By-Products of Empathy (Other gift manifestations)

[LadyAriana]

This seems to be something that has been mentioned in other threads, so I thought it deserved its own :)

However, and I don't know if this is a by-product of empathy or not, but I have a very unusual side gift, that has a very high success rate. I know this will sound funny, but I can detect pregnancy. At first I thought (once again) that I was imagining things, but trial and error seem to prove it. It seems to work like this. If you're newly pregnant (under 3 months), I can get a glimmer of that fact. If you're more than 4 months, I can tell with 90% accuracy the gender, and even what the child will look like. There have been only two times I wasn't able to tell, 1) my best firiend's twins who are magickal children unto themselves and 2) my cousin's daughter.

It's a little odd for me, because more than once I've been chatting with someone online and suddenly said, "Oh! You're pregant!" when they haven't mentioned it. Even weirder is to have some strange image of a child pop in my head. I've had people come online a year after I've told them, "You're going to have a little girl with thick curly black hair and blue eyes" specifially to look for me and tell me I was right.

Okay, before you call the young men in the nice white coats, can anyone else relate?

PS In case you are wondering, I don't have any children of my own, though I do have a very strong maternal pull.

[Darklord_Kodiak]

Wow no but thats awsome.

[Pesha]

I can relate yes. I found I could do the same thing in alot of cases. Rather spooky sometimes. I seem to intuite the new life as a glowing orb in my mind and it just feels wonderful.

It is my empathy that lead me to formalise my being a witch so many years ago. My empathy goes hand in hand with my workings. My son who is also an empath can predict the sex of the child about 85% of the time.

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DS.

[LadyAriana]

I can relate yes. I found I could do the same thing in alot of cases. Rather spooky sometimes. I seem to intuite the new life as a glowing orb in my mind and it just feels wonderful.

It is my empathy that lead me to formalise my being a witch so many years ago. My empathy goes hand in hand with my workings. My son who is also an empath can predict the sex of the child about 85% of the time.

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DS.

Not sure which came first in my case, but then again that could be the case. I'm more conciously aware of being an Emp when I hit mid-teens, but spiritually I was a pagan from earlier than that.

[Contra Mundum]

yep me,i am very very good in predicting the gender of the baby and i can also predict when someone will have a misccarriage .
i don't think i've ever been wrong ,i predicted my sisters miscarriages and the gender .
with the miscarriages i just couldn't see life in the future, so i knew things were going wrong .
with the gender i just focus and then it will come to me, i just know.
so don't worry we won't call the white coats. :D

[Branwyn]

For me, one of the 'side effects' of empathy is that I can accurately predict when a person's relationship is going to end. Not in "day and time" of failure, but just if it will or not.

I've had 5 friends lately (in the past few years) who've come to me with problems in their relationships. Of the 5, three have ended up in failure, one did not (and will not), and the fifth one is just now unfolding, but I 'sense' that the problems are all stress related, and not any problem with the relationship at all, and that the relationship will be much stronger for having gone through this. In all these cases, I've kept my 'knowing' to myself (do not want to create a self-fuflilling prophecy), but have managed to make sure I was around to help pick up the peices with the friends who's relationships broke up.

I can only do this with people I know IRL, so that's a relief. I'd really hate to be walking in a mall, seeing people holding hands and knowing that they had less then a year left to them.

I'm not sure it's a gift, but when the relationships are going to work out, it is a very nice/warm/fuzzy/rosecolored feeling = ).

[Bethra]

I don't know if I would call it a side effect as such but I have found being empathic makes me a much better Tarot reader. I sometimes wonder if maybe I'm cheating just a little bit since I don't really read the cards but the person. I'm able to predict future events sometimes like pregnancy and finachial win falls. I even once predicted that my friend would have a brush with the law and the very next night he was arrested :lol:

[Branwyn]

I'm able to predict future events sometimes like pregnancy and finachial win falls. :lol:


Want to predict a financial wind fall for me? ;) :lol:

[Lunacie]

I agree that being empathic seems to enhance psychic abilities. I know it helps me in doing tarot and rune readings. And I seem to pick up on miscarriages more often than early pregnancy, although that happens too.

[Pesha]

I don't know if I would call it a side effect as such but I have found being empathic makes me a much better Tarot reader. I sometimes wonder if maybe I'm cheating just a little bit since I don't really read the cards but the person. I'm able to predict future events sometimes like pregnancy and finachial win falls. I even once predicted that my friend would have a brush with the law and the very next night he was arrested :lol:

I had a friend do my cards once and she was also an Empath. I got an incrediable reading but then she and I both wondered if she was reading the cards or me. I have looked at people who are couples and if they are going to stay together, I see in my mind a old couple all grey and cuddled together. If it is not going to last I do not see an old couple, just them as they are now. Another way I know they are meant to be with each other is I see their auras blending together.

It is interesting to me that so many of us have the same mainifistations of our gifts. Different in how they are seen but still the same. Amazing, and wonderful.

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DS.

[SammieAnn]

I think being an empath helps me when I read cards for people. I read regular playing cards then I do tarot

[Akashic Brother]

Yeah I think empathy is the basis for psychic abilities. I've read countless times that the most psychic people are the most sensitive to feelings. A couple of side effects I've noticed; Human lie detector!, picking up direct thoughts, i can sense danger at times, I always know when police are around or coming(I mean always, it's uncanny), bonds with animals (especially projecting feelings of love). You know there are so many things that I think connect. I think being empathic makes it much easier to develop other abilities. I spent time practicing 'soft-focus' to see auras in people, trees, and animals, and it seemed to come naturally.

[seekerofknwoledge]

One "side effect" or rather something that's aided by my empathy is my ability to interact (see, hear, etc.) with spirits.

[Teresa]

I don't know if I would call it a side effect as such but I have found being empathic makes me a much better Tarot reader. I sometimes wonder if maybe I'm cheating just a little bit since I don't really read the cards but the person. I'm able to predict future events sometimes like pregnancy and finachial win falls. I even once predicted that my friend would have a brush with the law and the very next night he was arrested :lol:
I know for myself I use more psychometry and intuitive when doing readings than the actual cards.I do not consider that cheating since it serves the same means in helping someone.When we are close to someone yes it is easy to pick up on things and make predictions that come true because of the empathy.

[BrigidMoon]

If I am chatting with someone and we're in a pretty intense serious conversation - I can see what they are wearing down to jewelry - where they are sitting - even perfume or cologne they are wearing.

It freaked me out the first time but you know what I can say? I don't use this often. I just know how to peer through the monitor and take a look around so to speak.

[LadyCelt]

I tend to notice when something is wrong like a person is sad and down, even when they may seem fine to most people. A bit more darkness around eyes etc. It could just be the obvious peopel ignore too.


