Whose Stuff Is This is Now an Audio Book in MP3 Format!

Whose Stuff Is This? is now available as an audio book. Listen to the MP3 while you travel!

You may have read my book, Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You. Now you have an understanding and are working on managing your energy. Knowing you are empath makes sense to you and you’ve tried to explain to your family members why you are so sensitive at times.

Maybe the one person, who really needs to understand you, is not the type who would sit down and read my book, but perhaps they would listen if someone read it to them. Whose Stuff Is This? Audio Book is the answer to your dilemma. Recorded in MP3 format, it will explain the psychological aspects of empathy and help others understand the psychic ability you have been blessed with.



This MP3 audio book is nearly five hours long and contains all 12 chapters of the best-selling book, Whose Stuff Is This? for empathic people who want to wisely manage their energy. $8.99

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PURCHASE 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.

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Quick Reference of Exercises and Affirmations for Empaths

Excerpted from Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, this e-book contains affirmations and exercises to help highly sensitive people manage energy and develop the intuitive gift of empathy.

Keep this handy resource close at hand (in your iPhone or iPad) for when you need to remember how to ground and center your energy or take a power break and regain clarity as an empath.

Available for Kindle $2.99

Visual Exercise to See How Close Your Aura Is

The following article was derived from a presentation given by Gini Grey during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” on September 6, 2011. Get the full transcription and MP3 audio of Gini’s and Kate Garvey’s presentation at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#Kate

How do you identify how far your boundary has strayed from you, and where yours ends and another person’s begins?  Is there a set distance we should strive for in keeping our aura? 

This is yours, this is your space, and you can do whatever you want with it, but I keep mine at about an arm’s length. Here’s how:

1.       Close your and visualize the egg-shaped bubble of energy that surrounds your body. This is your auric field.

2.      Consciously bring your aura in closer until it is about an inch away from your body.  What does it feel like when it’s that close in?  Does it feel tight? Does it feel comfortable or uncomfortable?  When do you do this?  And notice the body cues. The body will tell you what it feels like when you’ve got your aura in like this.  What other times do you feel like this? 

3.      Now move it back out so the outer edge is about an arm’s length away in front of and behind you, above and below you, and to the sides. Now smooth the outer edge as if caressing a beloved pet. Now you get a sense of what it feels like when your aura is this distance. Notice how you feel in your body. How is this different than before?

4.      Next move it way out to fill the whole room, and notice what that feels like.  Does this feel comfortable or uncomfortable? Safe or unsafe (vulnerable)? What are the body cues? What other times do you feel like this? 

5.      Now, bring it back in again to about an arm’s length and re-own it. 

Playing with the distance, moving the boundary in and out is one way to get the feeling of your aura. If you can’t feel your aura, you can have someone use dowsing rods to locate the edges. You can make them out of coat hangers (see photos below) and measure someone’s aura. Loosely hold the shorter part of the L-shaped rod in your hand vertically. When you reach the boundary of their aura the rods will spread apart from each other. It’s an interesting thing to do anytime you want to play with energy.

Owning your aura helps you be with other people and be close to them without taking on their stuff.  You can hug someone, and if you both own your own space, you’re not going to get enmeshed in one another’s energy. If you do not own your aura, you might be at a party and someone across the room is glaring at you. You will be able to feel them invading your space; they don’t even have to be close to you.  We can invade each other’s auras from the other side of the world.  It’s all energy and it goes anywhere.

Gini Grey’s is the author of Create What You Want in Your Life—a CD that guides you through the process of discovering what you want in your life, and creating and manifesting it with spiritual ease. This 7-track CD includes two powerful guided imagery sessions to help you envision what you want and move beyond any blocks on your path. For empowering articles visit her Insights & Inspiration and Spiritual Transformers sites http://www.ginigrey.com.

I hope you will try the aura distance exercises and make dowsing rods out of coat hanger. If you do, please leave a comment about what you experience. We love to hear from our readers!

