Empaths and empathy hope this helps

[SkyShark]

There are a few thing you need to understand first in that there are different levels of empathy these range from mundanes who actually care how others feel right up to a full empath who incidentally doesn't care how others feel because they normally know before the person dose.

starting from the bottom you have.

mundanes: Just ordinary people who are the exception in that they will help people in need protect the week or innocent and genuinely care about other peoples feelings regardless of knowing them.

SPs Or sensitive person/s: An S.P will be someone who generally knows how there friends and close family feel even if they are not showing any outward signs. But need close proximity some would say they read body language or just know a persons personality so well that they can tell but even then sometimes people hide things and a SP will know.

HSPs Or highly sensitive person/s: Now an H.S.P is very close to a empath in that they can enter a place and tell if something bad has happened there, they can feel there friends and family even at long range and know when they are in trouble. Anticipate what people want or are going to do can tell when people are lying if they have good or bad intentions if a person is good or bad, levels of ability vary mostly through age as with all thing practice makes perfect.

Empaths: Now here it gets tricky as empaths abilities and traits vary widely many have no idea what they are or refuse to accept it some have been how they are since birth and didn't even know they were different from others till they were older most empaths will however feel there abilities change and become much stronger when they hit puberty this can be a time of awakening for many to but i will run with high level empaths just to cover the hole thing.

Energy collecting: Able to absorb ambient energy from general environment including people.
Mental dampening: Blocking ambient sound from mundanes and random thoughts of others.
Extra sensory perception: Knowing what people are thinking and there intentions if someone is good or bad if they mean to harm you or others.
Physical empowerment: Stronger, fast, smarter, stronger immune system and rapid healing of physical damage (i think this is a side effect of other abilities no there not super human lol).
Precognition: Ability to see events before they happen (a word of advice don't just don't some of you will understand).
Mental assertion: The ability of suggestion and even assert control over others.
Astral projection: Leavening 1s physical body and entering into how to describe it some would say dreamland some would say spirit world others would say a higher plane of existence or ascending.
Resonating: A kind of telepathy where an empath reaches out to a person and connects to them on a mental and emotional level not something empaths do lightly also empaths sometimes use this to share experiances or help to balance another empath they can also if the other wishes it num another empaths abilities for a period of time and in some cases stop them in there tracks (this can only be done with the otheres consent).
Environmental awareness: Knowledge of the land, air and sea sensing storms, earthquakes and such things listening to the wind, land and sea also feeling disturbances like if something good or bad has happened in a house often being able to home in on the exact area (note this has a time limit on it as the longer it has been since whatever happened the lesser the energy trace of said disturbance).
Projection: The ability to project energy or a force outside there body being able to move, break, burn, cool and heal there other things but you get the idea (only the very highest of empaths can even hope to be able to do this).
Remote viewing: The ability to see places people things objects at long range to which you have never seen in any way shape or form (another tricky one this as learning how to interpritate thing you see can be very difficult).

Traits:

Heightened sexdrive: I know not an ability but i thought it was worth mentioning that many empaths have higher sex drives than most people and are very sensual. Loving physical contact with there partners also they are loyal and not as sexually inhibited as most people are, often seeing sex and love as separate things.
Loneliness: Many empaths feel cut off and separated from humanity some desperate to be accepted by there piers often finding no release in there family homes and haveing few if any real friends even to the extent of becomeing hermit like.
Distant or Dreamers: Empaths can seem distracted at the best of times there minds being in many places at the same time often haveing many discutions at the same time.
Nature loveing: Most empaths will have at least 1 treasured pet and many will feel most at home when out in the wilder areas of the world enjoying the smells and sounds finding them to be soothing.
Selfless: most empaths care little for money often being generous and helping others where they can even going out of there way to do so.
Passive Agressive: Empaths will only become agressive in sertain circumstances I.E if they feel they are in great danger if they see a child or a helpless person in danger normally empaths are extremly gentle as causeing others pain causes them pain ten fold (there is an exception to this but i dought any of you will have ever experianced this as they are extremly rare).
Artistic, musical and writers: Often finding release in such things music being something many find great pleasure in often being picky about what they listen to but haveing a wide variaty of tastes in music many are artistic themselfs being able to copy just about anything they can see and a good few are writers.

