Any Empaths on here?

[Retail's Bitch]

I just found out one of my friends is a blossoming empath... He needs help grounding and focusing his thoughts, not to mention I JUST found out my ex WAS an empath and somehow just stopped?!

So I was wondering if anybody had any tips for Kory or any thoughts on the ability to just give up a gift such as this? I do have slight abilities, I get heavy intuitive feelings and 'gut rot' when it comes to feelings about bad stuff happening around certain situations.

Like the Christmas party a few years back that some of the old timers will remember. I'd had really horrible gut ache where I was puking the night before the work Christmas party. Where I had garbage put into my drink at the party by some 'friends'. my ex let me walk back alone from the party and I got hit on by local crack heads, forgot my keys and had to sit at the local diner to wait for him to show up to let me into the house.

Or the horrible feelings I got before I dropped off my resume at the Dollarama and they instantly dragged me into the backroom and hired me on the spot and instead of feeling THRILLED - I was sick to my stomach the entire time - a week later I was fired for a bogus reason.

What sort of 'second-sight' do you have and how do you deal with it?

[Becks]

I also have the intuitive feelings and "gut rot" (hey, that's a pretty good description...but mine's more of a steady...crinkle, I guess...). I can't really explain HOW I deal with it, though. :headscratch:

I also have slight out of body experiences. I want to know if I can get myself to project myself farther away from my body, though...

[LadyMage]

Hi. Empath, semi-telepath, Tarot reader here. I've been reading for years, sometimes a little too well.

Meditation and visualization work well to develop those capacities and keep them strong; I've gotten to the point where my instinct - which has yet to be wrong - will click into auto-drive and I'd start rattling off various random things, none of which are really random.

Yes, my contact info is the same :)

[LostMyMind]

Very rarely, I'll get a bad feeling, but I wouldn't call it being an empath.

I also tend to pick on other people emotions. Whether that is a by-product of being deaf, visually pick up details or not. I couldn't tell ya. But I really hate going to hospitals and nursing homes.

The stranger ones I go through is forgotten dreams (I almost never remember any dreams I have), something will happen and I'll remember the dream (from weeks to years ago) and it'll unfold again. (giving me a case of the willies)

I think it happens to everyone. Just that most people are more likely to tune it out.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I am sometimes a fortuneteller (Tarot, tea leaves, and just plain cold readings.), but I don't think I'm particularly empathic. Just very, very intuitive and observant (when I need to be. I can also be thick as a brick.)

Working with the public can hone those skills down to a razor's edge. A lot of people I've read for think I'm psychic. I'm not. Shhhhh.....;)

[Luna]

I've learned to control it with the help of an old friend of mine who had decades of experience in Reiki. She taught me the importance of shielding myself. She actually told me NOT to ground myself and said the earth's energies are too unstable and you actually pick up on the bad vibes from all over. She taught me to draw energies from the universe around you.

I forget to at times. Sometimes I'll walk into a room and I take a step back because I feel assualted by the range and depth of emotions going on. More so in places of great emotion and pain like funerals, hospitals and the likes.

It takes a lot of practice and a lot of meditation. What I've done is practiced visualizing a protective circle about me, and practiced keying that circle to a single word. Pick a word that is powerful to you, that to you will bring calm and self-confidence. Everytime you practice building a protective circle around yourself (with as many barriors, walls, whatever around you) - try to bring that circle up with just uttering that word. With practice, it can be done. And when you need to draw energy to block out stuff quickly - the practice pays off.

I too can 'read' people's emotions and personalities as if they've written them all down for me. In ten years my Tarot has never been wrong. I can meet someone once and know what kind of person they are and describe them in great detail. I tend not to tell that person b/c last time I did it kinda freaked them out. Sometimes people don't like things about themselves and don't like to be told things about themselves that they know to be true. Live and learn...

[Lvl_9_Gazebo]

I on rare occasions have dreams that come true -- just little flashes of this or that. They're like doorways, and later, sometimes years later, I happen to walk through that doorway. I recognize it, remember that I dreamed it and have a wobbly little flash of deja vu, and then I go on about my business. It's always about personal events in my life, although once I had a dream -- and they always have a certain feel to them -- about a major terrorist attack on the Gaylord Opryland Hotel, a massive entertainment complex in Nashville. Nothing's come of it, and by this point I doubt anything will, thankfully.

Oddly enough, I've been having dreams lately about a guy I've been chatting with romantically for a few weeks. Maybe it's a good omen. I certainly hope so.

Otherwise, I can sometimes sense a spirit or a presence in an area which means I'm often sensing something or another while at work.

This kind of thing runs in my family, both branches of which come from paranormal hotspots where reams of odd occurrences happen on a regular basis. My mother's family comes from the Little Creek/Fork Mountain area of Henderson County, NC while my father's comes from the Big Willow area of that same county and the stories our relatives and ancestors could tell could curl your hair, or at least give it a moderate wave.

That being said, the farther back you go, the stronger this kind of thing gets. My mother's abilities in this area are much stronger than mine, and her mother's were stronger than hers. Several dead relatives have paid a call on her, for instance, while none have popped in to say hello to me. Although, when I was born, odd poltergeist phenomenon involving droplets of water began to occur, and the last time anything occurred involving the water droplets was shortly before my birthday last year.