Empathy

Now many people know what the word means

The ability and understanding to feel another's emotions and connect with them to understand how they are truly feeling and to help where possible.

This is the same for Empaths however they have the difficulty if not trained to feel the emotions of everyone around them causing them to be mixed and confused. Which can lead to the Empath feeling like they are going crazy with all the mod swings they are coming in contact with.

Now this post is just a helpers guide for any Empathic people who have yet to learn the control of shutting out the emotions of others and to focus souly on one individual.

Now the control needed to block out the emotions of others lies within Energy Control and Workings so if you have read my previous posts you should be aware of the basic steps to control your own energy if not here they are again

Step 1 Breath
Step 2 Feel the energy
Step 3 Direct it around your body
Step 4 Your doing Energy Control

Right so with this knowledge at hand the ability to shut off the emotions of people around you lie in the sense of you creating a filtering process with your own energy. Meaning a barrier that stops the emotions and energies of people around you from coming into contact giving you a nice peace of mind for once.

Right the steps needed to create this filtering process will be broken down so they are easier to understand.

Step 1 Build up your Energy Control around your body so that your can feel your energy flowing around.

Step 2 Focus and visualise your energy forming around the outside of your skin creating almost a second layer
(It is this second skin that acts as the filtering process of the other energies)

Step 3 When you feel that you have accomplished this an easy test is to connect with another objects energy so as you pull it back into yourself if you feel a form of resistance you know that the filter is in place.

Step 4 Now you have to visualise that the second layer around you is like new skin and is always constantly there forming a protection against others emotional energies.

These are the steps required to form protection from the constant feeling of others emotions around you.

Now if you wish to focus on one persons emotions for what ever reason this may be then as with the energy working of using another energy along side yourself
(Can be found under the topic of energy in the forum)
The same principle applies here but instead of using the persons energy along side yours, you are merely allowing your filter to accept the new energy so you can feel them and understand how they are feeling etc.

I hope this has been an educational and useful post

Wonderful :D

Yes dear polki your information on being an empath was vary useful, and vary helpful indeed. But what about long range empathy like I have where I'm connected to family and dear friends... I myself do not want to shield or block this out, but I want to harness this gift and use it and strengthen it with out blocking it. Not only am I an empath but what comes with it is the ability to see things that will happen or could happen with these family members and friends.... I don't understand how it works it just happens is there a way you can shed light on this for me?

Right long range Empathy comes with the natural connection of which you have with your family and for those who you feel close to, its kind of like always being connected tot hem and if something happens you know about it, with either a bad feeling etc. This is common in most people who are very close with their families and have true friends they can rely upon.
Now again this connection can be blocked filtered etc as before, but in the case of you Fire you have asked if it can be harnessed to strengthen. In a way it can be yes like one of my previous posts of using energy along side your own you can do the same in this instance meaning taking the emotions that you feel from your connections and turning them into energy to use with yours to strengthen the bond. And as you have carried on to say you have precognitive abilities with your family and friends, this again is not unheard of as it ties in with the connection and bonds you ave with them. And if you were to take in the emotions and turn them to energy you will find that the precognitive abilities you explained will enhance as well

Nice post, Polki. I had so many issues with empathy until I learned to block it out (well filter it out) and I'm glad you wrote a post like this, so people don't deal with the constant headaches I did :)

It's good to note you can filter emotions in a way that you get the stronger ones from people without having to directly focus on them (if that makes sense). It's what I tend to do. It's like you've dimmed it (like a light) in a way.You block it like said above but just not do it completely. It takes playing around to get the right level between overwhelmed and complete blockage but it's a good middle zone if you still want to kind of use it without focusing :D

I was born with empathy :)

I get random snatches of emotions that aren't mine, but I wouldn't call it being empathetic, because it only happens sometimes. :)

Cool beans Shadow

Anna you may find you are becoming an empath though the process differs between people, others get it full whack emotions all the time and some like yourself gain the ability. Which is better as the process to control is isnt as hard bearing as if it would be if you had it full blown.