Psychic Healer’s GUEST POST
September 12th, 2007 by Rose RosetreeRose, I met you a couple of years ago at a Mind Body & Spirit exhibition in London and you very kindly helped me with my daughter Lisa by explaining what an empath was. I got your book and gave it to Lisa and after she had read it she understood why she had such problems growing up. She said that everything fell into place and for once in her life she understood who she was.
That was lovely because as a psychic healer myself I could only help with the psychic side which she also is. Thank you so much again. As a psychic healer I heal in the UK and abroad and when I meet people I have information about their life and I know in about 5 mins. why they need healing. By the way I got 85% in your reading people quiz!! –Cathy Freeman
The last reader I had was a bomb. It was at Regina’s Tea Room in Quincy MA. There is a woman here in Floyd who does excellent palm reading. Many Ren Faire folks out this way.
Congrats on your new blog. It looks great and will be interesting reading I’m sure.
Thanks for the invite to you blog. Fun looking around at a fellow empath’s site.
Interesting forums, etc., Rose!
Cathy, this is so interesting and insightful.
Appreciating you,
Rose
As a psychic healer and having a daughter, Lisa, who is an empath I understand both sides.
Everybody has the ability to be psychic just by building up trust in what they already know (Had the feeling that,” “My gut told me,” “I knew that was going to happen”) but people are either empaths or they are not.
You cannot become a empath by going to classes!! You just come to understand it better after time.
Psychics can put themselves in a bubble of protection and turn off if they want to, empaths cannot. They have to get used to terrible
feelings. Lisa cannot go into churches, mines, underground etc because the feelings of panic and terror are so strong.
I am very lucky that I do not feel the emotions but just have psychic knowledge of the place I am in which is lucky as I heal in Europe a lot and particularly in Spain and Morocco where there has been brutal history.
Lisa was always worried that she would let adults down because she would pick up what the adult was thinking not necessarily what they would say to her.
It is very difficult for kids to be empaths with
all the information they are getting all the time.
I have found that many abused (have healed many physically, mentally and sexually) develop their psychic ability to distance themselves from their bodies during the abuse.
Ah, Alert Reader, you have probably guessed that the previous comment came from Cathy, not me. She doesn’t have the hang of commenting directly yet. And, clearly, I haven’t yet learned how to post a comment coming indirectly. Oh, I still have such a LOT to learn about this blogging medium….
Anyway, I’m glad of an excuse to start commenting because, this very rich latest entry from Cathy brings up some points I would like to make. I agree completely with this fascinating-but-true statement from Cathy, “Psychics can put themselves in a bubble of protection and turn off if they want to, empaths cannot.”
Therein lies a tale. Many tales! So much of the misery and distress of many psychics, even ones who have been very well trained as psychics, has been caused by lack of skills as an empath. Which brings me to this other part of Cathy’s post about being an empath, where (supposedly), “They have to get used to terrible feelings. Lisa cannot go into churches, mines, underground etc. because the feelings of panic and terror are so strong.”
This part REALLY IS NOT THE CASE for a skilled empath. Cathy, when you posted originally on having shown Lisa “Empowered by Empathy,” I am guessing that you or she mainly read the first parts, about empathic gifts, what they are and how they work. That is a big relief and validation for readers, but I wish readers wouldn’t stop there.
Also you may have read the chapter on “How to Parent an Empath,” which would have helped Lisa a bit. But what about all the techniques for turning empathy off? That is the most practical part of the book, even more than the techniques for turning empathy on (fun though they are). These techniques aren’t hard to do, but you can’t get the benefit just from reading through them. Doing is required to benefit.
But there’s incentive for taking a while to learn how to turn your gifts OFF on purpose. It takes about as long as a person spends watching TV a few days in a row, hardly an eternity, but a few hours. Here’s the payoff. A skilled empath can go anywhere and not pick up a thing.
Actually, the book includes techniques that a skilled empath can turn her gift(s) ON, whether emotional gifts or gifts that are not emotional at all, and still not pick up a thing but simply be of service.
Not everybody learns best how to do these techniques from a print book. That is why I went to a lot of trouble (and expense, also fun and learning) to record “Empowered by Empathy” as an audiobook. You can hear a five-minute excerpt right here: http://www.rose-rosetree.com/empathybook.htm . Scroll down a bit and there you will be.
Other ways I can help a person to become a skilled empath are personal sessions of Energy Spirituality and personal mentoring. Just got off the phone this morning doing mentoring with a wonderful client in Asia. (Details about both of these are off the home page at http://www.rose-rosetree.com.)
