We are all empaths, and everyone has the potential to be empathic. It is through understanding empathy that we are able to develop various techniques for its use and to counter it. Becoming aware that we are empathic is the first step to understanding.
Those that are unaware may put it down to having sympathy for someone’s plight. How often has any of us said 'I felt that' when we see someone hurt themselves? How many parents have felt that they should check their sleeping child upstairs and found them unwell? Of course parental bonds go without saying, yet these are based in the structure of empathy and how it works. How many of us have felt someone’s anger, or grief or some such emotion in a chat room and mistakenly thought it was directed at us?
Most of us can spot a potential trouble maker, awareness comes with experience, and correctly identifying that which you feel comes from without ourselves, rather than within. I personally believe that you cannot have healing potential, to be a healer unless you are aware of empathy and are able to identify the various clues. I may be wrong there though.
If you are empathic, or believe you are, then it’s ok, you are normal! How then can you protect yourself from picking up other people's emotions, if and when you need a break, and knowing that it can become too much for you. Ground and protection and cleanse or purify.
One method I use, for its simplicity and effectiveness was constructed by Betty Shine (RIP) who was Britain’s foremost empath, medium and healer. This method is called the auric egg and some of you may already be familiar with this. You can do this standing up, even with your eyes open.
Simply summon up the image of a huge egg picture it with a door. The egg can be made of light, mirrors or even 3 foot of steel - you choose the material it is made of. Walk through the door and lock it. Visualise the egg hardening, then relax. You are shielded a note of caution though, it doesn't do to stay shielded indefinitely so don’t forget to exit the egg when you are ready.
You can visualise a bubble, a cloak, a sleeping bag anything that you feel comfortable visualising and will feel protected by.
What do we know of how empathy works? From a shaman's point of view we look at knowledge left to us by the Toltec sorcerers of Mexico and South America, and to my very own path Celtic shamanism.
We will have to start with looking at our aura. It is described as egg shaped, upside down, pointy end at your feet. Inside our auric eggs, various colours, varying in degree and intensity, shift about usually 2 or 3 colours at any given moment. At the front of our aura, directly opposite our solar plexus is an indentation. On closer inspection we see that the aura is not made up of solid light in nature but made up of thousands of strips of light. When we look closer at the indentation, we actually see the centre of it funnelling inwards right into our solar plexus, to a place located at or around our belly button. It is from here that we receive emotions, pains etc from without.
Now this is a very interesting bit, coming out of your solar plexus are thousands of strips of light, called filaments, they resemble strings of light, shooting out of your solar plexus and through the indentation in front of your aura. These look rather like fibre optic cables of light and are usually known as filaments, more commonly as strings. There are some people who can shift that indentation to various points in their aura and shift awareness. These strings are from which we receive our perceptions, psychically about other people, namely empathy. Upon leaving the indentation they spread out all around you, there is no limit to their length and can indeed if need be reach around the world, connecting and allowing information to reach you, rather like a bunch of tendrils weaving and waving about us. Since every being that is alive and has basic awareness also has these filaments coming out of them they connect to each other, creating a world wide web that allows us to link to every other being. This explains how most people can link to another person online for instance, in a chat room and empathise with others, without actually realising it. From a shamanic viewpoint, this is the web of life, and so saying we are all connected.
From space, the earth has its own aura inside it are those countless billions of strings that are connected like a web. The earth has 2 indentations one on each pole and the earth's strings reach out into the cosmos, this is the GAIA awareness. This helps us to understand the meaning of cutting strings from somebody and the saying no strings attached. These are times when we want to cut ourselves off from someone perhaps a battered wife who has left her husband (bravely) but still feels tied To help her find release from her spouse she would simply visualise, during a meditation, her husband sitting opposite her and seeing her strings and his wrapped together forming a thick rope. Then while looking at her former partner square in the eyes, use a knife and cut the rope.Altho the energy of teh other is still attached, u have cut yourself off from them, rather like a block. On a smaller scale if we are picking from people, we can visualise our own strings withdrawing from the other, and retract within ourselves.
Sit with both your feet on the ground and breathe in a comfortable and relaxed manner, evenly.
Visualise roots coming out of the bottom of your feet, like a plant, and digging into the earth, feeling the energy of the earth coming up into your body.
Meditation
I thank the universe for providing light and protection during our short journey.
Visualise yourself in your sacred space (a place where you feel most comfortable)
In front of you there is a spiral path
It goes right and upwards
Walk along the path
Your guides are with you
Soon you come to the end of the spiral path and look
There is a blue mist in front of you
It is a healing mist
A bright blue ball of light comes towards you
It stops in front of you then it wends its way through the mist
You follow the ball of light through the mist, feeling yourself being healed
You come to the end of the mist, and directly in front of you
there is a bridge, made of rainbow light
It bridges the gap between the middle world and the upper world
You cross the bridge
and there is a path in front of you
You follow the path, taking in the sights and wonderful scents
of the plant life all around you
Soon, you find yourself climbing the path up a hill, a tor
You reach the top
Slowly your aura manifests itself
and you see your filaments shooting out of your solar plexus
Tapping the web of the world
You are connected to every living being that exists
Suddenly a latticework of light appears in the sky above you
Billions of strings creating a grid
above you
and all around you
You notice your filaments connecting to the latticework
and suddenly you find yourself floating in the cosmos
Bliss
Healing
You feel the universes heartbeat
It is thrumming inside you
and you are filled with light
Until you are a being of light
As you look at yourself
You realise that all your cells in your body are stars and planets
You have become the universe
In that moment, you are aware of every aspect of life within the universe
Revel in it
Slowly your light dims
and your filaments extract themselves from the grid
until you are again a person standing on a hill
Turn around
there is a small pool
There is a ladle on a chain attached to a rack nearby
Dip the ladle into the water
and scoop some water, before you drink it
You notice that the water has turned to light
Drink the light
It is healing and love
Now walk down the hill
to the rainbow bridge
Cross the bridge
and you see a green mist in front of you
A pink ball of light make its way toward you
It entices you to follow it through the mist
as you walk through the mist, you realise it is a mist of love
The pink light takes you to the other side of the mist
and you see your spiral path in front of you
Walk down and left, with your guides
Following the spiral
Until you see your sacred space where you started from
Enter your space
Thank your guides
and slowly bring yourselves back to the middle world
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