with it.

Empaths are energy sensitive beings; that is part of who we are and we’re always going to be that way. However, there is a way you can filter the energy and calm it down and have your own personal peace so you are able to radiate peace from within. In chapter 9 of Whose Stuff Is This?, I give a list of things that people can do to help ground and center the energy they are dealing with and I give some visualization techniques that can be used to work with energy. People have reported that these exercises are really helping them. That’s because they raise the vibration not only of your body but also your auric field and your soul’s vibration. So the detrimental things around you tend to bounce off.
If you are familiar with the Bible you may recall the scripture about putting up a shield of faith to quench the fiery darts of the evil one. We’re not calling anyone evil but we do have an electromagnetic field around us that can be strengthened with some spiritual purification practices such as deep breathing, prayers or meditation, affirmations, or grounding and centering exercises. So when that detrimental energy comes to us it hits that field like a bubble, which is flexible and is not going to pop like a soap bubble. It’s more like amniotic fluid surrounding a baby; it cushions and protects the beautiful life within. It’s the same way with us; when our aura (field) is strengthened, we are not as impacted by the environment outside of our bubble. 

Many times empaths allow their auras to be thin and they pick up a lot of stuff. They tend to mesh their our field with other people’s fields, especially on a crowded subway, on a bus, or in a shopping mall where there is a cacophony of energy running wild. These are the places where empaths are the most uncomfortable. When there is a large crowd of people or there is a large crowd of people in a situation where there is a lot of grief or mourning going on, we tend to pick that up quite easily.

Some of those exercises in my book will definitely help strengthen the aura. There are some practices on whosestuffisthis.com that will help people to be able to put up better boundaries. I’m not going to say protective barriers because we’re not walling off anybody and there’s really nothing to be protected from; it is a good practice to maintain your own energy field and body so you can continue to do the work that you’ve been called to do. 

When I pick up something that I know is not mine, I realize now that I’ve gotten it for the purpose of transmuting that energy. One way to do that is to call on the ascended master Saint Germaine and the violent flame of transmutation. I imagine that any detrimental energy within me is being drawn outward and into a ball of light. It’s coming out of my field and out of my body into a ball of light. Then I toss the ball into the air and allow Saint Germaine to zap it with the violet flame and transmute it into love, joy, peace, happiness—all the positive things that we want more of on the planet. You’re using a higher frequency by calling on an ascended master. You are not keeping it in your body or in your field where it could to do more damage. 

On whosestuffisthis.com there are resources, articles, visualizations, books, and other things that can help empaths start understanding how to use energy. 
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The Empath and the Internet

The Pleiadian Light through Hannah Beaconsfield Question: Do people who are empaths have as difficult a time when surfing the Internet as they do when they pick up energies from other individuals, places or groups of people?

First, we wish to point out that your current designation of “empaths” who have difficulties when taking on outside energies defines a person who is in a state of transition. Those who are sensitive and open to picking up other people’s energy and feelings are in the process of developing expanded perceptions on many different levels.

The empaths who are discomforted by other people’s feelings and energies are learning by way of their reactions that, first of all, these are not their feelings; they have been taken on from others. This creates the awareness of the phenomenon for empaths and then opens a way to hold expanded perceptions but still maintain their own power base, personal integrity and freedom from unwanted attachments.

In other words, the empath “feels the pain” of others, initially, to help them recognize their abilities. The discomforts prime them to search for a means of self-protection and to use the gift to aid the ascension of others, as well as themselves.

Empaths need to be like a sturdy pitcher, which can take on and hold any liquid without effect or changes to their own form and substance. The pitcher/empath may then pour the liquid back to the world around them as a means of disseminating information or they may transmute the liquid/data and then pour it back to the world in an altered form. This could be transmuting dark aspects or illnesses and integrating them with positive energy.

There are many who are offering advice on how to protect oneself and use the gift constructively. If you are an uncomfortable empath, ask the universe to guide you to a source with which you feel most aligned in order to learn how to use your abilities and still protect yourself. Grounding is imperative, as it is with all elements of the transformational process.

A number of years ago we wrote about empaths as “good Samaritans” who helped others with their burdens. We stand by this concept as one of the means by which empathetic skills can be of value to others. This is one of the basic patterns of life relationships. Parents will take on difficult situations so their children don’t have to. Your current Earth life may take on circumstances for a former incarnation in order to resolve conditions that couldn’t be handled in the previous life. And even your animal companions will take on some challenges to relieve the burdens you carry. In this way the Samaritan concept applies to the situation.

Now, as to the effects of the internet on empaths: When you step into cyberspace, it is like entering a foreign country. Although, for the most part, your language is spoken in this land and you are becoming more and more familiar with the terrain. There are still many areas of this virtual world that are like strange towns with people who may be very different from you. You don’t really know what kinds of energies they generate and radiate and how they may affect you.