Now there are a great deal of things ive not coverd but then this post would go on forever but if u have any questions or anything you want to discuss or add please feel free to do so i will help where i can.

[Kaere]

This is really interesting - thank you for posting it.

I find myself waffling between SP and HSP lately but I also can relate to many of the traits you've listed for true empaths.

[SkyShark]

Originally Posted by Kaere

This is really interesting - thank you for posting it.

I find myself waffling between SP and HSP lately but I also can relate to many of the traits you've listed for true empaths.

this has nothing to with my post i just had to say hi to a fellow dwarfer hehe smoke me a kipper il be back for breakfast hehe

[SkyShark]

Originally Posted by Kaere

This is really interesting - thank you for posting it.

I find myself waffling between SP and HSP lately but I also can relate to many of the traits you've listed for true empaths.

ive been thinking about broading this post with the help of Zola to try and give ppl a better understanding of where and what they are.
but SPs HSPs and empaths all share similar traits and abilities in some cases identifying which u have and to what extent they are at is 1 of the first things u should do. i dont mean to belittle any1 or rain on any1s parade but alot of ppl think they are more than they actuly are.

tell more about urself and we can see if we cant find where u at.

[SkyShark]

u need to stop fighting with urself resisting will only make it worse i suggest reading the posts by zola i left a link in ur other post if after all of this u still feel the same i will help u but make no mistake this is a serious thing u are talking about and when its done its done u cant go back.

[Kaere]

Originally Posted by SkyShark

ive been thinking about broading this post with the help of Zola to try and give ppl a better understanding of where and what they are.
but SPs HSPs and empaths all share similar traits and abilities in some cases identifying which u have and to what extent they are at is 1 of the first things u should do. i dont mean to belittle any1 or rain on any1s parade but alot of ppl think they are more than they actuly are.

tell more about urself and we can see if we cant find where u at.

LOL - "Damn you all to hades I want to go to Blue Alert!" "Are you sure Sir? It *does* mean changing the bulb..."

Seriously, all roads lead to Dwarf...

Okay, rain on my parade if you have to! Anything to figure out wth is going on with me...

I have always known what to say to make someone feel better.
I can tell if my dh or other family members are telling the whole truth or if they're trying to spare me some detail.
I always pick up on music - like I can tell what the songwriter was feeling when they wrote it. Definitely not into super hard metally music or hate filled music, but I *love* listening to songs that are concerning sex.
I used to think I had a low sex drive - until I mentioned it to my husband and he started laughing at me . LOL he says it isn't a low sex drive, it's a baby's-awake-sex-drive.
I definitely see a difference between love and sex - this has caused problems with friends who thought it was something more...
I get quite full of anxiety in large crowds - concerts are not a lot of fun anymore. Even the mall sets me off.
I tend to insulate myself from people - even though I'd love the contact because I feel lonely. It is incredibly hard to get out and meet other mums so my kids have some playmates. I do it, but I hate it.
I have a pretty good sense of if someone is a good character or if they're somewhat shady.
I can sometimes tell what's going to happen with people's relationships - it's just a matter of knowing they'll be getting a divorce or getting pregnant. I've definitely learned to keep my mouth shut .
I worry about people at lot. But I'm getting better at not letting it get to me anymore.

One thing is a stumper for me - as I've been so good at figuring people out throughout my life, I have absolutely no clue about my oldest boy. He is an absolute mystery to me. I can't pick up on anything with him. Wierd.

[SkyShark]

i would say u are a high end HSP possible a low end empath im going to make a ethere a new post or edit this 1 to explain things more takeing each part of my post and explaining them 1 at a time thurely so watch this space.

[white lilly]

hi skyshark love this post , the only thing with me is a low sex drive at the mo ,but i did have a high one ,its gone :icon_frown:

[elaine]

Skyshark, thanks for posting this, find myself nodding at some and frowning over others, over all a very good account, now got me thinking ...ermmmmmmmm.

[GaiaPrayer]

Interesting post.

I meet all of these criteria apart from the fact that I no longer have a pet (I did until quite recently, but she is no more :icon_frown.

Thanks for posting this.