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Being an Empath is Awesome…and Totally Sucks
Sometimes you don’t know if what you are feeling belongs to you or to someone else.
I am an empath. What does that mean? It means that I can feel other people’s emotional states. Not just people who are close to me literally or figuratively, but ALL people.
Do you know how you feel your own emotions? That sensation you get in your chest or stomach or head, that inexplicable something? I can feel that from other people around me. In addition to feeling my OWN emotions, I can sense those of other people.
I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, the only one. But for those who do not share this experience, this can seem really out there. Hook-spooky bullshit. Yet it’s real.
Human beings have more than five senses. However, those five are particularly tactile, while the sixth is a mix of a multitude of different energetic things. Yet I believe that all sixth sense abilities, be it empathy, telepathy, mediumship, or any other form of ESP, come from the energetic core that is the foundation of our souls.
Being an empath is one of those sixth sense things. I have the ability to feel other people’s emotional states. This can be pretty awesome…but at the same time, it can totally suck.
