Once, I was answering emails and I saw an email from someone who had often come to me for healing facilitation. As soon as I saw the email, I literally started to fall off my chair and had to grab the side of the desk to keep from falling down. I was distraught for no reason and very upset. When I read the email, I realized I had been feeling her feelings.

Another time, I was sitting at my home and just suddenly burst into tears. Seconds later, the phone rang and it was someone crying, in crisis.

As a healer, working with people, I so often feel their pain that I consider it normal for me by now but for a long time, it had the capacity to floor me. I finally figured out that I was attaching to it, having a relationship with it.....what I mean is that I was going into sadness or feeling bad for them, etc., instead of just letting the pain flow through and out. Once I stopped judging what was coming through and just let it go, I stopped being overwhelmed by it.