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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One of the most difficult things about being an empath is the feeling of isolation and loneliness.
Most people you tell may not understand.
They may either think you’re crazy, dismiss you as a freak or look at your blankly, wondering what the heck you’re talking about. Some will even denounce you as working with the devil. For some bizarre reason, this natural state of being seems to be an abomination and sin in some cultures and religions. (And you could do a series of topics on this, but I’m not going to get into it today.)
Worse still is the feeling and doubt that you, yourself, might really be crazy.
A support network is something that could help a lot. Though, the web has a few groups that cater for other empaths, they are not always active and some of the people are not even empaths. I certainly think the time has come to start such a network.
One day, I imagine a worldwide empath support network with charters in every country. We’re not there yet, but I believe it will happen.
This blog is dedicated to the free sharing of information of being an empath and subjects in all their forms.
Some topics you will like and relate to. Some you won’t. That’s just the nature of blogs.
Also there are various chat rooms that are geared towards the psychic side where you will find other empaths.
The good thing about being an empath is that distance doesn’t make any difference. You can be on the other side of the world and your connection will be just as strong. So a support group is much easier to create than you might first think.
For now, I’m going to share some of the resources I’ve come across in recent times, but please, if you know more, feel free to add them in the comments. (And I will try and include them in this post.)
You can help by sharing this information, including this blog.
Resources updated September 2018. (Not as many as there once were unfortunately).
Continuing on from part one, these are the rest of the types of attacks you may experience, especially as an Empath or Light-worker.
Psychic attacks come in many forms and many ways. While not everything is an attack, it’s worth bearing in mind that if you are feeling depressed, drained, and all joy has been removed from your being that it might well be the reason why you feel this way.
Circumstantial Timing attack. (High level)
Events happen that seem contrived and unlikely to occur at the point of time. Murphy’s Law sums it up with: If anything can go wrong, it will at the worst possible time.
However, some things that go wrong are things that aren’t even connected to you, but circumstances make it so.
This occurs when you are trying to focus on something which is very important, or when you’ve got a dead line to meet.
As mentioned, I was under severe psychic attack for the most part of my first 40 years, and towards the end, I was doing everything I could to discover the source and end them. I noticed that every time I spoke to someone who could help me (generally online), things would happen which would demand my immediate attention. I would deal with the issue, and something else would immediately turn up. They were things that weren’t my responsibility; however they were thrown into my lap.
Resolving those attacks eventually led to a final show down, which included seven other people helping me.
Circumstantial timing attacks are not only very frustration, but are also high stress and high pressure.
Balking attack (Medium level)
Stops certain things, events from happening or people from doing things. This may be an agreement you’ve made that you need to be carried out or something that will impact negatively upon you.
One recent example that came to mind was in 2012, when I was moving in with my partner. We found the perfect house, in the perfect location, and with great landlords, who were going to be away for two years, which was the exact amount of time we were looking at for leasing.
My partner said: This is our house the moment she saw it, and it all fell into place. Then, at the last moment, the circumstances changed, and suddenly the land lord was only going to be away for six months.
My partner, to this day, is adamant that someone pulled some serious strings to screw this up for us. I happen to agree.
Direct attack (Medium level)
A physical manifestation of some kind such as noises or things disappearing or moving. I don’t experience those ones all that much, but they are used to either spook or freak out people. Normally used by entities. As it takes a lot to scare me, I rarely experience them. (Though, remember, objects disappearing can be also attributed to shifting timelines.)
Residue attacks (Low level)
These are like psychic time bombs. The attacker leaves elemental though-forms will affect people who are in its immediate presence. Often a sensitive can detect it as a tingling or an uncomfortable feeling. It may keep people away or even put them into a bad mood for no apparent reason.
Planting seeds of doubt (low level)
This is a very common attack. In fact, I’d say one of the most common as many are subject to it. They feel or hear voices in their head that are depressingly seductive and negative, often trying to convince the subject that they are a bad person and the world would be better off without them.
It is possible that more than one method might be used and that you could be attacked on all levels at once.
Still unsure what the low, medium and high meant, I decided to ask my guide.
Details noted below:
What are the levels? What do they mean?
You there?
Yes, what do you mean?
I mean the psychic attacks. They say low level, medium level and high level. What does that mean?
They refer to the energy involved in making the attacks occur. Some take more energy and time than others. High level indicates a lot of energy while low level indicates that a minimum of energy is required.
So they don’t have anything to do with astral levels?
No. Astral levels simply are places where they come from. Also, the higher an attack, the more expertise needed to make it happen. While low level might be deceptive in the way it’s named, it is still considered the basic attack which can be done by most.
Now we know the basics of those types of attacks, though no doubt there are more types. We’ll be looking at how to deal with them for the next entries.
One of the more useful abilities of being an Empath that I’ve found over the years is the ability to read people.
Now, this is a skill everyone has to some degree, and this can be seen in movies that have been well casted. You can immediately tell the type of person, and their personality, on sight. You know if they are a villian, the hero or someone who is sleazy.
Empaths can often take it a step further in real life, as they can see, not only the type of person they are dealing with, but how that person is likely to react, and if they are dangerous or not.
The Face
For instance, just by looking at a face, you can normally tell someone’s history, their personality, and their disposition. If they have suffered trauma, what their mood is, and so on.
There are books dedicated to how to read faces, but I never felt a draw to them and over time, I started to become more in tune and sensitive to what a face was telling me.
The Voice
A person’s voice also reveals a lot about someone. I know that when I pick up a phone at work, the moment the person speaks, I know if they are going to be demanding, friendly, difficult or clueless. Rarely I’m disappointed in what I am picking up, and can pre-empt a lot of issues by adjusting accordingly.
It’s generally in the tone, the pitch, the forcefulness, and the words which gives it all away. It’s not what they say, it’s in the voice they are using that reveals it all.
The Name
Even a person’s name will tell you a lot about their character. It is possible to pick up the vibration of names and sense the energy behind it. Names are very important, and you can change your personality by changing your name. People will also react differently to you, depending on what name you decide to go by.
I found these abilities developed naturally as I got older and gained life experience. There are nuances you come to recognize, and certain patterns that occur time and time again.
While I’m sure that anyone with experience can read people, I believe that there are levels that Empaths pick up that the average person does not.
The problem with most people is that they ignore this information. They dismiss it, figuring that they must be wrong, or if others can’t see it, then they are just imagining it.
Personally, I have felt frustrated time and time again because no one listens to me, or says, hey, you can’t say that without knowing someone. And yet, I’m rarely wrong.
When someone asks me for help, I often ask for a current photo as that tells me a lot, and a sensitive person will also see the energies connected to the person at the moment. And they will also see when the energies change. For instance, if someone is under attack, there will be a greyness around the face, but if it clears, the greyness will also go.
If you have the ability to read others, and you know you have it, listen to what you get. Trust in it. It could even save your life and a lot of distress one day.
