Empaths vs Empathics
Being an Empath is very different to being Empathic. Those who are Empathic are known as Highly Sensitive People. However, they only have a limited amount of the skills that those who are Empaths have. Here are the characteristics of someone who is an Empath:
In the same way that people who are Empathic are wired to respond to stimuli more intensely and more sensitively, Empaths are wired to process other people’s energy more intensely. Empathic’s wiring is arguably biological and psychological. Empath’s wiring is energetic and psychological, affecting the body in numerous ways. In other words, we’re talking about the “energy body” when we deal with Empaths.
Empaths are much rarer than Empathics. They make up only 2% of the group of people who are Empathic, so they are a very small percentage of the 17% of the total population who are Empathic.
You are clairaudient, clairsentient, and clairvoyant. You can ‘see’, ‘feel’ and ‘hear’ things that others have no awareness of at all.
If you are an Empath, other people tell you that they feel good or much better after talking with you about their issues, be they either physical and/or emotional pains, but when they walk away you tend to feel worse. Sometimes you’ve experienced aches and pains that you didn’t understand, or you’ve had intense emotions that you couldn’t understand, and you find out later that someone you love or are close to is having those same pains.
When you’re in a room full of people, your emotions and/or the physical sensations in your body often change extremely from one moment to the next. You worry that you’re bipolar or having a breakdown, and yet when you’re on your own you never experience any of this.
You can’t concentrate when other people are around but you can get a lot of work done when you’re by yourself. You can focus if you’re left alone, but the minute other people are in the room, all your concentration ability gets scattered.
Anyone who isn’t totally honest will feel very uncomfortable around you because you see straight through any bullshit and lies that come out of their mouth. Most people know that you can see straight through them, and the ones who are liars will avoid you when they are trying to hide something.
You know a lot about other people, without knowing how. In the past, you thought that everyone knew this much about everyone, but now you realise that they don’t.
You feel extremely responsible for the well-being of the people around you. People have told you to let go, or not take things so seriously, but you just can’t.
You notice a change in your own character when you’re around certain other people, and also a change in how you feel and think. Yet when you find time to be alone once again you revert back to your usual self. Sometimes this is uplifting, and sometimes it makes you feel suppressed and oppressed.
Because your own emotions blend with everyone else’s around you, you have trouble knowing which wants and needs are yours and which wants and needs belong to others. To work it out, you’ll need to spend time on your own, and even then it may be much easier to voice what others want from you than to say what you want for yourself.
You struggle with setting boundaries because the disappointment, anger, and grief (and other emotions) of other people impacts you deeply. It seems that, no matter what you do, it’s always lose-lose for you. Either you stand up for yourself, and get overwhelmed by the negative reactions of others, or you do what they want and don’t feel good about yourself.
The feelings that run through your body don’t feel as if they have a clear run…. It’s like your body is full of energy blockages, even if you have no medical condition to attribute those feelings to. For that reason, you like to do things that take your attention away from being physically aware of how your body feels.
You can feel and act drunk, simply by being around other drunk people, without having had a drop of alcohol yourself. You notice that you’re more directly impacted by other people’s energy when looking someone directly in the eye, being in close proximity to someone, or having a strong personal bond with someone (that can influence you over long distances).
People open up and tell you things that “they’ve never told anyone before” even if they hardly know you. Crowds tend to be overwhelming and draining for you, unless the energy of the crowd is very positive, such as when there are people waiting to listen to a favourite band play or watch a favourite comedy theatre show.
Now, here are the characteristics of someone who is Empathic, remembering that being Empathic is very different from being an Empath:
You have a very sensitive nervous system and are highly aware. You have the ability to notice every small detail and your mind looks at the WHOLE picture, not just the parts. However, your mind can also remember the parts if asked to recall what it saw, which is almost a dichotomy, don’t you think?
Your mind is able to piece together very small and unique details so that it can come to a much more complete conclusion than the majority of people on the planet. Researchers who study the brain find that people who are Empathic (usually known as Highly Sensitive People) are aroused by stimuli that may not be detected by others and the difference has to do with how the brain processes information. You can’t change what you are, although you can learn how to cope and monitor yourself.
Often, loud noise bothers you, and when you were young you could hear the sounds around you much more clearly than others. Also, you could smell all kinds of smells very acutely. You were labelled as “sensitive” by your teachers at school.
You are one of about 17% of people who have this same ability, so just under one in five is like you. You are usually not, however, also an Empath, although you may be.
When you fall in love you fall hard and fast, yet when you are in love with someone and it’s time to break things off, a shift in attention, or talking through a situation can be enough to get “unstuck” from obsessing over someone. Sure, letting go can be tough, but psychological approaches tend to work quite well. Whereas Empaths find it very difficult to untangle themselves from relationships because they take on the energy of other people, and own it as if it is their own.
Although you are aware that everything is energy, unlike the Empath you rarely take on other people’s energy or get stuck in it. You pick up information through the eyes and your complex and intelligent brain processes it. You don’t, however, feel other people’s feelings or take on their unprocessed shadow emotions the way that an Empath does. You are highly sensitive, but you are not psychic, clairsentient, clairvoyant or clairaudient.
Carl Jung was one of the early psychologists who was most interested in those who are highly sensitive, probably because he himself was one. He thought that people with “innate sensitivity,” as he put it, were more in touch with the unconscious mind and could be especially insightful.
Thanks for reading,
Psychic Madeline Rose
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