I can also tell when soembody is lying or avoiding a question.

[Pesha]

If I am chatting with someone and we're in a pretty intense serious conversation - I can see what they are wearing down to jewelry - where they are sitting - even perfume or cologne they are wearing.

It freaked me out the first time but you know what I can say? I don't use this often. I just know how to peer through the monitor and take a look around so to speak.

Freaked me out the first time I actually felt someone online. I have in the past had a person place their hand on the monitor and I put my hand on my monitor and been able to intuite quite alot about them.

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[~*Ginger*~]

One "side effect" or rather something that's aided by my empathy is my ability to interact (see, hear, etc.) with spirits.
I think so too.

Dragonsinger,I've done that at times when sending energy, or when doing tarot readings online.

[Contra Mundum]

Freaked me out the first time I actually felt someone online. I have in the past had a person place their hand on the monitor and I put my hand on my monitor and been able to intuite quite alot about them.

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DS.
i remember the first time i posted on mw ,drunk out of my skull :durrrr: ,
and lunacie's post freaked me out ,it almost made me leave this site, because she hit the nail on the head.
i knew nothing about empathy and she told me that even though i sounded happy i wasn't.
that she could sense it, i thought what the @#$%, what's this ?
there was just something about that post ,that made me go eek .
just the thought that someone could sense that through a computer screen , so weird.
even though i'd done it a million times myself, i just always thought i was crazy or something.

do you remember that post lunacie ????

[MoonDust]

For me, one of the 'side effects' of empathy is that I can accurately predict when a person's relationship is going to end. Not in "day and time" of failure, but just if it will or not.

I've had 5 friends lately (in the past few years) who've come to me with problems in their relationships. Of the 5, three have ended up in failure, one did not (and will not), and the fifth one is just now unfolding, but I 'sense' that the problems are all stress related, and not any problem with the relationship at all, and that the relationship will be much stronger for having gone through this. In all these cases, I've kept my 'knowing' to myself (do not want to create a self-fuflilling prophecy), but have managed to make sure I was around to help pick up the peices with the friends who's relationships broke up.

I can only do this with people I know IRL, so that's a relief. I'd really hate to be walking in a mall, seeing people holding hands and knowing that they had less then a year left to them.

I'm not sure it's a gift, but when the relationships are going to work out, it is a very nice/warm/fuzzy/rosecolored feeling = ).
I've got this one.
I can see two people and just... know. Could be why I was never really interested in guys/relationships past the apreciation stage. Until I met my love. :T

LadyAriana cool gift!

[Pesha]

I was talking to a friend of mine a while back and he was high on some stuff he grew for rituals. Anyway within 10 min. I was laughing like a fool and felt just a giddy as he did. It stopped soon as I signed off.

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DS.

[LadyAriana]

I don't know if I would call it a side effect as such but I have found being empathic makes me a much better Tarot reader. I sometimes wonder if maybe I'm cheating just a little bit since I don't really read the cards but the person. I'm able to predict future events sometimes like pregnancy and finachial win falls. I even once predicted that my friend would have a brush with the law and the very next night he was arrested :lol:


I do the same thing when I read. I don't think its cheating, I think it makes us better readers because we have a deeper sense of what the root of the problem is, and it makes our reading into the symbols and signals from the cards much better.

[LadyAriana]

I've got this one.
I can see two people and just... know. Could be why I was never really interested in guys/relationships past the apreciation stage. Until I met my love. :T

LadyAriana cool gift!

Thanks :) It can be, but it's also very lonely. I really really want kids, always have, but I seem to be stuck on the path of doomed relationships myself and it does take two. So its a bittersweet gift, to see all these beautiful children soon to be born, but not one of mine.

I can tell with relationships to, but as someone else said, I don't like to get into self-fullfilling relationships. Particularly with my friends that are always 'on the look out', I've found that if I give them any clues, they become overly eager and tend to frighten the guy away. So I never tell anymore, unless it's really huge.

One of my best friends met this guy and within minutes of her telling me about him, I knew deep down with everything I had that he was the one for her. Not only that, but doubling up on the information, I knew that she was going to get pregnant with his child very quickly and it would be a boy. Even though they are now having hard issues within their relationship, I still know deep down that they are meant to be.

[frigga]

I can tell where a conversation is going, who needs to talk, and how to intervein before it gets to wild. With close friends and family, it freaks me out sometimes because we'll be thinking, or say the same thought. I've often wondered "did I think that, or did she?". And nobody will play pictionary with me because I always win. Again, I don't know if I'm picking up on what my teammates are thinking and work with that, or if they're getting something from me. The word justs pops into my head. But this really urks me because I love pictionary, :sadeyes: it's my favorite game!!
I don't always get what a person is wearing online, but whoa do I get voices! Every post I read, posters all have their own voice. I sometimes get outfits, but I'm not sure if it's real or just my mind putting a look on a sound. :eyez:

[~*Ginger*~]

I love pictionary, :sadeyes: it's my favorite game!!

I don't always get what a person is wearing online, but whoa do I get voices! Every post I read, posters all have their own voice. I sometimes get outfits, but I'm not sure if it's real or just my mind putting a look on a sound. :eyez:
I'd play pictionary with you! _twohorns_

&
Hey, that's pretty cool!
Can you pick up on what I'm wearing right now?
Sending the pictionary vibe now.

[Pesha]

When I am talking on line, I close my eyes for a moment and get the impressions of the person. I generally lock into their auras and so read them by their colours. I have touched peoples hands before and gotten a rush of impressions about that person.

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DS.

[frigga]

I'd play pictionary with you! _twohorns_

&
Hey, that's pretty cool!
Can you pick up on what I'm wearing right now?
Sending the pictionary vibe now.
No, no clothes ideas. Your voice sounds nice in my head though; young and hummm...mellow kinda, like cinnamon!

[Raintreewolf]

This seems to be something that has been mentioned in other threads, so I thought it deserved its own :)

However, and I don't know if this is a by-product of empathy or not, but I have a very unusual side gift, that has a very high success rate. I know this will sound funny, but I can detect pregnancy. At first I thought (once again) that I was imagining things, but trial and error seem to prove it. It seems to work like this. If you're newly pregnant (under 3 months), I can get a glimmer of that fact. If you're more than 4 months, I can tell with 90% accuracy the gender, and even what the child will look like. There have been only two times I wasn't able to tell, 1) my best firiend's twins who are magickal children unto themselves and 2) my cousin's daughter.

