Molecular Empaths

Molecular empath, Rose Rosetree, coming out of a skilled empath merge

What is a molecular empath? How can you recognize one? What can you do if you ARE one?

Today’s article is meant to be a kind of one-stop shopping trip into the world of  molecular empaths, inspired by popular demand.

What is an empath in the first place (not just a molecular empath)?

Empaths are born, not made, not developed. Empaths can be trained, however, just like any person with an innate talent.

An empath is born with at least one significant, trainable gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be another person.

That simple.

This ability (or set of abilities) shows in your aura right from you are in the womb. Read More »

Are empaths more evolved than non-empaths?

Empaths, DAVE may have spoken your secret question when he typed in Comment 98 at Who is an Empath? Our online community’s Empath Life List.

“Are empaths, in general, more spiritually evolved than non-empaths?”

DAVE’s question continued:

Now I do not doubt that there are many very evolved non-empaths out there. I think much of the Enlightenment Life List is comprised of such people, as is the majority of the world.

But I wonder too if, in general, empaths are more evolved, or are older souls (I think there’s a distinction…) than most.

Or rather are there any empaths who are very young souls and generally unevolved? Because I’m thinking I don’t really see that there would be empaths who are very young souls.

Like if there’s a soul advancement pyramid… you have to be 3/4s of the way to ride the empath ride. Non-empaths can be at any level. Read More »

Psychopath-Inspired Quiz for Empaths and HSPs, ANSWERS 16-20

Engaged in "Spiritual Warfare"

Psychopath-Inspired Quiz for Empaths and HSPs, ANSWERS 8-15 are on the way.

We’re continuing our answers to our Psychopath-Inspired Quiz for Empaths . So you might want take that first, then follow up with answers.

• Answers to Questions 1 through 7 are to found in the first of three Empath Quiz Answers posts.
• Then came Answers to Questions 8 through 15, which turned into a post about differences between HSPs and empaths. And their polar opposite, psychopaths.
• Now, ta da! Here come the final set of answers to this highly sophisticated quiz.

Question 16.  Responsibility for empaths and HSPs

“When problems arise, I always blame others, never myself.”

Oh, how FALSE for empaths and HSPs. Unless there is STUFF.

Never underestimate how STUFF (toxic emotional or spiritual confusions that have stuck in your subconscious mind and aura) can distort life for everyone.

Psychopaths always blame others. The rest of us can be driven to blame others because that nasty cord of attachment keeps re-imprinting or a frozen block of energy from a past life keeps re-imprinting. STUFF can always, always, always be healed. Read More »

Empaths vs. just HSPs, what makes them different?

So many of you Blog-Buddies aren’t clear about the difference between being a Highly Sensitive Person (or HSP) versus being an empath. Well, today’s set of quiz answers may wind up helping a great deal. When I set out to provide Answers 8-15 to our Psychopath-Inspired Quiz for Empaths, this topic became an elephant in the room.

Never one to ignore such invitations, I’m going to describe that elephant, not just the rest of the room.

But first some context. According to Dr. Elaine Aron, the originator of the term, a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) has a sensitive nervous system, is aware of subtleties in his/her surroundings, and is more easily overwhelmed when in a highly stimulating environment.

As for the originator of the term “empath,” that has been used for generations, especially in science fiction. When it comes to the first writer who developed a system for helping empaths, or wrote a book comparable to Aron’s “The Highly Sensitive Person: How To Thrive When The World Overwhelms You,” well, you’re reading her blog right now.

That system is Empath Empowerment(R). The first book for empaths was “Empowered by Empathy.” Now here comes that empath coach’s definition:

An empath has at least one significant gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be a different person. All empaths are HSPs, but there’s more to them than that.

