Comments on: The Real Traits of an Empath - The List http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/ All things related to empathy, psychic ability, spirituality, and ascension Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:02:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Sherry http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-5642 Sherry Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:47:05 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-5642 Veronica, I understand and get from your post that you at least know this, and the feelings and thoughts, are not you as in how you normally feel. It is possible that you have a connection to someone that you have been unable to break. It is actually not that uncommon and happen to many empath. I personally understand the frustration as well and it is a little scarey at the same time. When this happens to me I reconigize that the thoughts/feelings are not mine and then I put them out of my mind. Then of course as you know breaking the connection is what you want to do and make take several attempts. I often will put up the violet flame protection first and then break the connections. Of course always remember that you can ask for help...from your guides, angels/archangels like Michael, or even your own higher self. Sometime I will ask my higher self to break all connections to me and prevent any connections from forming and also raise my vibrations so that it will be more difficult for the connection to form. Basically simply ask for what you need help with. You didnt mention protection methods but I am assuming that you are and have been protecting daily along with grounding. It sounds like whatever protection you are using is not working...or if you are not using protection (a bubble of protection surround yourself that is solid) then of course connections are able to form. There really isnt much you need...if you believe that you have the power and ability to break connections and believe that nothing can get through your protection...then that will be true for you. Sherry Veronica,
I understand and get from your post that you at least know this, and the feelings and thoughts, are not you as in how you normally feel. It is possible that you have a connection to someone that you have been unable to break. It is actually not that uncommon and happen to many empath. I personally understand the frustration as well and it is a little scarey at the same time. When this happens to me I reconigize that the thoughts/feelings are not mine and then I put them out of my mind. Then of course as you know breaking the connection is what you want to do and make take several attempts. I often will put up the violet flame protection first and then break the connections. Of course always remember that you can ask for help…from your guides, angels/archangels like Michael, or even your own higher self. Sometime I will ask my higher self to break all connections to me and prevent any connections from forming and also raise my vibrations so that it will be more difficult for the connection to form. Basically simply ask for what you need help with.

You didnt mention protection methods but I am assuming that you are and have been protecting daily along with grounding. It sounds like whatever protection you are using is not working…or if you are not using protection (a bubble of protection surround yourself that is solid) then of course connections are able to form. There really isnt much you need…if you believe that you have the power and ability to break connections and believe that nothing can get through your protection…then that will be true for you.

Sherry

]]> By: veronica http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-5602 veronica Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:25:54 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-5602 i have been getting worse. most people say it is "better" (not to me- i don't have any friends) websites, i mean- the feelings are getting stronger. I am the most positive, intelligent person I have known...and I have sincerely desired to kill myself twice in just the last week. I am not suicidal. What the hell is happening to me? I have been doing all i know to do. I practice the release technique regularly, i use eft and tat, i meditate daily...shit, nightly, hourly, moment by moment. all i do is think. all i do is feel. all i do is create. i feel as if i truly do not belong here. not on some aliens and ufo shit, but for real- i feel like i am living a script. like i built in a clause to my life that says 'if i don't "get it" [whatever IT is], by a certain time...felt like 28, then i will die'- not a morbid thing, more like an exit strategy. I am 29. I know of paradigm shifts and empathic emotional luggage carrying and such. I know for sure that i am an empath- universal it would seem, and God is a concept that I am still latching on to even though i am no longer religious. I know Them as Source Energy, and i am begging for help. i... shit. i am putting all of my experience into these words in this line. please. please. i don't want to buy anything. there are no more books to read. no 26 week courses to take. there is nothing else left to do that i know already..please. please help me if you can. 25 years is a long time to be lonely. to be rejected. to be crazy. please help me. i've tried the numerologists, tarot weirdos, shrinks, smoking weed, went searching for Salvia's visions, solitude (extreme), socializing my life away- grounding...i killed 2 trees. praying to a god that doesn't care, obviously. chakra cleanse/balance/what-the-fuck-ever. i'm dying. please. i can't even work a job. had to take online classes. cant even be around my children for long periods of time..my husband is military and gone for a year here, 6 months there...or we would be divorced by now. please help. please. i am a good woman. i am nice and decent and caring and i just dont have anyone to tell me how to care for myself - TRULY. i need something real. i dont want to die before i atleast learn how to live. please help me. please don't leave me here all by myself if you can help me with something that you KNOW FOR SURE WILL HELP. please help. Veronica. i have been getting worse. most people say it is “better” (not to me- i don’t have any friends) websites, i mean- the feelings are getting stronger. I am the most positive, intelligent person I have known…and I have sincerely desired to kill myself twice in just the last week. I am not suicidal. What the hell is happening to me?
I have been doing all i know to do. I practice the release technique regularly, i use eft and tat, i meditate daily…shit, nightly, hourly, moment by moment. all i do is think. all i do is feel. all i do is create. i feel as if i truly do not belong here. not on some aliens and ufo shit, but for real- i feel like i am living a script. like i built in a clause to my life that says ‘if i don’t “get it” [whatever IT is], by a certain time…felt like 28, then i will die’- not a morbid thing, more like an exit strategy. I am 29.