The ordinary 3D person, with dense vibrations, generally skips from one site to another oblivious of any potential problems and without ill effects. For empaths, however, this can be another source of possible difficulties. You call this foreign country a “virtual reality,” which is a reality that has all the effects of the material world that you know, without actually fulfilling the definition as such. If the empath operates from a deep sense of unity, which is the true nature of all that is, they are open to picking up vibrations, feelings or intensions from any source including those received through the internet. Therefore, the empath is vulnerable to this virtual world the same as their every day living plane.

Empaths may find that they feel uncomfortable or ill after they have been on line. The reactions may vary depending on what sites have been visited, as they would when visiting different parts of a strange city. There may be tension in the neck, shoulders or lower back from unconsciously resisting energies. More and more Earth individuals will be facing these experiences as they enter the ascension process because it involves opening to new energy levels across the board.

The help for this circumstance is the same as it is for handling anything in your work-a-day world: You recognize what is happening and then you learn and institute protective measures. Eventually this skill will not be felt as an intrusion into your own reality. Those who do take on the form of empathy that allows for symptoms and feelings to be absorbed, will do so consciously for the purpose of transmuting energies for healing and other forms of transformation. When the changes are complete and the healing or other results have taken place in the subject, the empath simply releases the connection and no longer experiences any residue of the subject’s problem.

As we stated earlier, each empath must seek the best method suited to their individuality to protect themselves and still channel their gifts constructively. Each time the empath prepares to go on line, they need to take a moment to meditate or pray, asking that their individual unit is held sacrosanct when exposed to disrupting energies. This is the same as they would do when they prepare to interact with their living plane world or confront difficult people.

Remember we are always close by to help you, as are other members of your ET family, angels, and other personal power sources. You have a huge backup of benign energies working with you. You are never handling these challenges alone. We wish you Peace.


[Note from the channel: I recently read a meditation by Cathy Chapman who channels Amma. I’ll paraphrase it here as I adjusted it for my own use.

Many of us focus on Archangel Michael as a source of protective energy. I’ve asked to use his sword to sever negative attachments and create a protective shield. Cathy Chapman’s channeling pushes this type of request to a new level that I found immediately powerful.

She suggests that you touch your heart center using Archangel Michael’s sword, activating unconditional love energy and setting the chakra spinning. You then absorb the essence of the sword into your heart and say with all the power inherent in this vision, “I AM THE SWORD!”

The strength of the vision is in becoming the power source as opposed to being the passive recipient of help from an outside energy. I live in New York City and am hit with all sorts of energies the moment I step out side. I have been using this imagery and these words and I’m amazed at how effective it is.

If you want to read Cathy Chapman’s article containing this information, it is in the February 2012 issue of The Sedona Journal of Emergence.]

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When Both Partners in a Relationship Are Empaths

Today’s post is the eighth in a series of helpful articles for highly-sensitive people. The full presentation was given February 14, 2012 by Yvonne Perry in the Fizzle to Sizzle Relationship Telesummit hosted by Live-Spirit.com. You may listen to the entire presentation by clicking the arrow in the player below.
This is an especially vulnerable relationship because whatever one is feeling and picking up from public venues or other people is then shared with the partner and both of them feel bad.
Empaths tend to be somewhat codependent to begin with, so it’s natural to blame ourselves when someone else is upset; or we may try to fix the situation or calm the other person. We fear rocking the boat or making things worse, so many times we absorb our partner’s emotional energy into the cells of our body or the electromagnetic field surrounding our body. These energetic burdens can make an empath emotionally and physically sick. When both partners are empaths, they share this misery to a whole new degree of suffering!
But there are benefits to two empaths being in a relationship. Things can work out well if both empaths recognize what is going on with one another and each is actively pursuing spiritual purification practices to clear the energy from their body and auric fields. It’s when neither partner is diligent about keeping their auric field clear that real trouble manifests. Once each partner understands their gift and begins practicing the right use of energy as outlined in the exercises today and the teachings of this telesummit, you will understand one another better than anyone else on the planet. You both have experienced what it’s like to be dragged down by energetic burdens and now with these new tools, you will be able to remind one another to stay focused on transmuting detrimental energy using purer forms of energy rather than allowing the body, mind, and emotions as a punching bag!
There is no need to wall off emotionally from your partner. You will be able to open your heart to divine love without the fear of getting hurt again. Whenever your protection mechanism urges you to avoid getting too close to your partner, you can remind yourself to be filled with love and light from the sacred heart space. Being filled, you can then allow that love to flow through you without siphoning from your partner to get your needs met. You can enjoy being sexually intimate with him or her because being in close proximity merges your auric fields, which you are both keeping clear. This compounds and intensifies the loving, heightened emotional energy of both partners. If one is carrying negativity, the positive charge of the other partner can lift this by sending it to the flame of St. Germaine.

