Topaz
03-12-2010, 09:06 PM
I realise now why my connection ran :icon_frown: I felt drained by him and so aware of what he had been through that i was trapped with fear.
You know when you get a glimpse into someone else’s emotional experience or their pain? You can really feel it for a moment and sometimes it might bring you to tears or motivate you to help someone. That’s empathy.
Overactive empathy, on the other hand, is when you have that experience of opening up to someone else’s emotions and experience, but then instead of coming back to yourself afterwards and being centered in your own needs and feelings, you remain ‘out there’ – absorbed in everyone else’s ‘stuff’. In social situations, you can sense what everyone else is feeling and thinking. Even walking past people in the street, you can feel and sense what is going on with them. Physical empaths can even pick up physical pains and aches that aren’t theirs.
(If you want to find out more about the symptoms of overactive empathy, read this article: Is Overactive Empathy Ruining Your Life? (http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/redir.php?link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiritualforums.co m%2Fvb%2Fredir.php%3Flink%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww .psychicbutsane.com%252Fempathy%252Fis-overactive-empathy-ruining-your-life))
The Downside of Overactive Empathy
http://www.psychicbutsane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/post-it-emotions-204x300.jpg (http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/redir.php?link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiritualforums.co m%2Fvb%2Fredir.php%3Flink%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww .spiritualforums.com%252Fvb%252Fredir.php%253Flink %253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.psychicbutsane.c om%25252Fwp-content%25252Fuploads%25252F2010%25252F05%25252Fpo st-it-emotions.jpg)While your energy is ‘doing the rounds’ and picking up on what everyone else is doing and feeling, your life becomes charged with emotions and pain that aren’t even yours and it becomes difficult to maintain a state of focus or centredness. Meanwhile, what you feel and need can go completely neglected.
Overactive empathy can lead to people-pleasing, self-sacrifice and self neglect. It can also lead to co-dependence because when you can feel other people’s emotions to such a degree, they become yours and you want to help more than is appropriate.
This is one of the things a lot of psychic and spiritual people struggle with.
If you experience overactive empathy, you need to learn to turn it on and off at will and become more centred in your own experience. And the good news is that it is entirely possible, and when you learn to do it, it makes your quality of life 10 times better
You know when you get a glimpse into someone else’s emotional experience or their pain? You can really feel it for a moment and sometimes it might bring you to tears or motivate you to help someone. That’s empathy.
Overactive empathy, on the other hand, is when you have that experience of opening up to someone else’s emotions and experience, but then instead of coming back to yourself afterwards and being centered in your own needs and feelings, you remain ‘out there’ – absorbed in everyone else’s ‘stuff’. In social situations, you can sense what everyone else is feeling and thinking. Even walking past people in the street, you can feel and sense what is going on with them. Physical empaths can even pick up physical pains and aches that aren’t theirs.
(If you want to find out more about the symptoms of overactive empathy, read this article: Is Overactive Empathy Ruining Your Life? (http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/redir.php?link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiritualforums.co m%2Fvb%2Fredir.php%3Flink%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww .psychicbutsane.com%252Fempathy%252Fis-overactive-empathy-ruining-your-life))
The Downside of Overactive Empathy
http://www.psychicbutsane.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/post-it-emotions-204x300.jpg (http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/redir.php?link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiritualforums.co m%2Fvb%2Fredir.php%3Flink%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww .spiritualforums.com%252Fvb%252Fredir.php%253Flink %253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.psychicbutsane.c om%25252Fwp-content%25252Fuploads%25252F2010%25252F05%25252Fpo st-it-emotions.jpg)While your energy is ‘doing the rounds’ and picking up on what everyone else is doing and feeling, your life becomes charged with emotions and pain that aren’t even yours and it becomes difficult to maintain a state of focus or centredness. Meanwhile, what you feel and need can go completely neglected.
Overactive empathy can lead to people-pleasing, self-sacrifice and self neglect. It can also lead to co-dependence because when you can feel other people’s emotions to such a degree, they become yours and you want to help more than is appropriate.
This is one of the things a lot of psychic and spiritual people struggle with.
If you experience overactive empathy, you need to learn to turn it on and off at will and become more centred in your own experience. And the good news is that it is entirely possible, and when you learn to do it, it makes your quality of life 10 times better