Article Links for Gini Grey’s work:

·         Centered Within: http://www.ginigrey.com/wp/spiritual-insights/centered-within/

·         Staying Grounded: http://www.ginigrey.com/wp/spiritual-insights/staying-grounded/

·         Aura and Energy Boundaries: http://www.ginigrey.com/wp/spiritual-insights/energy-boundaries/

·         Being in a State of Non-Resistance: http://www.ginigrey.com/wp/spiritual-insights/being-in-a-state-of-non-resistance/

·         6^th Chakra and Clairvoyance: http://ginigrey.com/spiritualtransformers/6th-chakra-and-clairvoyance-how-to-read-energy-and-see-clearly/

·         Rise Above Sympathy into Empathy and Compassion: http://ginigrey.com/spiritualtransformers/rise-above-sympathy-into-empathy-and-compassion/

·         Complimentary Audio Session on Compassion: http://ginigrey.com/spiritualenergy/gifts/experience-compassion/

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PURCHASE 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.

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Unclogging a Chakra

The following article was derived from a presentation given by Gini Grey during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” on September 6, 2011. Get the full transcription and MP3 audio of Gini’s and Kate Garvey’s presentation at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#Kate

Any chakra at any time can get clogged up from time to time. One person commented that sometimes when clearing her chakras and grounding herself, feels like she has a difficult time at her throat chakra; it sometimes feels like she’s choked there. Gini talks about how to unclog a blocked chakra or energy center.

There are five aspects to the fifth chakra, and one of those is your spirit-to-body communications–communicating with yourself and with others.  Notice where you shut your communication down, because you may have foreign energy in there. Wherever we have foreign energy, we’ve let it in, we have a vulnerability. So you may have a fear about speaking your truth.

Tune in when you’re meditating and clearing your chakras. I recommend centering in the middle of your fifth chakra. Run some gold energy through it or some clear light energy.  Then, look around and ask, “What’s there, what’s me, what’s not me?” As you name what’s you, that gets bigger, and as you name what’s not you, release it. 

Energy follows thought, so any exercise to help empaths is about using your internal vision or imagination. I work with roses a lot, so you could create an image of a rose in front of you, maybe a nice gold rose—gold is great for clearing—and then bring it through your fifth chakra. Treat the rose like it’s a duster, like you’re dusting the house, and you’re picking up the dust in your fifth chakra, picking up any foreign energy, anything that’s not you, and then release it.  Whenever you’re clearing your chakras, be bigger than the junk in there. Remember how big you are and touch into the flow of spirit. What we focus on grows.  Focus on your true vibration as you’re releasing what’s not you. Keep more that 50 percent of the focus on you as you release what’s not you. 

On my Spiritual Transformer website I have an article on the fifth chakra.  Just type in “fifth chakra” in the search box and I think I have some tips in there as well.

Feel free to comment about what you experience when you try this exercise. We love to hear from our readers!

Gini Grey’s is the author of Create What You Want in Your Life—a CD that guides you through the process of discovering what you want in your life, and creating and manifesting it with spiritual ease. This 7-track CD includes two powerful guided imagery sessions to help you envision what you want and move beyond any blocks on your path. For empowering articles visit her Insights & Inspiration and Spiritual Transformers sites http://www.ginigrey.com.

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PURCHASE 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.

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Using Your Clairvoyance Instead of Your Clairsentience

An article derived from a presentation given by Gini Grey during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” on September 6, 2011. Get the full transcription and MP3 audio of Gini’s and Kate Garvey’s presentation at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#Kate

In working with people who are empathic, I’ve noticed that a lot of people pick up on what’s going on through their clairsentience, which is that clear sensing, that gut feeling connected to the second chakra.  And while it’s a wonderful tool to have, especially for yourself, if you’re overusing it to the point where you’re picking up on everybody else’s feelings it can be detrimental to your health. 

We learn to do this growing up in dysfunctional families. The way to feel safe is to know what’s going on, so we feel what’s going on with mom and dad and then we know what to do to be safe. But what I find is more helpful is to use my clairvoyance, which is the sixth chakra of clear seeing, or claircognizance, which uses the seventh chakra of clear “knowing.” When you look at someone who is angry, you don’t have to match their vibration or take on their emotions in order to know what’s going on.

Be aware of your second chakra when you sense it picking up or aligning with the slower vibration of an unpleasant emotion. Then, use your mental power to turn down the dial on the clairsentient aspect of the second chakra a bit. Then, turn up your clairvoyance level of your sixth or seventh chakra. 

On my Spiritual Transformer site (http://www.ginigrey.com), I have an article about using your clairvoyance. But, briefly, here’s what you do:

1.       Center yourself by focusing on your pineal gland in the center of your head. (See How to Center to Bring Balance to Your Brain[YP1] .)