It's a little odd for me, because more than once I've been chatting with someone online and suddenly said, "Oh! You're pregant!" when they haven't mentioned it. Even weirder is to have some strange image of a child pop in my head. I've had people come online a year after I've told them, "You're going to have a little girl with thick curly black hair and blue eyes" specifially to look for me and tell me I was right.

Okay, before you call the young men in the nice white coats, can anyone else relate?

PS In case you are wondering, I don't have any children of my own, though I do have a very strong maternal pull.

Hah hah hah....picking up the phone to call straight jacket delivery and pic-up...LOL

Actually no...I have not picked up on this. but i have an uncanny way of just spouting out something that bares deep truths and find out later that it was true and I'm told I must be psychic or something...though, I did not know I was.This wierd psychic thing happens in states of deep confussion for instance, ( I met someone at a large gathering....I was shaking their hand...and I thought I recognised the persons name when I was introduced to them, so, I went on this wierd assumption connecting them to Colorado and various different events, people and conections....LOL.....Oooh well, they sure were blowen away....LOL and I was completely confused....it took awhile of discussing to figure out that they were happen chance to come to the gathering with a friend and that, the names I mentioned were all people they new but were not the ones I was thinking of and yes there name was like the person's whom I thought I was meeting, they come and go from Colorado but not for the reasons I thought......Ok, so how wierd are things like this?LOL, yeah, I walked away confussed still...LOL) I have a lot of wierd things like this happen...LOL

Ok, one other thing about this...that is super strange is that the person I thought I was meeting and had this collected information on....never even signed up for the event and therefore I could have never read thier bio....as I found this out later talking with my High Priestess....soooooooo...I dunno.

I'm learning to just go ahead and be the fool, spout it out and hope it all has purpose in the end...LOL :rotfl:

[Raintreewolf]

I can tell where a conversation is going, who needs to talk, and how to intervein before it gets to wild. With close friends and family, it freaks me out sometimes because we'll be thinking, or say the same thought. I've often wondered "did I think that, or did she?". And nobody will play pictionary with me because I always win. Again, I don't know if I'm picking up on what my teammates are thinking and work with that, or if they're getting something from me. The word justs pops into my head. But this really urks me because I love pictionary, :sadeyes: it's my favorite game!!
I don't always get what a person is wearing online, but whoa do I get voices! Every post I read, posters all have their own voice. I sometimes get outfits, but I'm not sure if it's real or just my mind putting a look on a sound. :eyez:


Hah hah hah.....I get a little of that.

When I went house hunting on the net....shew weee...check that one out peoples! TRIPPY!

[Raintreewolf]

I'd play pictionary with you! _twohorns_

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Hey, that's pretty cool!
Can you pick up on what I'm wearing right now?
Sending the pictionary vibe now.


LOL....what a challange :tv:

[Raintreewolf]

When I am talking on line, I close my eyes for a moment and get the impressions of the person. I generally lock into their auras and so read them by their colours. I have touched peoples hands before and gotten a rush of impressions about that person.

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DS.

Yeah, I don't know how people can feel like they can not get to know people on the net.....It's actually almost easier for me because I can get distracted by visuals and sensations in person....

[Raintreewolf]

Want to predict a financial wind fall for me? ;) :lol:


Hah hah hah....if only predicting actually brought about manifestation...huh?

Yeah and while you are at it...could you predict me a long and vivascious life...LOL oh and with no finacial worries....LOL

LOL tooo fun!

[BrigidMoon]

I was talking to a friend of mine a while back and he was high on some stuff he grew for rituals. Anyway within 10 min. I was laughing like a fool and felt just a giddy as he did. It stopped soon as I signed off.

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DS.


This has happened to me before as well. It's crazy ...

[Raintreewolf]

I agree that being empathic seems to enhance psychic abilities. I know it helps me in doing tarot and rune readings. And I seem to pick up on miscarriages more often than early pregnancy, although that happens too.

Oh...well, I am confused....empathy is not the same as psychic??? I awlays thought they were. maybe, I dunno know... :hairraise panic...maybe I uh...oh uh...h'mmmm.LOL ok

[Raintreewolf]

Yeah I think empathy is the basis for psychic abilities. I've read countless times that the most psychic people are the most sensitive to feelings. A couple of side effects I've noticed; Human lie detector!, picking up direct thoughts, i can sense danger at times, I always know when police are around or coming(I mean always, it's uncanny), bonds with animals (especially projecting feelings of love). You know there are so many things that I think connect. I think being empathic makes it much easier to develop other abilities. I spent time practicing 'soft-focus' to see auras in people, trees, and animals, and it seemed to come naturally.

Ohh, I can relate to this! Yeah...I can detect lies too! I can also sometimes, like read minds...sense spiders....psychic love things with animals....and yes, aura reading...easy peasy for me too.

Good, glad to read that someone thinks an empathetic person is also a psychic....Sheeew weee...I was throwen off there for a minute.

[Teresa]

I consider empathy to be one of many forms of psychic abilities but it seems to be one that you did not ask for and a bit unruly to try and master. This is just my humble opinion though! _wiz_

[Raintreewolf]

I was talking to a friend of mine a while back and he was high on some stuff he grew for rituals. Anyway within 10 min. I was laughing like a fool and felt just a giddy as he did. It stopped soon as I signed off.

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DS.
Hah hah ha, yeah contact highs are really good for me...I don't do a whole lot of magic herbal or fungi/culture stimulations any more but some one on happy caps.....hah hah hah....will keep me up with them laughing for hours just through contact and I will feel just as if I had but without any side effects.

[Lunacie]

i remember the first time i posted on mw ,drunk out of my skull :durrrr: ,
and lunacie's post freaked me out ,it almost made me leave this site, because she hit the nail on the head.
i knew nothing about empathy and she told me that even though i sounded happy i wasn't.
that she could sense it, i thought what the @#$%, what's this ?
there was just something about that post ,that made me go eek .
just the thought that someone could sense that through a computer screen , so weird.
even though i'd done it a million times myself, i just always thought i was crazy or something.

do you remember that post lunacie ????

*soft smile* Ain't it funny how one small thing can make such a profound change in our lives? You "feel" so much different to me in these last weeks than you did at first. You felt so yucky that I almost didn't write to you at all, but I realized that anything I picked up from you wasn't something I had to hold onto, I could share with you and recommend to you that you let go of some of that pain, and I could also let go of it. Yeah, it's crazy to be able to pick up stuff like this through a computer, but crazy isn't always a bad place. Normal can be so boring I think. :T

The thing that turned my life around was reading a small business size card. One side it said, "Don't sweat the small stuff." On the other side it said, "Almost everything is small stuff."