I know of paradigm shifts and empathic emotional luggage carrying and such. I know for sure that i am an empath- universal it would seem, and God is a concept that I am still latching on to even though i am no longer religious. I know Them as Source Energy, and i am begging for help.

i… shit. i am putting all of my experience into these words in this line. please.
please. i don’t want to buy anything. there are no more books to read. no 26 week courses to take. there is nothing else left to do that i know already..please. please help me if you can. 25 years is a long time to be lonely. to be rejected. to be crazy. please help me. i’ve tried the numerologists, tarot weirdos, shrinks, smoking weed, went searching for Salvia’s visions, solitude (extreme), socializing my life away- grounding…i killed 2 trees. praying to a god that doesn’t care, obviously. chakra cleanse/balance/what-the-fuck-ever. i’m dying.
please. i can’t even work a job. had to take online classes. cant even be around my children for long periods of time..my husband is military and gone for a year here, 6 months there…or we would be divorced by now. please help. please. i am a good woman. i am nice and decent and caring and i just dont have anyone to tell me how to care for myself - TRULY. i need something real. i dont want to die before i atleast learn how to live. please help me. please don’t leave me here all by myself if you can help me with something that you KNOW FOR SURE WILL HELP.
please help.
Veronica.

]]> By: Kate http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-5256 Kate Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:43:51 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-5256 i read the article and it helped a little but i am still wondering if i am an empath or not. sometimes i get a really weird feeling in my gut when something bad is about to happen and i have terrible mood swings and am overly sensative, like my friend will say something that seems completly nice but when i get home i will cry about it and not kno why.when my mom gets a really bad migrane i will get one to not as bad and whenever i see someone get hurt on tv or in reality i always cringe and have a really weird quesy feeling. i am always tired and i hate it when people fight it just makes me want to cry.my parents fight a lot and sometmes it gets so bad i feel like my head willl explode and i have to go up to my room and blast music to drown them out but i still feel horrible about it. i dont have all the traits listed but i do have some and i guess it sorta makes sense to me now. am i an empath or just overly sensative?? i read the article and it helped a little but i am still wondering if i am an empath or not. sometimes i get a really weird feeling in my gut when something bad is about to happen and i have terrible mood swings and am overly sensative, like my friend will say something that seems completly nice but when i get home i will cry about it and not kno why.when my mom gets a really bad migrane i will get one to not as bad and whenever i see someone get hurt on tv or in reality i always cringe and have a really weird quesy feeling. i am always tired and i hate it when people fight it just makes me want to cry.my parents fight a lot and sometmes it gets so bad i feel like my head willl explode and i have to go up to my room and blast music to drown them out but i still feel horrible about it. i dont have all the traits listed but i do have some and i guess it sorta makes sense to me now. am i an empath or just overly sensative??

