Life as An Empath

Life as an Empath

I have always been empathic since I was a child.

It has only been in recent years that I have learnt to master the skills of being an empath.

As an acupuncturist I always found it very helpful when treating clients especially if they came with all kinds of emotional problems. Yet on the surface they were coming in with only physical ailments on the surface.

When I first trained as an acupuncturist 8 years ago. I had my first real empathic experience with a client. She came in with a number of ailments. She had cystitis, headaches, insomnia, tiredness, bad periods. She hardly ever spoke when she came into the clinic. I picked feelings of deep self hate and loathing and feelings of sexual abuse. I didn't confront her I just carried on treating her. Over a period of months she started to get better and better. Then one day she finally came in after all her symptoms had cleared up. She said that she had been sexually abused by her mother and that her whole life had changed as a result of the treatment. She said she no longer wanted to kill herself.

Recently I had another interesting empathic experience. I wrote a book about infidelity and had a women emailing me because someone had signed up for a newsletter with her email address. Each time they signed up and it was unconfirmed I would receive angry emails from her accusing me of signing her up without her permission. I picked up a lot of negative feelings and anger and gave her some helpful suggestions that would help her find the culprit. I even suggested a people make up false email addresses and the first name that came into my head was fred***@hotmail.com. When I emailed her she got angrier still saying perhaps there was something I knew that she didn't. It turned out her fiance was called fred and that the anger was coming from his ex girlfriend playing silly games trying to make out he was cheating on her.

I had another interesting experience that is just too spot on to write on here but it was about picking up on peoples subconscious fantasies and it proved to be right so I wont put any details because it would put the other person in a very embarrassing situation LOL.

The worst empathic experience I have had is with an ex partner. If you know anything about Narcissists then they draw energy from people to fill up the emptiness they feel inside. It was 3 years before I finally realised what was happening to me!. Although I did spend two years trying to break off from the relationship. I felt like the life force has been sucked out of me.

When I did finally wake up to the reality that all the unconscious feelings I had been feeling were a projection of their own feelings on me. I took steps to ensure that I never did not pick up such negative feelings again.