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Greetings and salutations One and All! The energies have been running high, people’s emotional bodies are clearing house it would seem. Lots of our stuff coming up in our faces to deal with and transmute. Seems like de ja vu, like you have been here before only with other faces or perhaps the same ones, coming back from the past to finish working out the details of our lessons together. There is a new moon and the feminine energies are running rampant as people’s hearts are opening and clearing all over the planet. Venus will be crossing Jupiter and this combination with the new moon should prove to be a very powerful love weekend just in time for Valentine’s Day. So hold onto your hats, and remember that these things shall too pass. I feel that if you are in a relationship things will get deeper and if you are looking for a relationship the stars are in the right place for new opportunities in relationships. So enjoy a little indulgence and treat yourself and or your honey this weekend to some TLC.
Our topic today is about Empathy. Empathy has so many aspects to it, we are going to break this down into a series of blogs in the next month. What is empathy? It is the ability to feel things. It is in the sensory way can mean feeling emotions, in a healing way to feel someone’s pain, in a cosmic way to feel the planet and the events which are taking place here or in the Universe. It is a lot of things rolled up into one.
Who has empathy? Well I believe that we all have empathy to one degree or another. For example, if you have burned your finger on something hot before, and your child burns their finger on something hot, you can empathize with that feeling of burning because you have experienced it before, you have the total understanding of what that experience is about, what’s involved, how long it will take to heal etc. It’s a knowing through experience. This is different then sympathy, which is that we can IMAGINE what that person is experiencing but we have not walked that experience so we can only share in that to a degree.
An empathic person, is a person who experiences more then most and therefore can feel exactly what the other people are feeling and therefore can help to heal and or transmute that energy. This experience may not be experience in this lifetime, this may be knowledge or experience carried forth from past lifetimes as well.
This gift of empathy is a very useful gift but one which comes with a great responsibility as well. For when you are working with people in the capacity of assisting them, you must be careful to not do it for them, but to allow them to discover within themselves how to surf the emotions and feelings they are experiencing. This is not always a pleasant or comfortable thing, empathy. In fact, more times then not, it’s very uncomfortable for the empathic person. To absorb all that is around you and feel it, can be very overwhelming, confusing and unbalancing. Because often times, we do not recognize that we are experiencing, someone or something else other then our own stuff. It takes time and conscious effort to make that distinction for many. What I found to be most difficult was how to shield myself from those outward energies. The second most difficult thing was learning to control that energy we call empathy. How I finally gained that control was through the help of a friend who not only understood what I was going through but was willing to teach me how to work with it at least enough to live with it.
It was about this time when I had made a vow to myself, to help as many as I could understand what was happening to them as people awakened. I swore this code of mystery and secrecy of the gifts would be shared with everyone, not just the elite few. This is why I am starting a radio show, why I started to write and do chat rooms, why I am driven to complete the books I began to write all those years ago.
What does empathy feel like?
Empathy is such a mish mosh of stuff, it really is difficult to put into words, but I will humbly attempt the description of the feelings associated with it. On the emotional level and the psychological level, these “feelings” can appear to feel like bi-polar or depression symptoms. You are suddenly crying for no reason at all when you were just fine a few moments ago, or you are agitated and angry for no reason,it can be the feeling of an anvil on your entire being, it can feel like there is no hope and a sense of loss or being lost. The inability to focus on anything because you are a mess inside. It can feel like a sadness that will not leave you. It can feel like you are a totally different person then you were yesterday and feel like you are misplaced out of time and space. Because, the emotions and thoughts go against everything you personally know or believe in this life walk to date. I always tell people try describing what salt tastes like when you have NEVER experienced “salty”. Not so easy to put into words. So it is with empathy, unless you have experienced all that it is, at times it is difficult to express what it is we are feeling. How empathy is felt by people is on a very physical level. You can actually feel the same pain as another being. You have never had a history of knee or back problems and now all of a sudden you are feeling pain and symptoms as if you had the issue yourself. This is a valuable tool when learning to heal others. It helps you to identify exactly what the problem is in the other person so healing energy can be directed to that point. If you were to go into a doctor’s office they would tell you there is nothing wrong with your physical body, yet you still feel the pain how does that work?? Well, again, we are “feeling” it and understand it because we on some level have experienced this same thing before on a physical level. It doesn’t mean we are experiencing those feelings as a result of our own injuries currently but we can “feel” other people’s as they are in the present time. There are times when you can feel as if you are losing your mind, your faith, your ability to carry on. Many respond to this inability to “deal” with the issues by secluding themselves to avoid “feeling” everyone’s stuff. I find for myself, I have done that as a natural defense to it. I go into the world but also need the sanctuary of my own space to NOT feel if I so choose. And the thing of it is, this gift never turns off, when it is awoken it only continues to grow and grow stronger. So trying to run away from it or deny it is futile really.
So, continuing, on a physical level, it can feel like flu, fibromayalsia, a cold, sickness to the digestive system, a loss of appetite, headaches of all kinds, neck and back aches, difficulty breathing, panic attacks, irregular heartbeats, tingles throughout the body, hot and cold temperatures in the body (extremes, feeling like you will combust or you are so cold you are almost in convulsions) , insomnia or the opposite wanting to sleep all the time, irregular menstrual cycles and the physical symptoms associated with that, can reduce or increase sexual desires as well.
These symptoms can also be applied to the ascension process, so it’s important for you to be able to go within yourself to identify the energy signatures and speak to the cellular and atomic levels, as to where this “feeling” is coming from and ask how to disband it. I tend to run light through myself and release through a tube to the center of the earth for transmutation or up to the heavens in twinkles of gold so they are carried forth for transmutation in this manner.
The key things to learning to control the “feelings” is to be able to identify it within yourself. To go within so that you can be guided as to how YOU can separate the different energy signatures and work with them in your own way. These things I share are from my own research, study and experience. But like people, the gifts are equally diverse and what works for one may not work for another. My experiences may not be the same but similar, and I will say this, one thing that is true of most empaths, is we experience far more trauma in our lives then the average person. The answer to why we have to walk through more is because we are the example of how to overcome the difficulties and challenges of this world, we are the ones the masses turn to when nothing else makes sense and all the old ways begin to fall away. We are the wayshowers, the healers, the light in the dark, the weak are made strong through the power of what many call God. In our weaknesses comes His greatest glory and power and strength.
I will revisit this topic more in the coming weeks, but for now, I bid you all a good day! Blessed be!
xox
Kimberly
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