That helped me to learn to be more discriminating. I didn't have to make everything more difficult that it already was. Some things are worth getting upset about, some just aren't. Some times I can do something that will create a change, and sometimes I can't. I'm learning to tell the difference. It's not worth investing a lot of my energy and anger on things that I can't possibly change, eh? That way I save my energy to use to try to change things that I might have a chance of actually changing.

I hope this is making sense. I know the ADD makes things come out a little different (or a lot different) than I mean them to be. I've forgotten to take my Fish Oil supplements for a couple of days and the weather is weird here. I gotta go take that little pill and go to work now. Ya'all take care. Hugs to (((((Borderlinesin)))))

[~*Ginger*~]

No, no clothes ideas. Your voice sounds nice in my head though; young and hummm...mellow kinda, like cinnamon!
Most excellent!
Sounds alot like me...

It was just an ole mouse with a pillow. :whistle:

[MoonDust]

I don't always get what a person is wearing online, but whoa do I get voices! Every post I read, posters all have their own voice. I sometimes get outfits, but I'm not sure if it's real or just my mind putting a look on a sound. :eyez:
Outfits?? *looks down* you poor thing :D

[Pesha]

When I see ginger, I see light blues and yellows with some green. And I feel rather happy. Lunacie is blue with purple and very calm soothing feeling. Just examples of how I see people.

I had someone trying to hit on me once say he saw me as red and yellow and black and oh wow you are so sexy. I very much doubt he saw anything. As I was sheilded and never have black in my aura except during a cleaning. You know those nasty black spots of gunk you have to get off. But red and yellow. I am told I am purple with blue and some green. Anyway. I love seeing auras.

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[LadyAriana]

Sometimes I get the voices too, but I kinda think they're my own internal monologue :P

I can't begin to fathom seeing colored auras, sometimes when I'm tired and my eyes aren't that focused I can see what looks like a light around certain people, but it tends to just be yellow/white-ish...just a lighter color of whatever is behind them. I don't know if that's aura or my eyes going wiggy on me. The only times I 'See' colors is when I'm trying to do a healing, and that's more in my minds eye than my physical eyes.

[~*Ginger*~]

The focus for seeing auras, hurt my eyes, so I don't even try any more.
If there was some way for my being able to see with out ending up with eye ache, I'd try...

[Contra Mundum]

*soft smile* Ain't it funny how one small thing can make such a profound change in our lives? You "feel" so much different to me in these last weeks than you did at first. You felt so yucky that I almost didn't write to you at all, but I realized that anything I picked up from you wasn't something I had to hold onto, I could share with you and recommend to you that you let go of some of that pain, and I could also let go of it. Yeah, it's crazy to be able to pick up stuff like this through a computer, but crazy isn't always a bad place. Normal can be so boring I think. :T

believe me your post made a big change,i always thought (was convinced) that NO one could see behind my mask,no one ever did and your words had such an impact on me,that was the beginning of a big change within myself.
and that i felt yucky to you (sorry when i read that it made me laugh so hard) i can believe that at that time i must have been :sick: to another empath. ( sometimes still am) :bouncysmi
and i did notice that you were avoiding me ,it wasn't till we met again in the bunker that we slowly began talking to each other,very slowly. :hehehehe:
alot has changed in the last couple of weeks and i'm glad that you've noticed.
sometimes the smallest things have the biggest impact.
out of all the messages i got on mw, your message is the one i'll always remember ,thanks !!

The thing that turned my life around was reading a small business size card. One side it said, "Don't sweat the small stuff." On the other side it said, "Almost everything is small stuff."

That helped me to learn to be more discriminating. I didn't have to make everything more difficult that it already was. Some things are worth getting upset about, some just aren't. Some times I can do something that will create a change, and sometimes I can't. I'm learning to tell the difference. It's not worth investing a lot of my energy and anger on things that I can't possibly change, eh? That way I save my energy to use to try to change things that I might have a chance of actually changing.

I hope this is making sense. I know the ADD makes things come out a little different (or a lot different) than I mean them to be. I've forgotten to take my Fish Oil supplements for a couple of days and the weather is weird here. I gotta go take that little pill and go to work now. Ya'all take care. Hugs to (((((Borderlinesin)))))
you my lady are making alot of sense to me,i love what it said on the card ,thanks for posting that. :thumbsup:
made me think about things and that's always a good thing. :hehehehe:
i'm so glad that you're here, for you have alot of wisdom to share. _pounce_

[Lunacie]

Dearling, you've made me smile and laugh too. That's something I didn't expect because your first posts were so unhappy. I sure didn't expect we would connect and become friends, but I can feel a friendship growing, and I hope you can too. I'm glad that anything I've written here has made a difference to others, because I know how much of a difference being on here and hearing from others makes in my day-to-day life.

It's so wonderful that the empathic community is growing here, and we can share our struggles and also share the tricks and tools we have found work for us. All of my metaphysical teachers have taught me so very much and I'm so very grateful for having had the opportunity to work with them and learn from them, but they all discount the emotions - the empathy.

I believe that in order to be well-balanced, healthy, happy people we need to find a balance between the mental, the physical, the spiritual, and the emotional as well. We shouldn't let our emotions control us, but the opposite isn't right either - we don't have to control our emotions. We have to learn to live with our emotions and listen to what they are telling us. Then we use that information to make good choices, but to balance the information that comes from our emotions and empathy along with the information we are getting from our physical senses, and our mental capability, and of course what we hear from our higher selves / the gods / our guardians, etc.

[Pesha]

Dearling, you've made me smile and laugh too. That's something I didn't expect because your first posts were so unhappy. I sure didn't expect we would connect and become friends, but I can feel a friendship growing, and I hope you can too. I'm glad that anything I've written here has made a difference to others, because I know how much of a difference being on here and hearing from others makes in my day-to-day life.

It's so wonderful that the empathic community is growing here, and we can share our struggles and also share the tricks and tools we have found work for us. All of my metaphysical teachers have taught me so very much and I'm so very grateful for having had the opportunity to work with them and learn from them, but they all discount the emotions - the empathy.

I believe that in order to be well-balanced, healthy, happy people we need to find a balance between the mental, the physical, the spiritual, and the emotional as well. We shouldn't let our emotions control us, but the opposite isn't right either - we don't have to control our emotions. We have to learn to live with our emotions and listen to what they are telling us. Then we use that information to make good choices, but to balance the information that comes from our emotions and empathy along with the information we are getting from our physical senses, and our mental capability, and of course what we hear from our higher selves / the gods / our guardians, etc.

Gosh how I wish I could of met you when I lived in Wichita. You have always said things that make so much sense and given so much comfort. And we were in Wichita at the same time. I used to live on Pawnee off of Merideian. Anyway, I am glad you are my friend. And glad to have your wisdom. Thankyou love.

BB
DS.