2.      I like using a rose as an image to hold energy, so envision a rose that represents you in spirit. Now look at that rose. What does your rose look like?

3.      Now look beyond the visual aspect and touch into your essence. You might get a sense of something or feel something. See if you can put a word to the essence of that rose represents as you.  What quality is the rose showing you about yourself? 

So you just quickly looked at your own energy, but you can do this with other people.  You could put a rose up for someone else. But eventually you get to a place where you just look at other people and just know.  Here’s how:

1.       Close your eyes and imagine the person you go into resistance with, or someone you feel uncomfortable with. 

2.      Imagine them coming into the room and standing a little way away from you.

3.      Now you’re looking at them, and you see their personality and you see their body, but I want you to look past that.  What’s going on with them? Do you tend to want to feel what’s going on with them? Do you want to feel their emotions? If so, see if you can you close that down and instead intuitively look at them with your clairvoyance. What do you see? What emotion are they running right now? 

CHIME IN! Looking with your spiritual eye at the imaginary rose you have created to represent yourself, you might see a color or something on the blossom or on the tip or the stem that says this is an area where you’re learning or you’re growing. Is there a word you can put with that that you’d be willing to share with us? What’s the general theme of what are you learning?

Gini Grey’s is the author of From Chaos to Calm: How to Shift Unhealthy Stress Patterns and Create Your Ideal Balance in Life—a book that opens your mind and heart to discovering your ideal state of balance, what gets in the way of creating this, and more importantly, how to let go of unhealthy stress reactions and the underlying motives and payoffs for these.

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PURCHASE 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.

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The Difference between Compassion and Suffering

This article is derived from a presentation given by Gini Grey during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” on September 6, 2011. Get the full transcription and MP3 audio of Gini’s and Kate Garvey’s presentation at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#Kate

During these times of shifting, it is helpful to know how to be in a place of compassion.  I mean compassion and not sympathy.  Sympathy comes easy for us empaths to feel sorry for someone when we see them suffering. We care about people—our loved ones and people in the world—and we want them to feel better.

But the vibration of sympathy is a slow vibration and it’s got victimhood written all over it. You might say or think, “Poor them or poor me” if you’re in sympathy.  But if you rise to a higher level of empathy and into compassion, you’re in a place where you’re looking at people from that centered place we talked about earlier where you see the power and light in them.  Sure, you see their suffering, but you also see that there’s a powerful spiritual being in there who has created this situation for a learning opportunity, and you know they have the resources to heal.  If I say hello to their bigness at the same time I’m saying hello to their suffering, that’s a gift for them. 

It’s about offering caring kindness but not dropping down into a slower vibration of sympathy, which doesn’t feel good to you and it doesn’t serve anyone else either.  So when you see this stuff going on in the world and with yourself and with other people, notice when you’re dropping down into that pity place or feeling sorry for another, and bring your vibration up.  Use your intention to rise to a higher level of compassion. Get centered and look at that person through your spiritual eye. Then, you will see the big picture and know that everything is fine, or is going to be ok. You will feel better and so will everyone else.

On my Web site, there is a complimentary audio session on compassion, which helps you look at the difference between sympathy, or the dichotomy of that (apathy). The audio guides you to rise up to a higher vibration of compassion. 

Gini Grey has created Spiritual Energy Awareness audio programs. These transformational energy awareness courses help you shift the energy dynamics in your life. Programs include topics such as Energy Balancing Tools, Energy Healing Meditation, and Living in Abundance. For empowering articles visit her Insights & Inspiration and Spiritual Transformers sites http://www.ginigrey.com.

What experience have you had where you operated in sympathy? Was it fulfilling or draining? Do you think that raising to the level of compassion would work for you? Why or why not? Feel free to comment about what you experience when you try this exercise.

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PURCHASE 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.

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Owning Your Aura and Personal Space

This article is derived from a presentation given by Gini Grey during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” on September 6, 2011. Get the full transcription and MP3 audio of Gini’s and Kate Garvey’s presentation at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#Kate

The other one that I think is very useful is to be aware of your aura, because we often think we end where our skin ends.  But we don’t; we have this electromagnetic field of energy, known as an aura, surrounding the body. Because we carry information in our chakras, this is how we perceive, but we also carry that information in the layers of our aura.