Curious about the differences between HSPs and empaths? We’re continuing our answers to our Quiz for Empaths inspired by a standard quiz for psychopaths. So you might want take the Original Empath Quiz before continuing further. Answers to Questions 1 through 7 are to found in this Empath Quiz Answers post. Or simply read if you are curious about understanding the difference between HSPs and empaths. And their polar opposite, psychopaths. Shudder and learn! Read More »

Psychopath-Inspired Quiz for Empaths and HSPs, ANSWERS 1-7

Intermittent reinforcement, not just for behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner

Since psychopaths amount to 1% of people in the world, there’s some consolation in considering that they exist to inspire their polar opposites, Highly Sensitive Persons. Who happen to outnumber them 20 to 1!

Born empaths are even more opposite-ey than Highly Sensitive Persons. A subset of HSPs, empaths have at least one lifelong gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be other people. Unskilled empaths suffer a lot, due to continually taking on STUFF belonging to others. Skilled empaths don’t suffer that way at all.

Unskilled empaths are LESS effective than non-empaths, psychopaths included. While skilled empaths are MORE effective than non-empaths.

As I aimed to show in our Psychopath-Inspired Quiz for Empaths, HSPs (and, especially, empaths) are way different from psychopaths. Before you read the answers, you might want to use that link just provided to take the quiz. (Although just to be clear, that’s only my suggestion. No way will I point a loaded salami at your face, smear you with sauerkraut, guilt trip you, or take other psychopath-type measures, intent on bending you to my will.)

• If you are an empath or HSP, you’re likely to agree with many or most of the following answers.
• Non-HSPs – the majority of humans after all — your responses to this Empath Quiz fascinate me. Be sure to comment below with your experiences.
• Any psychopaths lurking here? You’re more likely to score the opposite in every single answer. As if you wanted to waste your time taking a quiz about self-knowledge. In a blog about personal growth, yet….
• What about those of you Blog-Buddies who are actively involved in Energy Spirituality, the healing of STUFF stuck in emotions and spiritual life? You may consider the most fascinating aspect of our quiz answers the way that STUFF muddles up the responses of everyone but the psychopaths.

Think about it. STUFF helps psychopaths do their thing better. Read More »

Psychopath-Inspired New Quiz for Empaths

Trust Jon Ronson to get me all inspired about psychopaths. He’s the author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. Jon finds them everywhere in society but especially in prisons, corporate boardrooms, and in politics.

At least I surmise this last part from seeing Ronson interviewed by Jon Stewart.

Okay, I’ll admit it. I couldn’t read most of the book. It was way too depressing to read for pleasure. In my line of work, I meet so many psychopaths for real.

Why would an empath coach meet so many psychopaths?

No, they are not my clients. But often I cut cords of attachment for empaths and other clients. During these sessions of Aura Healing and Transformation, I learn about psychopaths from their cord items, those bits and bytes of information within a cord of attachment that must be validated for the healing to be permanent.

Sometimes a client will also request that I pull out an energetic hologram from a particular incident and research chakra databanks of a cordee or parent or sadistic boss or the ex-lover who turned out to be quite a player. Everyday aura reading research to me! Though not always pleasant.

Oh, the psychopaths I have known. Including the ones I have described in all their gory, their very individual quirks of ickiness. In a very different way, Jon Ronson interviewed loads of experts for “The Psychopath Test.” He also includes, on pages 97-98, the “famous 20-point Hare PCL-R Checklist” for finding psychopaths.

In a way, I found this set of questions quite primitive. It’s so much easier, and more nuanced, to use energetic literacy on a person. My how-to, Read People Deeper, could have been subtitled: Psychopath Test + Lover Test + Highly Sensitive Person Test.

Especially since you can research anyone’s aura from a regular photo, it seems tedious to interview a crazy person for hours, striving to interpret how the answers match up with a 20-point index. Any skilled empath can do a Skilled Empath Merge, too — not that I would recommend doing such a thing with a possible psychopath.

One example of using energetic literacy  is an interview I did for the “Las Vegas Sun.” Reporter Sue Snyder supplied photos of many local luminaries, none of whom I knew. Some were such obvious psychopaths (to use Ronson’s term) that I couldn’t restrain myself from pointing out to her their very fascinating versions of being pathological liars, etc. Turned out, these men had been indicted for various crimes. Read More »

One Life Contract, Six Resources

Blog-Buddies, I love when one of our threads brings up more threads. Unlike picking apart that skinny stuff caught in a sewing needle, these threads within threads can be — as you’ll read soon from DAVE — fascinating. Our ongoing conversation about The Need for Tenderness is bristling with thread, thread about Life Contracts.