[Lunacie]

Well, I learned much of this after moving to Wichita in June 2001. I never thought it would be possible for me (being so sensitive empathically) to live in a city this size. It helped that we lived in a trailer park at Meridian and McArthur (two miles north of where you were, eh), and that was like living in a small town on the edge of a city. That was when I learned somehow to differentiate between my emotions and those I was picking up when I was driving or shopping.

That was where I met a guy named Fred who took on a group of students when he had previously only taught metaphysics one-on-one. I love learning in a small group, other people ask questions that don't occur to me, or that I may think of much later. But I make connections that don't seem to occur to others, and relate what I am learning about one subject to some other area of my life where I could use some help (which can frustrate teachers who think I'm not getting what they're trying to teach). :nonono:

Some I learned from taking the Reiki One class in 2002, some I have learned from reading, and some I have learned from my fellow empaths online. Special blessings to Albie and Lyntwyn for accepting me flaws-and-all and encouraging me to learn and grow and let go of the past (both mine and others).

Don't be fooled by my online persona, I still struggle, and have my "hermit days" when I simply can't deal with the barrage of emotions that I encounter in public. 10 years ago I wondered if I was having panic attacks, I would drive to Hutchinson (which isn't that big a town) and find myself sitting at a stoplight wondering which way I should be going. Now I realize that I was picking up thoughts/energies from other drivers, and they were all worried about getting to different places, so it's no wonder I was too confused to be able to think about where I wanted or needed to go. :huh: Thankfully I haven't done that for a few years now.

Has anyone else here experienced that barrage of emotions, not necessarily angry or fearful, but tense and anxious, and coming from a dozen different directions all at once? Don't park me in the middle of a traffic jam - it's not pretty. Hmmm, apparently I'm doing pretty well at differentiating between me and others when it's just one person, but too many people feeling something similar is more than I can differentiate. As difficult as it was for me to be in Hoisington following the tornado that wiped out 1/3 of the town completely, I'm glad I wasn't any closer to the gulf coast last month. :foh:

[~*Ginger*~]

When I'm in an unknown location, yes i do turn to a bundle of nerves, not knowing which way to go, how fast to go, where to turn, and such.
Even get aggravated with myself for not doing it right. (now is that just me, or am i picking up on the people around me?)
But...

If I know where I'm going, I may be the person you pick up on that is thinking, 'will you go already'. :bouncysmi

[Contra Mundum]

Dearling, you've made me smile and laugh too. That's something I didn't expect because your first posts were so unhappy. I sure didn't expect we would connect and become friends, but I can feel a friendship growing, and I hope you can too. I'm glad that anything I've written here has made a difference to others, because I know how much of a difference being on here and hearing from others makes in my day-to-day life. phew load of my heart,good to hear that it wasn't all :sick: :bouncysmi
my first posts were hell,I can't even look at my first posts because they make me sick,it was the alcohol,yes that's it, blame the alcohol :halohead:
i do feel that things between us now are different than what it once was.
and i hope that it will get better and better.
but if i ever make you feel :sick: again ,just tell me. :hehehehe:

[Lunacie]

I could tell you were self-medicating with alcohol the way I self-medicate with food when the feelings are too much to deal with. Actually, from the first few posts I didn't know what it was that you were having trouble dealing with, but when you found the Bunker I knew that you were trying to cope with the same things I have to cope with. So I thought maybe if I shared some the things I've found helpful in dealing with "emotional overload" you wouldn't have to use alcohol so much. http://mysticwicks.com/images/smilies/wink.gif You seem to be staying away from alcohol better than I'm staying away from potato chips and chocolate. :thumbsup:

[Contra Mundum]

yes i was ,i drank a bottle of vodka a day.
i started drinking in the morning and stopped when i went to bed in the middle of the night.
only to begin again the next day.
i was making alot of enemies ,
and i was at my worst when i joined this site.
your post and the help of a dear friend who literaly saved me from a mental breakdown ,made me realise that what i was doing was getting out of hand.
i haven't touched a drop of alcohol for about 11 weeks now.
so if i can stop drinking you can stop with the chips and chocolate :crazylaug

[Lunacie]

Ah, but do I want to stop? :goodgrief

Thanks for caring. :smoochypo

[Pesha]

Hugs Lunicie. I have a problem with food as well. Sighs. I can get so muddled up in others negastive and axious emotions that I have to leave a place and get alone and quiet. I remember going to the drive in in Carthage MO. with mynow exboyfriend and going almost nuts becasue of some of the arguing and other craziness I was picking up. He is also an empath but refuses to adhere to any rules ( actually he is an emotion vamp). And he got all nasty with me. Told me to sheild up and just deal with it. Well as I said he is my exboyfriend. The relationship was just about over at that point. So I do know what you are feeling.

My son bless him and my DIL, help me stay away from all the lovely food I could just eat and eat. But I sure do want it. HUGS.

BB
DS.

[MoonDust]

So I never tell anymore, unless it's really huge.
It's all so new to me... well not new I've felt it all my life but having it and actualy knowing what it is are two different things! :T I just tend to sit back and keep my mouth shut then when things turn out the way I saw them happening I just go "woah"

[LadyAriana]

yes i was ,i drank a bottle of vodka a day.
i started drinking in the morning and stopped when i went to bed in the middle of the night.
only to begin again the next day.
i was making alot of enemies ,
and i was at my worst when i joined this site.
your post and the help of a dear friend who literaly saved me from a mental breakdown ,made me realise that what i was doing was getting out of hand.
i haven't touched a drop of alcohol for about 11 weeks now.
so if i can stop drinking you can stop with the chips and chocolate :crazylaug


*BIG APPLAUSE* Congrats there borderlinesin! Coming myself from a double edged background (alcoholics and Italian/Irish heritage), you get big kudos for your hard work! Keep it up!!

:thumbsup: :hugz: :woot:

[LadyAriana]

I could tell you were self-medicating with alcohol the way I self-medicate with food when the feelings are too much to deal with. Actually, from the first few posts I didn't know what it was that you were having trouble dealing with, but when you found the Bunker I knew that you were trying to cope with the same things I have to cope with. So I thought maybe if I shared some the things I've found helpful in dealing with "emotional overload" you wouldn't have to use alcohol so much. http://mysticwicks.com/images/smilies/wink.gif You seem to be staying away from alcohol better than I'm staying away from potato chips and chocolate. :thumbsup:


Amen to that one. There's nothing more then vegging out on some mint-choclate chip icecream to sooth my nerves.

I wonder if (and forgive me, the former scientist in me just reared her ugly head) there could be a corelation between empaths and issues with emotional eating. Without turning this into an OEA meetingboard, has anyone else had, or still has problems with this?