]]> By: Sherry http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4082 Sherry Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:52:28 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-4082 We are all different so it is normal for not all the traits to fit you or all the experiences you have to match up with what someone else experiences. From your description I would say that you are an empath not just a highly sensitive person. I say that because like me you are feel on a physical level as well. Many who are empaths also tend to be clairsentients although maybe they have not had clairsentient experiences only because they haven't awakened to it yet. Scroll to the bottom of any page on this site and you will see links to three "Devleping Empathy" posts which will give you more information related to emapthy. Get to know yourself real well so that you know when something is not you. Get use to not reacting to quickly...stop and check yourself....is it you you are feeling or possibly another, before you react to something that may very well not be yours. Ask yourself "How did I feel just a few minutes ago?" That helps to figure out if it is you or someone else. And if you do nothing else learn to ground and protect (info about that is given in those three articles). You are blessed! Sherry We are all different so it is normal for not all the traits to fit you or all the experiences you have to match up with what someone else experiences. From your description I would say that you are an empath not just a highly sensitive person. I say that because like me you are feel on a physical level as well. Many who are empaths also tend to be clairsentients although maybe they have not had clairsentient experiences only because they haven’t awakened to it yet.

Scroll to the bottom of any page on this site and you will see links to three “Devleping Empathy” posts which will give you more information related to emapthy. Get to know yourself real well so that you know when something is not you. Get use to not reacting to quickly…stop and check yourself….is it you you are feeling or possibly another, before you react to something that may very well not be yours. Ask yourself “How did I feel just a few minutes ago?” That helps to figure out if it is you or someone else. And if you do nothing else learn to ground and protect (info about that is given in those three articles).

You are blessed!

Sherry

]]> By: Tab http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4081 Tab Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:51:25 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-4081 This helped me a little but i am still so confused. I have looked up everything about empathy and i think it might be possible i am one. But i do not know for sure... i have some of the symptoms but not all. See i am what you call overly sensitive and i have mood swings like crazy and i dont know why. also like when i read a book or watch a tv show or movie, i feel like the person in the movie, tv show or book would and it sometimes hurts. I cant leave someone who needs help, i feel compelled to help them. Also i feel like crap when i hear one of my friends is in trouble, or something bad that has happened. Is this Empathy or am i just going crazy? This helped me a little but i am still so confused. I have looked up everything about empathy and i think it might be possible i am one. But i do not know for sure… i have some of the symptoms but not all. See i am what you call overly sensitive and i have mood swings like crazy and i dont know why. also like when i read a book or watch a tv show or movie, i feel like the person in the movie, tv show or book would and it sometimes hurts. I cant leave someone who needs help, i feel compelled to help them. Also i feel like crap when i hear one of my friends is in trouble, or something bad that has happened. Is this Empathy or am i just going crazy?

]]> By: Sherry http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-3163 Sherry Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:27:13 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-3163 Yanninia, Oh I know what you mean totally! I cant tell you how many times I would say the same thing...I just want answers! Yes, what you describe is very normal actually. You've got several different things going on. Empathy, clairsentience, clairvoyance and clairaudience...it sounds like you just need to consciously work on developing your clairaudience and clairvoyance especially so that it is not just sporatic but well controlled. The more you acknowledge the experiences the more they will develop. It is common for an empath to pick up a connection to someone and then for more information to come through. Let it and encourage it by asking for more information as you sense you are picking something up. Sounds to me like you are doing good. :-) Sherry Yanninia,

Oh I know what you mean totally! I cant tell you how many times I would say the same thing…I just want answers!

Yes, what you describe is very normal actually. You’ve got several different things going on. Empathy, clairsentience, clairvoyance and clairaudience…it sounds like you just need to consciously work on developing your clairaudience and clairvoyance especially so that it is not just sporatic but well controlled. The more you acknowledge the experiences the more they will develop.

It is common for an empath to pick up a connection to someone and then for more information to come through. Let it and encourage it by asking for more information as you sense you are picking something up.

