Empaths - The Sensitive Ones

By Daniella Breen

Empaths are people who's sensitivity is much greater than that of the average Joe or Josie.

Empaths are people who:-

•often get confused between their own feelings and other peoples,
•can look at a person and tell what they are feeling and experiencing,
•often have difficulty being in crowded places like shopping centres or pubs,
•attract energy vampires to them (people who drain your energy) and
•can sometimes feel natural and man-made disasters before they happen.

If you are an empath, you probably struggle with many aspects of daily life. One of the major problems with empaths is that they have a tendency to take on other people's emotions and issues as though they were their own.

When you feel other people's feelings, you often don't realise that the emotions are coming from outside of yourself. They all tend to feel as though they are your emotions which can be very confusing and often overwhelming. After a while of accumulating emotions both yours and others, you can get very sick. To move beyond these difficulties, some new Life Skills need to be introduced and implemented.

There are a number of ways to counteract the problems of being an empath. Many of them have to do with defining and clarifying who you are and what you believe. The first and most important action to take is to get focused on your thoughts and beliefs. As you come to a much clearer, more conscious awareness about who you are and what you believe compared to what others believe, you will widen the gap between yourself and other's emotions. Even if you do take on anothers feelings, it will be easier to recognise them as not belonging to you. Once the recognition is made, you can easily let go of the other persons 'stuff'.

Another set of activities that is very important in clearing up the empathic difficulties, is that of cleansing and protecting your energy field. There are many, many ways in which to do this, I will offer just a few.

For cleansing the energy field, I recommend with every shower that you take, you imagine that the water is super powerful, sparkling, cleansing energy that flushes all over and through your body, easily washing away any build up of negative energy. At the same time whilst having the shower, in your mind, call out to Archangel Michael (the defender and protector) to come and use his powerful sword to swipe through any and all cords all over your body, that are draining your energy. These two activities will easily release great amounts of negative energy.

For protecting the energy, I recommend that every morning you call upon Archangel Michael and ask him to wrap his wings around you, sealing and protecting you from any and all negative energy throughout the day. I also suggest that using your imagination, you surround yourself with a beautiful sparkly mirrorball, that instantly reflects all negative energy away from you.

Simply by performing these four exercises daily and working on defining who you are and what you believe, you can make a real difference to your experiences in this life. After a while of doing that, you can even start to open up to the gifts of being an empath, such as having a greater level of insight into people's behaviour and their intentions. Being an empath truly is a wonderful gift and you can experience it as such with a bit of healing work.

Every person has a unique soul path and purpose. When you are in alignment with your path and purpose, your life is filled with peace, joy and fulfillment. Soul Path Coaching is about helping people align more deeply with their unique Truth. Daniella Breen has been working in this field for over 12 years. Her website [http://www.soulpathcoaching.com.au] holds many powerful resources and services designed for this purpose.

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The author, Yvonne Perry, is available as a spiritual coach. See http://weare1inspirit.com/services/coaching/ for information about a free 15-minute evaluation to see if coaching is right for you.
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Affirmations For Empaths or Highly Sensitive People

You can release energy that doesn’t belong to you by using affirmations—small but positive messages to the self. They are used as reminders, helping to keep uplifting thoughts at the forefront of your consciousness. Not only is it important to regularly repeat these affirmations, it is a great idea to post them in your work environment, where you will notice them.

What you think about comes about, so be diligent in re-training your thoughts. Affirmations can also create a filter that blocks the detrimental energy of others. Since it is best to make affirmations personal to you, I recommend that you create your own. However, if you're new to this practice, you might enjoy using some of the affirmations I use. Say the affirmations aloud as if they were already true.

I am willing to feel only the energy that is mine, and I let go of all that is not mine.
I receive energy that is of the highest good for me, and I am protected from all other energy.
I keep my auric field at two and a half feet from my body.
My auric boundary is strong.
I hear, see, feel, and sense only the emotional information that is important for me to know and act upon.
I am honored and respected by all.
I am always safe and divinely protected.
Everything I need to know is revealed to me.
I am vibrantly healthy as I carry positive energy and thoughts.
I am abundantly blessed and happy as I express the beauty and creativity of my heart.
I clearly communicate my needs and take the time necessary to appreciate my own energy, know my true self, and grow spiritually.
I attract only kind and gentle life lessons and relationships into my life.
I understand the divine plan for my life. I have passion and energy to fulfill it with joy!