[~*Ginger*~]

Major KUDOS for borderlinesin!

I must admit that I had felt something that made me uncomfortable about your first posts, well actually just the titles, and I stayed away from them. Cause I knew I couldn't handle them, (the feelings coming from them)
[B]I'm glad Lunacie was there for ya, though! I couldn't have done it...

LadyAriana, I've wondered the very same thing...
As for myself, there's lots of stuff I do my best to stay away from, as I know from some study of astrology, that Pisces are a, or can be an 'emotionally dependant bunch'.
For lots of things...

[~*Ginger*~]

When I see ginger, I see light blues and yellows with some green. And I feel rather happy.

Dragonsinger, that's sweet, and makes me wonder why I have no 'purples' in there as well. Purple is the color that attracts me the very most, but in doing some visualization, I found that the yellow felt so very good!

I'm one of those who usually 'wakes up on the right side of the bed' as mawmaw used to say.
I'm a happy person, in a good mood, unless someone goes to hollering, then it effects almost the rest of my day, with moodiness...

I hate to have to raise my voice, I do not like the effect is has on my brain.

Loud talking, or arguing, always throws me offline with my natural self.
And as soft talking as I am, I can project very loudly if the need arises.
(all those singing, and public speaking/acting lessons, I suppose...) On stage you must 'project'...
If need be, i can be very loud.

[Raintreewolf]

Sometimes I get the voices too, but I kinda think they're my own internal monologue :P

I can't begin to fathom seeing colored auras, sometimes when I'm tired and my eyes aren't that focused I can see what looks like a light around certain people, but it tends to just be yellow/white-ish...just a lighter color of whatever is behind them. I don't know if that's aura or my eyes going wiggy on me. The only times I 'See' colors is when I'm trying to do a healing, and that's more in my minds eye than my physical eyes.

I like to read auras...people are a little more difficult than plants. Plants are fun rewarding to read plus they tell you if hey are safe for eating, medicine or poisenous.

On plants a deep rich blue is usualy edible and can be healing but that is the nature of most plants in this color range.
Aqua blue are on plants I consider equivical...as the plant can be poisenous but the fruit edible as in Tomatoes and Potatoes.
Lavander and lavander blue are usually medicinal...lavandar blue is ingestable medicinal, just lavandar it a topical or a thing to be heated to be released or processed in someway.

try looking at plants to get familiar with aura reading...thier auras hover fairly close to their leaves and it is unmistakable when you see them they are as intense as the light quality of a rainbow. It takes a bit because it also depends on the light quality to the sun and the angle in which you are looking but it is like a rainbow where you can see it with the right light and water combination. But it is really really there....I had a non believer see it once...I showed them and they were impatient and irritated but I made them look and try again....all of a sudden they were blowen away, they could not believe their eyes and said that when they looked at the plant after that that they could not see the plant without seeing the aura. Success!!!! Weeeee! Actualy, now that I remeber it was the flower of a succulent I showed them the aura on and it was violet blue. Yeah....flowers really show auras well and I beleive angels are intune to that light wave pattern as well ( just a little thought there.) So, I always try to talk to the gaurdian angle of the plant as well.

[~*Ginger*~]

oooh!
Raintreewolf, that is so cool!

For some reason, the idea of trying it with plants never crossed my mind...

[Contra Mundum]

Ah, but do I want to stop? :goodgrief

Thanks for caring. :smoochypo
:dancy: NAUGHTY :dancy:
she doesn't want to stop :hehehe: well i can't blame you .

[Contra Mundum]

Major KUDOS for borderlinesin!

I must admit that I had felt something that made me uncomfortable about your first posts, well actually just the titles, and I stayed away from them. Cause I knew I couldn't handle them, (the feelings coming from them)
[B]I'm glad Lunacie was there for ya, though! I couldn't have done it...


thank you :bigredblu :hugz:
so lunacie wasn't the only one who felt uncomfortable about me.
poor people, never knew my posts had such an impact :halohead:
i have the same feeling about some other posters here on mw.
esspecially the ones that demand alot of attention/sympathy , and there are quite a few of those :imout:

[Contra Mundum]

*BIG APPLAUSE* Congrats there borderlinesin! Coming myself from a double edged background (alcoholics and Italian/Irish heritage), you get big kudos for your hard work! Keep it up!!

:thumbsup: :hugz: :woot:
:hugz: thank you :fpraiseyo

[~*Ginger*~]

thank you :hugz:
No need to feel embarrassed, we all have our problems...
and your very welcome!

Just know, that if you start feeling that way at any time, just come here to us. (even in pm's)
Even if we're not here to answer you at the time, just getting it out should be of help...

Sometimes it's hard to be 'strong', and we all know this.
But we're here for ya, ok?

[BrigidMoon]

Ginger:

From not having a PM conversation or better yet IM chat with you directly one on one..it's hard to tell.

I see light brown or dark blonde hair....curly or wavy perhaps?

Brown eyes or a deep color...?

Body type is hard...part of me feels, tall and skinnish.?

I could be completely wrong! but that's okay. I haven't claimed to be correct always.

[Contra Mundum]

No need to feel embarrassed, we all have our problems...
and your very welcome!

Just know, that if you start feeling that way at any time, just come here to us. (even in pm's)
Even if we're not here to answer you at the time, just getting it out should be of help...

Sometimes it's hard to be 'strong', and we all know this.
But we're here for ya, ok?
:bigredblu <sorry can't help it.
you're way too nice :smoochypo
thank you ,again :fpraiseyo

[Lunacie]

thank you :bigredblu :hugz:
so lunacie wasn't the only one who felt uncomfortable about me.
poor people, never knew my posts had such an impact :halohead:
i have the same feeling about some other posters here on mw.
esspecially the ones that demand alot of attention/sympathy , and there are quite a few of those :imout:

Yeah, there have been several posters on these boards that I simply can't deal with. I don't think they even realize what they're doing. Some are energy vampires and I learned long ago to simply stay away from them. Some are broadcasting so much pain and turmoil and uncertainty. I try to respond to those, unless I see that they are only taking comfort and not giving anything back to the community, not trying to make changes that will alleviate the pain they are in. Some get so used to being in pain and get so used to the attention they get that way, that they don't seem to want to change. If nothing I write turns on the lightbulb for them after several responses, then I figure I don't have the words they need to hear and I back off and let someone else respond who may have the answer they need to hear. Just makes sense to me.

[Lunacie]

Oh...well, I am confused....empathy is not the same as psychic??? I awlays thought they were. maybe, I dunno know... :hairraise panic...maybe I uh...oh uh...h'mmmm.LOL ok

Sorry I did not see this before - must have blinked - or been distracted by the kids or the critters or something. Arrrgghhhh.

