[25 Jan 2004|12:13pm] *waves* Hi, I'm the maintainer, though I admit to having done absolutely nothing with this community since its creation. I apologize to the community for that, and thank jaeelle for calling my attention to the problem. I am more than willing to pass off the maintaintership to another: merona, jaeelle, shaadofala, and saizai have all expressed their willingness to take it on. Email me privately and I will give you the community password (I don't want to post it in a comment). shimmeringjemmy at livejournal dot com will work. And finally, the real issue: empath75. While I am reluctant to swoop in out of nowhere and ban anyone, zie has made repeated off-topic, incoherent, and bordering on abusive posts that are annoying large parts of the active community. Those seem like sufficient reasons to do *something*.... So what I've done is this. I have removed empath75 from the community membership. This means zie will have to rejoin before zie can post again. If zie does, and the next post is of the same nature as the past ones, empath75 will be banned. (This policy, of course, is subject to change as soon as the community changes maintainers.) 5 comments|post comment

newbie. [25 Jan 2004|01:03pm] [ mood | confused ] Hi all. I recently figured out that the emotional swings I've been dealing with my entire life are from empathy. I was a very open empath from about first grade onwards--I went to a school with only eleven people in my class, and as I got closer to them, I started experiencing their emotions as my own, and it got very confusing to me. When I moved in seventh grade, I was so emotionally scarred that I shut myself off from the world and my own empathic abilities. Now I'm a student at a boarding school with about 400 people, and my empathy has come back full force. I can't ever shut it off. I'm 300 yards away or less from my friends at all times, and it's like there's a river of emotion pouring into my head that I just can't shut off. I've been getting nightmares, truly horrible ones, and I've been in poor health since September because anytime someone close to me is unhappy, I get physically ill. Even people I'm not especially close to can have an effect on my emotional state. It's like I'm on the world's worst roller coaster at all times. Also, since I'm new to this whole concept of empathy, I don't know what some of the terms mean. What's a Void? Are there different types of empaths? What's the name for the type of empath I am? If someone could point me towards a handy list of terms and definitions, I'd be incredibly grateful. I'm so glad to have found this place. 9 comments|post comment

Shielding & Grounding Techniques [25 Jan 2004|05:03pm] This is definitely the #1 question asked here. I'm guessing over half of the new people have problems with this - either explicitly asking things like "how can I shield myself", or talking about getting crowdsick, etc., and not showing any realization of the fact that they can control it. (That's not meant as an insult, btw; lack of knowledge is not the same as lack of ability, and we all have to learn sometime.) So: Please post, here, your techniques for shielding and/or grounding. If there's anything special about them - e.g. what type of shield, etc. - please describe them. Let's try to make this the "point newbies to this post" FAQ for this question. 22 comments|post comment

Moderatorship [25 Jan 2004|11:57pm] [moderator] So, here's the situation. jnanacandra was the moderator and founder. She's decided to pass on that responsibility to merona, shaadofala, and myself (saizai). (jaeelle, you're welcome to join; please email any of us if you still want to.) The profile will be changed soon to state the rules and add some more information. empath75 has been removed from this community for abuse. She (?) is still able to add herself back (but has not yet done so), but any more trolling etc. will result in a ban. Please contact any of us if you have questions about this community, to report abuse, to suggest any useful changes, etc. Thanks! Edit: jaeelle is now the fourth and final moderator. Also, I have updated the empaths profile to explicitly state the rules & moderators. [/moderator] 3 comments|post comment

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