I would love for you to share your experience as an empath to let us know how affirmations work for you.

There are some MP3s you can listen to on my website: https://weare1inspirit.com/meditations-for-spiritual-growth if you would like to check them out.

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Characteristics of an Untrained Empath: Heart Palpitations, Anxiety, & Headaches

“What’s wrong with me, doc?” I asked as I sat on the examination table in the emergency room of a clinic. “My heart is pounding, my head is spinning, and I feel like I’m going to pass out. I haven’t done anything out of the norm.”

“I can’t find a thing wrong with you,” he said. “You must be having an anxiety attack or allergic reaction to something.”

“I had a root canal last week and nearly fainted. The dentist said I am allergic to Novocain. Could that be it?”

“Have you had these symptoms continuously since then?”

“No, they came up suddenly this afternoon.”

“Are you taking any kind of medication?”

“Nothing but Tylenol. I still have a headache.”

“What were you doing when the symptoms started?”

“Praying.”

The doctor had no explanation. He gave me some Benadryl and sent me home. I slept the rest of the day.

My symptoms were energetically related. Most medical doctors do not understand how the energy from one person can affect another person and cause physical pain or emotional distress.

Before I had a label to put on my empathetic ability, I called myself an intercessor or “surrogate” for carrying the burdens of others to the throne of grace—a noble and worthy cause. As I prayed for the entire city on a daily basis, I picked up on the energy of thousands of people and took on the suffering of many of them. However, I didn’t realize what was happening.

Emotions such as fear, anger, and frustration are energies. Like a virus, you can potentially “catch” them from people without realizing it. Empathic people can be psychic sponges that absorb energy everywhere they go. I was so energy sensitive that if I heard an ambulance siren, I would feel instant panic. If I came upon an accident scene or a homeless person, I cried. If I saw an open wound, I would feel an electric shock all over my body. In traffic, I felt the anger and frustration of my fellow drivers so bad that my throat would close up and I could not swallow. When I was in my prayer closet, I would cry, groan, shake, and travail on behalf of others. These and similar scenarios were so common for me that I thought everyone felt this way. I had no idea that I was an empath. I had never heard of such a thing.

Since then, I’ve become a coach to those who are going through what I experienced in the 1990s. If you are interested in working with me, please contact me to set up a time that we can chat to see if coaching is right for you.

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Aura or Body Shield

Around your physical body, there is a magnetic shield of energy known as your aura. Its purpose is to provide protection and gather energy and information as you interface with your environment. In grade school, we had to be reminded to keep our hands to ourselves! The same is true with the energy field surrounding our body. Ideally, it should be kept two to three feet from the body, but many untrained empaths unknowingly allow their aura to extend and blend with the energy fields of others who have lax boundaries around their auras. We can tap into the thoughts and emotional impulses of someone across the world. An energy worker told me about a client whose auric field extended for about four city blocks! The client was an emotional mess. Anxiety attacks, illnesses, negativity, fear, dread, anger—you name it, she felt it. She worked with the client to clear her field and bring her aura in closer to her body. When her aura was still extended about one block, the client said she felt like she was smothering.
It is important to clear your aura before bringing it in closer to your body. Click this link for an audio with background music to help you do this: http://weare1inspirit.com/MP3/GroundingCentering1&2PublicUse.mp3

Begin by visualizing divine white light surrounding your body and aura. This light is clearing and balancing all aspects of your being. Next establish a grounding cord of any color you choose. Let a shower of golden sunlight flow in your aura for five minutes while you meditate or rest.

Next, close your eyes and try to determine where your energy field (aura) ends. Then, visualize yourself drawing it in closer to your body. Note any sensations or changes you feel. Continue to draw your auric field in, closer and closer. Continue until you sense it is between two and three feet from your body. If you have to stop because you feel uncomfortable, clear your field with the shower of golden sunlight again and repeat the clearing and drawing in process later that day or try again the next day. Continue these sessions until you achieve the ideal range. This exercise can make a huge difference in how much energy you pick up. The less you pick up, the less you have to clear later.

