September 14th, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that being an empath can be bliss. As a skilled empath, you can gain wisdom and do service in a way that non-empaths simply can’t.
As a very skilled empath, you can learn techniques for what I call “empath-merge” and have an extremely vivid experience of being another person. Or a flower!
But skilled empaths are made, not born. Instead some of us — I estimate 1 in 20 Americans — are born as unskilled empaths, “merely” talented. Read More »
September 13th, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
All kinds of empaths talk with me:
- Skilled empaths
- Questing empaths trying to find out “Who am I?”
- Scared empaths, fleeing energy vampires and narcissists
- Despairing empaths who believe they are damaged forever
- Empaths who (mistakenly) think they know everything about how to be skilled because they now “pay attention to boundaries.”
Here I’d like to give some much-needed clarification to the whole empath-boundaries-protection issue.
WHAT IS AN EMPATH?
Most beginners believe that an empath feels other people’s feelings.
Well, that’s a piece of the puzzle. Maybe.
At best, this definition is incomplete and misleading. But at worst, this definition is completely inaccurate.
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September 6th, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
Following yesterday’s discussion of narcissists, one of our Blog-Buddies — Lisa — wrote this as part of her comment:
Rose has recently done some spiritual healing work for me and cut a cord of attachment to someone who was also very much into her own self. Even though I knew intellectually that she was like that, I still allowed myself to get caught in the web. Read More »
August 20th, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
Somewhere between too easy and too hard lies the truth. Yet consistently I find empaths who don’t understand what is involved in becoming a skilled empath.
Consequently, they try too hard, making life way more complicated than it needs to be. Or else they assume that the skills needed are way too easy.
The photo here shows me, Rose Rosetree, after doing an empath-merge as a skilled empath. My partner for this Read More »