Sounds to me like you are doing good. :-)
Sherry

]]> By: Yanninia http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-3135 Yanninia Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:54:32 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-3135 I want to Thanks you for this article. I didn't quite confirm my suspicions seeing as everything I read else where says it a constant thing, and well with me someday i feel fine, and then the next i walk in to a class all i want to do i run cause well that just it i don't know. I've been doing a lot of research but I keep hitting dead in end, and it just seem like everyone want to sell me something and all i want is an anserw. I don't know if you can help but here it goes. Sometime I can just know something, like if something not right or that some good going to happen, then there are other time when i'm so over whelmed by something and i'm so sure something is horrible wrong but then as quickly as it come it goes away. I also sometime here people calling my name, or i feel someone or something tap me on my shoulder or following me. And latly when i try to meditate instead of the usual quite darkness i start to see things like miniture movie of places and people i never seen. Is this normal for an Empath?? Am i even an empth? I want to Thanks you for this article. I didn’t quite confirm my suspicions seeing as everything I read else where says it a constant thing, and well with me someday i feel fine, and then the next i walk in to a class all i want to do i run cause well that just it i don’t know. I’ve been doing a lot of research but I keep hitting dead in end, and it just seem like everyone want to sell me something and all i want is an anserw. I don’t know if you can help but here it goes. Sometime I can just know something, like if something not right or that some good going to happen, then there are other time when i’m so over whelmed by something and i’m so sure something is horrible wrong but then as quickly as it come it goes away. I also sometime here people calling my name, or i feel someone or something tap me on my shoulder or following me. And latly when i try to meditate instead of the usual quite darkness i start to see things like miniture movie of places and people i never seen. Is this normal for an Empath?? Am i even an empth?

]]> By: jacqueline http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-1603 jacqueline Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:07:38 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-1603 thank you for the aritcle - I feel like it isn't real but I have had this my whole life - for example my mom in scotland, has allergic reaction and got hives - for no reason, me in canada gets them...my son gets hurt (foot), I hurt the same body part - (always on the opposite side of the body) - but don't know why I can't walk - I only just woke up from a nap? not knowing who it is can be a probem for me - so I could help them and me. I did take reiki years ago, but stopped using it because it made it worse. A girl was in a restaraunt sitting across from me, and i could feel her being sexually abused by a step father, i was shaking and crying and had to leave. It got to the point drug addicts were all around me for healing, and instead, I started using heavy drugs. I am clean, but only because I couldn't facilitate to help spirit do the work required because of my empathy thank you for the aritcle - I feel like it isn’t real but I have had this my whole life - for example my mom in scotland, has allergic reaction and got hives - for no reason, me in canada gets them…my son gets hurt (foot), I hurt the same body part - (always on the opposite side of the body) - but don’t know why I can’t walk - I only just woke up from a nap?

not knowing who it is can be a probem for me - so I could help them and me. I did take reiki years ago, but stopped using it because it made it worse. A girl was in a restaraunt sitting across from me, and i could feel her being sexually abused by a step father, i was shaking and crying and had to leave. It got to the point drug addicts were all around me for healing, and instead, I started using heavy drugs.

I am clean, but only because I couldn’t facilitate to help spirit do the work required because of my empathy

]]> By: AndrewBoldman http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-1203 AndrewBoldman Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:06:06 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-1203 Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting. Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting.

