Post by Drynal on Apr 6, 2008 8:35:34 GMT -5
Art of Emotions "Empathy"
In this article I will tell you some of my most recent experiences with Empathy as I am a natural to it. I do have some understanding to it. Why not understand, explain ability that you’re natural to most can't?? I will also give you a "how to" do this. This article is basically for starters who are not naturals, but the ones who want to learn such an art.
Definition:
The next thing we should do is come up with a definition for such ability like this Definition: My definition of Empathy is to be able to send and receive ones emotions. This is very short and cut to the chase definition. If you want to make your own then go ahead or you can adopt my definition.
Cure or Gift:
Empathy as in ability most people would agree it is a Curse most would disagree. Some would say empathy is a Gift and the flip side would disagree. The reason most people say empathy would be a curse is because you receive things you wouldn’t want to like receiving the emotions of being sad, scared, anger, rage the negative emotions as well getting an overload. One might say it’s a Gift because you are able to help people who needs it like sending unconditional love, or happy all the positive emotions and as well to understand ones emotional side and be able to do such a wonderful ability like this. I would have to say I am one of those people who would agree that Empathy is a Gift for all the more right reasons. To me Empathy is Beautiful. I will let you decide what you think.
Meditation:
Since this article is for starters if your not a naturally Empathic I all ways recommend some one to meditate only because to keep your mind quite. If you can keep your mind quite with out meditation then you can skip this. If you can't keep your mind quite then do some thing that will. Some thing that you like to do, like draw or blow bubbles do not do any thing like a game because the simple fact what if you loose you would get mad and be unfocused and your mind wouldn’t be quite or just meditate for about 15 minutes or so. When meditating make sure you clear your mind and emotions. When I’m doing empathy and I want to meditate what I do is, clear my mind and my emotions your probably asking why would I clear my emotions. The reason why is because when I go to receive I know it’s not my emotions I’m feeling because I just cleared mines. This is the same for sending so I can send my emotion(s) properly.
Link or Tube:
When I came about to actually understand such an ability like this. I was asking my self if I made a link with some one would it help, and it did. I would recommend making a link with some one who is new to this. I will give you a tech on how to make a connection aka link or tube so that you are able to send and receive emotions. Visualize a tube coming from out of your chest into your friends, family, pet or partner. The reason I am having you make a link is because you want to be able to properly send and receive the emotion(s), and the reason I have you do it at your chest is because theirs this chakra that is called the heart chakra which is associated with emotions. I am not going in to much depth with this seeing that this article is not made for that, you can google Heart chakra. Once your good you do not have to use a link. It’s just their to help you like crutches.
Picking and Sending:
Picking and sending, now you can pick an emotion and then send it to whom ever you want to. Pick an emotion that your familiar with all the time like love, happy, excited pick a positive emotion stray away from negative emotions you don’t want to pick sad to make some one sad -.-“. I would pick happy because I am all always happy. If you can’t replicate the feeling you have chosen then imagine that time you was when you had that feeling, for example since I am sending I would remember the time I was happy because I got my Verizon ENVY cell phone. What I would do next is keep remembering that moment until this emotion happy build up in my body. If this doesn’t work then think of every thing that associates with that particular emotion, for happy I would think of smiles, laughing, ect.. Now visualize that emotion going into the tube from your body down the tube into the person’s body and keep repeating this until you feel its done building up in them. Some people have trouble visualizing a certain emotion, so I will give you what I did to fix this. When I had trouble visualizing a certain emotion like happy I would associate that happy feeling with the color of yellow. I would hold that yellow happy emotion and send it down the tube into the person’s body until they are filled with this yellow happy feeling. If yellow does not work for you for happy then pick a different color. We all have a different system(s) of which colors go with which emotions. If you are having trouble with what emotions are associated with what colors I will provide you a like.
URL: www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html
Receiving:
Now that you have the sending part down you can now move on to the next part which is receiving. In this part of the section I will teach you how to do two different receiving’s. One is for to just wait and let it flow and the other is aggressive receiving to go and get the emotion your self. Most people think receiving is a very difficult thing to do when it really isn’t if you just practice and be patience and put much effort into it then you should be all good.
Since I’m guessing you have all ready meditated so your emotions are cleared for receiving “better had ” then you may move on, you all ready know the reason why to meditate when receiving if you can’t just scroll back up to the top. Make a connection aka link or tube connect it to the person so you can receive their emotions. Most people program their tube or link to receive emotions because it’s helpful to them. If you want to do that then go ahead and do so. Now be patience until you feel a sudden switch in your emotions. When you get that sudden switch in your emotions then that should be the persons emotion(s) that you receive, you might get a complex emotion because some one can feel happy, sad, mad all at the same time try to understand this complex emotion at the best of your ability. When I come across a complex emotion what I do is unravel it and break it down and identify them. This helped me maybe you won’t get a complex emotion you might just get like one or two which is good.
Got to be Agressive:
Time for aggressive receiving. I have explained what this type of receiving was above. It’s basically to go get the emotion that the sender is trying to send and you have to go get it, like your shooting a stick and the dog has to chase and get the stick. I am not saying your dog. So if the above receiving doesn’t work for you then try aggressive. Make a link now visualize a hand the best you can have it go in to the tube and into the person then pull the emotion slowly and gently out of them back into the tube and into you. Visualize this emotion continuously flowing into you until you can feel it. The next one might be a little harsh as I did it and got an overload it only happed once. Make a link with the person visualize your self going into the link and running towards the person and entering their body wait their till your filled with that emotion or until you feel it. Then visualize your self running back towards you and into you. Once your good enough you do not have to use links at all, unless you want to I still use them when needed.
Don't for get to Shield
Once I went to the mall and couple other places in my years and every time I go into a big crowd I would get incoming emotions and mixtures of them and it just almost made me throw up. The incoming emotions was to much I also gotten headaches and all. I learned that once I got better at empathy as natural I need to start shielding more because of the fact I kept on getting overloads and emotions that I didn’t want like rage, mad, sad, ect.. all the negative emotions, so what I started to do is make a shield every time I left my house and I will teach you just that. Make a shield. If you do not know how to make a shield and your reading this then stop now and go to the shielding section and read and practice then come back. So now that your making your shield program it to stop incoming emotions. If you want incoming emotions then program your shield only to stop certain emotions you do not want to come intact with. This shield is very useful and useful in very large crowds as well. Now you can have a good time with out overloads and emotions you don’t want.
Having trouble: When sending emotions ask the person what they feel and if it’s the correct emotion then you did a good job at sending. The problems with sending the reason you might have a problem sending is because the receive is just not all that good “yet” so you must keep on practicing or you might not be sending right which needs practice as well. When receiving make sure you are aware of your feelings and the incoming feelings. Notice your own and if you feel a switch that is probably the person emotions that have been sent. If you are having trouble with receiving the person’s emotion the must not be sending right and just need to practice with that emotion that their sending. If not that you just have to be able to receive better, just keep practicing and being aware of incoming emotions.
Now you have a good understanding of empathy and how it works. While it is still fresh in the mind hurry and have fun and practice!