Here is how I defined life contracts yesterday:

Before incarnating, you made an agreement about certain things in this lifetime. You chose your parents, the maximum number of life breaths, and ways that you especially wanted to grow during this particular incarnation.

Based on my work with Energy Release Regression Therapy, I am convinced about this contract business. Earth really is a school, an amazing academy for spiritual growth.

If you aim to grow a lot during a lifetime, you’ll purposely front-load your life contract up to the age of 21 (or for some wildly ambitious souls, 28). Oh, the painful things you’ll include purposely!

You’ll pay back huge amounts of karma from past lives. You’ll set up things like cruel parenting, difficult siblings, family problems with addictions or insanity or abuse or poverty, etc.

Later, at Comment #5, Blog-Buddy Dave asked: Read More »

More Ways to Improve the Tenderness Factor

Tenderness, craved from birth

Let’s continue to explore ways that your life could have more of that tenderness. Because if you have been craving more sweetness in how people to treat you, there might be some more important put-ins that could end that horrible kind of pain where life seems unreasonably and unpredictably harsh.

Please start by reading the first part of our discussion about having more tenderness in life. We’re continuing a thread about the very understandable feeling that you are special and deserve more tenderness in how people treat you.

3. If you’re an empath, add skills

Life for an unskilled empath is harsh. You’re perpetually taking on STUFF from other people’s auras, doing unskilled empath merges. Read More »

Empath Empowerment, Sophisticated Quiz Answers

What fun, to share my cheer-bringing answers about what it really means to be an empath. My perspective, of course, comes from teaching thousands of people the system of Empath Empowerment(R).

And the biggest cheerfulness you may feel, underlying every answer in today’s post, is my personal relief. Do I ever know the difference it makes, going from talented-but-untrained to becoming a skilled empath!

The difference is so far beyond night and day. It’s like comparing those tormented moments at 3:00 a.m., waking up from a nightmare  (as an unskilled empath) to a sprightly moment in the morning, going outside on a beautiful Friday to water a flourishing garden. (Now that’s like being a skilled empath.)

Puttering around a garden is a typical “normal person” activity for a skilled empath. No need to sob over every parched plant or cringe at the sight of a weed. So with all due joy, freshly doused from my sprinkler, I’m delighted to supply the 10 answers to our Sophisticated Quiz for Empaths. If you haven’t taken that quiz yet, you might want to click there first.

Does an empath have the right to be happy?

FALSE Of course you can be happy while others suffer. It’s tougher, of course. Happiness loves company, just like misery.

One reason I put this question into our Sophisticated Quiz is a strange martyrish ethos around the very word “empath” for some people. There’s a cluster of related beliefs. Do any of these strike you as familiar?’

• If you care about someone, you’ll worry about that person.
• A truly good person brakes for the miserable… and drops everything to fix their cars. (Or solve other problems.) Read More »

Where to begin my Aura Healing and Transformation?

Helping you to become a skilled empath

Overwhelmed, anyone? Recently “Loretta” requested help to prioritize the various skill sets taught through this blog, my how-to books, workshops, etc. Her email went like this:

I was initially interested in your book Cut Cords of Attachment, but in looking at your website, I’m pretty sure I’m an (unskilled) empath. I ended up buying both books, Cut Cords of Attachment and Become the Most Important Person in the Room at the same time.

Which set of skills should I pursue mastering first? Can I start cutting my own cords before completing the 30-day empath training program discussed in Become the Most Important Person in the Room? Do I have to have skill with my empath gifts to be able to read my aura or do I use some other sense?

For best results, don’t play “Eeny Meeny Miney Moe.” Not with the trademarked systems I have worked so hard to develop. Thank you, Loretta, for asking. Here are some ideas to consider. Read More »