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Ugh! Right now im having this serge of emotions! It makes me mad right now to know some of the way people feel and this is crazy because its like...I have my own beliefs that are connected with my emotions and then I get someone elses emotions that are caused by what they believe and that causes alot of confusion! Ugh! ok now im gonna try something I read in this community to let the emotions flow like water!.....(time lapse).wow that really helps! Hmmm I know to some people I might sound crazy but.....now I feel safe with this community cause I feel understood! I do want t o figure this out a little more because I feel like I need to help people out some how! Now I can recognize when its not feelings of my own well for the most part so I wonder whats next. Im glad I found a place where I can bounce ideas off of people....whew!
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| Just Curious |
[01 Jul 2009|01:28am] |
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Hello,
I'm new to the community. I have a question.
For as long as I can remember I have always been able to pick up other peoples emotions as if they were my own. It was never intense and never got to the point where it would overwhelm me, but recently everything has changed.
Now, I feel like I am going wonky or something. I have a hard time being in large crowds, or in a room with others who are experiencing strong emotions because essentially, they take me along for the ride as well. And I can't handle that as well as my own at the same time. It has never been like this.
I will be sitting in the room with my boyfriend and no one else, and he will be on the computer reading news articles and such, and suddenly, I will find myself wanting to cry or just leave the room to get away from the emotions he is sending off. The few times I feel as though I am going to cry, I have asked what he is reading about and low and behold, it is some horribly sad news story.
So my question, has something ever happened in your life to really set it off? To make it SUPER sensitive?
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| More about my story! |
[28 Jun 2009|01:26pm] |
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oh I wanted to mention that I wrote a story earlier about a family member and wanted to add that they live 12 hrs away from me and I still was able to feel their heavy emotion! the reason I think this is important is because blossomingbud had questions about distance and this maybe can help some!
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Im new to this so I hope I am able to communicate my thoughts well! I have recently had a real bad experience with a very very close family member. one day I was very confused and depressed. I couldnt figure what was wrong with me.Well I slept on it and woke up the next morning enraged with this family member. Now I couldnt figure this out cause I had no bad feelings toward this person but all of a sudden almost out of no where I was angry with them! Two days passed by and another one of my family members called me to let me know that this person had for no good reason started to talk bad about me. This is why im here on this sight today Ive always had these feelings and not known exactly what to do with them! ive always wanted to help people but dont know how to use this as a gift. Because if your an empath you know that sometimes you wonder a gift? how? Especially with all the hard times ive been threw like knowing that the person smiling at you really cant stand to be around you or dont like you! But you still smile and feel bad and they think you dont know! i accept this responsibility that i have but want to know how to help people! Does somebody know how I can use this in a more uhm.....proactive way.... helpful way........how can i use this to benefit people?
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| Thanks! |
[23 Jun 2009|10:29am] |
Hi all,
Thank you to everyone who's responded to my questions over the last few weeks, with special thanks to galixie, alloette, and neva_butterfly for their consistent feedback. :) I'm leaving soon for a few weeks' off-grid vacation, and will be working on my project while I'm away. Please feel free to respond to any of the previous posts or drop me an email at blossomingbud.questions at gmail while I'm gone - I'll definitely read and reply to them when I return.
Thanks again to everyone who's participated. I really appreciate your help!
Namaste,
~ Kay
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| Empathy: Have Your Say |
[22 Jun 2009|01:34pm] |
This post is part of an ongoing project of mine to write an Empath's Handbook. I am asking these questions with an intent to use the information gathered in a future publication. Please only reply if you are comfortable with me using your responses in part, in full, or as paraphrased source material in this publication. Replies to this post will be considered to have granted permission for use. I will not use any identifying information: all responses are considered anonymous. If you would like to provide your gender and/or age I may use these to lend context for readers, however this is in no way required.
Today's question:
If you were picking out a book to either understand your own empathy better, or to help someone else understand it, what information would you especially want it to contain? What topics would you like to see covered?
