The Empath Guidebook (and Bach Flower Remedies for Empaths) – 2nd Edition.
Free does not mean worthless.
The name might not roll of the tongue, but I feel it’s still my best work to date.
The original Empath Guidebook was written around 2012 and offered as a free download.
This 381 page version has been edited and expanded upon. If you are into Bach Flower Remedies (and as an Empath, they are your best friend), this is a wonderful resource for you as it goes into great detail on what remedies work for the Empath and why.
This book is available on Amazon as a Kindle and paperback version. However, I am offering it as a free PDF download as well.
Why free?
Because I truly believe it will benefit every Empath who reads it. Both new and advanced ones.
I believe such knowledge should be freely available. Yes, the option to buy it exists, but that’s only if you desire a book you can hold in your hands or wish to support my work.
This I know, though I’m working to keep this useful for empaths in general.
It is an example. For many, death is often a catalyst for growth and awareness. They move into things that they were unlikely to do before.
There is also a belief that we must feel sad for the departed, otherwise we are a bad or uncaring person. If we do not mourn, or do not go through a certain period of time of grieving, then we may feel guilt over it.
Guilt is often a reason why we hang onto grief. We ask ourselves: how much did we really love this person if we can just move on without any sense of loss or pain. How will others view us if we are seen to ‘not care’? How do we see ourselves if we find that we don’t wish to suffer for the loss of another?
Yet, make no mistake; the departed does not need you to grieve for them. Once they reach the light, they are in bliss, and more often than not, the concerns of this world are left behind.
That does not mean they are forgotten, and when you call on your loved ones, they will come and leave many messages in many ways that they are there. Some even will manifest themselves so they can show the ones left behind that they are just fine, and they will look just beautiful.
They are fine. They are more than fine. They are home.
To those who have lost one dear to them, I promise you that you will see them again. You will be reunited, and if you both so choose, you will live more lives together for as long as you desire.
It’s one thing to know this on an intellectual level, but how do you translate this to the emotional level? How do you bring comfort to those who have lost their loved ones? Saying that they aren’t really gone doesn’t seem to be all that useful.
As I said, it is natural to feel grief for the loss of someone dear. There is also a fear that your life may never be the same, and that you cannot cope without them. They may have been tremendous support, or loved you unconditionally, or they may have been the breadwinner.
Fear is one of those emotions that is intertwined with the sense of loss. Fear for the future, fear that they won’t be able to cope alone or be capable of carrying on looking after family or children.
Death is not about the ones who have passed over, but those who are left behind.
So, how does the empath cope with death?
The key is shifting your understanding and perspective of death. Do not look upon it as something that should not have happened. If it was not meant to occur, then it would not have occurred. This does not mean you suddenly dismiss the pain, nor do you suddenly decide that it is irrelevant. It simply means that you are seeing things in a more holistic manner.
Those who you truly love will never truly leave you. They are there. They are by your side when you call, and they are helping you. You may not always feel them, but they are there.
The shift in understanding and perspective is key to coping with the sense of loss.
Do not harbour feelings of guilt of another’s death.
Do not feel that your own life is ending because someone has departed.
Do not fear that you cannot cope. You will always have what you need to make it through, and indeed thrive.
Life is about the growth and experience of the soul, and such things can be powerful catalysts.
For my own comments, I’ve found that Bach Flower Remedies can be very comforting at a time like this.
It’s another day. Another week. Yet another month.
You wake up. Everything feels the same as it did the day before. Nothing has changed.
How long does this go on?
I’m sure most people can relate to this.
Some call it Mondayitis. Others call it fatigue. I call it weariness.
It’s when you’ve done the same thing too many times already, and you can no longer stand it.
Everything is an effort. The day can’t end quickly enough, especially if you’re at work.
You tend to procrastinate, even putting off things that you do want to get done, but find it’s just too much effort.
Even getting up to face the day takes more effort than you want to expend.
Yet, if something changes, you find that you suddenly have energy, and the lethargy disappears.