Whatever I see, think, or feel has an electrical impulse that emits a signal into the world.
Everyone has their own reality and it may not be like yours. To keep from picking up this free-roaming information, you need to own your aura.  The more you own your aura, the easier it is to keep it clean and see things clearly.  Owning your aura also helps you to create healthy boundaries so that other people respect your space. 

Let’s try this technique. Become aware of the edge of your aura. I like to have my aura a distance of about an arm’s length from my body.  That’s an area I can own.  If I’m feeling fearful I may shrink it in too much and that’s not appropriate. If I try to make myself more visible I may have my aura way out there in everyone else’s space. That means I’m not owning it, and that’s not safe.  So I set my intention to have my aura about an arm’s length around me—in front of me, behind me, to my sides, above, and below. See yourself inside this clear bubble that surrounds you? That is your auric field.

Next, I smooth the outside edge as if caressing your pet or child. Often people use a clear gold or clear light vibration and they envision it around their body. Imagine your whole body and the space around you being clear. That way you can be in the midst of turmoil but nothing will stick in your space. By simply doing that, people will telepathically pick up that this is your space, and they’ll be more likely to respect it.  Whereas if you’re not owning your aura, it’s easy for people to throw their emotions in your space. You will sense their judgments and invalidation.  

Now the other thing about owning your aura is to do it from a place of non-resistance. If you’re in a hectic environment where people are throwing their emotions around and you’re empathic or sensitive you are going to pick up on it. If you go into resistance, you will create a space where stuff sticks to you. What we resist, persists. If you are consciously in a flow of light, other people’s energy will pass right through without affecting you.  If someone isn’t respecting your space, even though you’re owning your boundaries and aura, nothing will stick; it will just flow right through you or pass down your grounding cord, or you’ll just not notice it as much.

When you own your aura and are aware of your energy flow, you know when someone else’s emotion is in your space. You know what your own energy and emotions feel like. When all of a sudden something feels a bit heavy or a icky, you can say, “This isn’t mine,” and you can lay it down or take it off the way you would take off a sweater.  This will work if you are not in resistance and you’re owning your space.  You’ll feel safer, have more balance, and feel healthier with what’s going on.

Sometimes I’ll feel some fear in my space and then I realize something is going on out in the world–an earthquake has happened or something–and I’m picking up on the fear.  Even if I haven’t read a newspaper, I’m picking up on the event, so by knowing I know what my energy feels like I am aware when I’m feeling something that is not mine. I move out of resistance to it and just let it go, then I feel better. 

Have you tried this technique of owning your aura? Feel free to comment about what you experience when you try this exercise.

Gini Grey has created Spiritual Energy Awareness audio programs. These transformational energy awareness courses help you shift the energy dynamics in your life. Programs include topics such as Energy Balancing Tools, Energy Healing Meditation, and Living in Abundance. For empowering articles visit her Insights & Inspiration and Spiritual Transformers sites http://www.ginigrey.com.

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PURCHASE 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.

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Grounding Your Energy

Yesterday we were playing with how it feels to be centered. Today we will play with feeling our energy cord extending from our root chakra. This grounding tool is derived from a presentation given by Gini Grey during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” on September 6, 2011. Get the full transcription and MP3 audio of Gini’s presentation at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#Kate

We unknowingly ground our electrical energy with our feet as we walk about the earth. That’s why it feels so good to be in nature, especially when barefoot. There is also a current of electrical energy emanating from the first or root chakra at the base of the spine.

It’s important to be consciously grounding right now because we’re shifting so fast, and we’re releasing stuff so quickly that if we’re not grounded, we will hold onto emotions and problems, and may have too much or too little energy. But when we have our grounding cord flowing, we release our strong emotions or problems, and if anybody else’s stuff comes into your space you can easily release it too.

Let’s begin by focusing on the energy cord that flows from the base of your spine. Envision it flowing all the way down into the center of the earth. Let the cord be wide– sometimes you might need it as wide as your hips.  Whatever feels appropriate to you and will allow enough energy to flow and release. 

You may need to give yourself a present-time grounding regularly. I’m updating my grounding cord whenever I think about it during the day, or if I’m feeling a little ungrounded.  I just get rid of the old one and create a brand new one, and that way I’m staying in the present moment with what’s going on within me.  Even though this is a very simple and basic technique, it is really helpful. 