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Setting Boundaries

If someone was trying to break into your house, you would probably call the police, run for your life, grab a weapon, scream, or something! You wouldn’t just stand there and allow the intruder to barge in. Yet, we allow the energy of others to invade our personal space, whether it be in our mind, emotions, or physical body. By not stopping this intrusion, you give away your personal energy. We all have the ability to create our own energy without stealing someone else’s energy or becoming entangled in a situation that is none of our business. This requires diligent development of our spiritual practice to raise our vibration, and setting boundaries with those who would siphon our energy.

In the previous chapter, we talked about clearing your aura and learned to visualize a radiant, light-filled field of energy around your physical body. Now we will discover how to protect it from invasion. This egg-shaped shield should be about two to three feet from your body. It needs to be flexible and thin enough to let in what serves you, yet thick enough to keep out what doesn't. When the layers of your body shield are thin or have holes in them, you are more easily influenced by environmental stimuli and negativity. Anyone who has a healthy self-esteem and maintains strong boundaries with others will most likely have a thicker, stronger aura than someone who is fearful, anxious, shy, stressed, jealous, hateful, or holding on to any other negative thought or feeling.

Auras are created from heat and vibration. Similar to how your body raises its temperature while fighting infection, a physical illness can cause a temporary color change or increase in aura size. Containing various colors, each conveying a different meaning, the aura is like a mood ring that changes colors with your physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual state, as well as by the energies of those around you. If you are unhealthy, there may be shadows, grey, or black areas in your aura or it may appear murky rather than clear and transparent.

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Clearing Your Energy Field

Some highly-sensitive people silently show empathy and compassion by soaking up other peoples' negative energy. We naturally want to restore balance and heal people wherever we go, but the trouble is we don’t realize that taking negative energy from other folks will eventually make us sick or get us into trouble, as you’ve read in my personal account on this blog and in my book, Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You. Energy from others first engages with the energetic layers or subtle bodies that create the interconnected electromagnetic field of energy (auric field) around our physical body. Information in this auric field is received by the chakras and sent to the brain for processing and sending messages to the areas of the body that correlate with that type of information. Therefore, clearing your energy field is the place to begin working when you decide you’ve had enough of taking on everyone else’s stuff.

There are many easy and effective ways to control and eliminate detrimental energy and entities that may have entered your field during your workday. If you are employed at a retail store where you encounter customers, or in a hospital or clinic where you tend to those who are sick or dying, you are likely to be affected. Several times, my husband has brought home the ghost of a patient who passed during his shift at the hospital. Let’s not even go into the yucky stuff our police force, emergency response teams, victims of violent crimes, and detectives pick up!

Clearing is an ongoing process and must be done regularly to stay free of other people's energy. When you first put defense mechanisms in place, you may still get overwhelmed in a crowd or when there is emotional turmoil around you, but the discomfort will lessen as you continue to develop your intuition. I tried several techniques to help cut down the amount of energy I let into my field. I started with some very basic ones, which worked quite well, so I continued using them. These are in my book.

There are many things you can do at home to clear your energy field. Depending upon how much stuff you have in your field and how long it has been there and how fast you want to get rid of it, you may want to consider receiving some type of energy work from an energy worker or natural health practitioner. There are a wide variety of modalities to choose from: Reiki, sound healing therapy, healing touch, transference healing, hypnotherapy, vibrational therapy, bio-energetic therapy, and many others. See the resources section on this blog and in the back of my book for a list of providers that I trust.

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Are Demons Real?

Much confusion surrounds the topic of demons and whether or not they are real, but what I experienced when I held this fear-based mindset definitely had an impact on my physical and emotional well-being. Empaths are extremely sensitive to any kind of energy—even that of their own thoughts and beliefs.Whatever we think about increases.

An entity is anything that feeds off your energy or emotions. It can be a thought form, an energy pattern, or a soul tie (a hook to or an attachment from one or more persons), or an earthbound spirit is a soul that is no longer in a human body. Whatever beliefs, emotions, or knowledge we have when we leave the body is carried with the soul into the afterlife. Many times when a soul leaves the body abruptly, it is confused and may not cross over to the other side or go into the light. These spirits are between incarnations and are able to feed off the energy of humans.