]]> By: Sherry http://sherryandrea.com/2009/04/07/the-real-traits-of-an-empath-the-list/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Sherry Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:59:21 +0000 http://myjourney11.wordpress.com/?p=419#comment-285 Pamela, Thanks. I thought it was awesome that you write historically correct novels. I use to read a lot of books regarding novel writing and the different Genre. That is awesome that your novel is being so well received...it must be really good. Historical novels require a lot of research...your research capabilities are awesome. We all come to our truths in our own time. I always advise people to go with what their truth and what they believe. However I also advise people that in developing one of the most important things to gain is trust...trust what you receive, hear, see, of course I am speaking of the sixth senses. In the past two years my guides, Arachangels, Ascended Master, etc have not changed their minds about this and begun telling me different...even now as I write I am being told quite strongly that what I am saying is true. But, no one can take another word for things. You have to come to your own truths in your own time. So it's okay that we disagree on this. As the ascended master Tobias says "It's really doesn't matter." lol. Many go through life never knowing they are empaths, so it is often hard for people to know if there are empaths in past generations. Many still in this day don't know what an empath is or that such as person exists. One of the common things heards from empaths is that they were raised being told often that they are too sensitive, including myself and their behavior has not been accepted. So would that then point to nature? And then it would mean there was a need for humans and animals to be able to feel another emotionally and physically? As a means to survive by being able to feel what another feels? Note I am not being told this is correct. Mouse Study Reveals Genetic Component Of Empathy - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138992.php Empathy Appears to Have Genetic Component (from Science & Religion Today) - http://scienceandreligiontoday.blogspot.com/2009/02/empathy-appears-to-have-genetic.html The Genetics of Empathy and It's Disorders - <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=WERLMMqVcKAC&pg=RA1-PA261&lpg=RA1-PA261&dq=is+empathy+genetic&source=bl&ots=HrzbV4XNrJ&sig=37uw1VIn7d2ToHTUQtJYZElwTz0&hl=en&ei=a3rcSeaBFYXkyAXan5zJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=WERLMMqVcKAC&pg=RA1-PA261&lpg=RA1-PA261&dq=is+empathy+genetic&source=bl&ots=HrzbV4XNrJ&sig=37uw1VIn7d2ToHTUQtJYZElwTz0&hl=en&ei=a3rcSeaBFYXkyAXan5zJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2</a> Rose Rosetree says "While anyone can become a face reader and can learn to read auras in depth and detail, either you're born as an empath or not. Most people are not. In America, it's about 1 in 20 people with a lifelong gift as an empath." - http://searchwarp.com/swa29464.htm Pamela,
Thanks. I thought it was awesome that you write historically correct novels. I use to read a lot of books regarding novel writing and the different Genre. That is awesome that your novel is being so well received…it must be really good. Historical novels require a lot of research…your research capabilities are awesome.

We all come to our truths in our own time. I always advise people to go with what their truth and what they believe. However I also advise people that in developing one of the most important things to gain is trust…trust what you receive, hear, see, of course I am speaking of the sixth senses. In the past two years my guides, Arachangels, Ascended Master, etc have not changed their minds about this and begun telling me different…even now as I write I am being told quite strongly that what I am saying is true. But, no one can take another word for things. You have to come to your own truths in your own time. So it’s okay that we disagree on this. As the ascended master Tobias says “It’s really doesn’t matter.” lol. Many go through life never knowing they are empaths, so it is often hard for people to know if there are empaths in past generations. Many still in this day don’t know what an empath is or that such as person exists. One of the common things heards from empaths is that they were raised being told often that they are too sensitive, including myself and their behavior has not been accepted. So would that then point to nature? And then it would mean there was a need for humans and animals to be able to feel another emotionally and physically? As a means to survive by being able to feel what another feels? Note I am not being told this is correct.

Mouse Study Reveals Genetic Component Of Empathy - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138992.php
Empathy Appears to Have Genetic Component (from Science & Religion Today) - http://scienceandreligiontoday.blogspot.com/2009/02/empathy-appears-to-have-genetic.html
The Genetics of Empathy and It’s Disorders - http://books.google.com/books?id=WERLMMqVcKAC&pg=RA1-PA261&lpg=RA1-PA261&dq=is+empathy+genetic&source=bl&ots=HrzbV4XNrJ&sig=37uw1VIn7d2ToHTUQtJYZElwTz0&hl=en&ei=a3rcSeaBFYXkyAXan5zJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2
Rose Rosetree says “While anyone can become a face reader and can learn to read auras in depth and detail, either you’re born as an empath or not. Most people are not. In America, it’s about 1 in 20 people with a lifelong gift as an empath.” - http://searchwarp.com/swa29464.htm

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