Feel free to comment about what you experience when you try this exercise. We love to hear from our readers!

Gini Grey’s is the author of Create What You Want in Your Life—a CD that guides you through the process of discovering what you want in your life, and creating and manifesting it with spiritual ease. This 7-track CD includes two powerful guided imagery sessions to help you envision what you want and move beyond any blocks on your path. For empowering articles visit her Insights & Inspiration and Spiritual Transformers sites http://www.ginigrey.com.



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PURCHASE 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.

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How to Center Your Energy and Bring Balance

Based on a presentation given by Gini Grey during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” on September 6, 2011.

What an important and exciting time we’re in right now.  I think anyone who’s sensitive to energy is feeling this rapid shift in consciousness. Carl Calleman’s work about the Mayan calendar is comforting because as we keep shifting into a new day and night in the cycle of the Mayan calendar, we can better understand why we’re feeling a certain way, and know what is what’s going on.

The Mayan calendar was created by the Mayan civilization that shows how consciousness is evolving. You can look at the timeline in terms of when species were first on the planet, let’s say in the water, or amphibians or whatever, and how that took millions of years to evolve. And then to land-dwelling animals, and how long it took to evolve to Neanderthals and then to Homo Sapiens and then how they evolved from tribes into nations—all these different levels and ages are marked on the calendar.  We’re still evolving as a human species on the planet, but we’re evolving spiritually. Everything’s evolving in the cosmos as well. The Mayan calendar has a timeline of when the next shift is and it is marked for December 21, 2012. 

In March 2011 we moved into the final level of consciousness according to the Mayan calendar, which is the ninth level. It’s moving beyond the 3^rd dimension into the 5^th dimension, or moving beyond duality into oneness where we simply experience, where everything just is, where we’re not caught up on what is right and wrong and good and bad. Instead, we’re blending the use of our brain’s right and left hemispheres. 

This final shift is happening quickly.  About every 36 days something shifts whereas prior to March it was about once a year that things were shifting. Prior to 1998 or 1999 things would shift about every 19 years.  So that just shows you how our bodies are having to adapt to this fast shift in consciousness in which we’re raising our vibration, letting go of what’s not us, and bringing in more light. But that can cause a lot of turmoil.  The planet is going through its own shifting process as well, so there’s natural disasters happening, financial collapses, social and government systems breaking down in order for us to create something new.  It may look bad, but it’s actually just part of a natural evolution in which something crumbles before we evolve into our next level. 

We’ve been evolving since the beginning of time on this planet, and now we’re going to another level of evolution.  People who are empathic are sensitive to this energy, so we feel everything that’s happening. I’ve been feeling it quite intensely these past few months. 

I’d like to offer a basic foundational tool that’s important to remember right now. If you’ve been around this blog for long, you may already know what it feels like to be centered and what it feels like to be not centered. You may already be using these tools, but I’d like to reintroduce them to help you feel balanced as we’re going through these shifts. 

When you’re centered in your body and in your spiritual being, you are aware of who you are, and you are in charge of what’s going on around you.  When we’re not centered, that’s when we’re easily pushed around by the chaotic energies in the world. Some people are not handling the energy shift or turmoil very well, and this creates more disturbance in the earth’s energy and field of collective human thoughts.

First, I want you to close your eyes and take three deep cleansing breaths. Let go of any distractions about the day, and simply be present in this moment. Now, move your focus into the center of your head where you pineal gland is located a few inches back from your forehead. Notice what it feels like when you do this. Did you start to relax? From this centered place, touch into your “bigness” and say hello to yourself as a spiritual being. This place is also known as your sixth chakra, which you use for clairvoyance; it allows you to see clearly from a higher perspective. When you are centered and focused on this area, you are less judgmental and less reactive to the craziness going on around you. You are able to think more clearly than you might if you were in your analyzer mode or not aware of your body. When centered, you are able to interact with people spirit-to-spirit; in other words, you can see the spirit of someone and look beyond their behavior, body, or personality and see the bright light within them.

In my next post on this blog, we will pick up with Gini Grey’s grounding technique. Get the full transcription and MP3 audio of Gini’s and Kate Garvey’s presentation at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#Kate

We love to hear from our readers! Feel free to comment about what you experience when you try this exercise.

