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 »

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 »

Disappointed by the lack of tenderness in your life?

Adorable Sensitivity

Helping clients with Energy Spirituality, I come across terrible suffering on a regular basis. I do what I can to facilitate help.

Most clients come back for multiple sessions, which is how cumulative progress is made. Sometimes it takes several healing sessions for a person to get this very important Aha!:

Long-term emotional and spiritual healing cannot just involve taking out. It’s tremendously important to also put in more of what will really improve your quality of life.

Certainly that holds true with Energy Spirituality. When I facilitate cutting cords of attachment, the system I use involves putting back in quite a lot of significant things: Knowledge about what used to be in the cord of attachment, discussion of logical consequences for the client’s life on the whole, an energy bandage, homework. (That’s why it’s called “12 Steps to Cut Cords of Attachment(R)” and not “Have a cozy chat every day with Archangel Michael.”)

Over the powerful healing journey of cumulative growth, sometimes the healing centerpiece for a session will involve putting in something new. For instance, there’s “Social Skills Upgrade with Energetic Literacy.”

What is that? My client, Joe, will relate a troubling incident related to his intention — which is, perhaps, “Having more tenderness in my life.” I’ll pull out an energetic hologram of Joe and the other person in that troubling incident. Then I’ll read relevant chakra databanks about the person who upset Joe. (If you’re interested in finding out what makes people tick, and how they’re deep down different from you, there’s nothing like aura reading with Stage Three Energetic Literacy!)

Then we discuss what Joe did in that situation. What might he have been done differently? Essentially, Joe learns how to interface more effectively with reality.

Yet a lot of life’s put in healing can be done all by yourself. No fancy expert needed, and no fee for services rendered. You might just need to start asking some new questions. For instance….

What can you add so more people will treat you with tenderness?

Adding in — that’s the part so many people forget about when they’re in pain. Today’s post is about ways you might wish to heal disappointment and frustration by adding in something new. Ten somethings new, actually. Here comes our Tenderness Seeker’s List. 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 »

How to tell if someone else is an empath

Yes, Aaron Copland was an empath.

So, Blog-Buddies, you want to be able to tell if another person is an empath. I can’t blame you for being curious.

Today I’ll share my top-secret methods that I’ve never divulged before to anyone. My sole request is that you read today’s post all the way through. (You’ll see why by the end.)

Let’s be light-hearted and refer to all possible empaths as “Joe.” That should make for better than reading than calling all your research candidates ”This person who may or may not be an empath.”

Empath identification method #1

As noted in yesterday’s post, the best method by far is to invite Joe to find out for himself whether or not he is an empath.

“Internal validation” is the name for that. That comes in handy because becoming skilled as an empath depends entirely on internal validation. Why not switch this on early?

So how can your friend Joe find out for himself whether or not he is an empath?

• Could be as simple as sending Joe a link to the Empath Quiz at this blog. Read More »