I'd love to see your wish lists! :)
Thank you, and namaste,
~ Kay
*If you would prefer to email me your comments privately, please send them to blossomingbud.questions ( at ) gmail
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| Empathy: Grounding and Cleansing |
[19 Jun 2009|09:29am] |
This post is part of an ongoing project of mine to write an Empath's Handbook. I am asking these questions with an intent to use the information gathered in a future publication. Please only reply if you are comfortable with me using your responses in part, in full, or as paraphrased source material in this publication. Replies to this post will be considered to have granted permission for use. I will not use any identifying information: all responses are considered anonymous. If you would like to provide your gender and/or age I may use these to lend context for readers, however this is in no way required.
Today's question:
What are your preferred grounding methods / cleansing methods?
Thank you, and namaste,
~ Kay
*If you would prefer to email me your comments privately, please send them to blossomingbud.questions ( at ) gmail
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| Empathy: shielding |
[18 Jun 2009|09:22am] |
This post is part of an ongoing project of mine to write an Empath's Handbook. I am asking these questions with an intent to use the information gathered in a future publication. Please only reply if you are comfortable with me using your responses in part, in full, or as paraphrased source material in this publication. Replies to this post will be considered to have granted permission for use. I will not use any identifying information: all responses are considered anonymous. If you would like to provide your gender and/or age I may use these to lend context for readers, however this is in no way required.
Today's question:
Shields and protections seem to be a big red button. Some believe that blocks can be psychologically unhealthy, or that they numb too indiscriminately. Others counter that they couldn't have managed certain situations without shields.
Rather than get into a debate about what's best - because I believe everyone's 'best' is unique to them and their circumstances - I will just note that on a recent poll, shielding came up as the most commonly used technique. So, while acknowledging that it is entirely valid to choose to experience and process empathic resonance without shielding, I am still going to ask about shielding. I welcome contributions from shielders and non-shielders. I ask only that you respect each others' preferences and decisions and not disparage or 'my way is better' each other. Thanks! :)
Do you use shields, talismans, wards, or other protections?
If yes, please explain your methods for protection. What do you do? How do you do it? When do you do it?
If no, please explain your alternative techniques. What do you do? How do you do it? When do you do it?
Thank you, and namaste,
~ Kay
*If you would prefer to email me your comments privately, please send them to blossomingbud.questions ( at ) gmail
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| Empathy: A real-life story |
[17 Jun 2009|09:06am] |
This post is part of an ongoing project of mine to write an Empath's Handbook. I am asking these questions with an intent to use the information gathered in a future publication. Please only reply if you are comfortable with me using your responses in part, in full, or as paraphrased source material in this publication. Replies to this post will be considered to have granted permission for use. I will not use any identifying information: all responses are considered anonymous. If you would like to provide your gender and/or age I may use these to lend context for readers, however this is in no way required.
Today's question:
Something I consider very important in a handbook for Empaths is to have a number of accounts of empathic experiences by real people. I think real-life examples will really help emergent empaths understand that their experiences are real, and normal, and that these experiences have also been had by many other people. In order to gather these stories, I very much need your help.
Will you please tell me a story about one of your experiences as an Empath?
What was the situation? What happened? How did you react? What was the outcome?
Thank you, and namaste,
~ Kay
*If you would prefer to email me your comments privately, please send them to blossomingbud.questions ( at ) gmail
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| Empathy: routines and techniques for Empaths to retain sanity |
[16 Jun 2009|09:24am] |
This post is part of an ongoing project of mine to write an Empath's Handbook. I am asking these questions with an intent to use the information gathered in a future publication. Please only reply if you are comfortable with me using your responses in part, in full, or as paraphrased source material in this publication. Replies to this post will be considered to have granted permission for use. I will not use any identifying information: all responses are considered anonymous. If you would like to provide your gender and/or age I may use these to lend context for readers, however this is in no way required.
Today's question:
Poll #1416541
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhich, if any, of the following techniques do you use?
If you have a technique that works particularly well for you that you're willing to share, please comment.