I don’t believe a body can be possessed by more than one soul at a time, but we can be influenced positively or negatively by disembodied souls that attach to our electromagnetic field. I don’t intend to make anyone afraid—you are more powerful than any earthbound spirit and they have to adhere to any boundary you set with them—but if you are an empath, there is a good chance you see, hear, or sense ghosts, or have already experienced some evidence that they exist.

Obviously, we are connected to one another or we would not be able to tap into each another’s energy like we do. Incarnated or disembodied, we are all interconnected in ways that we may or may not have acknowledged or understood. I talk more about this in chapter 10 in my book, Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, under the subheading “Setting Boundaries with Entities.”

Our lesson here is that whatever we think about comes about. The universe will allow us to feel or experience whatever we validate as truth. The great news is that all entities (real or imagined) can be removed with better understanding. Doing the clearing and cleansing practices mentioned in Chapter 9 of my book will help immensely.

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When Do Empaths Most Often Pick Up Energy?

Empaths can pick up other peoples’ emotions when least expected. For example, if someone at work had an argument on the way to work, and then walks over to you and starts a conversation, you might feel the energy of his residual anger. This can be very confusing if you are not aware of his previous phone call. You may actually feel angry and think it is your stuff.

If you suddenly feel angry for no reason or start complaining about something that you care virtually nothing about, you have probably picked up on the emotions of someone around you. This type of “mirroring,” which seems to be more prevalent when we are exhausted or stressed out, can cause an empathic person to behave in an irrational manner. Some have even been misdiagnosed as having bipolar disorder.

In my book, Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, I gave excerpts from interviews I did with empaths. You will find a wide variety of situations in which folks have found themselves as a result of this intuitive gift. Some of these people have just realized they are empaths; others are veteran empaths who are using this intuitive gift as part of their healing practice.

Empathic abilities can be both a gift and a curse. One person I interviewed said that it has both saved his life and broken his heart. “I thought I was an agoraphobic for the longest because when I was around a lot of people I felt overwhelmed,” said Jonathan. “I thought it was anxiety, but then I began to be able to tell when someone was lying to me. It can hurt to know someone you love is lying to you.”

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The author, Yvonne Perry, is available as a spiritual coach. See http://weare1inspirit.com/services/coaching/ for information about a free 10-minute evaluation to see if coaching is right for you.
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Raise Your Vibration

Slower vibrating energies cannot reach you when you vibrate at a faster level than they do. It’s like you become invisible to these energy leeches. Here’s how:

See the light within yourself near your heart center. Visualize that circle of light growing brighter and brighter as it expands to encircle your body. It extends from your body and fills the room you are in. Next, it expands as large as your house. Continue to see this light growing larger to fill your entire neighborhood, city, county, state, continent, and finally the whole Earth and universe. Now see your light joining with the cosmic light of the angels, archangels, Christ and the ascended masters (avatars or perfected beings), and God/Goddess. Allow their light to fill the circle of light surrounding you and raise your vibration. Now, begin to pull this light into your being as the circle of light shrinks to the size of the Earth, your continent, state, county, city, neighborhood, and your room. Bring your light-filled aura closer until it extends only about two and a half feet from your body.

Did you sense the shift? Most empaths do.

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The author, Yvonne Perry, is available as a spiritual coach. See http://weare1inspirit.com/services/coaching/ for information about a free 10-minute evaluation to see if coaching is right for you.
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The Value of Intuition

Intuition is an internal guidance system that we are all blessed with. All of us are able to tap into our inner strength and call upon our higher power at any given moment. However, some people trust their intuition and pay attention to their instinctual inner guidance more than others. As a society, we have been conditioned to ignore or repress our feelings, and we’ve been taught that our emotions are not trustworthy. I’ve found the exact opposite to be true.

Our ancestors used their intuition to survive, whether it was to help them find food, predict weather, or know when to hide or flee. Our intuition can signal a warning to help us steer away from a dangerous person or situation. It can also help us make decisions when an opportunity is presented. Just think how many times you have thought, “If only I had listened to myself,” or “I should have followed my gut feeling.”