You could liken it to listening to the same song over and over again. Sooner or later, no matter how much you love that song, you will get sick of it. If you hated it to begin with, then it will be even worse. If a new song is played, then interest is renewed. (Unless you happen to hate it, too!)
In Bach Flower Remedies terms, this is the Hornbeam state of being.
As Empaths, we seem to be particularly vulnerable to being weary. We take on too much. We expend our energy in order to get everything done, and we do it just about every day.
If you also believe in parallel timelines, where you keep on repeating your life in a Groundhog Day type scenario until you’re happy with the outcome, then you will most certainly feel the weariness as you repeat certain things over and over again (which you become aware of when you experience deja-vu, because that what that is. You have indeed done this before. You just don’t remember it.)
I suffer from weariness a lot. There are many times when I feel like I’m marking time, waiting for things to fall into place so I can progress to the next stage of my life.
Hornbeam makes an enormous difference. Every time I take it, it gives me the energy to get things done and face the day with renewed vigour.
Of course, the real challenge with taking it is that you might not have to energy to find and use it.
This is also a useful remedy for people who make you feel weary.
I find that this remedy work well with Olive (exhaustion) and Oak (when you’re push past your limits.)
Please share this with those who may find it useful.
Now, it may seem odd to people reading this blog that I seem to go out of my way to discuss if psychics and the paranormal are real or not, especially, considering that I have named this blog Psychic Empaths. Indicating that I am both psychic and an Empath.
I do believe I am an Empath, and from time to time, I do certainly experience what would pass for psychic abilities.
There are certainly those who will maintain that I am both, regardless of what I tell them. There are also those who put me on a pedestal, which is something I’ve actively discouraged.
The purpose of this blog is to share my experiences and knowledge and ideas and help others benefit from it. I find that many can relate to what I’ve experienced, and just as many can’t. As I cover a very broad range of topics, eventually people will come across something they like.
I do have some hard and fast rules about what I blog about, though.
I need to believe it’s genuine.
I need to be critical, yet open about the experiences.
I need to ask the hard questions, especially of myself.
I must relay my experiences as fully and as honestly as I can. (Which means that leaving out something that isn’t convenient isn’t allowed and same goes for adding in something that didn’t happen, or happened out of context.)
I find this a difficult balance to achieve as there can often be a temptation to fudge things to make things look better, or worse as the case may be. However, I am a purist and while that’s annoying in many ways, it also helps me to be exact.
Personally, I’d like to believe that I am psychic and that I’m a high level Empath, but there are times where I appear to be neither.
I can’t control it and things seem to come in waves. Maybe that’s how it’s meant to be because it’s not healthy to be ‘on’ full time.
And yet, I will always pick up certain things regardless of what I do. For instance, I was picking up the general anxiety of one of my staff, who suffered from low self esteem and had personal problem, and in spite of her excellent work, she never believed in herself.
Everyday I would come into work and feel this so strongly that I started to dread going to work. Thing was that I couldn’t do anything about it. Eventually she resigned and i immediately felt a great relief, in spite of the fact it meant more work for me.
But as I said, I can’t seem to control the empath side. It’s either there or it isn’t, it would appear.
What I try to look for, though, is consistency. Do I get the same results when the same events or circumstances occur?
Surprisingly, yes. I can’t control those events, but when they do happen, there are definite patterns.
For instance, when I’m feeling ‘muddied’ and anxious, my partner will pick this up as a headache, and she will know, even if we’re not in the same room, or sometimes country. She will also know exactly how clear I am, which will always correspond with how I am feeling.
This is a double edge sword, though, because the natural tendency is for her to distance herself from me so she doesn’t become infected by whatever is around me right then.
Consistent results are certainly important, even if you can’t control them.
It’s the reason I use Bach Flower Remedies. I can get very consistent results with them, unlike anything else I have tried. I can use them with confidence and recommend them without feeling like I’m misleading people.
