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I hope today has been a wonderful day for you thus far.

I would like to discuss the internet and potential dangers you need to be aware of. We all think of the internet as a technological convenience and some like myself can’t live with out it for more than a couple of days. Most of the time we email, partake in social networking and play some games all without incident. You still need to be aware that as an empath or HSP (highly sensitive person) that you can also connect to people through innocent communications. Email, chat, websites, social networking sites, and even phone calls and mobile text messages.

It happens the same way as it does when you are simply thinking about someone and connect to them. Thought is a powerful thing, especially for an energy sensitive person. How and if it happens also depends on where you are at vibration wise. Are your vibrations low from negative self talk or negative emotions in general? If they are low then you have to remember that you will attract like vibrations. If your vibrations are in a good place then you will be less likely to attract that connection which may leave you feeling drained and powerless.

The best way to protect yourself is to ground and protect every day. It is also helpful to get into the habit of protecting yourself, your computer and your space before having that internet time. Place a bubble of protection large enough to include your computer and space around you with the intention that you will be fully protected from anything that might be harmful to you now or in the future. So, if you haven’t done so already brush up on your protection skills.

If you do find yourself connected to some one or feeling as though you are under a psychic attack remember a few key things:

-Nothing can hurt you unless you believe that it can
-Daily use of protection before computer use will help keep you safe
-Learn to technique of cutting cords through visualization
-Ask for help when you need it because your spirit helpers, Yeshua, God can not help you unless you ask because of the Law of Freewill

Show respect to God/source by protecting the very thing that he has given you that is most precious…your SELF.

One of the most important things I must mention is that if this is new to you, it takes time to build and strengthen your protection. In the beginning it will not be strong and you may even feel as though the protection/shield you are putting up is not working at all. Well it is part a state of mind. If you believe in it then it is real and it works. But in the beginning it is hard for some to imagine that just visualizing a shield actually works. Some have a hard time believing in that which they cannot see. In that regard you can understand why it takes time. Also it takes time to build up your energy. Although I am not recommending this but for me it was a little bit easier because before I began practicing protection I had been attuned to Reiki. This of course increase my energy and vibration. Also I had gotten into the habit of praying several times a day so I would use prayer in conjunction with my protection. I simply believed that nothing could conquer a prayer and so that was true for me because I sincerely believed that. Also i often practiced visualization (something you would also want to practice when for developing clairvoyance) and this helped me to visualize my protection better.With that said I want to go over some methods of protection.

This one is a great one to start with. Simply visualize (eyes open or closed whichever is easier for you) an opaque and solid bright white bubble surrounding you. It does not matter its shape. Just go with what comes to you as far as the shape. It should extend about a foot around you and don’t forget to focus just as much attention to the part of the bubble above and below you. Visualize that anything that touches your shield will go over and around it and not penetrate it. Also visualize that when your shield comes in contact with anothers that it will bend but not break. Hold the visualization of your shield for at least a minute or two and then you are ready to go about your day like normal. Rest assured your shield is there and moves with you.

The Mummy Wrap

I love this one because for me it is an easier one for me to visualize for some reason. You know how a mummy is wrapped. We are going to do the same thing but our material will be bright white light that we are wrapping ourselves with. Start by visualizing a bright white ball of light above your head. Visualize it as long as you need to for you to attain the most brightness possible. Next imagine that a bright white light ribbon begins coming out of the ball and begin visualizing it wrapping around your head. Leave an appropriate space between yourself and the ribbon. Continue wrapping yourself and as you do imagine that it is like glued in place with no spaces. When you get to your feet visualize it wrapping underneath your feet and completely surrounding you. Hold this visualization for a minute or two.

Burning Flame Protection

A protection such as this would be used for emergency situations and for short amounts of time since it takes more of your energy. If you suddenly find yourself in a highly negative environment or situation or you are under psychic attack would be example of times when this type of protection will come in handy. It does require more focus and concentration, so if you have been meditation 10-15 minutes a day you should be able to accomplish the focus you need easily enough.

Stand with feet together and arms at your side. Breath and go inside yourself deep into your center where there is your intense powerful source of energy. Let me not that I usually visualize bringing energy in and down through my crown and into my stomach from the sun. The sun is hot right? So I find this helpful for this type of protection. I buildup the energy in my stomach and then visualize that in my center a flame is burning that grows larger and larger until it bursts and is burning from your center all the way outside yourself bursting into a bright blue flame with the curved base of the flame under your feet and the tip of the flame above your head. This flame will not burn you but will stop anything from being able to come close to touching you. Try to keep part of your focus on this flame as you are in the negative situation. As you breath and exhale imagine your exhaling fueling the fire. Of course you really need to practice this protection method before you actually need to use it.

About Colors and Patterns

There are other things you can do to strengthen the basic protection and the mummy protection. Visualize blue light or other colors that you feel moved to used. Try various colors to see their effect and see if you find a color of protection that works better for you or better in certain situations.

Visualizing protection that has constant changing color patterns is very hard to penetrate because it is every changing. You can also experiment with the shape of your protection.

In the future I will be writing another article about some other protection methods I use that serve multiple purposes.