Getting information from your intuition can come subtly in the form of ideas, thoughts, emotions, a sense of knowing, an internal voice, a gut feeling, or through the physical senses. Have you ever had a situation where all the facts looked like things were in order, but inwardly you felt that something wasn’t quite right or on the up and up? What do you do when your gut feeling goes against the flow or discloses something deeper or hidden? Do you pay attention to it, or do you ignore it? The more you pay attention to it, the more you will learn to recognize your own internal guidance, and the more in touch with your own energy and body you will be.

Having empathic ability does not necessarily mean you are a psychic. It simply means that you have an innate talent, just like an artist who can create a beautiful work of art. You may not be able to play the piano the first time you sit at the keyboard, but you can take lessons and learn. This chapter is to help you build what professors Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer define as “emotional intelligence” or the ability to “monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.”

Recognizing that you’re an empath is the first step in taking charge of your emotions instead of constantly drowning in them. The most challenging thing about developing and honing empathic abilities is learning to discern what energetic stuff is yours, and what belongs to someone else. Chronic anxiety, depression, or stress wears down our defenses and makes us even more susceptible to the negative energy of others, especially those with similar unresolved emotional issues. In some cases, you may be dealing with a combination of your own stuff and someone else’s.

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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.
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The author, Yvonne Perry, is available as a spiritual coach. See http://weare1inspirit.com/services/coaching/ for information about a free 15-minute evaluation to see if coaching is right for you.
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The Career Choices of Empaths

Empaths are loving, caring, kind people who want to help others. They are often found doing volunteer work and may serve others through emotionally-demanding careers as childcare givers, medical professionals, hospice workers, midwives, and such. Most empaths came in with a mission to heal people, animals, plants, and the planet. As healers, many have taken on so much external energy that they spend most of their time trying to clear unwanted energy and recuperate from the last episode that “blew their doors off.”

Peace and joy are natural characteristics of human beings, but because empaths want to heal others and make everyone happy, they tend to absorb negative energy such as fear, depression, or rage instead. Empaths may feel responsible for other people’s happiness and try to fix things that are wrong in other people’s relationships, physical bodies, and even the world. This makes empaths particularly easy targets for emotional vampires—those who don’t want to take responsibility for their own choices and seek someone to do everything for them.

For that reason, many empaths find it hard to be in public or work a job where there is a prevalence of negative energy. If you are finding it difficult, you may benefit from reading my book, Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You. It is a guidebook to teach you how to close off from detrimental energy and open up to your internal guidance.

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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.
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Why not have someone read the book to you? Check out the audio book MP3 file version.


The author, Yvonne Perry, is available as a spiritual coach. See http://weare1inspirit.com/services/coaching/ for information about a free 15-minute evaluation to see if coaching is right for you.
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Empaths Knowing What Someone is Thinking or Feeling

Webster defines empathy as “the capacity for participation in another person's feelings.” Everyone has some empathic ability. We were all born with the ability to feel other people's emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations. Highly sensitive people may get intuitive clues about a person and feel that we cannot trust him or feel that he is hiding something or lying.
We can listen to our intuition about a situation and ascertain whether or not it is safe or wise for us to proceed. Being able to know what others are thinking, feeling, or experiencing is a way of protecting ourselves. It also has its drawbacks when unchecked as you will see in my story below.
While shopping at Wal-Mart one day I suddenly had a panic attack. Fear overtook my body and the “fight or flight” adrenaline rush nearly crippled me as I clung to the shopping cart. I felt as though I was going to pass out before I could get to a place where I could sit down. I was shaking so hard, I could hardly breathe. My heart was pounding fiercely and at first I thought I was having a heart attack!

Within one minute a “Code Adam” announcement came over the store’s intercom system and the store was locked down. I knew then that I had taken into my body and emotions the panic and fear of the parent who had lost their child in the store. Fortunately, I was still able to sense my own personal energy separate from this chaos. Part of me was calm and level-headed as I witnessed this bizarre emotional reaction. I was sane enough to call upon angels to help locate the boy and reunite him safely with his parent—I intuitively knew the child was male and that his mother was in the store. I placed myself inside a bubble of protection—a visual exercise I use for protection—and the symptoms began subsiding.

When I heard the child had been found, I cried for joy. I knew I was still picking up on the mother’s energy of relief, but that was the best I could do at the time. I immediately left my cart in the aisle and walked out of the store. I was wiped out for the rest of the day.