If you are an empath is it imperative that you manage your own energy regardless of what your partner does. You can remind your partner to practice what you’ve learned today, but you can only carry so much for your partner without it wearing you down. Carrying the detrimental energy that you pick up from your partner is a sure way to lose your own identity, miss your higher purpose, and create more personal suffering and relationship misery than is necessary. Don’t be afraid of setting boundaries with your partner who is not pulling his or her weight in this double-empath relationship. I realize that saying “no” to someone is difficult. We fear that if the person responds with an unpleasant emotion that we will take into our personal auric field. You don’t have to do that.

There are no victims in a relationship. Both partners have agreed at some level to participate in the drama they create. It is up to you to see yourself as an empowered individual with a divine mission to accomplish and to do whatever is necessary to get yourself to a safe and healthy place in life. I’m living proof that you don’t have to allow the gift of empathy to drain you or control your destiny.

In closing, remember to focus on the love within yourself, not on your problems. Anyone can do this by opening to sacred love that resides within their own heart. To know that your soul is infused with love and feel the joy of living in union with the I AM presence brings true healing and a revelation of the ascended version of your soul. In that rendition, the heaviness, fatigue, discomfort, or illness you may be experiencing now does not exist. The energy for helping making this shift is here now.

Clearing Emotional Energy with a Partner

This post is the seventh in a series of helpful articles for highly-sensitive people. The full presentation was given February 14, 2012 by Yvonne Perry in the Fizzle to Sizzle Relationship Telesummit hosted by Live-Spirit.com. You may listen to the entire presentation by clicking the arrow in the player below.

Let’s look at some of the ways you can help to dislodge and move emotional energy through your own or your partner’s electromagnetic field:

Smudging with Sage

The Native American practice of smudging with sage has proven to be very helpful in removing negativity from a person’s aura or an area or space. This requires the leaves of a sage plant (or rosemary, cedar, or thyme) to be lit with fire in a heat-safe bowl. The smoke of the smoldering embers is fanned in all direction to cover the person or place to be cleared. You can smudge yourself alone or you and your partner can smudge one another. For more instructions, go to my blog: whosestuffisthis.com and type “smudge with sage” in the search box. Grounding and Centering

Including a walk in nature or eating a healthy meal, there are many techniques for grounding your energy. The one I like best is a simple visualization.

Imagine a white beam of light coming from the cosmos into the crown of your head, flowing down through your body and aura, touching every atom in your body before extending from the soles of your feet into the very core of the earth. I also see gold sparkles of light cleansing and clearing my aura. Then, visualize the slow-vibrating, nurturing energy of Mother Earth coming into your feet and up your legs, merging with the cosmic energy in your body and aura before flowing upward and out through the crown of your head. Visualize it in full detail for the first dozen or so times you try this. Once you are familiar with how this feels and works, your subconscious may begin the process automatically whenever you think of grounding and centering.

Adjusting Aura Size

When the electromagnetic field around your body gets too large and you are doing nothing to fill it with light and love, it can become cluttered with all kinds of mental and emotional energy from those around you. After you ground and center, visualize your clean, clear aura (an egg-shaped bubble around your body) slowing drawing in closer to your body. Once you become aware of how it feels to have your aura at about two to two and a half feet (arm’s length) from your body, you will notice when it has roamed into other people’s territory.

Sending Love and Light to Your Partner

Rather than taking on the energy of another person, offer compassion without paying a personal price. Find your heart center and feel the love that is there. Expand it while imagining a ray of pink or green light extending from your heart and a ray of purple or white light shining from your third eye (6th chakra located between your eyebrows). Direct these beams of light toward your partner and filling his/her subtle bodies and physical body. You can do this with anyone who needs healing. This allows you to send rays of healing and loving light to the afflicted person without getting entangled with their mental and emotional issues. Refuse to allow your emotions to engage in feeling what that person is feeling. This is not being hard-hearted; it is using the mental power of your third eye as an intuitive tool rather than using your body and emotions as a punching bag. The third eye resides in a higher dimension. Therefore, you are not using your limited human faculties to do the work of transmutation.

St. Germaine’s Flame of Transmutation

Emotions, feelings, and even illnesses are energetic imprints to which an empath is highly sensitive. Everything is energy. It cannot be destroyed, but it can be changed or transmuted. Together or individually you can call upon ascended master Saint Germaine and his violet flame of transmutation to lift an energetic burden and convert the detrimental energy into beneficial energy.

I visualize detrimental energy being formed into a ball and lifted into the heavens where it is “zapped” by the violet flame of St. Germaine. This flame bursts the energy ball into millions of golden fragments representing love, light, wisdom, peace, joy, and other positive emotions and then falling like a gentle golden snow upon the earth, myself, and the person who was relieved of this energetic burden.