I'm not real sure how to explain this, but I don't see empathy and psychicism as being exactly the same. They are similar and have some overlap, but a psychic may be getting telepathy as much or more than empathy. I think a good psychic also 'reads' messages that are coming from Spirit - whether you see that as the Spirit that lives within each of us or the Spirit that created the universe.

Maybe I'm just saying that empathy deals with emotional messages while being psychic means getting information or messages from a lot of different sources.

[Pesha]

11 weeks now see I missed that one. Being kind of tired from babysitting the littilies. Ah sweety I am so very proud of you. :hugz:

BB
DS.

[Pesha]

Hmmmmm after reading your last post Lunacie, I wonder now if I have some psychic in me. I have been able to predict stuff and I have this voice...yes a voice that tells me what is going to happen and if things are going to be ok. I would say that about 85% of the time I am right on things.

Ok guys here is something that happens to me. I have these dreams sometimes of shaking or being in a room that is shaking and within a few days somewhere in the world an earthquake has happened. Also hear my voice say : Earth quake coming. It is not always in US but in Mexico or other places in the world. It scares the heck out of me.

BB
DS.

[Raintreewolf]

I consider empathy to be one of many forms of psychic abilities but it seems to be one that you did not ask for and a bit unruly to try and master. This is just my humble opinion though! _wiz_

H'mmm...ok....sounds reasonable.

[Raintreewolf]

Sorry I did not see this before - must have blinked - or been distracted by the kids or the critters or something. Arrrgghhhh.

I'm not real sure how to explain this, but I don't see empathy and psychicism as being exactly the same. They are similar and have some overlap, but a psychic may be getting telepathy as much or more than empathy. I think a good psychic also 'reads' messages that are coming from Spirit - whether you see that as the Spirit that lives within each of us or the Spirit that created the universe.

Maybe I'm just saying that empathy deals with emotional messages while being psychic means getting information or messages from a lot of different sources.

Yeah, I think it is a a difficult line to draw with me. I tend to be both but the empathic stuff effects me physicaly, they both are just as natural as any of my other senses.

Thank you for resonding...

[Know Your Rights]

This seems to be something that has been mentioned in other threads, so I thought it deserved its own :)

However, and I don't know if this is a by-product of empathy or not, but I have a very unusual side gift, that has a very high success rate. I know this will sound funny, but I can detect pregnancy. At first I thought (once again) that I was imagining things, but trial and error seem to prove it. It seems to work like this. If you're newly pregnant (under 3 months), I can get a glimmer of that fact. If you're more than 4 months, I can tell with 90% accuracy the gender, and even what the child will look like. There have been only two times I wasn't able to tell, 1) my best firiend's twins who are magickal children unto themselves and 2) my cousin's daughter.

It's a little odd for me, because more than once I've been chatting with someone online and suddenly said, "Oh! You're pregant!" when they haven't mentioned it. Even weirder is to have some strange image of a child pop in my head. I've had people come online a year after I've told them, "You're going to have a little girl with thick curly black hair and blue eyes" specifially to look for me and tell me I was right.

Okay, before you call the young men in the nice white coats, can anyone else relate?

PS In case you are wondering, I don't have any children of my own, though I do have a very strong maternal pull.


I can't tell if someone's pregenant, but once I do know I tend to be correct as to the gender of the child. Lie detecting can be fun, just in general knowing if someone's okay or not... even if they seem chipper and cheery.

[SammieAnn]

Does anyone ever have it happen that you really do not feel that something is going on but just kind of know by thaughts just poping into your head and stuff that you are not thinking about at the time?

[~*Ginger*~]

Yes...

See for me, I was programmed to second guess, or doubt myself, when I was a kid, so I'm trying to amend that now.

It was easier for them to tell me it was my imagination, or something silly like that, rather than try to figure me out.

So, i'm just strange, and so very different from lots of folks in my family.

At least knowing I'm not totally nuts has made a big difference in how I see myself, and the things that come to me...

[MoonDust]

Does anyone ever have it happen that you really do not feel that something is going on but just kind of know by thaughts just poping into your head and stuff that you are not thinking about at the time?
sometimes... It's like "hey, this person's really thinking/feeling(blah blah blah)"

[mtpathy]

The focus for seeing auras, hurt my eyes, so I don't even try any more.
If there was some way for my being able to see with out ending up with eye ache, I'd try...


the best way ive learned to see auras is to visualize a triangle connecting your two
eyes and your ajna/3rd eye chakra,and instead of attempting to see a persons aura
through your eyes see it through the triangle.

[mtpathy]

Does anyone ever have it happen that you really do not feel that something is going on but just kind of know by thaughts just poping into your head and stuff that you are not thinking about at the time?


yup happens to me all the time,my personal techniques of using that
is within magick through empathy class.
check it out maybe it will help you get a better perspective of various
ways of using it,and if you know of other techniques feel free to post
them please :)

[SammieAnn]

I have noticed that the more that I listen to the thaughts that pop in my head, the more it happens. about an hour ago I received a phone call from my freind in orlando. last week I had the thaught pop in my head that he needed to stay off the road and not drive for a few days. well he stayed in his house for two days, but got antsy the third day and on his way home a firecracker went off next to his car and he came very close to getting in an accident. He called me up and said darnit Sam, do you always have to be right? I said well next time maybe you will listen to me. We laugh about it because this was not the first time I predicted something going on with him

[~*Ginger*~]

the best way ive learned to see auras is to visualize a triangle connecting your two
eyes and your ajna/3rd eye chakra,and instead of attempting to see a persons aura
through your eyes see it through the triangle.
I'll give that a try...

A couple of mornings ago, my youngest woke up, and came to me, looked me in the face, and said, 'just checking mom... I dreamed you had an eye in the middle of your head' then put her finger on the 3rd eye area.

Blew me away...

[Kalika]

I think empathy helps me in any healing work that I do.

As for side gifts... I can often catch snatches of peoples thoughts. (Sounds corny, huh?) Not whole paragraphs, or even sentences necessarily... just bits and pieces here and there.

[Darkleaf Nox]

Hello,

I'm new to this place and realize that there is probably a thread set aside for introducing myself (Which I may do later, when I find it) But this thread happened to be the first one I've read and so replied to. :smile:

After reading all the posts, I'm really amazed at the level of abilities you people have. Myself, I've known of my empathic 'abilities' for a while but had only recently, within the past year, made any attempts to control it. I guess I never realized what exactly it was until then. I admit that I'm just getting the hang of things... and am not always successful at separating other peoples emotions from my own. (Which can lead to really sloppy emotional messes!) =/

But in any case... I wanted to say hi! And also...
I'm interested in seeing what you guys can glean from me, if its not any trouble. Empathy has always fascinated me... and people who have a mastery of it amaze me (and give me hope!).