Unfortunately, not everything falls into that category, and it’s the exception, rather than the rule.
Next: Searching for evidence.
Please share this with those who may find it useful.
I took some well-earned vacation this month. (Hence the lack of blogs.)
As usual, I find that I tend to collapse into a heap, and while the body is willing, the spirit is not.
In this state, even thinking is an effort and answering questions is difficult. It’s even hard to read anything longer than a paragraph, and forget about writing anything.
I call this psychic burnout.
It occurs when you do too much, for too long, without a break.
Personally, I seem to arrive at it every eighteen months or so with generally fourteen or so months where I start to feel the exhaustion.
Psychic burn out is mostly borne of frustration that you feel like you are being used and depleted, and there is no end in sight, or even any recognition that you’ve moved a mountain or two.
People would certainly experience this type of thing in their day jobs, especially if they are good at it, but receive little or no recognition.
If you’re trying to be spiritual, you will tend to resist the urge to say or do anything about it, however, this leads to anger and frustration, and the sense that you are not allowed to let yourself go, and then frustration at the fact that you don’t allow yourself to get angry.
You may even feel like shouting at people who won’t leave you alone: What part of f*&# off don’t you understand? But still you don’t, in case you hurt or offend someone.
In Bach Flower Remedy terms, this is known as a Cherry Plum state: The fear of letting go.
The psychic burnout state is a horribly frustrating one to be in because it stops you from doing what you want.
It literally hurts to try and think about answers or subject that you have no clue about. (I liken it to a psychic knife in the third eye area.)
There are several reasons this occurs, the main one being that you’ve been running on empty for too long.
If you are an Empath, and you are often connecting to others to try and help them, reaching the burn out level happens too easily, especially if the flow only goes one way.
Generally, while the desire to help others is always there, there is only so much you can do.
I find the remedies that help her are:
Cherry Plum: Fear of letting go.
Olive: Exhaustion
Elm: Feeling overwhelmed.
Oak: Being pushed past your limits
Holly: Getting angry, and then repressing your answer and get annoyed every time someone tries to get you attention.
Impatiens: When you start to feel irritated with everything.
In the year 2001, I was taking a break from work. I got up to play a game on my computer, and as it was at night, I decided to not turn on the lights, so I wouldn’t disturb anyone.
As it was late, I was in my dressing gown and apart from the glow of the monitor, there was no other light source.
Sometime into the session, there was brief feather like sensation on my hand, and then it was gone. I thought nothing more of it.
About an hour later, I decided to take a bathroom break, and went upstairs.
I looked into the vanity mirror and saw, to my horror, that on my dressing gown shoulder was this huge Huntsman Spider.
Now, in Australia, these spiders grow very big. While they do have a nasty bite, and look frightening, they aren’t actually lethal.
This, however, did not stop me from giving a scream at the top of my lungs (which no one heard!) and ripping off my dressing gown, and throwing it on the floor.
Huntsman can be aggressive, and this one clearly decided it didn’t like me as , instead of scampering toward safety, it actually advanced towards me.
I’m not a fan of killing anything, and generally will let even flies live, but that night, it felt like it was me versus the large menacing spider, and one heavy object later, it was Me: 1. Huntsman: 0.
Now, as you may expect, this was quiet an unnerving experience and probably most people who don’t enjoy the company of spiders would hesitate to use the computer area again.
Fortunately for me, the Bach Flower Remedy: Mimulus, is the remedy for known fears. I immediately took some, and felt my fear settle, and it didn’t take me long to get over this incident. In fact, I was back at my computer the next morning without a second thought.
I have come across other Huntsman since that time. In fact in my previous house, on a very hot summer’s night, one bolted across the front door as I was opening it.
I just shrugged and went inside.
Mimulus is an amazing remedy for known fears.
If you have a fear of spiders, and let’s face it, so many do, you may find this remedy will not only help you cope, but shift your perspective on them.
It’s certainly worth trying for the arachnophobic type person.
Please share this with those who may find it useful.