Gini Grey’s is the author of From Chaos to Calm: How to Shift Unhealthy Stress Patterns and Create Your Ideal Balance in Life—a book that opens your mind and heart to discovering your ideal state of balance, what gets in the way of creating this, and more importantly, how to let go of unhealthy stress reactions and the underlying motives and payoffs for these.  For empowering articles visit her Insights & Inspiration and Spiritual Transformers sites http://www.ginigrey.com.


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PURCHASE 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.

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How to Smudge Yourself with Sage

For many years, Native Americans have used smudging to cleanse an area, a person, or auric field of detrimental energy. The most common herb to use for this purpose is white sage.

When my husband is home and I need a clearing, I’ll ask him to do the honors, but when I’m home alone, I smudge my own body with sage. In the video below I show you how I do this.You can smudge yourself quite easily by using a piece of cardboard to fan the smoke over your entire body. I use a smudge wand that I created from feathers of birds that I resonate with.





Our guides wait for us to ask for their help rather than infringing upon our free will. Simply ask that your entire body and aura be cleansed by the high, pure vibration of the smoking sage. I also call upon the Violet Flame of St. Germaine to transmute any detrimental energy released in my clearing session into a useful, positive, uplifting energy that will help you sense your oneness with Source, which is Love and Light.

Your intention is powerful and Source knows what you need. Therefore, there is no right or wrong way to smudge. It will be effective rather quickly.

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PURCHASE 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.

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Empaths R Us

Recently, I was interviewed by Kara in her series, “Empaths R Us.” I'm including it here as part of the resources to help empaths and highly-sensitive people.

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1. Empath means “becoming one.” Empaths have the ability to become one with something (humans, animals, crystals, environment, etc.) How would you describe the kind of empath you are?

I find that I connect best with human beings, whether in physical or spirit form. I tend to get over-stimulated in a crowd of people, but I’m also easily able to tap into higher realms to glean information from my spirit guides. In taking this Empathy Quiz, I score high as a healer, human, and animal empath. I feel very connected with my dog and there are times when we communicate telepathically.

2. How would you describe your most dominant empath skill?

The ability to sense energy shifts like when someone is upset about something or when a spirit is in the vicinity. I can feel the energy of stones and sense subtle changes in the electromagnetic field around me.

3. At what age did you consciously become aware that you were more sensitive than others?

I was an adult before it dawned on me that not everyone felt as I did. Looking back though, I realize I was energy sensitive even as a young child. When I encountered a near-death experience at age 17 my sensitivity increased. It took another leap each time I had surgery. It’s like a reconnection with the spirit world occurred while I was under anesthesia.

4. How did this empathic ability affect your childhood?

Because I was picking up energy of my fellow students, I hated going to school. I sensed that my peers didn’t like me or that I was a misfit. I was depressed as a teenager due to feeling my parent’s unhappiness as if it were my own.

5. How did your parents or family reaction to your hypersensitivity?

Mom thought I was weak because I cried a lot and things upset me that didn’t upset her or others. My dad is also a highly sensitive person, but he does not have an understanding of this intuitive gift.

6. Did your view of your empathy change as you became an adult?

By the time I was in my thirties I realized that not everyone had the same ability to feel and sense energy as I did. I knew I had a spiritual gift and I wanted to use it to help others. When I sensed someone needed help, I prayed for them and many times their condition or situation improved. That’s how I became a prayer warrior (intercessor) and began to spend hours each day praying for others. During those sessions, I had some strong physical and emotional manifestations in reaction to the high-vibratory energy moving through me. I was also picking up on the emotional energy and physical illnesses that others were releasing. While I found a few other prophetic prayer warriors who manifested similar “symptoms” and accepted me as if I were part of their family, I never fit in to the framework of organized religion.

7. At what age did you fully realize what being an empath meant?

I still didn’t have a name for what I was experiencing when being an empath finally took its toll on my marriage and my health. At age forty, I was burned out. I left organized religion and started my life over in an effort to heal myself and find out what was going on with me. I began seriously searching for answers and found ways to alleviate energy overload and remain emotionally stable, even when close acquaintances experienced an upset. I did this by detaching, setting boundaries, and caring for my own needs.

8. What did you feel like when you realized that there were other empaths in the world?

Even though I didn’t have the term “empath” when I was involved in the prayer group, I felt as if someone finally understood me. Everyone in that group experienced what we called “backlash.” I now know that this feeling that we thought meant we had been “cursed” is called empathy overload or compassion fatigue.