These are very easy exercises, but with diligent practice, they can make a world of difference in your life and relationship.

To the empath, I say: begin these exercises as soon as you realize you are picking up energy that does not belong to you.

To the non-empath partner of an empath, I say thank you for reminding us of our spiritual role and right use of this gift. Your help in serving as a non-judgmental observing guardian is greatly beneficial. However, it does not exempt the empath from doing his/her part in keeping his/her own energy field clear.

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What are Ascension Symptoms?

Ascension symptoms might include anxiety or panic attacks, body sensations, or a change of relationship or careers. We may be experiencing creativity or energy surges; some of us are decluttering, detoxing, and simplifying our lives because we realize that we just don’t need so much stuff. Old things just don’t have the meaning that they once did. And we are more interested in participating in our spiritual evolution than we are in accumulating a lot of goods.

Other ascension symptoms that other people have reported are depression and a loss of interest in things once held a lot of value to them, a desire for freedom—we see this in occupy Wall Street with those who desire to be out from under the oppressing rule of the powers that be. People are experiencing a change in dietary preferences, and some may have embraced a huge switch in personality. Some empaths may be experiencing electric disturbances; they may walk up to a computer and all of a sudden there’s an electronic disturbance coming from the high cosmic frequency on earth now.

People are experiencing fatigue and headaches, heart palpitations, even hot flashes, and I’m not talking about just menopausal women. Even men are having hot flashes as kundalini energy arises. Some people exhibit increased emotional responses, and note that their intuition and psychic gifts are increasing.

Miraculous healings are occurring as we better understand how energy works. We may find a change in our libido because we are seeing our sexual energy as sacred energy and something to be held in high esteem rather than just going wherever the pleasure leads us. Our mental thoughts are changing. We may even have ringing in the ears or other auditory sensations like hearing voices. We are receiving inspirations from another dimension. People are having insomnia or their sleep patterns are changing. They are having a lot of dreams. Some people are reporting that issues are being revisted or healed at a deeper level. We are seeing a vision, our psychic vision as well as our physical vision opening up to more perception. We are sensing a more joyful attitude even in the midst of chaos. Many of us feeling young or seem to have a spirit of youthfulness or playfulness. Some symptoms are good things and others are a little unpleasant but all are a part of the shift or signs of ascension.

How about you? Have you experienced any of these ascension symptoms I’ve talked about? Please leave a comment to share your story.

For more information about managing ascension symptoms, see http://integratingfrequencies.blogspot.com/.

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When Only One Partner Is an Empath

Today’s post is the sixth in a series of helpful articles for highly-sensitive people. The full presentation was given February 14, 2012 by Yvonne Perry in the Fizzle to Sizzle Relationship Telesummit hosted by Live-Spirit.com. You may listen to the entire presentation by clicking the arrow in the player below.

Honestly communicating whatever is on your heart and having your partner understand, accept, and show compassion toward you is a legitimate human need. However, most empaths can’t tell you everything that is on their heart and what is really bothering them because they tend to always feel out of sorts and may not know why. They carry much more than their own emotional and mental stuff. When an empath absorbs another person’s emotional energy into the cells of their body or the electromagnetic field surrounding the body, these energetic burdens can make us emotionally and physically sick. Some people don’t even know about being an empath much less what to do about it.  Many couples rarely recognize the connection between the moodiness, bouts of depression or crying—even physical illness of the empathic partner—unless they start to think back and realize that these episodes tend to occur after being in a crowd or around someone who is negative or in need of healing.

To the non-empath partner, the empath seems emotionally weak, mentally unstable, or willy-nilly about what they want in life. What they really want is peace at all costs—most empaths hate confrontation—but they go about trying to create peace by taking on the burdens of others rather than by raising their own vibration and working with purer energies to transmute the suffering around them.

When someone an empath is close to is unkind, it’s natural for the empath to blame themselves. It’s also natural for them or their partner to try to fix the situation or calm the other person. Trying to talk to an empath about what’s wrong in the middle of an emotional episode is probably going to backfire. The empath is already emotionally overloaded and anything the partner does to try do may only add to the burden. It is best to have a plan of action for when your empathic partner is experiencing empathic stress. This is so simple you will be amazed how well it works.

When your empath partner is suffering with compassion fatigue, offer to smudge him or her with sage; send love and light to the partner; adjust your aura size, ground and center your own energy, and remind your partner to do the same.

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PURCHASE the paperback book, Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You at http://tinyurl.com/EmpathAmazon.
The e-book version is now available for Kindle, iPhone, iPad, and other digital reading devices.
Why not have someone read the book to you? Check out the audio book MP3 file version.

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