There are ways to avoid this kind of “hit” and I give some of these exercises in my book, Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You. PURCHASE the paperback book at http://tinyurl.com/EmpathAmazon.

The e-book version is now available for Kindle, iPhone, iPad, and other digital reading devices on Smashwords.com. Get the PDF on my website: WeAreOneinSpirit.com.

Or have someone read the book to you. Check out the audio book MP3 file version.

Yvonne Perry is available as a spiritual coach. See http://weare1inspirit.com/services/coaching/ for information about a free 15-minute evaluation to see if coaching is right for you.

Empaths and Highly Sensitive People May Feel Drained

Samantha says being an empath is generally draining. “You may feel dread or have to prepare yourself to be around people. It makes it impossible to get down to what you truly feel instead of what others are projecting to you,” says Samantha. “There are a few people who are very good at disguise. Their energy may feel positive at first, but they can’t keep up the wall very long.”
Empaths need a place where they can be alone each day to replenish their positive energy. For that reason, living alone is essential for some like Samantha. She says this is the only way she can begin her day without feeling anxious or sometimes deeply depressed. On the contrary, animals calm her because they present themselves honestly and are pure beings at all times. “I don't usually feel much from them unless they have been abused or are hurt,” she says. “Sometimes I feel the same around very young children.”

Private space is very important to energy-sensitive people, so plan to find a place to practice these techniques. Your space should be free of clutter and arranged so it allows energy to flow and not get stuck. For some really easy tips on how to create a beneficial space using the principles of feng shui, I suggest Tisha Morris’ book, 27 Things to Feng Shui Your Home.

If your space is used by other family members, you may need to cleanse your sacred space before you begin each session. I suggest smudging with sage, lighting incense or a candle, drumming, shaking a percussion rattle, or ringing a bell. Your sacred space will become your personal haven, so make it special. After several sessions, you may notice how positive energy has accumulated in your sacred space and welcomes you each time you enter.

Do you have a quiet place in your home where you can revive yourself spiritually? This is one of the most important things an empath can do to keep from being bombarded by detrimental energy in their environment.

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We Are Always Sending and Receiving Energy

Inhale, exhale. Whether it’s negative or positive, everyone is sending and receiving energy all the time. We are energy and so is everything else! Empaths tend to be a more sensitive to energy shifts.

An empath is someone who very keenly picks up the energy of others around them. Empaths are sensitive to the energy around them—environmental as well as the electronic and human energies.  Empaths are those you might call highly-sensitive people. They are the person in your family who cried a lot. They unknowingly carry burdens that belong to someone else; and that’s what causes so many problems for the empathic or very sensitive person. They don’t realize that what they are dealing with energetically is not their own stuff. They are so tuned in to energy around them that they pick up detrimental energy, and it’s causing all kinds of disturbances in their emotional, physical, and mental health.

All of her life, I was like a receptacle for all of the stuff that was going on around me as I carried energetic burdens for others. When I turned forty her life fell apart at the seams emotionally. I had been praying a lot for others, and carrying their burdens in prayer without realizing that I was taking them to God and then picking them back up and carrying them as if I was the one who could do fix the problem or do something to change another person’s life.

As a result, I became very depressed. I was stuck in a very limited, fear-based fundamental religion that had taught me to be subservient in my relationship with my first husband. That was taking a toll on me emotionally in addition to the sensitivity that I had as an empath. I wanted to break free and make some changes to become the empowered woman I now am. That was the beginning of my spiritual shift in the late 1990s, but trying to make those shifts ended up destroying what was left of a troubled marriage. I knew I was not going to be able to grow spiritually if I stayed in that marriage and remained under a suppressive mindset that required me as a wife to submit to my husband in all things without question and do what the church says.

Choosing a new path led me to understand my spiritual or psychic gift of energy sensitivity. Without boundaries, I had been leaking energy everywhere, and was picking up energy that was detrimental to me. Over a period of about ten years I learned some grounding and centering techniques and began practicing protective exercises to get well. My first book, Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, includes those methods that had proven effective for her. That book also contains the story of my journey as an untrained empath, which allows others to witness how energy mismanagement can take its toll on a person. I also give examples to help remedy the situations. It’s a very transforming and powerful book. It’s the manual that I wish I’d had ten years ago!