Most empath’s would look at this title and cringe. In their minds they would ask “Why would I want to develop this more? To torture myself even more?” Although it seems that is what you would be doing because most think of empathy as a gift similar to psychic skill and they would think to develop means to bring out more that which I already have. That is true but also while you are bringing out the skill more you are also learning to control it. That control is what an empath needs to live a happy, satisfied, non-torture feeling life.

I am not an expert at helping anyone develop a skill. I don’t consider myself the Empath Teacher at all. But it is so true that someone who has developed and where you maybe want to be one day has something to offer even if it is just some tips and how-to’s.

There are a few things that all empath’s should learn that are important on the road to developing their empathy:

• Grounding
• Protection
• Clearing chakra’s
• Learning to quickly close chakra’s
• Dissassociation

Grounding

Picture small roots growing out of the bottom of your feet down, down, down to the core of the Earth. Imagine that there is a large quartz crystal at the core that your roots connect to. Next visualize a small spot on the top of your head (your crown chakara) opening up and fibers emerging reachiing up and up similar to the roots you visualized coming from your feet. Visualize them growing up and up and connecting to the heavan’s, central sun, moon, a planet, etc. Sit for a few moments and breath in energy from both below and above and visualize that energy entering your body. In doing this you are both centering and grounding yourself. Do this every morning and anytime you feel insecure, emotional, and always before meditation or any spiritual or healing work.

Basic Protection

Simply affirm “I surround myself in Christ White Light of love and protection” as you visualize yourself being surrounded by a bubble of bright white light. Do this every morning and anytime you feel anxious or fearful. Also before going to bed. It is all in the intention so feel free to state what can’t through your bubble of protection. In the beginning you may feel the protection is not workign or not having much affect. The more you practice protection the stronger it become as you build up your energy and visualization skills.

To be continued…

If you are an empath you are well aware of the effect movies showing tragedy, violence, etc. can have on you. It can feel very devastating from the inside out. You think you can handle it because you know what the movie will portray so you try to watch it thinking that your heads up on the content will make you strong. But then as you watch the movie you are hit hard by the emotions and even though you quickly reach for the remote to turn off the horrid scene you are watching it is too late.

With empathy there is no “catching it in time.” You will still be affect if even only a little. What little you saw will have a tendency to play over and over in your mind. But what do you do when you have turned if off but are still feeling the effects?

Wipe your tears first of all. Acknowledge that you have been affected and must do something to take care of yourself. If you are no good to yourself, you are also no good to anyone else either. If you have children, being that empath is genetic, you may affect them. That is good to keep in mind. They don’t just pick up emotions directly from the source of the emotions, but can pick it up in a second hand kind of way. You are affect my the movie and are carrying the emotions which they then pick up from you. And you more easily pick up emotions from people you are close to of course.

• Calm yourself down with some deep breathing. Come on you can do this while doing other things so there is no excuse not to practice some prana breathing. Note: I will post the techniques of prana breathing next. The prana breathing will, it you just make the effort to envision it, help you bring in new air and energy into your body and on the exhale rid the old air and energy.
• Replace the bad emotions with good positive emotions. Your favorite upbeat music. The comedy channel is one of my favorites to use for this purpose. Laughter is very strong medicine! Get you mind re-focused on so positive feel good thing! You may think to pick up the phone and call a friend. It may make you feel a little better but what if your friend picks up on your sadness? Now both of you are feeling down. Not good huh?

Hope these tips help you in the future as they have greatly helped me.

Thanks for reading.

I have been wanting to write for some time about empathy. Often we want to write about what we know or live with but are concern that we don’t know enough. Some times you can’t know it all when it comes to certain subjects but often we know more than we think we do. And so I am now ready to give what I have to offer on the subject.

The most important thing to understand is that within a group of empath’s we are all not exactly the same as far as how our empathy affects us. If you do some reading on the many Empathy message boards on the Internet you will see that for yourself. Some of us only feel others emotions, some of us can feel emotions of people, animals, plants, etc. Some of us have deep empathetic skills where we know what a person is thinking and not just feeling. Like when you know what someone is going to say before they say it. I believe that is because they are thinking it and feeling it even before they say it. Some of us, like myself, also feel peoples pain. Someones stubbed toe, sinus problems, pulled muscles, etc. And sometimes, like with myself, it goes even further beyond that to feeling when something is happening or being done to a person. Like when you feel someone getting an IV put in in a hospital, or you feel it when someone takes medication like nasal spray. Feeling it inside the nose, and then the sensation down the throat because some has run down their throat, and then feeling the clearing of their head. And then there is also the occasional instances of waking up with someone else’s bruise which has happened to me a couple of times.

How empathy in all of us empaths can manifest if so varied that sometimes it is hard to get answers. Questions that you find yourself pondering run a wide range. I would like to write quite a few posts to answer those questions based on not only personal experience but also what I have learned from research. Here are some of the questions I plan to address in future posts:

• How and why do you end up connecting to someone and picking up their emotions and pain?
• How to properly and effectively disconnect?
• How to shield/protect so you can control when you are picking up emotions and pain and when you ar not?
• How to use empathy in energy healing such as Reiki?
• How to use empathy to simply help family and friends during tough times?
• How to develop empathy into something more?
• What is Clairsentience and how do I develop and use it?
• And a channelled message regarding empathy.

I will try and post these fairly quickly. Also, I would love for you to post your experiences because it really does help other empath’s.

Love and Light,

Sher