There are many ways that people intuitively connect with energy and/or emotion and get a feeling about what is happening. For instance, there is the psychic field of psychometry.

What you’re describing sounds to me like that.

A Skilled Empath Merge is quite different. A person doesn’t just slide into it, any more than a ballerina happens to do a perfect dance routine en pointe. A person learns a specific skill set –certain techniques and understandings.

As part of the systematic development in my system of Empath Empowerment, one does not start with doing Empath Merges. It is the third part of three, in a systematic kind of personal development.

Receiving information intuitively is not necessarily merging at all.

Also, you might want to consider that the process of receiving information can be constructive for a person’s aura or actually open a person up to taking additional STUFF into their auras.

For that reason alone, as you may have guessed, I do recommend studying Empath Empowerment. Or if you have a teacher or system you like better, apply yourself to that.

One more comment here, if I might:

In most fields of endeavor, people do not consider that if they are talented, they need not bother studying with anyone who has expertise, but rather, it’s fine to just experiment away. People don’t learn to drive cars by playing around and checking with other beginners about the use of the various knobs and sticks and shiftey-things.

Now, you haven’t said how you learned the techniques which you use, but I’m guessing that you are one of those well intended, talented people who is improvising.

All over the Internet, you can find people asking and answering questions just like yours. They are having fun, testing their talents, experimenting. Cool!

From my perspective, however, this is the unskilled leading the unskilled — not necessarily a fast or safe way to develop skills at all.

I encourage you, like CHERYL, to do justice to your talent and find out how much you can do — and how great you feel doing it — when you’ve learned the skill set of Empath Empowerment.

Do you ever do empath merges on things people have written instead of pictures of them?

No. An empath merge is done with a person or animal. The Mergee must have an energy field, be alive in the way that living things are alive.

What you’re asking about is more being an English Major! Yes, I did major in English Lit. in college, and have been warped happily ever after.

Speaking of deeper perception, I always felt that words (as used by some people) can be great transmitters of energy/consciousness/healing above and beyond the surface message of the words. This exists even beyond “reading between the lines”, so to speak. Your books and Eckhart Tolle’s books/audiobooks are great examples of this.

Do you ever do empath merges on things people have written instead of pictures of them?

Check it out here: http://www.rose-rosetree.com/holidaybook.htm

All those poems are available in the Kindle edition, which has a better name, 365 WAYS TO A STRONGER YOU: BALANCE YOUR HUMAN LIFE WITH HELPING OTHERS AS A WORLD SERVER.

The Kindle edition is available here, incidentally: http://www.amazon.com/365-Ways-Stronger-You-ebook/dp/B001KU68RI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1250777154&sr=1-4

Otherwise, I write a poem every Christmas season, and not as many other occasions as I once did.

Thank you for liking poetry. When I was in high school, I had a major, major crush on a boy named Mark Seligson. He got in trouble for writing a slogan on a paper and using a window pole to display it outside in the courtyard. It read:

THE ACTIVE MIND NEEDS POETRY. JOIN THE WALT WHITMAN SOCIETY.

Great or what? Three cheers for Mark!

After feeling the intensity of the energy coming off of Adam Lambert when he sang and moved around the stage, Kris Allen felt like he was hardly putting anything into his performance. His voice was nice and he was “good guy” sexy, but he didn’t move me. This TOTALLY surprised me since Kris is more like the type of guy I’m typically drawn to (laid back and not too dramatic).

Had I heard/seen Kris without hearing Adam first, the lack of connection might not have felt so glaring. It’s almost like he was singing to himself and not the audience.

I admit that in Adam’s first few videos he seemed too theatrical at times, but he took the advice that he was given seriously and became much more genuine towards the end. For some reason he reminds me of a young Elvis. Winner or not, Adam is going places.

By the way Rose, I want to complement you on your poetry. Just today I discovered and read the section where you have several posted. You are talented in so many ways. Will there be more?

So here, in honor of you both, is an Aura Reading of Adam Lambert:

http://www.rose-rosetree.com/blog/2009/06/27/aura-reading-adam-lambert-american-idol/#more-487