I am exploring my strong empathy, I’m 40, and I am a nurse. I have always been sensitive to peoples emotions. I find I’m one of the few people at work that understands patients with late stages of dementia, and nonverbal, I understand what they are trying to communicate or I understand why they are agitated. I can help get them calmed down very quickly by meeting their needs. I used to think I was just paying better attention but I’m starting to understand that I’m an empath. I have not understood why I hate crowds, or why I choose to live alone, until recently. I will say that it feels like a curse!! But I’m making progress and starting to separate my emotions from others. I have started to pay attention to what I’m feeling and can say that’s not my emotion. My mom is very emotionally mature, and being around her is pretty stress free. My dad had a quick temper and I was very sensitive to his emotions. At forty, I realize I have never processed or acknowledged my own emotions bc I was exhausted from feeling everyone else’s emotions. One of my patients is a reiki master and a clairvoyant, her and her husband are Rieki masters. My patient could tell I was draining my energy and she offered to teach me reiki. After working with her she has become more of a friend. She tells me I’m a true healer, but she wanted to get me started using reiki to help me set up better protection. You asked about how we receive the the information, well, I feel it as tho it’s my own emotion, if I’m too open, I can feel like I’m ill, when in fact my patient is I’ll. I do not think it’s easy to differentiate someone’s feelings from my own, so if I get anxious, my first question to myself, what was I thinking about when I started to feel anxious? If I was thinking about ordering cat food, then I know that I don’t get anxious about that, ok, this person is anxious, not me. A couple years ago I woke up everyday with the worst kidney pain, after about a week of that I realized my 19 year old cat was having kidney pain. And I started working on better shielding. Since being a lvl 2 reiki practitioner I can feel someone’s emotions/pain over a distance. My best friend knew that I could tell when someone wasn’t genuine and she would ask me what I thought about people, she knew I was picking up information and she trusted my ‘gut’ feeling when we met new people. She was great at analyzing what someone said but she always asked me what I would pick up on. She is one of the few people that knows I’m very sensitive and she can read me easily, generally I’m told I’m very difficult to read, because I hide what I’m feeling bc I experience intense emotions, another reason I shut down emotionally.
jmac you have more control than you may be aware of. It is learning to manage your boundaries that is key. Perhaps this video will help and the work of Karla McLaren - check out her site. ruclips.net/video/tYP-7F8hDo4/видео.html
This was very interesting ! It explaines a lot about myself what i thought it might or could be, but i never new for sure 😂 thank you for explaining it helped me a lot, especially the outer body thing at the end. I have that often.....
head tingles and featherlike touches , i also will get shivers and goosebumps, and there is something i call "radar in the butt" lol..im pretty sure its related to the root chakra (fight or flight/survival) and i experience it the most when somewhere high up or watching a movie where someone is high up and at risk of falling, i feel it either in the butthole region or the soles of my feet.. TMI !
Thank You So Much for this confirmation!!!🙌🏼
You are so welcome!
I am exploring my strong empathy, I’m 40, and I am a nurse. I have always been sensitive to peoples emotions. I find I’m one of the few people at work that understands patients with late stages of dementia, and nonverbal, I understand what they are trying to communicate or I understand why they are agitated. I can help get them calmed down very quickly by meeting their needs. I used to think I was just paying better attention but I’m starting to understand that I’m an empath. I have not understood why I hate crowds, or why I choose to live alone, until recently. I will say that it feels like a curse!! But I’m making progress and starting to separate my emotions from others. I have started to pay attention to what I’m feeling and can say that’s not my emotion. My mom is very emotionally mature, and being around her is pretty stress free. My dad had a quick temper and I was very sensitive to his emotions.
At forty, I realize I have never processed or acknowledged my own emotions bc I was exhausted from feeling everyone else’s emotions.
One of my patients is a reiki master and a clairvoyant, her and her husband are Rieki masters. My patient could tell I was draining my energy and she offered to teach me reiki. After working with her she has become more of a friend. She tells me I’m a true healer, but she wanted to get me started using reiki to help me set up better protection.
You asked about how we receive the the information, well, I feel it as tho it’s my own emotion, if I’m too open, I can feel like I’m ill, when in fact my patient is I’ll. I do not think it’s easy to differentiate someone’s feelings from my own, so if I get anxious, my first question to myself, what was I thinking about when I started to feel anxious? If I was thinking about ordering cat food, then I know that I don’t get anxious about that, ok, this person is anxious, not me. A couple years ago I woke up everyday with the worst kidney pain, after about a week of that I realized my 19 year old cat was having kidney pain. And I started working on better shielding. Since being a lvl 2 reiki practitioner I can feel someone’s emotions/pain over a distance.
My best friend knew that I could tell when someone wasn’t genuine and she would ask me what I thought about people, she knew I was picking up information and she trusted my ‘gut’ feeling when we met new people. She was great at analyzing what someone said but she always asked me what I would pick up on. She is one of the few people that knows I’m very sensitive and she can read me easily, generally I’m told I’m very difficult to read, because I hide what I’m feeling bc I experience intense emotions, another reason I shut down emotionally.
jmac you have more control than you may be aware of. It is learning to manage your boundaries that is key. Perhaps this video will help and the work of Karla McLaren - check out her site.
ruclips.net/video/tYP-7F8hDo4/видео.html
Thanks for sharing very helpful.
This was very interesting ! It explaines a lot about myself what i thought it might or could be, but i never new for sure 😂 thank you for explaining it helped me a lot, especially the outer body thing at the end. I have that often.....
head tingles and featherlike touches , i also will get shivers and goosebumps, and there is something i call "radar in the butt" lol..im pretty sure its related to the root chakra (fight or flight/survival) and i experience it the most when somewhere high up or watching a movie where someone is high up and at risk of falling, i feel it either in the butthole region or the soles of my feet.. TMI !
Same, but in the front nether region. It seems to come randomly but I am also just beginning to pay attention.
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