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17 signs you’re an Empath (from Soul & Spirit magazine)
People say I’m highly sensitive, but am I an Empath?
How do I know I’m an Empath?
One of the most common things I see, when people e-mail me for advice is: Am I really an Empath?
They have looked at all the signs and can relate too many of them. They don’t always fit all the traits of an Empath. There are very few who do. However, they certainly fit many of the major ones, including being told that they are just too over sensitive or highly emotional.
HSP or Highly Sensitive Person is a signature trait of being an Empath. It means that you react with a heightened sense to everything that is going on around you.
If something bad happens, your reaction will seem to be over the top to others.
It might be something along the lines of having a bad day at work. You believe you’ve made an error and now you feel very guilty about it.
Maybe someone reacted in a way to something you said or did that you didn’t think was positive and you feel bad or even guilty about how you made them feel.
Perhaps a partner or a friend is having a hard time and you can’t enjoy yourself around them because they don’t feel happy. You feel obliged to make yourself miserable so you can empathise with them.
You might even be cautious or afraid to let others know your true feelings because you don’t want to come across as uncaring or indifferent. You will make yourself feel unhappy because that seems to be your best option.
The Empath will feel obligated in some sense to react in a way that allows others to see that they are not alone and they have support.
This is generally unhealthy for all parties concerned because it simply feeds the negative energy rather than healing or helping anything.
As I said, it’s common for an Empath to be highly sensitive. They take on the pain and discomfort of others around them, no matter if it’s human or animal or even plant.
Generally, if you ask yourself if you’re really an Empath, the very act of asking is a good indicator that you are. Non empathic people won’t ask and won’t even care. They will dismiss it out of hand.
Chances are high that if you ask the question, you are an Empath.
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Emmy the Empath by Anneli Rufus – Second instalment.
A new chapter has been posted for the Emmy the Empath series.
You can find it here.
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The Empath Guidebook – Now available in paperback.
Over the past years, since I have put it online for free, thousands of people have downloaded The Empath Guidebook.
This book was written by me as a gift to the Empath community and covers an abundance of subjects to help new and experienced Empaths alike.
Many have also asked if this book was available in paperback format. With that request in mind, you can now choose to purchase it from amazon.com for USD19.95.
The e-book is still free for download for those who wish to have their own PDF copy.
You can download the free version here: http://www.psi-zone.net/guidebook.html
You can purchase the paperback version here or by clicking on the picture on the side bar.
If you have enjoyed this book at some point, and think this it’s worthwhile, please feel free to give it a review. It would really help me out.
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Introducing the Empath Support Community Site.
For a while now, I’ve been thinking about creating an empath community.
Yes, I know there are already some out there, but they seem restrictive and having had my membership terminated on one of those communities (why, I’ve not real idea. Maybe they didn’t like the odd blog entry I put there) I felt it was time to give people a place where they can be themselves.
The problem I have observed with other communities is that they are controlling. They will demand people act in a certain way and if you fall out of line, you will be kicked.
I’ve also mentioned this to be the case with chat rooms.
Personally, I don’t see how one can create anything worthwhile and long-lasting if there are so many rules and restrictions in place.
With this in mind, I finally felt it was time to consolidate all the empath resources I have created on the web and centralize it into a one stop shop that people can join, connect and share their own thoughts, ideas and concerns.
For all those Empaths, Highly sensitive people and psychics who are looking for a place to be, the Empath Support and Community site may be for you.
There you will find the chat room, this blog, my empath website, groups, forums, and the ability to create your own profile, befriend others and blog what’s on your mind.
As with the chat room, all you need do is remain courteous and not attack another and you are welcome.
This is an open group and all you need is a valid e-mail address to join.
You can find the ESC at empathsupport.com (the blog will be at https://xeraphax.wordpress.com/ until domain mapping have been worked out.)
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Empath Chat room – The room of synchronicity.
Before I continue on with the current series (which will continue for a few months), I wanted to just to mention the Empath / Spiritual support chat room.
While its intention is for empath and spiritual support, it is, and always was intended as a place of synchronicity.
For those who don’t know what that is (and think it’s only the name of an old record by The Police), synchronicity is about meaningful coincidences that help you along your path.
It was a term first coined by Carl Jung and then made popular in the 1990s by The Celestine Prophecy written by James Redfield.
The interesting thing about synchronicity is that the more you focus on it, the more it happens, and the quicker you move along your chosen path.
Years ago, there used to be a chat room on the Celestine Vision website. Many people came and believed it was a spiritual chat room. It wasn’t. It was a room of synchronicity. Many people found what they were looking for there, and through it all, there were many dramas, turf wars, alliances, and connections of people that lead to long friendships.
I was a mod there for years, but saw the end before it came. I was prompted to create my own chat room, which was geared towards Empaths. Initially, I did this for a then friend, but she did not follow through. Regardless, I kept the payments up and eventually people started to come in and stay. (And one of the people I made a mod stayed in the room for nearly a year before it finally started to take off.)
Today, this chat room is alive and healthy, and receives very interesting visitors.
It’s a mix between dark and light, support and acceptance. People come there and find just what they need most of the time.
So if you’re looking for a place to connect to others, you are welcome to join this room.
It’s a simple interface. (Java based) No ads and need to register. You can if you wish, though.
The rules are simple. Be nice to each other and don’t invalidate another.
You can find the chat room at on my website here.
I am The Phoenix, my autobiography, is now available on paperback at amazon.com.
