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Intuitive ability is a wonderful gift that offers healers the opportunity to better understand pain their clients are suffering with. But for sensitive individuals who are unwittingly soaking up ills and hurts that don't belong to them from the people in their surroundings, it is best to learn how to avoid taking on others symptoms and illnesses.
What Does it Mean to be Hypersensitive?
Being hypersensitive could be described as being allergic to life. For the highly sensitive person a seemingly ordinary day can be overwhelming.
What is Entity Contamination?
Common symptoms of entity contamination and methods to help control and elimitate them.
Quiz: How Sensitive Are You?
Are you a natural born empath or overly detached from your emotional body? Take this simple "true and false" quiz to find out how sensitive you are.
The Joys and Pitfalls of Being an Empath
Being an empath is a double edged sword. It can be both a curse and a blessing.
Being A Highly Sensitive Person
Highly Sensitive People or HSP make up 15% to 20% of the population.
The Plight of the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
Are you highly sensitive? - Kathy Moore, hypnotherapist and consultant, offers recommendations for coping with overwhelm tendencies experienced by highly sensitive individuals.
Empathic Experiences
Holsitic Healing community members discuss experiences of being empathic.
Empaths Overwhelmed By Constant Media Coverage Of Tragic Events
Empaths can unknowingly absorb others' pains. Those 'borrowed" emotional pains get trapped inside their own bodies and psyches. When that happens the emotional fluxes throughout the Universe become compounded, much like a destructive fire that grows out of control.
Be Wary of Energy Suckers - Psychic Vampires
The harm in a psychic attack is that there is no fair exchange of energy and therefore one feels depleted while the other becomes energized. Symptoms of psychic attack include headaches, sleep disturbances, and chronic fatigue.
An Empath Discovers Healing Abilities
Natural empath, Linda Foltyn, shares her personal story of learning how put her special abilities to work by facilitating hands-on healing sessions.
The Plight of the Empath or Highly Sensitive Person - HSP
Article by Kathy Moore on treating the symptoms experienced by highly sensitive people
Travel Tips For Sensitive Souls
Traveling can be quite a challenge for anyone, but for the HSP (Highly Sensitive Person, or empath) being thrown into new places can cause an intensity of unease.
Toxic Email - Reading Between the Lines
For an empath opening an email can be comparative to opening Pandora's Box.
What is Empathy?
Christel Broederlow, a natural born empath, gives a detailed description of what the characteristics of empathy are.
The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide
Our greatest obstacle in learning empathy is our habit of thinking intellectually in our heads. The primary focus of Kyra Mesich's book is the connection of emotional sensitivity and chronic depression/anxiety.
Being Highly Sensitive
Highly Sensitive People or HSP make up 15% to 20% of the population according to research of Jim & Amy Hallowes
Overcoming Empathic Tendencies
Learn how to differentiate between your feelings and emotions from the emotions of others.
Empathic Healing 101
"by using your empathy, you can very accurately find the main source of sickness and pain and treat it."
Healing Term : Empath
Brief definition of empath, This page is a sub-directory of the Healing Terms Index.
Developing Empathy in Children and Youth
Report in review of empathryic behaviors - research regarding training to enhance empathetic feelings and understanding.
The Empathic Person
Profile by Ann Kaiser Sterns ideals.

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