9. How would you say this empathic ability shaped your life overall?

There’s not an aspect of my life that being empathic has not touched. It affects how I do relationships, where I go, who I spend time with (and for how long), and how my home is arranged and decorated, as well as understanding my spiritual purpose and why I’ve always needed to spend time alone.

10. Do you consciously use your empathic skills in how you make a living?

I’m transitioning my career to use this gift more and more. I operate a freelance writing and editing business, and I use my intuition to know which clients I’m to work with. Since publishing my book, Whose Stuff is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, I recognize an opportunity to share my gifts and experience through public speaking. I plan to put together a workshop or tele-seminar later this year. See http://whosestuffisthis.com for information and resources for empaths.

11. What are the best techniques that you have found to keep your emotional boundaries intact with others?

Grounding and centering, meditation, smudging, clearing and maintaining my energetic field, running energy through my body, and balancing my chakras are a few that I use regularly. Learn what your own energy feels like so you can quickly note when you are picking up energy that isn’t yours. Chapter 9 of my book gives about two dozens ways for empaths to strengthen their boundaries and stay emotionally healthy.

12. What is your favourite thing about being an empath?

Being able to feel connected to the Divine and to others. Helping people by being able to sense what is bothering someone and offering them practical advice (when asked) to get them on a higher path.

13. What is your least favourite thing about being an empath?

Being overwhelmed due to my extreme sensitivity to sound—especially when it is mixed with group energy. Because I get overwhelmed pretty quickly, I avoid meeting clients in a busy or noisy public place such as a coffee shop or restaurant during lunchtime. I’ve learned to pick a library or bookstore that has a quieter atmosphere and fewer people around.

14. What is your best piece of advice for other empaths?

Many empaths exhibit codependent behavior. We want to please and help people even if we find it draining us. We’ve been taught that martyrdom and sacrificial giving is honorable. But, I’ve learned that if I can’t give something (whether time, energy, or money) without feeling joyful and enthusiastic about it, I’m not living authentically. You can only give to others without draining yourself when you share from the fullness of spirit.

My advice is to honor yourself by saying no when you need to and then refuse to feel guilty about it. Let other souls have their own experiences and learn from them. There’s no need to run interference or prevent others from suffering the consequences of their own choices. Find what techniques work best for you to keep your energy field clear, learn to set boundaries, and care for yourself before you try to help others.

15. Do you believe there is any difference between empathic skills and intuitive/psychic skills?

They are very much the same, but there are some subtle differences if you want to break things down and analyze the two terms. Empathy is the ability to feel for and with others—like putting yourself in their place or walking a mile in their shoes. It has more to do with emotions and feeling (clairsentience), whereas a person with psychic skills might also experience clairaudience (hearing in the spirit realm), clairvoyance (seeing apparitions, having visions and dreams), psychometry (gleaning information from objects), and mysteriously knowing things. Not all psychics are emotionally empathic, meaning not all of them get their information from what they feel.

Empathy is just one component of the multi-faceted intuitive package that I call our divine or internal guidance system. As empaths develop their intuition, they will naturally stop giving away their energy by default and become more on purpose about what energy they send and receive. It’s best not to use our bodies as a psychic barometer or allow empathic abilities to wreck havoc upon our emotions and physical well-being.

Thanks to Yvonne for sharing her personal experiences. Here again are the links to Yvonne’s book, and blog and podcast.

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Fast Relief for Empathy Overload

While there's no quick fix to make a tough emotional situation go away, you can do some things to help you manage stress, care for yourself, and find some relief. Below are a few tips that you can do every day.

1) Add 2 cups of salt, 1 cup of baking soda, and 2 cups of epsom salt to a warm bath. Soak for 10-15 minutes. This will take some of the stored or repressed tension out of your muscles. 

2) Do 100 Full-Wave Breaths through your mouth. Bring the breath all the way in and feel your abdomen, belly, and chest rise. Do this in private while lying down. You will feel more relaxed and energized, more focused and less tense. See this audio for more how-to on this technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9dsTcjwTuw

3. Listen to the audio on my blog that teaches you how to ground and center your energy. This is the direct link: http://ow.ly/1svrqb. There are two parts to this audio. Do both parts. Here is the direct link to the second part: http://ow.ly/1svrs9

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Helpful Blogs and Web sites for Empaths & Highly-sensitive People

Highly-sensitive people may enjoy these blogs and Web sites on empathy.

