Any Empaths here? How do you handle your energetic emotions?

[Saiisha]

Whether you call yourself an Empath or not (I don't), I'm guessing most of you on this group have the gift of empathy, since it's a gift granted as you get older in soul age.

There's a big movement going on in New Age circles how being an Empath is a blessing and a curse. I might have agreed with them when I was younger, but I don't see it as anything but a blessing these days.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on how you handle being an Empath, if you identify as one?

[S.L.]

Good Grieving: Narrative Perspectives of Loss and Bereavement

I'd like to hear your thoughts on how you handle being an Empath, if you identify as one?

I am not sure what Empath is apart from Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairscience. I have all of these as my Mother did, and her Mother. My niece has it and myself. Everyone else, no. It seems to effect and affect one in every generation or so, and usually, in our line, occur in females.

You are able to communicate with what I have come to call abstract. It is the energy of souls and higher forms of energy. It started when I was very young around the age of three to four. My Mom would hear me talking to someone and she would stand in the doorway and ask, "who are you talking to little one"? Then the vivid dreams started, the white horse, the speaking tree, visitations. I think my Mother worried that I was mentally ill or being open to something very suggestible. "I was too young" she said and she took on many occasions to visit the Pastor of our Methodist Church, after we paid a visit to Dr. Ayers office.

It has happened for so long it's normal. Nothing scares me. My niece on the other hand is having trouble with substances to help her sleep through these things. The fear of going to sleep and being awaken startled her. She has problems talking about it without getting "shakey".

Some are able to deal, and some can not accept this. I saw my Mother getting worried, so I dealt in silence. I feel like it isn't a curse. I feel like I worked through the strangeness, and found the lack of fear comforting.