Yvonne Perry is the author of several books. Shifting into Purer Consciousness ~ Integrating Spiritual Transformation with the Human Experience is designed to make spiritual growth easier and quicker. (http://ShiftingintoPurerConsciousness.com) 

More Than Meets the Eye: True Stories about Death, Dying and Afterlife addresses suicide, near-death experience, end of life decisions, euthanasia, and spirit visits from the “deceased.” (http://deathdyingafterlilfe.com) 

The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children provides a role model for parents while entertaining children with stories that teach life lessons (http://WhoseStuffIsThis.com). 

Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, is a resource for sensitive people who have been unknowingly carrying energetic burdens that belong to someone else. Paperback is available at http://tinyurl.com/EmpathAmazon.
The e-book version is 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.

Go to We Are One in Spirit http://weare1inspirit.com to access Yvonne's blogs, podcast, articles, videos, audios, bookstore, workshops, and other spiritual resources.

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 15-minute evaluation to see if coaching is right for you.

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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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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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 burn out quickly; it can 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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VIDEO: What's Affecting Sensitives, Empaths, Intuitives From The Beginning

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Final Call of the Empaths Shifting into 2012 Telesummit is Tomorrow Night!

Tomorrow is the final call of "Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth." 

Join us at 8:00 p.m. Central Time for a fabulous virtual event with Dr. Michael R. Smith and Yvonne Perry!

Empaths have a mission to fulfill as they allow their bodies to receive higher vibrating energy from the ascended masters of wisdom and step it down to the general population. As a coach, licensed counselor, healing practitioner, and spiritual medium for over two decades, noted self-help author of Navigating 2012: Thriving in Earth's New Age, Dr. Michael R. Smith has helped thousands of people all over the world connect to their highest selves. Michael will teach how to ground higher energies into the body and use the body as a tool of perception. http://www.empathConnection.com

Metaphysical empath coach, Yvonne Perry, is the author of Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom From the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You. She will speak about why forgiveness is so important to empaths who want to stay clear of negativity and align with higher frequencies in order to accomplish their life’s mission. She will present “There are No Victims! Helping Empaths to See Themselves as Empowered Beings of Light.”

This content-rich call will last about an hour and a half in order to allow both speakers to present training modules. You will be able to ask questions during each call.

The replays will be available for 36 hours after each call. After that, they will only be available if you purchase them. The MP3s and transcribed PDFs for all four calls is only $47. Please visit Live-Spirit.com to access this special offer and find other tools and teaching to help as you evolve on your spiritual path.

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The Third Call of the Empaths Shifting into 2012 Telesummit is Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the third call of the telesummit, "Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth."

Join us at 3:00 p.m. Central Time for a wonderful virtual event with Suzy Miller and Dr. Caron Goode!

Suzy Miller is the visionary founder of Blue Star Brilliance LLC and author of AWESOMISM: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. After a 22-year career as a pediatric speech language pathologist, Suzy met a four-year old child diagnosed with autism who was destined to change not only the way she viewed autism, but life in general. This powerful interaction left her with the skill of telepathy, which she uses to communicate with the highest aspects of we are, bringing awareness and integration of those higher aspects of self into our daily lives. Suzy developed The AWESOMISM Certification Process to assist other professionals, parents and caregivers in seeing beyond the limits of themselves and their children. She will be presenting AUTISM: A POSTIVE STEP IN HUMAN EVOLUTION. www.suzymiller.com

Dr. Caron Goode's continuous education, experience in psychology and professional writing makes her a great resource for parents wishing to create and maintain a nurturing relationship their children. The common thread of these disciplines is energy of the mind-body-spirit connection and how to access it, bring it into focus and then put it into successful action. Caron, the author of Raising Intuitive Children and Kids who See Ghosts ~ Guide Them Through Their Fear, will present information about working with intuitive children who have the gift of empathy. Gain easy and useful tools to help empower children who don’t fit the stereotype that most educational systems cater to. www.raisingintuitivechildren.com

This content-rich call will last about an hour and a half in order to allow two speakers to present training modules. You will be able to ask questions during each call.

To sign up or learn more visit http://dld.bz/adU8s

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