This group now has a number of new members. I haven't really had time lately to add content of my own yet here but will in the future. You all are more than welcome to help build a starting point of your experiences and feelings. Please feel free to invite others as well.
I do have a question for those of you who are members as we give this group a kick start. There, so far, is not an Empath group on ths site yet. Would you all be interested in also discussing Emapths in this group as well? In my opinion, Empathic ability probably crosses into the Earth Angel realm as well. Many Empaths probably were gifted their abilities because they are psychically developed enough to handle them.
Give me your thoughts!
Bill
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There are different types of empathy in this group, so i would say ,absolutely, let's talk about it...
I wanted to get your thoughts on empathy. I haven't dove deep into the specifics of what constitutes that versus sympathy other than one has mutual feelings and the other does not. But with that said, do you believe empathy has a spectrum? Or is it just on all the time and you have to shield how much you feel from other people.
My own experience with it is, complex. There are times where my empathy will turn on at very sudden and unexpected moments around someone, and they feel overwhelmed with how I connect with them if I don't shield it. But then there are other times where I feel nothing from someone, and I know they feel emotions but I just can't get a decent read on their energy as a whole, which tells me very little other than a potential split personality.
I also know there's exceptions to this rule. Over all, I could improve my empathic skills. I'd like to be able to train it or harness it for a specific field of study or focus. Empathic meditations don't really exist, because from what I can tell, too many sources of info on this topic talk at us like we can't change who we are. but I am willing to more than try.
To me,empathy is alot more deeply felt...and emotions are definitely at play as well. Prime example....today a friend was venting on Instagram about her rape,the effects on her life ,her recovery and such. The audacity of some evil people, they were ripping her apart and condoned the rapists actions and stuck up for him over the victim/survivor...I got so upset ,being a survivor myself, I immediately responded, cried and even vented to my hubby. I couldn't get past the hurt that my friend must be feeling in that moment. I truly felt her feelings in that moment.
Now compassion and sympathy, to me are pretty much just caring about the person or situation and then you can move past it easier.
That makes a lot of sense. It's a deeper spectrum, of sorts.
I have began to notice that this world is obsessed with instant by instant change more and more, and I find that very difficult as an empath myself to come to terms with.
For one thing, there's a lot we can teach the world if we were allowed to do so in full. Perhaps that's what being an Earth angel is all about by extension. And yet for another, our part to play has to matter on some level.
For every empath that is out there, there are apaths to deal with. It's within itself a spectrum among spectrums, and sometimes we don't always vibe with the part to play in the one we're in that another must mirror for us to face the desire we crave from within to best manifest in our lives. It's a lesson I've had to learn over the years, and only show my empathy to specific people, which are the closest circles of friends specifically.
I'm sorry your friend experienced that kind of trauma and you also went through it with scars that haunt you. I am sending lots of love and prayers to all in this kind of situation. I also went through something similar more than once, and it is not a fun feeling where you feel like your control is next to none, and someone just wants you for your body in the moment and nothing else matters. there is a ton of aftermath that you go through as well when you start to desire yourself again too soon. I don't wish that on anyone.
While I do believe that those who commit such acts should get healing from doing this kind of thing again, they must want it from within. It's that kind of prayer that takes a lot longer to manifest. It's brave of some to ask for this. And as an empath, you will anchor more towards your own experience in this regard for sure, especially if it takes a lot longer to go through it.
We shouldn't judge each other on the journey we take, only the result of how it effects someone if the result means that harm has come from it in ways that is controllable by and through mutual understanding. The power of forgiveness, is not holding onto the hurt, holding onto what lives onto the other side of pain and other unwanted things. Pleasure, presence and future, not heartache, absence and fear.
Love does not always mean closeness, but it does mean acceptance for who you are. As an empath I find that love is always going to be a mutual affair, or it just isn't love...it's something closer to lust.