Thank you, and namaste,
~ Kay
*If you would prefer to email me your comments privately, please send them to blossomingbud.questions ( at ) gmail
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I had a conversation with a guy last week who was trying to be helpful. He suggested that if I actively choose to use my empathy on a sort of scheduled basis that maybe I wouldn't feel it so strongly the rest of the time. I wasn't able to articulate it to him at the time, but that suggestion struck me as the equivalent of telling someone with perfect vision that if they just read to the blind once a week maybe they wouldn't need/notice their sight as much the rest of the time. It just doesn't work that way. It was an interesting theory though.
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| Empathy: at a distance |
[15 Jun 2009|10:11am] |
This post is part of an ongoing project of mine to write an Empath's Handbook. I am asking these questions with an intent to use the information gathered in a future publication. Please only reply if you are comfortable with me using your responses in part, in full, or as paraphrased source material in this publication. Replies to this post will be considered to have granted permission for use. I will not use any identifying information: all responses are considered anonymous. If you would like to provide your gender and/or age I may use these to lend context for readers, however this is in no way required.
Today's question:
Have you had an empathic experience over distance?
What was it?
I find this phenomenon fascinating, because it happens to me, but it's harder for me to conceptualize How it Works than empathy-in-proximity. So, followup question:
How do you believe, or theorize, that empathy works over distance?
Thank you, and namaste,
~ Kay
*If you would prefer to email me your comments privately, please send them to blossomingbud.questions ( at ) gmail
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| Empathy: love relationships |
[12 Jun 2009|09:07am] |
This post is part of an ongoing project of mine to write an Empath's Handbook. I am asking these questions with an intent to use the information gathered in a future publication. Please only reply if you are comfortable with me using your responses in part, in full, or as paraphrased source material in this publication. Replies to this post will be considered to have granted permission for use. I will not use any identifying information: all responses are considered anonymous. If you would like to provide your gender and/or age I may use these to lend context for readers, however this is in no way required.
Today's question:
- An empath reflects his or her partner's negative feelings, leading to a negative feedback-loop.
- Someone tries to 'protect' their empath partner from feedback by bottling up their negative emotions, resulting in terrible misunderstandings.
- An empath reflects someone's attraction, until they realize painfully down the road that it wasn't ever their crush to begin with.
What empathic pitfalls have you run into in close relationships?
Have you found ways to solve them? How so?
- An empath uses his or her understanding of a partner's upset to provide well-targeted emotional support to the partner.
- An empath sharing a partner's joy leads to a happiness feedback-loop.
What positive aspects of empathy have you encountered in close relationships?
Thank you, and namaste,
~ Kay
*If you would prefer to email me your comments privately, please send them to blossomingbud.questions ( at ) gmail
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| Empathy: empathy in children |
[11 Jun 2009|11:09am] |
This post is part of an ongoing project of mine to write an Empath's Handbook. I am asking these questions with an intent to use the information gathered in a future publication. Please only reply if you are comfortable with me using your responses in part, in full, or as paraphrased source material in this publication. Replies to this post will be considered to have granted permission for use. I will not use any identifying information: all responses are considered anonymous. If you would like to provide your gender and/or age I may use these to lend context for readers, however this is in no way required.
Today's question:
What were your experiences (positive and negative) as an empathic child?
What would your advice be to parents and caretakers of an empathic child?
If you yourself are the caretaker of an empathic child, what has that experience been like? What have you learned?
Thank you, and namaste,
~ Kay
*If you would prefer to email me your comments privately, please send them to blossomingbud.questions ( at ) gmail
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| Empathy: first awareness |
[10 Jun 2009|09:25am] |
This post is part of an ongoing project of mine to write an Empath's Handbook. I am asking these questions with an intent to use the information gathered in a future publication. Please only reply if you are comfortable with me using your responses in part, in full, or as paraphrased source material in this publication. Replies to this post will be considered to have granted permission for use. I will not use any identifying information: all responses are considered anonymous. If you would like to provide your gender and/or age I may use these to lend context for readers, however this is in no way required.