Empathic Perspectives
Empath Connection (Facebook page)
http://www.eliselebeau.com/empaths
http://empathcommunity.eliselebeau.com

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MORE RESOURCES FOR EMPATHS

Audios
Books, E-books, and Audio Books
Online Classes and Groups
Jewelry and Gemstones
Practitioners who understand empaths
Quizzes and Tests
Radio Shows
Videos, CDs, & DVDs

Resources: Audio to Help Empaths Set Boundaries and Say No

YOU, my empathic friends, are the guest of honor on my podcast and blog today! This audio is a message delivered  in the form of a meditative affirmation to help empathic people set boundaries and find encouragement to take time in self care.

Most people do not realize how connected we are, let alone how much this connection affects us. We feel compelled to help others even when we need to rest or care for ourselves. We have assigned nobility to the martyr who keeps pushing when they are drained. There's no prize for allowing yourself to be slowly tortured in the name of doing good deeds in your own strength. You must learn to give from the flow of abundant energy of love and light that comes from a higher source. Listen and learn how!

My podcast is archived in case you would like to listen to more spiritually enlightening shows.

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PURCHASE 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.

Resources: Books for Empathic or Energy-sensitive People

Here you will find books, e-books, and audio books to help empaths grow spiritually.

BOOKS, E-BOOKS, & AUDIO BOOKS

• Complete Empath Toolkit by Dr. Michael R. Smith
• Emotional Health: The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, & Pain - Part 1 of 3 [e-book] by Michael Lawrience
• Emotional Health: The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, & Pain - Part 2 of 3 [e-book] by Michael Lawrience
• Emotional Health: The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, & Pain - Part 3 of 3 [e-book] by Michael Lawrience
• Emotional Freedom Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life by Judith Orloff
• Empath Intuition: Using Your Body as an Oracle [Audiobook] by Dr. Michael R. Smith
• From Chaos to Calm How to Shift Unhealthy Stress Patterns and Create Your Ideal Balance in Life by Gini Grey
• Help Is On Its Way - A Memoir About Growing Up Sensitive by Jenna Forrest 
• Intuitive Healing by Judith Orloff
Kids Who See Ghosts by Dr. Caron Goode
• Mirroring People: The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others by Marco Iacoboni Picador
• Navigating 2012: Thriving in Earth's New Age by Dr. Michael R. Smith 
• Positive Energy by Judith Orloff
• Raising Intuitive Children by Dr. Caron Goode
• Roots of Empathy Changing the World Child by Child Mary Gordon
• Second Sight by Judith Orloff
• Teaching Empathy, A Blueprint for Caring compiled by David A Levine
• The Age of Empathy Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
• The Astonishing Power of Emotions Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks
• The Empath Experience: Shifting the Paradigm [Audiobook] by Dr. Michael R. Smith
• The Empathic Civilization The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis by Jeremy Rifkin
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N Aron, PhD
• The Social Neuroscience of Empathy by Jean Decety and William Ickes
• More books for empaths http://www.empathconnection.com/books.html
  

More Resources Audios Online Classes and Groups Jewelry and Gemstones Practitioners who understand empaths Quizzes and Tests Radio Shows Videos, CDs, & DVDs Blogs & Web sites

Online Classes and Groups to Help Empaths

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Empath Community is a Facebook discussion page founded and operated by Dr. Michael R. Smith, author of The Complete Empath Toolkit.

Elise Lebeau has information on her Web site for empaths: http://www.eliselebeau.com/empaths. She also sponsors a networking group for empathic people to connect and find community at http://empathcommunity.eliselebeau.com.

Online courses by Harriette Knight are offered on an ability-to-pay basis at www.DailyOm.com. Choose from How to Fire Up Your Chakras, A Year of Intuitive Illuminations, and The Power of Gemstones.


EmpathConnection.com a community of empaths sharing insight and finding answers on Facebook

An empath community based on sensitivity, support, and compassion.

Care of the Sensitive class is a psychic and healing class for creative, intuitive, and sensitive people.

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More Resources

Audios
Books, E-books, and Audio Books
Jewelry and Gemstones
Practitioners who understand empaths
Quizzes and Tests
Radio Shows
Videos, CDs, & DVDs
Blogs & Web sites