That phone line can connect to the U.K. too, I just know it, Cathy!
Reader, if you remember one thing from this discussion, please know that if you were born as an empath, having skill means that you can go anywhere, do anything, without picking up other people’s pain. You don’t have to get that skill with Rose Rosetree’s techniques but you do need skill of that kind in order to have a much better life.
Rose
CindySue has written the following post. She couldn’t get through using the COMMENT button and therefore emailed me at rose[at sign]rose-rosetree.com. I was happy to add the post from here–just as I would be for you, too, if you have that kind of problem.
I can vow to that post!!
I learned about my skills slowly, and sometimes very painfully. Brushed it off when I was young as being a BIG BABY. Just hated being so sensitive, I hardly could function in life because of my sponge-like spirit.
It took a long time before I realized I was an empath. I thought, “Wow, that is a good thing.”
And I started working on using it the right way. I had to go within to learn, how doing something made me feel, that is the time taker!!
And at times when I was overwhelmed, I knew I had to find a way to rinse myself off, well having one of the busiest minds I know.
I was unable to just sit and meditate, so I ran across some super simple cleansing techniques that take about ohhh ten seconds, and wow that really helps.
And the next thing I discovered as my key was keeping myself as positive as possible.
Now I must say I have just recently met Rose and I have not read her books, hopefully at some point I will have that blessed opportunity, but I can attest to the fact that you do not need them to be a successful Empath. The answers are within.
And with that I will add a poem I wrote some time back called “The Answer”
The Answer
The peaceful serenity,
The wind blows as the night falls,
What is it we search for all our lives?
It is with us here,
In the moment.
Who Are We?
We are the miracle and the beauty of life,
To be marveled at in every moment.
The search blinds us,
To what is right in front of us.
We are…
Amazing, Beautiful,
WE ARE.
See it, feel it.
The tiring search ends,
Then peace and serenity surrounds us,
As we realize,
We already had the answer.
Dear CindySue,
Hi! What a lovely poem. It is obvious from your posts that you have many blessings, but also some challenges. Awareness of anything is the biggest part of dealing with it. I’ve been aware of being an empath for 20 years. I still did not manage it so well, taking on others pain, etc. I even had information on being an empath that was descriptive, but did not help me to become skilled.
I do agree with you, CindySue, that all the answers are within, ultimately. There is nothing wrong, however, with getting help along the way! Many times that inner voice or knowing will lead you to someone who has the knowledge and skill to assist you in making the most of the gift you have already been given. I’m a nurse, which is one of the ways that I express my gifts as a healer. I need to keep up my skills, take classes, and learn new things even after 34 years!
It is true that energy healing takes less time than years of therapy, but there are no quick fixes in anything and not on the net. There are some great teachers out there and I have had to use my discernment to make decisions about that,
(that inner voice again). I wanted someone who could really assist me in becoming skilled and that person was Rose, (it could be someone else).
Books and audio books are available and they do cost. I have had some big financial challenges and have had to be very choosy about whether to buy one thing or another. I prioritized. BTW, process has not always been my strong point!
I have used the public library more in times when I could not buy as many books.You could make a request for an inter-library loan. You could even let your significant others know that you would like a particular book,(any one of Rose’s for example), for a birthday or Christmas. You could save the change in your pockets or the bottom of your purse, put it in a jar and that could buy a book or audio book. I have done that!! It adds up. We are not on this planet alone and even though we are more powerful than we know, it is a lesson in itself to let someone else assist you with their gifts, then pay it forward.
CindySue, you are having so many important moments and insights along with your challenges. The light inside of you just wants to shine!
I continue to be a part of a wonderful spiritual family; some of them are empaths. The work that we do together is amazing and important, but its focus is not on assisting empaths. I had to discover the best way to do that apart from that vision.
I’ve also learned that things do not have to involve struggle or be difficult, but most things worth doing take some time and effort. I’m still practicing my empathic skills. I would never think of letting someone cut all my cords of attachment with big golden scissors. either and I know lovely spiritual friends who have offered!!!
Knowing oneself and taking a bit of time and some steps is part of the lesson.
Blessings along your path, CindySue.
Colleen
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Hi TerAliern,
I’m not sure if this is a first or last name or male or female name, but welcome to this forum!!
Rose provides really useful and entertaining information. She’s a true gift to us all. Hope the New Year treats you well and that you’ll jump in with observations and contributions to this site often. We love to hear from everyone.
Blessings,
Kathy