(*laughs* Love the smileys, btw...)

[Lunacie]

Hello Darkleaf, welcome to the empathic forum. It helps so much to know that there is a name for what we are experiencing and that we aren't the only ones.

About sensing things or picking up things in different ways, I always assumed that healers could feel blockages in the energy flow, but the gal who taught me Reiki told me that she sees the blockages, and the guy who taught me so much last year in the metaphysical class who is a massage therapist/healer also sees problems more often than he feels them. He sees auras more easily than I can, but I can feel auras, even from a distance.

So, I guess some people feel more easily and some people see more easily, and some can do both pretty well.

[LadyAriana]

Hello,

I'm new to this place and realize that there is probably a thread set aside for introducing myself (Which I may do later, when I find it) But this thread happened to be the first one I've read and so replied to. :smile:

After reading all the posts, I'm really amazed at the level of abilities you people have. Myself, I've known of my empathic 'abilities' for a while but had only recently, within the past year, made any attempts to control it. I guess I never realized what exactly it was until then. I admit that I'm just getting the hang of things... and am not always successful at separating other peoples emotions from my own. (Which can lead to really sloppy emotional messes!) =/

But in any case... I wanted to say hi! And also...
I'm interested in seeing what you guys can glean from me, if its not any trouble. Empathy has always fascinated me... and people who have a mastery of it amaze me (and give me hope!).

(*laughs* Love the smileys, btw...)


Welcome Darkleaf. I wouldn't say mastery, after all you never really stop learning till you're dead...and even then you get a new lesson :) I'm glad you found this thread and don't worry about introducing here. Don't think anyone minds :)

At this point, this is what I gleam. You have a tenorish voice, very warm. I'm getting probably between 5'10 and 6 footish, with dark brown/black hair and veyr expressive eyes.

Of course I could be SERIOUSLY off, I'm going through a bout of Empathetic headcold. I'm all THUFFED UP! :durrrr: :bangyourh It's very fustrating, but I'm pretty sure it's a little bout of S.A.D. (seasonal affect disorder). It's been raining here non stop for a week and I'm feeling a little waterlogged.

[SilverMaiden]

I can feel if the sick people/animals I meet will die soon, heal partially or fully. It's not one of the more pleasant aspects of empathy, but one that is.

Another apsect of empathy that's coupled with abstract thinking is being able to tell which scenarios are more likely and which are most likely not to happen.

[LadyAriana]

Another apsect of empathy that's coupled with abstract thinking is being able to tell which scenarios are more likely and which are most likely not to happen.

Are you talking about a sort of "premonition" style idea? Where you can see a 'spiderweb' of possibilties from certain events?

[Darkleaf Nox]

Welcome Darkleaf. I wouldn't say mastery, after all you never really stop learning till you're dead...and even then you get a new lesson :) I'm glad you found this thread and don't worry about introducing here. Don't think anyone minds :)

At this point, this is what I gleam. You have a tenorish voice, very warm. I'm getting probably between 5'10 and 6 footish, with dark brown/black hair and veyr expressive eyes.

Of course I could be SERIOUSLY off, I'm going through a bout of Empathetic headcold. I'm all THUFFED UP! :durrrr: :bangyourh It's very fustrating, but I'm pretty sure it's a little bout of S.A.D. (seasonal affect disorder). It's been raining here non stop for a week and I'm feeling a little waterlogged.

:smiles: Wow, and thanks for your reply. You were really close on several things! I am around six foot and have dark brown hair and expressive eyes. My voice is a lil lower then tenor, however, tenor is usually what I sing. Really good for a headcold!

;) Hope you get better!

[Pesha]

Welcome darkleaf, sorry to greet you so late. I am glad to see you and hope you have a good time learning and growing in your gift. Blessings to you.

I am super sheilded this am, no sleep and g'kids again today so I am exhausted gang.

BB
DS.

[SilverMaiden]

Are you talking about a sort of "premonition" style idea? Where you can see a 'spiderweb' of possibilties from certain events?

I don't know that it's "premonition" so much as extrapolating known/sensed emotional information about people. Based on their emotional makeup and the event, I can "see in my head" different outcomes and which ones the person(s) will or will not be in.

[LadyAriana]

I think empathy helps me in any healing work that I do.

As for side gifts... I can often catch snatches of peoples thoughts. (Sounds corny, huh?) Not whole paragraphs, or even sentences necessarily... just bits and pieces here and there.

Trust me, if there's something I've noticed with all empaths is this...there is hardly anything that can come up that an Empath doesn't understand completly. I think someone said this in this tread or another, since empathy is a way of reading emotions, it doesn't seem so strange to read their thoughts as well.

Besides *wink* I used to bounce things with a good friend in college like that. Though it was annoying sometimes, I would always get his songs stuck in MY head :P

[Raintreewolf]

oooh!
Raintreewolf, that is so cool!

For some reason, the idea of trying it with plants never crossed my mind...

Very cool!!!! I hope you try and I hope others do as well and I would really like to know how people are coming along with that at some point :nyah: ...we will see.

[Pesha]

How about photographic memory. I have had that all my life. It sure helped in school and college. I never did have to really study for any tests. I took note and seemed to remember everything very clearly. I still have this ability and it really comes in handy nowdays.

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[Raintreewolf]

Hi Darkleaf Nox!!! It will be interesting to read about your experiences etc, throughout the bunker...
Welcome!

[LadyAriana]

How about photographic memory. I have had that all my life. It sure helped in school and college. I never did have to really study for any tests. I took note and seemed to remember everything very clearly. I still have this ability and it really comes in handy nowdays.

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Now THAT is a blessing!

[SilverMaiden]

How about photographic memory. I have had that all my life. It sure helped in school and college. I never did have to really study for any tests. I took note and seemed to remember everything very clearly. I still have this ability and it really comes in handy nowdays.

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That's a very nice skill to have. Have you tried expanding it to remembering people's faces, events and words?

[Pesha]

Peoples words yes and faces yes. I seem to remember them well. Even after many years have passed I can remember them. I may not remember the name however, I seem to have a problem with names.

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[Lacuna]

Wow! This is amazing, I have a similar gift. I can not tell gender or appearance like you can, but if I walk by a woman in a store, I know if she is pregnant. I first started noticing it with family members, and a couple times saw people in stores and felt their pregnancy only to run into someone congratulating them a moment later. It also occured with an instructor of mine once. It is nice to meet others with this ability.

[Pesha]

Nice to meet you too hun. Yes it can be quite amazing.

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