Today's question:
What was your first awareness of Empathy, either in yourself or in someone else?
What happened?
What about this event was the 'aha' that led to your beginning awareness?
Thank you, and namaste,
~ Kay
*If you would prefer to email me your comments privately, please send them to blossomingbud.questions ( at ) gmail
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[09 Jun 2009|05:14pm] |
Hello,
I'm hoping to start a project that's been on my back burner for years: write an Empath's Handbook. There are some good books on Empathy out there, but none quite fill the niche I'd like to see filled.
I only personally know a few empaths, and I would like to draw on the shared experiences of a more diverse group. I don't want to use responses from previous posts, because their authors haven't given me permission to use their words. So, I would like to post a few questions for the community, to let interested contributors to this project respond in their own words.
Is this an allowable thing in this community? My belief is that the questions and their answers would be of interest to the group's members, so it doesn't seem inappropriate, but I wanted to ask before making assumptions.
I am hopeful. I feel that information gathered from a community of empaths could be very valuable to those who come after us.
Thank you, and namaste.
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[09 Jun 2009|01:11am] |
EDIT: Polling has now closed, and the winner implemented as the new userpic. Congrats to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ladyofshadow for her winning entry.
5 is best. Pic with the highest mean score a week from now wins.
Only members may vote.
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| Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism (Academic Book) |
[07 Jun 2009|09:41am] |
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If you're interested in the Vampirism & Energy Work Research Study (VEWRS/AVEWRS), sanguinarian and/or psychic vampirism and their relation to empathy, or the vampire community in general you will want to purchase a copy of this book. There hasn't been anything quite like this published before... a very different kind of text/approach than that of Ramsland, Guiley, Guinn, and others. The academic and sociological significance of this work can't be underscored enough. Laycock offers a sweeping scholarly examination of the vampire community and the process of self-identification as a vampire. He counters many of the negative stereotypes of the vampire community and posits thought-provoking arguments regarding ontological diversity. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Vampires-Today-Truth-Modern-Vampirism/dp/0313364729/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230149021&sr=1-1
( For More Information See Below Cut )Additional Notes: The author holds a Masters of Divinity from Harvard University, a recipient of a grant from the Pluralism Project, and currently enrolled in the Division of Religious and Theological Studies at Boston University where he's working on his PhD. He has presented on the topic of vampirism at the American Academy of Religion Conference in San Diego where he argued that "vampirism" should not be classified as a new religious movement (NRM) and to faculty at the University of Michigan and other institutional bodies on the sociological and emergent scientific aspects of vampirism. He will be delivering a paper on Otherkin in August (2009) at the Association for the Sociology of Religion's annual conference in San Francisco, CA.
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| Hunches |
[04 Jun 2009|09:41pm] |
The more I trust them, the more it turns out I'm right.
Most recently, my boyfriend was embarking on a road trip with a guy he knew, but not well, from a club he belongs to. They would be meeting up with others out West to do some offroading.
I got the chance to interact with him before they left. I took the BF aside and said, "Something about this guy rubs me the wrong way."
"You're just saying that because he doesn't like your dog, and because he's taking me away from you."
I grinned and said, "Yeah, but I can separate that stuff out. I've met your other friends, some of who are going on this trip, and some of whom don't like my dog. I like them. I don't like this guy."
"I think he's a good guy. And you know I can take care of myself."
"I do. Just promise me you won't let him get you into trouble. And I don't mean fun trouble, I mean real trouble."
"Okay. Thanks for looking out for me."
Turns out, the guy is a recovering alcoholic - quit drinking a few years ago - and it seems from his behavior so far on the trip that he quit cold turkey and never went to any meetings. Anyone who knows anything about alcoholics knows that this combination is like a time bomb waiting to go off. He's already exhibited some anger issues.
That doesn't mean he's a bad guy, but now that we know, the BF can better deal with him, and keep his distance when it becomes too much.
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